Welcome to the first edition of Friday Q&A! Alexia asks: Q: I’d like to get a better understanding about the Equity numbers on the balance sheet. What is the Equity section on the Balance Sheet? A: The Equity shows the flow of money in and out of the business, including from the owner(s). Owner’s Equity...Read More

Have you ever had this thought? “I wish someone would teach me everything I need to know about starting and running a jewelry design business so I can be creative and focus on the big picture.” Let me introduce you to the step-by-step business “HOW TO” for jewelry designers. If you are a metalsmith or designer...Read More

Van Tucker started out in the finance industry. She started and lead a national entertainment industry team for Bank of America. In her 30 years of work in banking, Tucker often found herself helping creative industry professionals build business structures around their products and ideas. When she left banking in 2008, she started a business...Read More

Manage your passwords in a convenient and secure way with LastPass. Stop wasting time writing, remembering and resetting your passwords. With LastPass, you only have to remember one master password. The rest are locked up and easy to find in the LastPass password manager. LastPass will autofill every password you save. It can save unlimited...Read More

I know you’re working hard to get the word out about your business. I wanted to share with you a resource that I’ve witnessed catapult brands (and many jewelry brands just like yours!). For those that want to start using Instagram more strategically, check out this online Instagram class called the 21-Day Instacourse. My friend,...Read More

Note: You have to require your store report which items sold; they don’t all willingly do this. If you have a store that doesn’t report what items have sold, then you can keep it as an invoice and simply receive payments to the invoice until it is paid off. For Consignment items, create a New...Read More

A4J Quick Tip to Understand Sales and Use Tax: Sales and Use Tax are different perspectives of the same thing. A seller collects and remits Sales Tax to their tax authority, while a buyer who wasn’t charged sales tax owes Use Tax. You are the buyer when you buy things for your business that are...Read More

WJA Jewelry Night Out 2015 Takes Place on September 10, 2015 in 20 Cities The 3rd annual event offers a membership discount for new and renewing members. WJA Press Release, New York, NY – The Women’s Jewelry Association (WJA) will host its third annual WJA Jewelry Night Out (JNO) on Thursday Sept. 10, 2015. The...Read More

20 Ways You Know You’re a Jeweler You want tools. Lots of them. Everywhere. You like how polishing gives a nice luster to only two or three of your fingernails. Don’t they look nice? You know the difference between soldering and fusing. You use pickle, and not for cucumbers. You have an uncanny tolerance to touching...Read More