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Gusto is the best thing to happen to Payroll. Period. Easily add benefits from Insurance Policies to Charity Contributions and Holiday Pay. Run Payroll with a couple clicks or have it run on autopay if Salaries only. Direct Deposits and you don’t do ANYTHING ELSE. Gusto does it for you. All state and federal agency payments and quarterly and annual reports are a thing of your past. SO Worth it!
MileIQ integrates with Xero and is a dream come true for easily tracking your mileage. It runs in the background of your phone anytime you drive. When you remember to open it, swipe left for personal and right for business to categorize your logged drives.
For securing your passwords and only having to remember one master password, use a password manager. We like LastPass. It allows for secure sharing without passwords visible and in case you are smart and have different passwords for all of the things, there’s really no other way to manage them all securely and efficiently.
The best time tracker I’ve used. Love it! Use the phone app alone, or get the desktop version and use both. It’s ideal to realize how much time you’re actually spending on jobs to charge accurately. Allows for different hourly rates, projects, categories, and more! This app makes sense of time, if you can believe that!
Slack meet Trello and Kanban Flow, and you guys meet Email and Customer Relationship Management. We don’t know how we survived before Karbon. It’s marketed to Accounting, but really, I don’t know why every industry doesn’t use it. It is great for Transparency across your company, customer communications and requests, project, job, work management, and all the rest. We are endlessly amazed and happy – using Karbon since March 2017.
Great project manager for the minimalist. It’s like a to do list for the visual artist. Similar to Trello, and external team members can have access easily. Doesn’t integrate with email.
Have Nan Palmer develop a comprehensive merchandising plan to deliver revenue growth and profits through identifying key items, addressing assortment gaps, developing an exit plan for slow-turning styles, while improving your margin and properly managing your inventory.
GIA Graduate Gemologist and AGS Certified Appraiser, Anna Samsonova, is a veteran of a family jewelry company and Assistant Fashion Buyer at Ben Bridge. After over 15 years of experience in retail, lab, quality control, merchandising and wholesale, she is able to help you and your business with a big-picture outlook.
Tracy Matthews & Robin Kramer founded “where jewelry designers go to get business savvy.” Phenomenal warm and sharing community for all of your “how to” questions!
Robin Kramer is a brand marketing maven, natural business nurturer, master of relationships and a sales expert who has an impressive history with leaders in the retail industry that have built their brands on innovative merchandising and strong service cultures.
Marie Forleo is the prodigy behind “creating a business and life you love” and “everything is figureoutable.” She is hands-down my favorite motivational and insightful person to watch on video. She gives great content enthusiastically.
Every question you have about your business is a lesson someone else learned the hard way.
CoCommercial connects you to the people who have figured out what you need to know. Instead of struggling through internet searches or trial and error, you learn from the first-hand experience of small business owners who have been there, done that.
If you do sales of any kind, but especially retail, please sign up for Bob Phibbs’ emails. You won’t be disappointed.
Their goal is to collect the best solutions and strategies and share them with you to help you improve your business. Training and Marketing strategies, videos and presentations of branding and marketing for jewelry stores.
Jewelers Mutual offers Insurance for your business and Shipping – click here for the JM Shipping Solutions! Compare shipping options side-by-side, unlock exclusive pricing and add insurance
to your packages, all from one, easy-to-use platform – JM Shipping Solution.
Click here to get Free brochures for your store to offer your clients insurance on their purchases from you.
Learn from the finest teachers and craftspeople in the industry, while enjoying the country side outside Nashville, TN. The campus is on 26 acres and is in the shape of a diamond. Welcome to tiny town. (as in, get out your mm gauge.) Do your homework on each of the teachers, because they are all too humble to tell you all the cool shit they’ve done and for who.
The intention of Creative Side is to provide a comfortable, fun, professional and creatively inspiring studio space where anyone can come learn and develop their skills in the ever expanding craft of jewelry making.
JCW educates individuals in the art of jewelry making and empower originals under a creative and collaborative workspace where students, designers, and professionals can come together to learn, create and share. It’s a laid back environment with a focus on technique and execution of art jewelry.
Established in 1931, GIA is the world’s foremost authority on diamonds, colored stones, and pearls. A public benefit, nonprofit institute, GIA is the leading source of knowledge, standards, and education in gems and jewelry.
The mission of DCA is to provide quality, affordable distance education to enhance the ability of our members’ associates to sell fine jewelry with expertise, integrity, and professionalism and to fuel the passion of all those looking to learn about our industry.
DCA was founded in 1944 as a forum to educate jewelry sales professionals. Anyone that sells diamonds should take these courses, even if you’re a Diamontologist or Gemologist.
AGS is a nonprofit trade association of fine jewelry professionals dedicated to setting, maintaining and promoting the highest standards of ethical conduct and professional behavior through education, accreditation, recertification of its membership, gemological standards, and gemological research.
The Society is committed to providing educational products to inform and protect the consumer and to contributing to the betterment of the trade by creating industry standards to protect the jewelry-buying public and the fine jewelry industry as a whole.
GemGossip’s solution to helping her huge instagram community find each other to fill positions within the industry. Click here to learn more.
The most relevant articles and selling and surviving. Beautiful magazine and inspiring content. A must read each month for anyone in the jewelry industry. Delightful and educational.
Covering breaking news and the consumer-led style trends that shape the jewelry industry, with in-depth content on everything from cutting-edge technology and retail practices to industry commentary and, of course, the latest in design and fashion, JCK connects retailers, manufacturers, designers and other industry influencers who create the jewelry business and drive it forward.
Endless talk of all things sparkly.
Need more brand exposure? Have GemGossip visit your jewelry store, or add your store to her Jewelry Map. She only works with fine jewelry; gold, platinum, diamonds and genuine gemstones.
If you don’t know her, show her your rings!
JHJ is fun private group for Jewelers to help each other. Post a question to gain perspective and advise. Help others by sharing your insights. It’s an active group, with lots of experience.
The must-read news source for smart jewelry professionals. From market analysis to emerging jewelry trends, we cover the important industry topics vital to the everyday success of jewelry professionals worldwide. News we learn from!
Dave Ramsey created Financial Peace University nearly 25 years ago after learning how to pay off debt, save and spend wisely, and build wealth. Today, millions have used the same principles to transform their lives. No one can teach it better. If you want to change your behaviors, then take this course. If you have kids, then take this course. If you have debt, then without question, take this course.
Learn how to give every dollar a job. Learn how to pay off debt, not continue to contribute to it, and live within your means using YNAB.
Business planning and financial forecasting for every stage of business. The leading software for businesses because it connects to Xero and QuickBooks to bring in your actuals and compare them with charts and graphs for more meaningful interpretations of the data against previous periods and projections.