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		<title>Tips on Buying Jewelry Online</title>
		<description>&lt;p&gt;When it comes to business, everything seems to have moved online. From the simplest items to the most complicated electronics, buying has become just a click. The reduced hassle has also made it more convenient especially for products that might not be within your reach. One such item is jewelry. This is one of the commodities that many buyers just had to admire from international magazines and probably take months to order and ship. However, online shopping has made all this go away. There are also other benefits such as reduced costs as the online jewelers have lower overheads hence they offer better deals than retail stores. So, how do you get the best online jeweler?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The first thing you look for is the information on the online store. Buying jewelry can be tricky and because some of the item are no-returnable, it is risky to buy without getting all the necessary information. This is more so when you are buying vintage or handcrafted gems from far away countries. The online store must thus have a wide range of items and information regarding the pricing, available bargains and discounts and any other relevant information. The best online jewelers will also have a blog that contains information about jewelry and related issues.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The other thing a buyer needs to look for is the reputation of the online store. An online store will always have a reputation because other buyers will comment about it. If it is a new store check the commitment to the business by looking at the arrangement of the site. The products on offer must also reflect a committed business because that is the only way to ensure the vintage jewelry you get is quality. The range of gems such as Rhinestones that is on offer must also be wide and varying to ensure that at the end of it, you have a bigger choice. The shopping process must also be easy and the best stores just offer you a click and order feature which makes it even more convenient. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After certifying that the jeweler is credible, check whether they specialize in specific jewelry. Some stores have specialties such as Rhinestones, diamonds, vintage gems among others. These can be advantageous to buy from because the range of their specialty will be larger. In addition, check for extra perks such as bargains and discounts. Finally, before buying, ask about the return policy and free shipping if available. These simple steps will tell you whether a store is worth its salt. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<link>http://preciousjewelry.org/Blog.cfm?ID=12</link>
		<dc:date>2011-10-17T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
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		<title>Surviving a home based jewelry buisness</title>
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&lt;p&gt;Surviving in your own home based jewelry business can be tough!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have read that it&amp;rsquo;s impossible for the home-based entrepreneur to keep business life and personal life separate. To the extent that no business or job can be kept entirely isolated from personal and family affairs, I agree. But it&amp;rsquo;s essential for the success of your business and the well-being of your personal life that you make every effort to keep the two distinct and apart.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you have a family, your home-based business is going to affect it in some way, and vice versa. If your business is only in the preliminary planning stages, bring your family on board and make clear to them what your plans are and how they might affect family life. A spouse should be part of your planning from the start. You may want to postpone discussing the venture with young children until you&amp;rsquo;re ready to launch the business, but you should talk with older children early on.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And, you must make it clear to your family, friends, and neighbors that although you will be working at home in your new business, you are still working, and during work hours you are not available for chores, baby-sitting, ball playing, shopping, shuttle service, or anything else not related to your jewelry business.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For some reason, people tend to think that a person who works at home isn&amp;rsquo;t really working. Consequently, you can count on them to try to impose on you in every imaginable way. Friends, neighbors, and even family members will think nothing of phoning or dropping in during business hours just to chat, when they would never dream of doing such a thing to a chef, a physician, a teacher, or an auto mechanic who works away from home.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It&amp;rsquo;s also important for your business image and peace of mind that you establish a business routine. You must have operating days and hours, and you must make your schedule known to family, friends, and neighbors. Otherwise, they&amp;rsquo;ll be all too quick to assume you&amp;rsquo;re not really working.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;About The Author&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lenna Green has compiled a survival guide for anyone wanting to start their own home based jewelry buinsess. &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;By articlecity.com&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<link>http://preciousjewelry.org/Blog.cfm?ID=9</link>
		<dc:date>2011-10-13T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
		<dc:subject>Jewelry</dc:subject>
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		<title>Home Based Jewelry Buisness</title>
		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font: 14px/normal Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;&quot;&gt;
&lt;div class=&quot;hft-lines&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Surviving in your own home based jewelry business can be tough!&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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I have read that it&amp;rsquo;s impossible for the home-based entrepreneur to keep business life and personal life separate. To the extent that no business or job can be kept entirely isolated from personal and family affairs, I agree. But it&amp;rsquo;s essential for the success of your business and the well-being of your personal life that you make every effort to keep the two distinct and apart.&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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If you have a family, your home-based business is going to affect it in some way, and vice versa. If your business is only in the preliminary planning stages, bring your family on board and make clear to them what your plans are and how they might affect family life. A spouse should be part of your planning from the start. You may want to postpone discussing the venture with young children until you&amp;rsquo;re ready to launch the business, but you should talk with older children early on.&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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And, you must make it clear to your family, friends, and neighbors that although you will be working at home in your new business, you are still working, and during work hours you are not available for chores, baby-sitting, ball playing, shopping, shuttle service, or anything else not related to your jewelry business.&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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For some reason, people tend to think that a person who works at home isn&amp;rsquo;t really working. Consequently, you can count on them to try to impose on you in every imaginable way. Friends, neighbors, and even family members will think nothing of phoning or dropping in during business hours just to chat, when they would never dream of doing such a thing to a chef, a physician, a teacher, or an auto mechanic who works away from home.&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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It&amp;rsquo;s also important for your business image and peace of mind that you establish a business routine. You must have operating days and hours, and you must make your schedule known to family, friends, and neighbors. Otherwise, they&amp;rsquo;ll be all too quick to assume you&amp;rsquo;re not really working.&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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            &lt;p style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;b&gt;About The Author&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
            &lt;div class=&quot;hft-lines&quot; style=&quot;font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;Lenna Green has compiled a survival guide for anyone wanting to start their own home based jewelry buinsess.&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-converted-space&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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		<link>http://preciousjewelry.org/Blog.cfm?ID=8</link>
		<dc:date>2011-10-13T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
		<dc:subject>Jewelry</dc:subject>
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		<title>New store other than ebay created</title>
		<description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;visits my new store I only have a few items up as of now but it will soon be part of this site itself replacing my jewelry store renaming as PRECIOUS JEWELRY my jewelry companys new name&amp;nbsp;https://preciousjewelry.storenvy.com/&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<link>http://preciousjewelry.org/Blog.cfm?ID=7</link>
		<dc:date>2011-10-11T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
		<dc:subject>Jewelry</dc:subject>
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		<title>Todays Updates</title>
		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large; &quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;I just added another item to my jewelry store on the website. Like I said Im slowly working on It. Please keep updated or notify me if there is an idea, or something in particular you are looking for. I just added a medium flat rate box full of vintage repair jewelry for only 149.99 or small flat rate for 39.99 Today. For Any questions or pictures please email me at lamb.joshua@hotmail.com &amp;nbsp;I assure you that you will get your moneys worth by the time you repair the jewelry and resell it. All you need is to know how to repair. Email me any time and I can give you hints and tips, as well as the list of supplys you will need. Thanks I look forward to updating the blog tomorrow. =]&lt;br /&gt;
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		<link>http://preciousjewelry.org/Blog.cfm?ID=5</link>
		<dc:date>2011-10-10T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
		<dc:subject>Jewelry</dc:subject>
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		<title>New Jewelry Store</title>
		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(255, 153, 204); &quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large; &quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;Be sure to come back often as i just figured out the jewelery store. I have an extra page where I sell Vintage Jewelry on here as well as my ebay. Just visit the go to my store Ebay Button. I have tons of listings up. My listings usually end on Tuesdays. If anyone has any specific requests let me know. I have tons of jewelry in the house and I do make and fix it. Thanks.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<link>http://preciousjewelry.org/Blog.cfm?ID=4</link>
		<dc:date>2011-10-10T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
		<dc:subject>Jewelry</dc:subject>
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		<title>Brief Bio of the creator</title>
		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large; &quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;Hey everyone I just want to introduce myself really quick (: my name is Cassandra and I have &amp;nbsp;a 4 month old and married to a wonderful husband (: anyways aside from that. I recently took an interest in jewelry about a year ago when I was visiting my mother in laws house while my husband was on a deployment and of course I was pregnant at the time. I love to repair jewelry and make it as lovely as possible. I find it to be one of my strongest values. I also sell it on ebay. Well I started out on ebay. Once I saw that I was getting better with it, I decided to launch my own business with it. In college I majored in business and marketing and I had learned a lot. So I thought to myself, &amp;quot;Well I didnt learn all of that stuff for nothing&amp;quot;. So with the help of my husband who is awesome with technology told me to create a website and expand my own business. At first I thought that it was a crazy idea. But, Im glad that I am taking a chance and expanding it. I feel as if I will learn a lot more about the business and marketing world and using the tools that I learned in college for some good use. So here I am taking that chance. So who got me interested in jewelry? My mother in law got me interested when I saw her get to work. What is the purpose of jewelry? I find that the purpose of jewelry is beauty. It is an accessory to help accent everyones style and clothing. When did I start to work with jewelry? I started working with jewelry a year ago in october. Where did I first start? I made some practice lots at my mother in laws house. But, I really started on my own in my parents house and worked hard by fixing jewelry and selling it. It also took a lot of patience. Why did I decide to work with jewelry? I decided to work with jewelry because it was something that intereste me and I was able to work on my own time and pace. I also wanted to see how I would do indepently and i was 19 at the time. I am 21 and i still continue to read and learn more about the jewelry that I work with and I take my time and take things seriously. &amp;nbsp;I admire jewelry a lot and I will continue to admire it. I am also a hardworker and wont quit until I get the job correctly done. If you have any questions you can email me at ilovemymarine182@hotmail.com I will try to get to you ASAP.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<link>http://preciousjewelry.org/Blog.cfm?ID=3</link>
		<dc:date>2011-10-10T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
		<dc:subject>Jewelry</dc:subject>
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		<title>Jewelry Buyers Prepare</title>
		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(255, 153, 0); &quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large; &quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;As the prices of jewelry is rising. Now is the time to save up your collections. Now is the time to buy. I personally sell vintage jewelry on my ebay website. Simply click the large Ebay Icon on the 1st page of&amp;nbsp;http://www.preciousjewelry.org/ AKA the site you are looking at and it will link you to my store immidiately. In my store you can browse my huge collections of Vintage to New jewelry lots and findings. Thankyou for looking. Soon I will be selling items directly from my website as well. Please come back as I am going to be constantly updating&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large; &quot;&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<link>http://preciousjewelry.org/Blog.cfm?ID=2</link>
		<dc:date>2011-10-09T00:00:00-04:00</dc:date>
		<dc:subject>Jewelry</dc:subject>
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