Benefits Of Etsy and Snagging a Treasury

I think the comraderie on Etsy is one of the best reasons to sell there. I have made so many new friends and business networking connections. The friendships are the immediate pay offs and I do believe that that if you work hard, link up with good hardworking people and make a good product that eventually you will get noticed. I have joined a number of groups on Etsy and each has brought good people into my world.. Although many of us are in competition, I find the willingness to help teammates is surprising but wonderful. I recently became a member of a group called the Etsy Twitter Team. They snag Treasuries and put each other's products in. They list the Treasury on their blog and then ask everyone to tweet it. Everyone gets a chance to be Shop of the Week and again it is promoted by all, knowing you will get your chance. I love this group.

Does snagging a treasury have an immediate payoff ? Yes. It feels good when everyone thanks you for including them. Of course it doesn't seem to often lead to sales. If anyone has a study on that I would love to see it.

I hope in that in the end, after all the articles, blogs, the hours promoting on twitter etc. That someone out there will see your product or recognize your talent and you wake up one morning and all that work had paid off financially. In a perfect world, tomorrow after my article is printed by http://handmademarketing.org and appears on blogs across the blogoshpere, I will have hundreds of new followers and they will be bidding the price up on my artisan jewelry. Hope your day will be as great as I plan on mine being.



Joyce Richards (author and artist)

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Etsy Twitter Team Goes Green and So Do I

Our July event is called "Go Green with the Etsy Twitter Team"! It will take place July 21-27. It will focus on organic, herbal, upcycled, recycled, and eco-friendly products from our team. More on this to come as our event nears.

I create artisan jewelry using imported Italian glass and PMC or Art Clay Silver. I also create one of a kind silver jewelry supplies and findings for the jewelry designers of the world.  I was curious as to  the process of making fine silver clay. I started to research and found much to my surprise that I was really a green artist and didn't know it.

Did you know that PMC or Art Clay Silver is a totally recycled product? Photographic film has silver in it. This silver is collected and repurposed into silver clay. The silver particles are combined with a binder which makes the silver pliable like clay. I can then shape it anyway I want, and combine it with other materials, from glass to semi-precious and precious stones. I can paint it, I can enamel it. It is a a wonder product for a jewelry designer. I the end you have fine jewelry. The silver that is left after firing the clay in a kiln is 99.9 silver unlike sterling silver which is 92.5 silver. The result is a sparkling silver product that is much more resistant to tarnish than sterling.

Attn Jewelry designers:  If you want to go green just add my art clay silver findings to your jewelry creations.

Attn Jewelry lovers: If you want to go green just add my art clay silver jewelry to your jewelry wardrobe.

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Just Listed Patches Lampwork Silver Blue Onyx Bracelet and Earrings Set

This stunning lampwork bracelet is adorned with imported Bali sterling silver beads, spacers and elegant silver cones. Onyx beads and Bali silver clasp. Blue black and silver lampwork, onyx and Bali silver and swarovski crystals.
The lampwork beads are handmade by the artist(me). The bracelet measures 7 1/4". This is for the bracelet and earrings.These lovely earrings have imported Bali sterling silver beads, blue black and silver lampwork, onyx and and jet black swarovski crystals.
The earrings measures 3" from top of sterling earwires. These lampwork beads are very special. They are infused with an imported Italian glass that has real silver in it and gives off a shimmering effect. Your friends will ask where you found such a one-of-a-kind treasure.

Marketing Your Handmade Art Jewelry Crafts Through Social Link Ups

Social Bookmarking

Use social bookmarking to give your readers the ability to tag, describe, and organize links to your content in their own online bookmarking accounts.

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The ability to add social bookmarking to your site is really easy thanks to the widgets available at AddThis. By installing AddThis, your users can add your content to their bookmark list with a single click.

Social Networking

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• Ning
• 43 Things
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Marketing Your Handmade Jewelry Through Press Releases

We may be on Etsy, Artfire, have our own website and spend lots of time trying to get people to link to us. Getting customers seems to be a full time job so do something extra to get an edge. We often forget that we(meaning small handmade jewelry artists and designers) are just as entitled to writing Press Releases as any large company. I found a website I thought was very helpful in learning how to write a Press Release.Click Check out Send your press release to a syndication site such as PR.com. Here's a list of free PR Release websites.
An added benefit to sending out press releases is that it gets you link backs all over the web and that's a good thing.
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These are our latest PMC beads. They are pure 99.9 silver and can be puchased at http://beadsofglass.etsy.com Every handmade bead is one-of-a-kind.

Powder Blue and Lavender Lampwork Bracelet -Earrings

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