If you have a good planning, it is possible to have jewelry business even you don’t have any family, friends or contact in jewelry industry. Just knowing how to make jewelry is doesn’t mean you will be success in jewelry business. Whether you want to sell your own handcrafted, open jewelry retail store or sell jewelry online, startup money is required and it’s depend on the business scale. If you aim on high value jewelry like diamond, gold and silver, you have to seriously consider on financial. But if you focus on beads or stainless steel jewelry, it is a lot cheaper.
If you create your own jewelry and really want to start selling them, there are several things you can do, such as jewelry home party, selling directly to merchant, selling at local flea market or mid week occasional market. Find the opportunities to selling at art and crafts fairs so you may find wholesale or sale rep.
If you want to buy wholesale jewelry and selling them in a retail price, you have to havesense to know what people will buy. You need to find venders or suppliers to buy product from. It would be better if you dealing with wholesalers who also manufacturers, most of them have an assurance on replace or return the defective products.
If you want to open your own retail jewelry store, you need to find a shop in the shopping area of town. The place where your jewelry store is situated matters a lot to the success of your sales. Look for an easily reach location. Some shopping center also has a rental stall or an open spot. It is easy to attract customers at a crowded market.
Create a website for selling jewelry online is good option if it difficult to find out a place for a store or you don’t have budget to open brick and mortar store. If you are not so confident to handle your own site or you don’t have many items to sell, try Ebay. It is still the top auction online site with a lot of customer. See how it is going before you invest lots of time and money into it.
Decide who would want to buy your jewelry and make your jewelry appeal them. For example, you don’t want to try to sell diamond tiara to a high school student. Your jewelry should match your market. Keep developing the skill related to making and selling jewelry, it’s important to be success in jewelry business.
