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Selling Junk Jewelry

A lot of people love jewelry but it can be difficult to start a home based jewelry business, working from home and selling jewelry. First of all, the cost of starting a jewelry business can be quite high depending on your business model. Even if you decide to go the MLM route, the cost of starting up your own jewelry business can balloon and before you know it, you have spent a lot of money already.

If you like designing jewelry and you love to recycle, then one new, hot industry is to make jewelry out of junk around your house. It is a challenge to design beautiful jewelry out of junk but, if you are good, then there is a growing market for your junk jewelry. Bear in mind that junk jewelry is very different from junky jewelry. You can make beautiful jewelry out of ‘junk’ and people will love it.

While it may take longer for older generations to accept the idea of wearing junk jewelry, much of the younger generations already find junk jewelry cool to wear. A lot of junk jewelry are clunky which is great for men as well as women.

What is junk jewelry?

Junk jewelry is usually jewelry designed and created from ordinary objects such as:

  • dice
  • kitchenware (fork, spoon, etc)
  • buttons
  • paperclips
  • whistles
  • foils
  • candies
  • domino pieces
  • broken chains
  • pencils
  • keys
  • clips
  • medals
  • belts
  • shoe strings
  • electric cords
  • motherboards
  • keyboards
  • circuit boards
  • safety pins
  • fabrics
  • keytags
  • champaign corks
  • flowers
  • and more

You can use pretty much anything to make junk jewelry as long as you are creative. If you have other jewelry that are broken then pieces of them can be made into junk jewelry and can be worth even more for some people. You still need the jewelry making and jewelry designing skills to make nice, pretty, and beautiful jewelry pieces. You can make necklaces, bracelets, pendants, earrings, and so on. Some materials are better than others to work with. For example, you can make so many different designs of jewelry out of buttons.

If you want to try making junk jewelry, this book has 144 pages of good ideas of what kind of jewelry you can make and even step by step instructions of how to make some junk jewelry. It also has a chapter of how to wear junk jewelry. By making jewelry out of everyday, ordinary, “junk” objects, you can significantly lower your cost of starting a jewelry business.

Junk Jewelry: 25 Extraordinary Designs to Create from Ordinary Objects

Junk Jewelry

Junk Jewelry

Premier Designs Jewelry

What is Premier Designs Jewelry?

Premier Designs is a direct sales jewelry company that was founded in 1985 by Joan and Andy Horner in Irving, Texas, a suburb of Dallas. Premier Designs Jewelers market quality high fashion jewelry to small groups through Home Shows.  The have more than 700 pieces of jewelry, with an average item retailing for about $30. If you like jewelry and want to buy them at wholesale prices while having an opportunity to have a home based business, then the business opportunity offered by Premier Designs Jewelry might be something you want to look at.

If you like to wear and share your jewelry business with others, then you can make a lot of money doing it since all Premier Designs Jewelers earn 50% gross profit on jewelry sold at suggested retail prices. If you do not want to start the business but just want to try it out, you can host a home show, become a hostess and see how the business is done as well as earn some free jewelry. A Home Show with at least $100 in retail sales qualifies the Hostess to receive 30% of the retail show total in FREE jewelry of her choice. Hostesses can also qualify to purchase up to eight items at half-price! The amount of free jewelry you will receive increases with the total sales generated by your home show.

For example, a Hostess with $100 in retail sales at her Home Show would earn $30 in free jewelry and qualify to purchase four items at half-price. For a $400 Home Show, she would earn $120 in free jewelry and qualify to purchase six items at half-price. Above $500, the number of half-price items tops out at eight. There are many ways that a hostess can qualify for additional jewelry.

How to buy Premier Designs Jewelry?

Since Premier Designs is a direct sale or network marketing company, you need to find a Premier Designs consultant to buy your jewelry. You can also request the latest Premier Designs catalog from the consultant.

Their Guarantee

Within the first sixty (60) days of purchase, an item may be returned with proof of purchase at no charge for replacement due to a manufacturing defect. After sixty (60) days, an item may be returned with proof of purchase for a service fee of $5.00, plus tax. This warranty is not intended to cover normal wear and tear.

Your Crafts Business: A Legal Guide

Your Crafts Business: A Legal Guide

The craft industry is booming and many people have crafts businesses, working at home and earning money. Lots of people love doing crafts and the U.S. craftwork is a $13 billion industry. Crafts artisans now average $76,000 in annual sales. As the crafts business has increased, so have the legal and business problems. Fortunately, you now have a guide called Your Crafts Business: A Legal Guide to help wind your way through the maze of legal and business rules.

Your Crafts Business covers everything from intellectual-property rights to dealing with business taxes. Learn all about:

  • contracts, consignments, sales, shows and collections
  • business basics
  • copyrights, design patents and trademarks
  • preventing infringement and tracking down infringers
  • licensing principles and agreements
  • hiring and firing employees, contractors and sales reps
  • lawyers, lawsuits and liability
  • getting your crafts business on the Web
  • and more

Your Crafts Business clearly explains legal principles that protect a crafts business and help it grow. It also provides practical advice on how to deal with day-to-day problems — such as dealing with delinquent payments. The book provides over a dozen tear-out contracts and other legal forms, plus step-by-step instructions to fill them out.

From the Author

If you’re a crafts artists concerned about issues such as sales disputes, consignment, design thievery, tax disputes, studio leases, workspace safety and employer liability, then this is the book for you. It’s my attempt to provide a real-world view of running a small crafts business and to offer tips for steering your business on a “no problems” course. I’ve tried to incorporate the experiences of various crafts artists as well as my own experience working with crafts clients.

This book will help you:

  • Determine the form of your crafts business.
  • Secure your workspace and negotiating your studio lease.
  • Sell your work, whether consignment, retail, wholesale or commissioned sales.
  • Go online including choosing a domain name, setting up a shopping cart and choosing a web host.
  • Work with employees and contractors.
  • Register and protect trademarks and business names.
  • Register and protect your work with design patents .
  • Register your copyright and avoid copyright problems.
  • License your crafts (including a sample agreement and analysis).
  • Deal with sales reps (and a model sales rep agreement).
  • Avoid liability and legal problems including finding a lawyer, examining your insurance options and resolving contract disputes and rip-offs.
  • Calculate and pay income taxes.

In addition to this information, you’ll find a dozen agreements and sample letters that you can modify on the CD-Rom attached at the back of this book.

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Silpada Designs Jewelry Business

If you love jewelry and want to start a home based jewelry business, then there are many jewelry business opportunities to choose from. You can work at home, do what you love and get to buy jewelry at discount to wear. One company that offers a good business opportunity is a direct sale company called Silpada Designs. Silpada Designs is a network marketing or MLM company selling jewelry. Silpada Designs jewelry is sold exclusively by independent Silpada Designs Representatives. To get involved, you have to sign up as a representative and then you will get access to lots of training materials, rep discounts and also the ability to earn money when you sell jewelry (mostly through home parties) or recruit downline.

Now that many people have lost their jobs, more people are looking for ways to work at home. The number of reps signing up with Silpada has jumped and they are expecting to see record sales this year.

Why is Silpada Designs Jewelry unique?

Each piece of Silpada Designs jewelry is original and made with .925 Sterling Silver.

I will be posting more about the opportunity that Silpada Designs Jewelry, a Lenexa Kansas based company, offers including their compensation plan and how you can make money with Silpada Jewelry. Anyone has any comments to share about Silpada Designs, please comment below.

Profiting By Design: A Jewelry Maker’s Guide to Business Success

Profiting by Design: A Jewelry Maker's Guide to Business SuccessIf you want to start a home based jewelry business, you will need to know a lot of things to be successful. It is not easy to start your own business even if you decide to work from home. This book called Profiting by Design: A Jewelry Maker’s Guide to Business Success will give you a guideline of what to do as  a jewelry designer or jewelry maker to be come successful and make lots of profit.

Description

If you’re a jewelry designer, running your own business, working at home or otherwise, can be one of the most challenging, exhilarating, nerve-wracking, and ultimately rewarding things you’ll ever do. In this book called Profiting by Design: A Jewelry Maker’s Guide to Business Success, Marlene Richey offers a basic, easy-to-understand guide to becoming just such a “nano entrepreneur,” covering everything from identifying a target market and setting up shop to pricing, marketing, and selling your individual designs–all while having fun along the way.

She also provides real-life lessons from such esteemed jewelry designers as Barbara Heinrich, Michael Bondanza, Chris Correia, and Michael Good, among others. Profiting by Design will show you how to succeed at starting a business that you can proudly call your own.

About the Author of Profiting by Design: A Jewelry Maker’s Guide to Business Success

Marlene Richey has been involved in jewelry design and craft for more than 30 years. A former gallery owner who also ran an award-winning design firm, William Richey Designs, she has participated in hundreds of craft and jewelry trade shows, mastered marketing strategies and sales presentations, and earned a following among emerging artists for her generosity in passing along her hard-earned expertise.

She’s taught workshops and classes at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Maine College of Art, and the North Bennet Street School in Boston, among others. She is currently serving on the board of directors of the Society of North American Goldsmiths.

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