Joanne Teichman, owner of the amazing Dallas store Ylang23 is our first webinar guest.
Sept. 20th at 3pm EST
Click here to reserve your spot
Ylang23 is one of the most sought-after stores by designers of all kinds. The Dallas jewelry emporium, and it's sister website, carries an amazing array of fine jewelry designers and Joanne is known for being one of designer jewelry's most ardant fans.
Joanne is a keen trend tracker and can spot new talent at 50 paces so how does she do it? How does she curate her store so that everyone wants to shop there and every designers wants to be in there.
We will find out in our webinar when I can ask the questions you're probably dying to ask.
Some of my questions... Read More
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Quick catch-up for designers who like to enter design competitions:
Cultured Pearl Association of America's Third International Pearl Design Competition deadlines Sept. 3rd.
The AGTA Spectrum Awards deadline is Sept. 21st.
The Women's Jewelry Association's DIVA Design Competition deadline is Sept. 21st (WJA also has a category in the AGTA Spectrum Awards, too)
Palladium Alliance Design Contest deadline is Sept. 21st.
The Niche Awards deadline is September 30th.
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We wanted to share the fun that folks have with us at our designerDAY annual conference.
This is where designers network and build new relationships with other designers -- nothing like sharing woes and coups with other folks who know exactly what you're going through, right?
The slate of experts this year will teach so many new skills -- just what designers need to increase their sales and decrease their stress.... Read More
designerDAY: Business Conference for Jewelry Designers is one of my favorite days of the year. It's a full day of education dedicated to designers who run their own businesses. It's the one day of the year when it's ok for them to NOT think about their jewelry but to focus on their BUSINESS.
All year long I field questions and dole out advice -- there's so much to learn when running your own design'preneur business and there's not a lot of formal resources. And this day is when I can aggregate those questions and answers and present them to a wide audience. So our day fills in a lot of gaps for a lot of folks.
This year's slate of speakers is an awesome collective of marketing and business expertise. Every year I try and outdo last year's roster -- and this is no exception.... Read More
I love blogging. Really, I do.
But you couldn't have told that from my frequency in the past six months! We were designing and redesigning this blog for way too many months so I put off blogging in my old format due to inertia.... it happens.
I would scold a client for doing what I did but sometimes I'm just that kind of marketing coach -- "Do as I say, not as I do."
But finally, here we are and I couldn't be happier. Our team created a great blog and we've tried to put everything under the hood that we could to help you motor down the designer jewelry business highway faster and more efficiently.
This is going to be a big year for us -- we've got A LOT of new projects and events planned for designers. And finally you've got one place to find them all. HERE!
So please... Read More
