While we were trying to sort ourselves out with the Affiliate Marketing business, we deviated into a sideline of selling fashion costume jewelry.
This came about through a friend of Paula’s who was importing and selling jewelry on ebay. We thought this looked interesting and so we would give it a go. After all it combined two of our passions, shopping and jewelry.
It didn’t take long before we were making money and decided that we could do even better. The next thing was to attend the local markets and start a party plan. Well we soon tired of getting up at 5am and sitting all day in the cold or heat at the markets.
The parties were going well although each party seemed to be on the other side of Canberra. The next step was to start recruiting consultants and that became too time consuming. Then we hit on the idea of selling online,
The first template we found that we liked was very attractive but the stock management side was very clunky and cumbersome. It we wanted to change things around it took hours. Eventually we found a template with a shopping cart that is really easy to work with. The webmaster is located in the UK and he provides excellent support, so we thoroughly recommend Richard if you decide to start an online shopping business.
One thing the jewelry business does, is satisfy our need to travel and we have been to Bangkok, China and Hong Kong on shopping expeditions.
We currently sell wholesale although we do have clients that we do parties for and we recently started a monthly indoor market in Tuggeranong where we also sell our wares.
As successful as this business is it still isn’t what we really want to do and that’s where we realized that we had to get serious about the Affiliate Marketing.
Affiliate Marketing can be done from anywhere in the world as long as you have computer access. Our intention is to travel around the world stopping where we want, for as long as we want, and this is what being in the Affiliate Business allows you to do.
It’s all about freedom of choice.
Jewelry business is good for family and for people who want to rule their own life. I’m going to start mine in a couple of years.