Home Based Jewelry Business

Archive for June, 2009

Most women love jewelry so the home based Jewelry Business is a popular business to start nowadays. The first question asked when someone is trying to break into the jewelry market is 'how do I start a Jewelry Business'? After all, jewelry is usually expensive so if you start the wrong way, you can end up spending a lot of money on jewelry and not make any money in return.

How do I start a jewelry business today?

Before you start a jewelry business, you need a business plan. A business plan is a key roadmap that will help you start and run your jewelry business whether it is a Home Based Jewelry Business or not. The most important question to ask yourself is about funding.

Where to get startup funding for my jewelry business?

First of all, if you have very little money to start your jewelry business, you need to not have any inventory. You can start your jewelry business by offering services such as jewelry cleaning. Without inventory, your jewelry business will be a low cost business, much easier to start.

If you have just a hundred dollars or a few hundred dollars, it may not be enough to start a full fledge jewelry business. However, you can either buy enough parts to make model jewelry or buy some model jewelry to show potential customers so that they can order the ones they like.

There is also an option of singing up to become a representative of a jewelry network marketing company. There are many jewelry network marketing companies and they cost different prices to join. Some cost as low as less than $100 while others cost hundreds of dollars. You can choose the company that you can afford and the startup package that is best suited for your situation.

If you have a lot of money or have a good enough business plan to find business partners or get loans from banks or financial institutions, you can start a bigger jewelry business.

Marcasite Black Onyx and Garnet Sterling Silver Necklace

Question: Licensing Wedding Photos.....?

My husband and I are in the process of creating a small home based business to sell some of our art work (mostly Jewelry and Pottery, some Photography). A friend of ours has asked us to photograph her wedding. She wants us to put the photos on a cd so she can print them. We are ok with this, but we would like to know how to license the photos. We thought about doing a Creative Commons License with Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike. We are ok with her making derivatives (editing, etc.) but at the same time we don't want something that ends up looking bad to have our name on it. Also, we would like to retain the right to edit the photos how we see fit and use them in our portfolio as we build our business. What is the best way to accommodate each of our needs?

Answer: In most states the person that clicks the shutter owns copyright unless stated somewhere else otherwise. She should be signing a contract that states she is not allowed to edit (there should be no in between with this, she can either edit them or not edit them). The contract should also contain a model release for you to use for advertising purposes and a clause that allows you to maintain copyright and to acknowledge that she can only use them for personal purposes (and not attempt to sell them or things of the like).
Look up wedding photography contracts online, mine is a front and back page covering my butt if anything were to happen.

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