Saturday, November 1, 2008

Making Custom Handcrafted Fantasy Jewelry

By Gibson Maseko

There is one business niche you can explore to make good money and that is to consider constructing quality custom jewelry for individual clients but get into this business only of you have a great sense of style and creativity to come up with new and creative designs. If you prove yourself to be good, you will be overwhelmed with phone calls by customers who would want you to construct special pieces for them or as gifts for others. Making custom jewelry isn't hard, all you need a sense of style and creativity - the skills needed to make jewelry are very easy to learn. The pieces that you designed and constructed must be exclusive so that when your client wears them, they know that they are wearing something that no one else wears in the whole world.

It is actually not easy to work with clients because it is very hard to match the picture in your mind with that in their minds. Do not risk losing a client by working in their presence and showing them how easy it is to do it themselves. By talking to the clients at length you will know and be able to design custom jewelry that matches them completely.

It would be proper for you to find out all about the persons for whom the jewelry piece is to be designed if the piece is to be given to them as gifts. While uniqueness and exclusivity are the keys to making this type of business successful, speaking regularly with your clients is vitally important too.

Clients who already have their own stones or gems may want you to make custom jewelry for them. They may even want you to just enhance a piece that they already have that is old and requires work to make it look new again. Only when you know you have the ability to perform the work, then you can accept the assignment, to ensure that you will not cause further damage to something that is dear to them. Find out all you can about the piece and what special meaning, if any, it holds for the owner.

Of course, you will purchase the pieces that you need to make the custom jewelry from wholesale resources. You may need to spend more buying quality parts from unique jewelry making supplies and imported items overseas so be careful how you quote your price.

Once you have quoted a price, make sure you do not lose money here so put aside 15% to 30% from it to make ensure this doesn't happen. After deducting 15 to 30 percent, use the remainder as your 'budget' when buying supplies to make the custom jewelry. - 15790

Free Paying Surveys - Get Paid Now

By Hailey Gates

Looking for a free paid survey list can be a little overwhelming! There is a lot of information available, and it can take a while to absorb. Learning to separate the wheat from the chaff is an important part of deciding which survey sites to sign up for.

There are plenty of ads that will direct you to sites that offer 'guarantees' and 'the best free paying surveys around'. Many of these offer to share their secrets with you for a 'nominal fee' of around $35. Don't be fooled!

Free paid survey lists are easy to obtain. The research companies will often advertise direct, and there are plenty of sites devoted to updating lists of companies that offer free paid surveys. You definitely shouldn't be asked to pay for a list.

As a general rule of thumb, any job that you have to pay to get is probably not legit. Isn't the description of a job that YOU are supposed to being paid for services rendered? Anything else smacks of Tom Sawyer and his whitewashed fence.

So why pay for lists of surveys? There is no need when the information you are looking for is readily available FREE. Rather than hard to find, free paying surveys seem to be around every corner, and the trouble may be in Finding the time to devote to them all!

A good free paid survey list will tell you what the companies pay, whether any 'offers' must be completed to qualify, and how you are to be paid. Each company listed should have a good link, and a contact us button on their site. Things like this show that the list has been kept up to date.

Even good survey list sites can make mistakes. If there is a free paying survey that sounds off to you, Google it and you can find out if anyone has had a problem with it. There are plenty of forums and work from home blogs devoted to exposing scams and spreading the word about legit opportunities.

Finally you are ready to start taking free paying surveys! Once you've made your choices of companies to work for, get yourself registered and prepare to fill out profiles. The more time you spend on these now, the more money you can make later! Once you become established, you can be cashing out weekly just from taking surveys! - 15790

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