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Costume Jewelry Choices For Prom Season

By James Frolsburg

It’s prom season and you have a million things to organize and buy, but have you included costume jewelry on your list? If you need some help finding something perfect for you prom night then read on for a simple guide to getting your jewelry style right.

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Jewelry-Making DIY Basics - What is a Cone Finding?

By Paul Brandon

New jewelry designers will accelerate their progress by learning the terminology of different jewelry-making components.  Impress potential customers, converse easily with potential suppliers and enhance your credibility in the jewelry marketplace by using correct terminology.

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Jewelry-Making DIY Basics - What is a Crimp?

By Paul Brandon

Crimps play an important part in jewelry design, but their roles in jewelry design are often ignored for the more visible parts.

What is a jewelry crimp?

A jewelry crimp is a device that can be pinched or pressed together with the purpose of holding findings onto a jewelry piece or fixing beads in place.  Jewelry crimps usually take one of four forms: crimp tubes, crimp beads, crimp-on eyes and crimp-on hooks.

Jewelry beads are spheres with the hole cut through.  When they are flattened, they usually form an hourglass shape.  Crimp tubes have a uniform diameter and flatten into rectangles.  Twisted crimp tubes have a spiral pattern cut into the tubes that might add patterns to the crimp, but they still flatten into rectangles.

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16 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog

By Denise Wakeman  and Patsi Krakoff

You’ve got your blog set up and you’ve started posting pithy, useful information that your niche market would benefit from and enjoy. Days go by, you keep publishing, but no one comments and your traffic stats are barely registering. What do you do?

Like any website you own, you must do some blog promotion to start driving traffic to your site. Here are 16 steps, in no particular order of importance, that you can start doing now to get traffic moving to your blog.

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Is Your Website Design Killings Sales?

By Harvey McEwan

Building a business not only means setting up an organisation that effectively provides services or goods, it also means building a brand that customers trust. While there are many ways to do this - the most important one being that you actually provide everything that you say you will - it’s still possible to find good businesses falling down when it comes to presenting themselves online. This problem tends to occur when companies find themselves stuck with an efficient and unattractive website that turns customers off.

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Setting Up a Free Website

Websites and Your Business

Setting up a website to promote products and services online are all part of modern day business marketing. Unfortunately not everyone can fork out large sums of cash to build professional looking websites with highly complex dynamic content, content management and eCommerce capabilities like shopping carts and online payment facilities.

In fact, most small to medium sized businesses require nothing more than a simple and affordable website to gain some sort of online presence - but they have no idea as to where to begin their website journey.

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Jewelry-Making DIY Basics - What is a Toggle?

By Paul Brandon

To work effectively with friends, customers and suppliers, jewelry makers should learn the terminology of jewelry-making supplies.  The right terminology will help define a need for the right jewelry closure when images are not available.

Jewelry toggles make up a second category of jewelry closures, along with lobster claw clasps, for handmade artisan jewelry, mass-market costume jewelry and fine jewelry.  You will see toggle closures on jewelry pieces from Tiffany and David Yurman down to special Mothers Day gifts that only a mother would wear.  Toggle clasps can fasten jewelry and enhance jewelry appearance.  Many jewelry-makers use toggles as closures for their necklaces, bracelets, and anklets.

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By Nici Bruckner

Jewelry is one of the most misspelled words in the English language…. so how DO you spell it and how SHOULD you spell it if you are selling jewelry online? The source of the confusion, is like a diamond, multi faceted.

Firstly, we have the confusion caused by the MAKER of Jewelry…. the Jeweler. Note the “e” after the l…. so it makes sense that what a jeweler makes is JEWELERY right? Common mistake. A jeweler in fact, makes jewelry “The jeweler loses ‘e loses the e” when making jewelry.

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