Your OWN accessory business "buyer"

Most people don’t have much experience with starting up a jewelry sales business, but many would like to try. There are a few options out there for how you can start up a jewelry business and sell jewelry on your own that include: joining up with a direct sales multi-level business (which may require a large start up fee and a lot of your time), buying bundles of jewelry wholesale and reselling it, and now there’s another option: “My Accessory Business Kits” (only $49 for a start-up kit!)

My Accessory Business Kits include everything you need to start selling on your own. They come with a variety of accessories for you to re-sell for the price or even more and you can set your own prices. Most online jewelry businesses and accessory stores have a “buyer” who researches what’s popular and buys the jewelry for the store to sell.

My Accessory Business acts as your buyer by selecting only the most popular pieces of jewelry for you to re-sell. Then, like boutiques and department stores, you sell the jewelry for 2x-3x the price you bought it for and keep your profits.

Starting a business by buying bundles wholesale can be risky because you may not have experience in buying and re-selling jewelry on your own and many wholesalers make you purchase a dozen of each piece in order to get the wholesale price. In our assorted jewelry sales kits, you will receive jewelry hand selected by our experienced buyers located in Los Angeles, CA. Each piece is different so you will have a large selection of jewelry to sell.

Most kit buyers have made the cost of their entire kit back after only selling 5 out of the 15 pieces! This makes it easy to earn double or triple the cost of the kit back, like a typical professional fashion business would expect.

Visit www.MyAccessoryBusiness.com to find out more about what is included in each kit and view our selection of jewelry included in the kits.

Woman-run business profile: Divinity INK

The Internet makes it easier for artists to reach out to customers outside of just selling at trade shows, craft fairs and also helps customers online find these artists pages where they can buy drawings, paintings, gifts and more from artists.

Today, I would like to share with you the profile of an artist who turned her graphic art into the form of t-shirts, hoodies, and stickers available for purchase online.

Tara Jueckstock of Divinity INK started her online graphic art business because she always knew she was going to be an artist when she was growing up and getting in trouble for drawing in school just motivated her even further to follow her passion. Tara has been drawing since she could hold a crayon. As she grew up, she decided on getting her art degree at community college and earned some recognition for her artwork through school projects, selling at a few conventions. Some of her art has even been used as designs for tattoos! Her art is unique because it's both cute and creepy, quirky and insightful. If someone bears a slightly twisted sense of humor, they'll find some of the phrases to be humorous. If not, at least the artwork has a catchy vibe to it.

Over the years, Tara says, she has spent a decent amount of money on art supplies, but the main supplies, including her sketchbook, ink pens, markers, etc,  weren't a large investment to start her business. She also used a computer, scanner, and image editing software to further manipulate her designs.

She was inspired to get her business off the ground by finding that people were generally interested in what she does and also her "random fits of sarcasm that beg for creativity." Her work is always evolving and she is constantly adding new works. She always keeps an open mind to suggestions as well.

When asked what advice she would give to other women who are interested in starting their own business, she says "Do it!" But also cautions them to have a safety net, because your business won't take off immediately. She says that networking, promoting your business and maintaining ties with past customers while finding new ones is important. Also, asking for help from coworkers and family by giving them a free sticker and/or business card helps. Tara suggests that depending on your business, wear your own product "because if you don't want to wear it, who else would?"

You can currently purchase art from Tara at her online shop http://www.redbubble.com/people/divinityink or email her at requiem_into_revelation AT yahoo.com 
Also, check out her facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/DivinityINK

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Visit our website at www.MyAccessoryBusiness.com to get your affordable accessory sales kit or select your own pieces starting at only $2.99. Start selling jewelry today! Great for fundraising, starting a business, making extra cash. Kits include everything you need to get started selling, including the jewelry. Kits start at only $49. Get yours today!

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Another great website to sell jewelry online- iOffer.com

When selling jewelry online, it's good to have a couple options of different websites to try out and sell on. iOffer.com allows buyers and sellers to negotiate to buy and sell items in an interactive and open format. It will let buyers make you an offer instead of just having to settle for the price marked. This is great because sometimes you don't know the best price to give your item to make a sale. But in this situation, it's better to price it at a higher price, so that when someone asks for it at a lower price, both you and the buyer are happy with the price of the item and you don't feel like you priced it too low, and they feel like they got a deal.

Accepting payments from customers

A question I get every so often is about what types of payment you should accept when your selling jewelry or any product. Well, it definitely depends on exactly what your selling and where your selling it but here a couple of rules to go by when deciding what types of payment you want to accept:

- Cash is always great when your selling something in person. Cash is not good when someone wants to give it to you at a later date. Don't accept IOUs ever. Even from your friends, unless you want to potentially ruin your friendship. If you are selling items that cost under $20, sometimes it's just worth it to ask for cash if doing the credit card transaction is going to be a headache and takes you longer than it is worth to do.

- Paypal is a great way to accept payments online. www.paypal.com  If you are selling something online, paypal will notify you through email that your payment has gone through and once it has gone through, you can give the product to the buyer. You can do this with someone in person as well as over the phone or through email. Don't forget that paypal takes about 3% of your sale, although it may be worth it especially dealing with someone you don't know online.

- Square is great for accepting payments through iPhone, iPad and Android. https://squareup.com/ When you sign up, they will send you a little square swipe reader to use. When using the swipe reader, they take 2.75% of your payment, which isn't bad. You can also enter someones credit card number without the reader if you forget it or if someone is making a purchase over the phone, but then Square takes 3.5% and 15 cents per transaction, so using the swipe reader is a better deal, but again, either way, it's better to make the sale and pay a percentage than it is to miss out on the sale all together.

- Checks are something you should ONLY accept from someone you know well or someone you work with on a continuous basis. If you are selling something at a trade show like jewelry or any items, it's best NOT to accept checks from strangers. Most people won't even ask anymore because hardly any businesses will accept this type pf payment in that situation, but if they do ask, it's best to already know your answer, which should be NO. Checks can bounce without being able to get in contact with that person again. Only in cases where you see the person on a regular basis or when you're dealing with selling something to a reputable business, is it ok to accept checks. And even still, you have to be careful and keep track of what payments are owed to you.

Last weekend to get 50 FREE Business cards with any purchase

Check out www.MyAccessoryBusiness.com to get a jewelry sales kit for only $49 that includes everything you need to get started selling jewelry. You can also download a catalog and sell from your catalog pages and select each piece to buy after you already have orders from your customers. My Accessory Business kits are a great way to start your own business, make some extra cash selling jewelry or aquire wholesale priced jewelry for gifts. You can set your own prices and keep ALL of your profits!

For a limited time, until Sunday, April 15th 2012 at midnight, you will get 50 FREE write-in business cards for you! You can write your information on the professionally designed card and give it to customers that may want to purchase more jewelry from you in the future. No coupon code necessacary, the cards will be included in each order made during this time. If you purchase a kit that already includes business cards, an extra 50 cards will be added to your order.

Summer is a great time to get started selling jewelry for extra vacation money. Visit our website www.MyAccessoryBusiness.com for more information on what is included in each kit or how can download our catalog to make sales.