How to Start Your Beading Business With One Signature Jewelry Piece

Crafters who enjoy beading may like to start their own beading business. While handmade jewelry is a competitive business to get into, it is possible to attract attention with one signature jewelry piece.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• beading supplies
• beading tools
• pattern for beaded jewelry
• internet access

1. Choose your signature jewelry piece first. Look through beaded jewelry books, beading websites, or peruse the aisles of your favorite trendy jewelry store. Do NOT copy someone else's pattern and call it your own. Instead, be inspired by the style and develop your own personal beaded jewelry pattern.
2. Locate the supplies for your signature beaded jewelry piece. A wholesale or discount bead supplier is ideal, although retail bead sellers can provide many materials too. Remember to get findings, clasps, wire, and beading tools as well.
3. Complete several of the beaded jewelry design to make sure you can complete many of them with consistent high quality. You will also want a small stock of the item before you offer them for sale, especially if you will be selling them through a brick and mortar establishment.
4. Determine where you will sell your beaded jewelry piece in your beading business. Internet ecommerce sales are popular, although you may like to approach buyers for shops and boutiques personally and offer bulk wholesale sales or consignment sales.
5. Once your beading business is established, you must expand your product line to include other quality pieces. Starting with one signature jewelry piece is ideal, but continued profits warrent expansion.

Tips & Warnings

• Practice making your jewelry piece several times before trying to sell it.
• Follow trends to determine what will sell.
• Never copy someone else's jewelry pattern.