Thursday, March 31, 2011

Catalog/being a shop owner butt kisser

I had a brilliant thought explosion this morning. We (as in myself and my one follower) know that I am a few pineapple chunks short of a fruit cup, but I think of the most enlightened solutions to my problems when i'm taking a shower/blow drying my hair/preparing food for work. Allright...so, i'm trying to prepare for when I incorporate my business and get my sales licence. There is a lot of detail that I don't know, and i have been told that it is a trial and error process. I love trial and error (the thought of it makes me jump up and down with joy), but I just want to have enough of a plan in my mind so that i'm not going into it as a nervous wreck.

I'm trying to mentally categorize the things I need to worry about. Making the jewelry, shopping my jewelry to boutique owners, tax stuff, etc. One thing that has been on my mind is the whole "oh, you must have a brochure so the shop owners can look at something" shindig.  I came up with the idea this morning that I could make my own inventory catalog (listing photos of all of the items, prices +descriptions, and an overall intro to yours truly). Each photo/item will have a code, that will directly link to the items in my jewelry case. For example, a bracelet listed as "I-5" can be found in the "I" section of my case.

I will make it by buying construction paper-like folder binders (the kinds that can hold a research paper), with 5 pages or so of printer paper inside of each, printed with photos through my home color printer. I like that it is inexpensive, practical, and very pro-shop owner. It will be something that I can hand to a shop owner/employee, and they can either look through it at their leisure and contact me if they want to see some of the pieces, or it can be a guide for them, with my case sitting right in front of them.  It serves a dual purpose. It gives me something to hand to them, and it allows a busy shop owner to think about my jewelry on their own time, versus in the middle of a chaotic day. 

The main thing I like about making it myself, is that it will be a store by store basis (items will be deleted as they are sold -hopefully-, and I can also add new items), and I can change the catalog without having to pay a printing company to make the changes for me.

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