BUSINESS OF CRAFT

After the ORIENTATION TO BEADS & JEWELRY FINDINGS Class...

Students usually take these classes in this order:
1 Getting Your Jewelry Business Started
2 Pricing and Selling Your Jewelry
3 Internet Marketing For Very Small Businesses...That Works!
4.So You Want To Do Craft Shows!
NOTE: With the descriptions and instructions for each class, there are suggestions about which classes to take next.

Start With This Class:

ORIENTATION TO BEADS & JEWELRY FINDINGS

- Learn how to make choices about how to buy beads and other jewelry findings, what goes together with what and when, what happens to all these pieces over time, and what the the quality is of the pieces you are using, whether beads, metals, or stringing materials, and, finally, how to relate this to design goals, and if you are selling your stuff, your marketing goals as well.

COURSES Sequence:

BUS1.0
GETTING YOUR JEWELRY MAKING BUSINESS STARTED

BEGINNER
What you learn in this class...

*LTB-bw101-INST Instructions, 13pages
*LTB-bw101-KIT-A Chartreuse/Orange/Fuchsia
*LTB-bw101-KIT-B colors

BUS2.0
PRICING AND SELLING YOUR JEWELRY

BEGINNER
What you learn in this class...

*LTB-bw102-INST Instructions
*LTB-bw102-KITA Chartreuse/Orange/Fuchsia
*LTB-bw102-KITB colors

BUS3.0
INTERNET MARKETING THAT WORKS

BEGINNER
What you learn in this class...

*LTB-bw103-INST Instructions
*LTB-bw103-KITA Chartreuse/Orange/Fuchsia
*LTB-bw103-KITB colors

BUS4.0
SO YOU WANT TO DO CRAFT SHOWS...

BEGINNER
What you learn in this class...

*LTB-bw104-INST Instructions
*LTB-bw104-KITA Chartreuse/Orange/Fuchsia
*LTB-bw104-KITB colors

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Learning Goals for
Business of Craft

CRITICAL SKILLS TO LEARN:

- Record Keeping

- Basic Bookkeeping/Accounting

- Getting Federal, State and Local registrations and accounts

- Developing Your Business Model

- Using a Formula To Compute Prices

- Understanding the differences among Retail, Wholesale and Consignment

- Marketing and Promotion

- Web-presence - business and marketing considerations, when going online

- How to do craft shows

- How to buy beads and jewelry findings

- How to merchandise, display and package

- Photographing Your Work

SUPPLIES AND TOOLS
To KEEP ON HAND

General Ledger, either in hard copy accounting ledger form, or a spreadsheet on your computer, or a canned accounting software program

File folders, accordian files, storage boxes

Computer and printer access.

Business cards
Business envelopes
2-part sales forms or printed invoice/statement form
Business checks
Credit sheet

Pricing formulas

List of suppliers/vendors

Our LEARN TO BEAD program
is based on
The Design Approach:

- Focused on teaching how to make smart choices
- Developmentally-based, where you learn skills in an orderly way, and understand how skills build upon each other
- Easy to follow

You may purchase:
o Written instructions for each lesson
o Kits of Supplies
o Recommended Books

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The Design Approach....

Teaches you how to make choices
about function and appeal,
movement and context,
when you construct a piece of jewelry.

JEWELRY DESIGN CAMP
October 2013

Session I: Contemporizing Traditional Etruscan Jewelry

Session II: Fringe, Edge, Strap, Bail, Surface Embellishment in Jewelry -- Art or Not?

Immerse yourself into a week-long study of jewelry design theories, and their applications and manipulations with various materials, techniques and strategies.

Phone: 615/292-0610
Website: www.learntobead.net
Email: classes@learntobead.net