Home Jewelry Business

Alpine mother turns jewelry experiment into successful business

As the economy was on the decline, Janet Kinkade, a stay at home mother of five in Alpine, found the key to success and within six months was earning $25,000 a day out of her home. She later took the business she started in 2008, now a jewelry business called Jewel Kade, out of her basement and turned it into a multi-million dollar company. The jewelry has already made appearances on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," "The Today Show" and "American Idol."

Kinkade said the key was finding something she was passionate about and refining it until it was absolutely perfect.

"I had just had my little boy Jack and I had these four older girls, just for fun I was trying to find a way to capture something about them in some jewelry," Kinkade said. "I shopped around and looked in different boutiques ... and nothing was what I wanted. I began experimenting with my own jewelry and one thing led to another. I kind of refined a creative way to encase a photo into the glass and solder around it."

Once she was able to refine the technique, which she explained as a long process with many books and a combination of classes, she started wearing the jewelry. Friends and neighbors instantly became interested.

"Once I began to wear it, I just had a lot of people comment on it and really want to know if they could have me make one for them," Kinkade said. "It really just led into a bigger demand and so I began thinking about how I could turn this into a business."

The business model for Jewel Kade is having stylists or consultants located all over the country who host their own home parties to sell the product. The company currently has almost 1,500 stylists in 44 states.

"I really love the idea of letting other people and other women have that same success in their home," Kinkade said. "The reason why this has done so well is, because of the economy, these women have been able to pick up this little business and the jewelry is unique enough it is easy to sell. And it is kind of collectible and so it has returned, people just want more. It has been a great way for women all over the country to earn an extra income."

The company also donates money to charity. Jewel Kade sells a special "Listen to Your Heart" charm, and $1 of each sale goes to the American Heart Association, according to the company's website. Kinkade chose the charity because of the number of women who suffer heart attacks and strokes.

The ability to help other women was a major motive for Kinkade when starting the company. Kinkade said that being a mother of five and president of her own company is all about getting the kids involved and staying close to home.

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Today you are very excited because you are thinking about how to start a new business with your jewelry designs. It will be a home based jewelry making business at first. You have selected a special place in your home to begin a new career. That is wonderful.

Home based businesses are great; many businesses have started in a home basement, a bedroom closet, at a kitchen table, or a table in the corner of the garage. It is a good start. And that is all you need.

Actually it is wise to start small. And take the necessary time to grow up with your jewelry making business and to build a solid reputation. The first time I went into business I experienced every emotion similar to when you purchase your first home. There is a mix of excitement, happiness, anxiety, fear, wonder, a sense of freedom and so on.

Take sensible business steps of education, preparation, and production and you will have the energy and stamina for a successful jewelry designer business.

As artisans we are blessed with creativity and live in a world of beauty. You may take this for granted, however, because we are able to see beauty and to produce beautiful jewelry for others we are free to fee happy, relaxed and at peace with our creative employment making original handcrafted jewelry.

Because our jewelry designing surrounds us with gold, silver, precious gems, or cut glass, pearls, and beautiful charms this is our heaven on earth which make us emotionally and mentally strong and flexible to handle business or people related problems. This is an advantage that jewelry artists have working in beautiful and peaceful work settings. And should a problem arise they are calm and quick to correct the situation.

We love our work and will spend hours creating and assembling our fashion jewelry line. Therefore, we need to take time alone to recharge our body systems. I find myself addicted to making jewelry with beads and I am sure you are the same because you feel confident that you can maintain production to keep up with your customers’ needs and requirements.

You have also been encouraged to go into business because if you have been wearing your creations and dong word-of-mouth advertising among friends and relatives they have probably told you to get started in designing your own line of jewelry.

Start your jewelry business today. Visit the home page of Tricia Deed at http://www.Infotrish.vpweb.com/  and review “The A-Z Steps to Becoming a Jewelry Designer”.

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