hey do you make your own joy everybody
loved it you ever thought about selling
ice to gift shops and boutiques well I'm
here to help you my name is Jill Cole
I've had a line of handmade jewelry
since 2011 let me give you a little bit
of background about how I got started I
use I have a full-time job but I used to
help my sister she's got a lot of
jewelry and I used to help her design
and make jewelry for her line and then
my family started having some financial
problems and I told her I said you know
I think I wanted to get a part-time job
to help out with the bills and she said
why don't you just start your own line
of jewelry I was like I don't think I do
all that now and she said well you
already design it and make it so you
know what you're doing on her yeah
that's true
and she said it's easy I thought I can't
I can't show it I mean I'm too shy for
all that she said no just no just do it
it'll be easy and I was like ok so I
went home and I started designing and
this is the kind of thing I do I just
take pencil and paper and just start
drawing and designing and coming up with
styles and then in decide what I want to
try to use you know you draw lots of
things but you don't like to use them
all anyway so then this is my very first
notebook I ever had where I did this I
would draw up my earring my style and I
would write information like this one it
says I used 7 inches of 18 gauge wire
and I put down the colors and whatever I
used on it and so that helps in pricing
but let's say the first step then would
be to design and that's what you do you
draw you plan actually make it make some
samples of this so that you know what it
looks like and you have it to show and
then to you need to choose a name how I
did it let's say I'm from Mississippi
and the nearest beach show is in Memphis
so my mother my sister or not
I load it up to go to the beach show one
Saturday and we were just brainstorming
on what names and naturally I started
with flower names because they're pretty
but I we didn't come up with anything
like that and then birds I love birds so
we started with bird name so my mother
that called out one I like that it's a
Google Doodle I couldn't stand the way
they spelt it doesn't make any sense so
I just did like a sounds like and I
loved it I looked it up nobody else was
using it so that's the name I've used
and it's been great I really enjoy it
and then you have to design your cards
for your earrings
you know small cards for earrings little
tags for your like no long necklaces in
your bracelet and then a little bit
bigger cards for your necklaces I'll say
a lot of people use um business cards
for this I'm not a fan of that cuz it
looks like you're sticking your jewelry
on a business card my sister is a little
fancier she went to a print shop and had
them help her design one design her
cards and they print them out and they
come real nice in this box you know like
if you bought business cards or
something oh I didn't do that I'm a
little too cheap so I went and bought
some card stock and I got the brown you
know the heavy duty looks like brown
paper sack kind of card stock that's
what I got and I designed by own on the
computer put them in the printer print
it out or in the copier and um and cut
them out myself and that's what I use
and it's been great
haven't had a problem whatsoever with
that so however you want to do it it's
fine
and then a one thing to keep in mind was
doing cards though think of your store
their counters their tables where they
show their jewelry in the glass cases
and everywhere all that's real estate
for them they don't like to have big
cards so keep your cards you know fairly
small for earrings I don't make any
bigger than you really have to but don't
make it so small that you can't clip it
onto something if they want to you know
hang it on something just make it just
think about the size when you're making
and then let's see number four would be
pricing your jewelry and by writing down
the
length of wire you know or whatever
every piece of anything that goes into
making that jewelry you need to write it
down and how long it takes you to make
it to it's very important and we're
gonna go over all that in another video
but that is all comes into consideration
when it comes to pricing number five you
need to photograph your jewelry and this
is really I mean can be really simple
you don't have to have a fancy light box
all these lights and everything you can
simply go outside and you take pictures
of it with nature you can put it on
somebody and you know have models or
I'll tell you what I do I like and this
is just quick and easy I can do it
anywhere and it in all times I mean it's
just great I go and get um scrapbook
paper you can get big square pieces of
paper that looks like wood with it's
been painted and weathered and it's all
chipping off and everything or you can
get like oh god barn wood with wormholes
and everything and it just sound like
that and when you lay it down and light
your jewelry on it you put lights on it
and everything and it looks like it's
laying on that wood I mean you can't
tell the difference and I think a lot of
people do that so that's just something
easy to keep him on but after you get
your photographs done you're ready to
start a business page like on Facebook
maybe an Instagram page you can have
your own personal page plus business
pages so just figure it out you can
google youtube how to do that but yeah
that's easy to do and when you start
like say a facebook business page invite
your friends to it and ask them to share
it with their friends maybe invite their
friends that's how I got a lot of a lot
of people on my page and I guarantee you
after you get it your page going and
everything and you have a lot of people
on there every time you post something
somebody's gonna message you an order so
just be aware of that anyway that's all
I've got for now I'm gonna go more in
depth on all of these things
other videos so please subscribe to my
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I would love to have you here if you
have any questions or want me to cover
something in particular just comment
below and also I wanted to stress that I
am NOT an expert in anything this is
just how I've done it and it's been
pretty awesome alright see you next time