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I have a software program titled Jewelry Design Manager which I use to calculate my cost of items made. I do a picture catalog with retail prices in categories such as Bangles, Rings, Necklaces,etc. and have my daughters take it to work, Which in my case I have a lot of nurse clients now. I also have my daughters and grand daughters sign out pieces to wear for the day, evening or whatever, this way I know who has what and naturally my catalogs are always available to hand out, whether its a Bangle catalog or Ring catalog. I rented a stall space once, for a weekend, at a craft marketplace, sold 5 items that sold for 5.00 each and on the second day, I had a commission to do 6 gold fill bangles with black tahitian black pearls. So you never know until you try. Don't give up. Berni

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Marketing your jewelry is tricky. As a typical creative type myself, I hate "selling", I like my own company and being alone, and I wish I could just make jewelry all day and magically people would buy it. Unfortunately it doesn't work that way. Getting the word out is a lot of work, and you need a strategy. There are a bunch of different strategies that people use. I haven't tried most of them, but here are some strategies you could look at: *Approaching galleries or local stores for consignment agreements *Selling wholesale directly to gift shops, clothing stores, artisan crafts stores *Booth Selling *Home Jewelry Parties *Personal Jewelry Design Stylist or Home Jewelry Shopper *Pay per click Internet Marketing *Strategic alliances with other artisans *Work the wholesale trade shows *Trunk shows *Social Media marketing Rena Klingenberg has a bunch of great e-books she's penned that give very detailed instructions for some of these strategies, and her books are specific to the jewelry market. I've purchased all of them and I can highly recommend them: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.how-to-make-jewelry.com/Christines39dollarguarantee" >For Booth or Craft show Selling</a>:</p> <p><a href="http://www.how-to-make-jewelry.com/Christines39dollarguarantee" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.how-to-make-jewelry.com/image-files/sell-your-art-or-crafts.jpg" alt="100% Guaranteed" width="125" height="145" ></a></p> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.how-to-make-jewelry.com/social_media_power_secrets">For Marketing online, blogging, etsy, yessy, ebay, social bookmarking and more</a> <p><a href="http://www.how-to-make-jewelry.com/social_media_power_secrets" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.how-to-make-jewelry.com/image-files/jewelry-social-networking-169.jpg" alt="Jewelry Social Networking" width="169" height="220" hspace="10"></a> <a target="_blank" href="http://cgdjsp.jewelshopp.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=QUESTION">For how to sell One-of-a-Kind items to a hungry, wealthy market easily</a> - (ps.don't let the name fool you. It has nothing to do with going to stores and shopping for people): <a href=" http://cgdjsp.jewelshopp.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=QUESTION" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jewelry-books.com/jewelry-shopping-service-cover-front-169.jpg"alt="Jewelry Social Networking" width="169" height="220" hspace="10"></a> For even more of my own website wisdom, read my blog post: <a href="http://blog.how-to-make-jewelry.com/make-jewelry-blog/elements-of-a-good-jewelry-or-craft-website-design">Design Yerself A Great Jewelry or Craft Website - And Even Sell Something!"</a> Hope all that helps! Cheers, Christine ~how-to-make-jewelry

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