When you start making your own jewelry, you might start it with fun. But after sometime, you are realizing that there are different pieces of your handmade jewelries roundand you might start to think what to do with the pieces. You can give the piece to your family members, friends and colleagues in the beginning. If you get the positive comments from them, you can now thinking about selling your handmade jewelry pieces to earn more money while you have enjoy your time for making time.
But where to start? This is the curious question for everyone who is new for the jewelry business. Here is the list as your guideline for how to start your handmade jewelry business.
1. Start for your work place, look for the small display, get the permission and place your best handmade pieces over there. You can get a small card and write down for your inspiration on the piece, the cost of each items and how to make a payment. You will surprise to see the money that you earn at the end of the month.
2. Target your local schools. Most of the schools offer the place for holiday shop for parents and the community during the term time. You can just make a phone call and ask if you can be a vendor for handmade jewelry. They are normally charge you for the rental space, but it’s not cost a lot. Start with the school business is one of your choices to go for.
3. You can also check on the local paper for crafts shows and other events that your products can fit in. You might have to sent the photos and description of your products to the event committee or even apply to be the member before join their events. It will be lots of documents you need to process in the beginning. But after you are “in”, you will be invited to join the event every year after that.
4. Go for the local business and ask whether they can display your product in their shop or not. You can offer them a percentage of sales or make an agreement for the total cost for both parts.
5. Create your own website or join the other website that offer the place for you to sell your own items. But the website should be done after you have experience on face-to-face sales. The direct sales will give you the idea how to make your products match to the customer request. These experiences will help you a lot when you start your own website.
