Some resources to help with your business
A collection of helpful resources to help you better run your business. If you have a favorite resource please share it with us.
Jewelry Resources:
- This ring sizer is on screen & uses a keycard to verify. findmyringsize.com/
- Another ring sizer resource is www.ringsizes.co/
- This has been very useful for listing, a glossary of Jewellery Terms relevant for vintage or handmade:
www.braybrook.co.uk/jewellery-and-silver-wisdom/gems-of-information...
General Business Resources:
- www.createandthrive.com is fab for learning tricks and tips of online selling, especially the podcasts.
- Also the Etsy SEO, Google SEO team is fantastic : www.etsy.com/au/teams/11352/etsy-seo-google-seo-copy-writing-small
- For those of your with a Thermal Brother Printer - some fantastically cheap authentic DK labels at:
Labelcity.com.au - Another place to try for labels is www.inkman.com.au
- Get Digital Ready. Find out how to use the internet to drive traffic to your website or shop https://www.facebook.com/groups/1040707129388520/
- Vela is an excellent bulk editing tool https://welcome.getvela.com/
- EtsyOnSale allows you to schedule sales, bulk edit tags and schedule auto renew https://www.etsyonsale.com/
- After Business Cards? Try Moo for excellent quality but rather expensive (but worth it) business cards. They have regular sales so watch out for those.
- Vistaprint is a cheaper option for Business cards but the quality isn't as good as Moo.
- Create a catalogue of your shop at https://www.nowinstore.com/
- A great article from on Create and Thrive about raising your prices :) www.createandthrive.com/ct-qa-raising-prices
- Writing great product descriptions https://meylah.com/meylah/online-store-fundamentals-copywriting-what-why-and-how
Postage Resources:
- Australia Post Postage Calculator
- Create postage labels and pay for postage online and it's often cheaper than over the counter My Post Business
- Track your parcels https://auspost.com.au/
- Track parcels in the USA https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction_input
- Another option to Australia Post is https://www.sendle.com/
Vintage Resources:
- For Silver hallmarks this is a useful website and covers British and World hallmarks:
www.925-1000.com/index.html - Also one of the best on Costume Jewellery is Illusion Jewels with an alphabetical index:
www.illusionjewels.com/research/costumejewelrymarks.html - This has been very useful for listing, a glossary of Jewellery Terms relevant for vintage or handmade: