EcoSystems

  • Q4 is here for jewelry designers – let’s make it the best quarter yet!

    Q4 will be here soon, let’s get that bread. And by bread, I mean jewelry sales September! You’ve sent or are sending the kids back to school, your trade show season is (mostly) done, and thoughts naturally turn to December. Truth – it is not too early to think about December. Here is your check…

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  • Ruth Asawa and her creative process

    I visited the Ruth Asawa exhibit at SFMOMA Her creative process was just like mine! No joke – I felt a kinship walking through the retrospective of her work. If you live in the Bay Area (and even if you don’t) chances, are you heard about the recent Ruth Asawa exhibit at SFMOMA.  I got…

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  • Top Tips to Support Your Favorite Small Businesses

    If your favorite maker/designer has a blog *polite cough*, leave a comment!Subscribe to their newsletterLeave comments on their YouTube videos/subscribe to their YouTube channels. Again, *polite cough*Leave comments and likes on their social media postsReview them on Google (this really helps our small businesses look legitimate in Google searches)Re-post their social media posts (with attribution)Share…

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  • Building a Business with Purpose – an interview with Jared from Damadeo

    How did you start doing what you are doing?The luminous crystals sprouting from the walls of the recreated Pala Mine tourmaline pocket at the Natural History Museum, not far from where we lived in NYC, beckoned from an early age. Were it not for the glass separating them from sticky-faced kids like me, I would…

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  • The Jewelry Industry Has a Problem

    Portions of this post first appeared on Instagram on June 12, 2020 Black Lives Matter. Black lives with degrees and without; trans and cis Black lives; gay and hetero Black Lives; housed and houseless Black lives; Black lives in the United States and Black lives in the rest of the world. Resist the temptation to…

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  • Building a Business with Artistry and Beauty – Rada from Zaver and Mor

    I met Rada from Zaver and Mor near the beginning of my business. I remember following her on Instagram and loving how passionate she was about supporting the artists she represents. Her love of the craft of jewelry-making and the people behind the craft came through every post and I knew that I wanted to…

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  • Building Supportive Small Businesses – An Interview with Liz Tucker of Poppy

    Six years ago I connected with someone when we bonded over the fact that she was wearing a pair of earrings made by a dear friend of mine. We were both many states away from where this mutual friend lived, and she was far removed from her former profession – owner of Poppy in Columbia,…

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  • Building a Resilient Small Business – An Interview with Jena Hounshell

    Caster extraordinaire Small business owners are a wild bunch. We often take big risks, make leaps of faith look like routine choices and we scare ourselves regularly. I often think of how much we are allowed missteps, failures, and mistakes as business owners, all in the name of learning and advancing. This was certainly true…

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