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Any creative ways to sell handcrafted jewelry?
I like making jewelry but I live in a third world country… so it’s a little difficult to sell handcrafted jewelry, since it costs a little more than those mass produced by other countries. Is there any hope to my small business? How will I be able to sell more?
The fate of artisans, manufacturing handicraft jewelry is pathetic. Last year I took some of the international visitors to a village where they are manufacturing jewelry out of clay and fired in a country furnace to produce fantastic products.Since they are not getting good price for their product in the local market, they were doing distress selling.one of the visitor purchased 100 sets of jewelry items by paying what ever the price they quoted.Artisans were happy to get that price.But the visitor from south Africa told that she is going to invest 10 times the value paid to that jewelry for the jewel box itself and asked the artisans to guess what would be her selling price!
Latter she told me that the artisans are not aware of the value for their product,They need to know about good packaging,presentation and marketing.We then started taking the artisans to Exhibitions, Trade fare, conducted at capital cities and over a period of time they started learning the trick of the trade and some of them are now doing exporting also.
6 Responses to “Any creative ways to sell handcrafted jewelry?”
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September 28th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
Well if u live in a 3rd world country and your making jewelry no one is gonna buy it, they would rather have food, mabye u could donate some to them if your so rich u have a computer and a jewelry buisness get your priurities straigt.
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September 28th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Why not consider exporting to other countries. Depending where you live you can export to North America or Europe. Where do you live and what kind of jewelry ?? I might be interested. Good luck
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September 28th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
The fate of artisans, manufacturing handicraft jewelry is pathetic. Last year I took some of the international visitors to a village where they are manufacturing jewelry out of clay and fired in a country furnace to produce fantastic products.Since they are not getting good price for their product in the local market, they were doing distress selling.one of the visitor purchased 100 sets of jewelry items by paying what ever the price they quoted.Artisans were happy to get that price.But the visitor from south Africa told that she is going to invest 10 times the value paid to that jewelry for the jewel box itself and asked the artisans to guess what would be her selling price!
Latter she told me that the artisans are not aware of the value for their product,They need to know about good packaging,presentation and marketing.We then started taking the artisans to Exhibitions, Trade fare, conducted at capital cities and over a period of time they started learning the trick of the trade and some of them are now doing exporting also.
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Working with rural artisans.
September 28th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
Yeah try a flea market
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September 28th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Get yourself a vendors license and a web site and set up shop. There are grants for home base businesses, you should check this out.
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September 28th, 2009 at 6:53 pm
your at the right start try opening up a yahoo domain [web site ] for like ten dollars a year its a start
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checked into selling other items via home pc