handmade jewellery

 Handmade jewellery is one of the latest fashion crazes. Bracelets and necklaces made of beads, hanging earrings with beautiful gemstones or handmade silver rings are only a few items you can find in artisan shops these days.

Starting a business in handmade jewellery is cheaper than you think. You'll certainly need several tools to begin with, but you can start by making simple handmade jewellery  items and move on to complicated silversmith works later on, after you get a bit of experience and confidence in your skills.

If you're new to handmade jewellery, educate yourself first. Learn various techniques and styles. While learning, notice what kind of work you like most. For instance, you may discover you have a strong affinity with making Art Nouveau style pendants and bracelets. You should definitely give more attention to that specific skill, because if you love it, your creativity will sky-rocket and you will be able to produce exquisite pieces of art that might be worth a small fortune.

When deciding what kind of jewellery to create, you need to watch the fashion trends. If Swarovski crystals are trendy, you could create a line of jewellery based on silver with Swarovski elements, for instance. You can make sets of earrings and necklace, bracelets, rings or even little charms for the mobile phone. If gemstones are on the wave, focus your efforts in the direction of designing jewellery pieces with the most beautiful amethysts, sapphires, ambrosia, moon stones or whatever other gems you can think of.

Every business needs clients, so you'll have to find ways to show your creations to the world. The cheapest solution is to open a shop on Etsy, but that's far from being truly professional. Even if you start on Etsy to test the waters, after you see some success, you should think about developing your own business website. Since you have products to sell, the most appropriate type of website would be an online store with shopping cart and online payment possibilities.

The next step is to bring people to your jewellery website. Make short videos illustrating the making of some nice pieces of jewellery and upload them on YouTube. Make a Facebook page for you business and associate it with your website. Set up a Pinterest account. Pinterest is mainly visual, so it's the most appropriate social networking site for spreading cool jewellery designs. You might be surprised by the number of leads you could collect from such a website.