Selling Your Jewelry Creations Online

Written by Lee Dobbins


Selling your jewelry creations online requires different skills and supplies then selling at shows or on consignment. You’ll need to develop good computer and digital photography skills as well as set up a shipping area and buy shipping supplies.

Jewelry is a very visual product to sell - potential customers need high quality photographs that displayrepparttar piece in detail as if they were holding it in their own hands. A good quality digital camera with zoom capabilities is essential for taking photos of jewelry.

Unfortunately, just buying a good camera probably isn’t going to be enough to make your photos stand out. You’ll also need good lighting and a light box forrepparttar 116478 photos to come out their best. You can buy professional lights and a light box or gorepparttar 116479 homemade route. I use a clear plastic storage box asrepparttar 116480 light box and set up adjustable plant lights onrepparttar 116481 sides and top - all these materials can be found at Walmart or any discount store. To takerepparttar 116482 photos, setrepparttar 116483 box on it’s side withrepparttar 116484 open end facing you, setrepparttar 116485 jewelry insiderepparttar 116486 box and takerepparttar 116487 photo. The clear plastic will diffuserepparttar 116488 lights to prevent glare and make your photos more clear.

Once you have taken your photos, you will need to upload them to your online selling venue. There are 3 ways to sell online - having your own web page, selling in an online mall, and selling at an online auction. Having your own web page requires a bit more skill as you will need to writerepparttar 116489 code forrepparttar 116490 page yourself, hire someone to do it or buy a package that helps you do this. Selling in online malls and auctions is usually a bit easier as you can post your information on a form that is uploaded and you don’t need to know much about html coding. Personally, I have found that selling at an online mall isrepparttar 116491 best way to go -repparttar 116492 auctions are overcrowded with jewelry of all types and it is extremely difficult to get any qualified traffic to your own website without spending a fortune.

Website visitors for your business - Building strong website traffic.

Written by Peter Jordaan


It is worth looking at some values and strengths of a few technical and promotional elements of your website that will help you to lay a foundation in building profitable online success. Once you have decided on your market and have chosen a relevant domain name for your online business, you need simple and effective tools and methods to put and keep your business on a profitable track. Ideally you will want to make use of easy-to-use methods that keeps visitors coming to your website. Lets look at a few practical ideas.

When a visitor comes to your website you have to get their follow-up information by collecting their email address. It is important to ‘enable’ your web site to automatically deliver quality content such as a newsletter to visitors and allow you to follow up with extra information when necessary. Top marketers agree that this forms a large percentage of their online success. How do you do this? You create forms on your web pages, giving visitorsrepparttar chance to subscribe to your opt-in list, newsletter or report and allows you to introduce your service by offering something valuable in order to build relationship. Using autoresponders to follow-up is a totally free method that is an essential element to implementing. All you need to do is integraterepparttar 116477 autoresponder into your web site via a form so that you can pre-load it with your newsletters. You may say that you’re not a writer, but what do you know about your industry? Write it down and put it into an informative newsletter. Subscribers can now begin to see you as an expert onrepparttar 116478 subject and look to you forrepparttar 116479 solutions that your business is already offering.

Once your newsletter is up and running, you can use these very same tips and ideas you share with your subscribers and also write a weekly article about your product or service, and then submit it to ezines online. This is very easy to do and will have great response for your business. There are tens of thousands of ezine publishers online that needs good content, and will give you valuable exposure for your business. You will have many sites linking to your site and people will be able to read what your business is about and visit your website. Then they will also be able to subscribe to your newsletter which provides even more information about your product or service. Each article has got a resource box atrepparttar 116480 bottom which allows visitors to visit your web site. Write your 4 to 6 line resource box by viewing some samples online and composing your own. Finding details of ezine publishers can quite easily be done through looking up in search engines.

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