The new MrBead shop is live and doing well. The old stores will continue to operate alongside.
We’ve already listed over 100 new semi precious beads in the new shop – see at New Beads. And as no shows: there’ll be many more coming soon!
For our new bead shop click https://mrbeadshop.com.Content:
How To Sell Jewellery Online
Diana’s Interstellar Jewellery
Powerful Fluorite Beads
Summer Bead Fairs
New MrBead Shop
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Etsy
Although based in the US, many home jewellery makers in the UK do very well here. For inspiration, take a look at the jewellery already listed click here. Great for well-designed jewellery with good photographs.
eBay
Not as good as it was because there’s too many sellers – but easy to join and list. MrBead was one of Hong Kong’s largest eBay sellers 20-years ago (so they told us!), but we stopped selling there ages ago as it’s too competitive.
However, if you can make a quantity of designs that are appealing and not too expensive, this could be an easy outlet for you. Buyers look for free shipping, so add costs to the price.
Own Website
Gives you more control, but you need some marketing skills, otherwise no one will find your site.
These days it’s easy to build a website with many companies offering simple software to allow anyone to setup an online shop. Now a fun and relatively pain-free experience!
I like GoDaddy, as it’s inexpensive with good support – but other easy-to-use website builders with great templates are Wix.com, Squarespace.com, weebly.com and ewisoft.com (used for my Norfolk holiday-let cottage).
If you’re serious, go for Shopify as we did on the new MrBead Shop. Shopify hosts over a million stores globally, and although not the cheapest (from £30 a month), is easy to use with fantastic e-commerce features.
Photography
Whichever way for sell online, a good photogrpah is the most important aspect to sell well.
It must show your jewellery close and clear, and will usually need editing and contrast boosting. However, most mobile phones and tablit computers do the job. For more detail go to How To Take Photos That Sell.
Take advantage of lockdown and use your time and creativity to sell online! Once you get a system that works, it’s easy to duplicate and scale-up – as long as you can make enough designs.
Her love of rocks and astronomy influences her jewellery, with designs like shapes in galaxies and stellar explosions. Britain’s pre-historic and Saxon roots also has an impact on style. All these influences come together in her designs, giving them a powerful organic feel.
Diana say “I wrap wire around and beyond stones, creating pieces based on spiral forms and use of negative space – to make rock and metal appear to defy gravity. The result is a unique style, I think of as ‘nouveau bronze-age'”.
Diana was in business in the USA for five years, before returning to the UK in 2016 and starting her steampunk jewellery line.
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Benefits
Fluorite is said to bring perceptiveness, peace, calm the mind and strengthen bones. It’s particularly useful in medication – because holding even a small piece in the hand brings a sense of inner peace.
Those who choose this stone are likely to be artistic and creative, being able to earn money from their talent – as well as self-critical with a fear of failure. A powerful semi precious gemstone.
History
Fluorite has been excavated from the ruins of Pompeii, but despite being a favourite with ancient civilizations, has been recently overlooked.
Click to see all our fluorite beads
However, most things will be back to normal from 4th July, so It’s very-likley our Cornish Bead Fair at Probus Village Hall will go ahead as planned.
This safe rural hall gives lots of room for social distancing, and we’ll be issuing free masks and gloves to all. Not that it’ll spoil the fun! And this is our first show to display new beads from our recent 700+ kg shipment of 30 boxes.
Sam & Pete say the first Gem n Bead Fair after lockdown will probably be Newcastle on 18th-19th July, and more-definitely in London at Kempton Park on 25th-26th July.
Therefore, it looks like all shows back from July – but double-check before travelling, and expect social distance measures and possible queues on larger fairs.
Details of all shows this year, click: 2020 Bead Fairs.
For instructions on using the new shop, scroll down to the end of this newsletter or click here.
Please Register
For our regulars, I’m sorry to say you need to create an account again (as data from the old shop can’t be transferred). However, you only need to do once, it only takes a couple of minutes, and will save you a lot of time on future orders. Just click the
icon at top right of the shop, then Continue to register as a new customer. You’ll then be able to use the Wish List to store anything you like for later.
Simplified Shipping
Everyone hates paying shipping! So for transparency, the new shop has a flat rate of £2.50 for UK orders under £30, then FREE. No need for any code. International shipping starts from £4.99 with a maximum of just £14 – click for full details here.
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