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Along with your photos, you will need to provide an excellent description of your jewelry. I suggest you take 3 photos of
piece and then write a paragraph description on piece listing materials used size and any outstanding features. Don’t be afraid to be creative in your description!
The final phase to selling jewelry online is collecting money and shipping product. You need to decide what form of payment you will accept. Will you take credit cards or only accept credit through Paypal? Personal checks, or only money orders? I love Paypal as it is so quick and easy but there are fees associated with it. Many of my customers pay with personal check and I have never had a problem in 6 years of doing business online.
Once you receive payment, you can ship out jewelry! This is your opportunity to make a good impression and gain a repeat customer. To make shipping easier, it’s a good idea to setup a shipping station which includes a table to package and wrap on, all your packing material, tape, boxes and mailers, your return address stickers and any promotional items you like to put in package.
I like to package my jewelry in gold foil boxes and ship those inside a bubble mailer. The boxes are only about 20 cents if you buy them in bulk and they look so nice to customer when they open their package. Also, have some promotional cards, business cards, pens or discount certificates made up and include those with your URL so customer can come back and buy more!
Lee Dobbins is a jewelry designer and writer for Artisan-Jewelry-Online.com where you can read more about making your own jewelry
