Rena Klingenberg has done it again!

Anybody who has even the slightest interest in jewelry making needs to check this out. Rena has updated and upgraded her entire site, she even changed the name to a more modern title and look " Jewelry Making Journal". It's great!


Now that Rena has included short videos you can see and hear her, what a great addition. Love it!

Go here to see an introduction: http://jewelrymakingjournal.com/about-jewelry-making-journal/

With all the marketing, display, information and business news you will get tons of info all for free, sign up for her newsletter, it is packed with help. 

On Sale?

If you are like me you signed up for several newsletters to keep up on what’s new with an on line business, for me that’s jewelry making news. Are you as disappointed as I am? News, I think not. All I seem to get is barraged with announcements of another sale.

But are those sales a “good buy”? I don’t think so. Realistically I would say that those products are so over priced that even the on sale price isn’t really a sale price. I mean really, 10% for this or that can easily be understood as a sale price. But when you see 30% off consistently, I’m thinking that the regular price must be way over priced.

Wouldn’t it be nice if shop owners didn’t consider us as idiots? I mean really, price the merchandise at a fair mark up price on a regular basis and forget sending me daily and weekly sale emails, enough already! These sales are marketing gone bad, period.

For the number of regular and frequent “On Sale Now” emails I am getting, business must be really bad for those shops. Or, have those shop owners bought into the SEO’s email marketing sham; "how to drive traffic to your sight for only $ x@!!.oo

So what happened to the “news” letter I signed up for? Is venting the same as being negative? LOL.

Jeweler's Showcase

The Jeweler's Showcase has bloomed into something unexpected. We are getting super traffic as far as I am concerned mainly because the site has only been up a month and there have been almost 1200 new visitors and over 4200 pageviews. Hoorah, I can say it's a success! And thanks to all the Home Based Jewelers who provided me with "good" links, great banners and text, you Jewelers Rock! Now it's up to the Jewelers to post their details under the comments to their post.

New subject: I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up.

There is a great amount of discussion about lack of traffic. I am a numbers person and firmly believe that if enough people see what you are selling someone in that crowd is looking for what you have. I've posted numerous articles and posts on my WebSitesWork blog about traffic and tools available to help you get the traffic you need. And like so many people that have said this before me, "it takes time and hard work" I am continually looking for ways to improve the traffic to my sites, and to the sites that I build. Enjoying the research helps too.

The "never give up" attitude is what sucessful people have, when they fall they get right back up and maybe start over again. As well, I am completely overhauling my Private Stock Jewelery website, I've changed this website to be wider (that took some doing, considering it's not my html and I didn't want the whole site to crash) and one other site that really needs updating. Yep, that is going to take some time.


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Private Stock Jewelry.com
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Wear My Blues.blogspot.com