Welcome
to Jsbeads Online.
Over
the last few years many of the top designers in the industry have discovered
the beauty of hand-cut beads.
These
are one-of-a-kind creations by top designers using precious and
semi-precious, faceted and smooth beads. Ruby, amethyst, fine red
garnet, peridot, and citrine were used extensively. Smoky quartz,
tanzanite, sapphire, and even emerald beads are being used in incredibly
imaginative ways.
These
gem beads show the typical randomness of East Indian cutting. The
beads are not perfectly cut nor perfectly matched. Designers use
this to their advantage; the finished products are works of art
with an individual, timeless quality. This jewelry is not inexpensive
- they can be hundreds or even thousands of dollars per piece. This
is not simply because they are custom designs, it is because traditionally,
Indian gem beads priced out of the reach of most Beaders.
Until Now
Company Information
Success Story Jerry Smith, Beads has grown and prospered increasingly
through the contributions of my customers. To say that They're
the friendliest people in the world is to sell them short. You
are also some of the most honest, loyal, and ingenious people
with whom I've ever had the pleasure to work with.
Born on a Kitchen Table This whole business evolved out of
a mid life crisis. Instead of buying a fancy car I decided to
try my life long dream of starting a business. I received $100.00
as a Christmas present. With this I bought 75 strands of chips
from a company in the back of Lapidary Journal magazine. I put
these up for auction on eBay.
People actually mailed me money! I said "Hey, that was pretty
neat, I'll do that again." I took the small profits from those
sales I bought more beads and chips.
How I got into eCommerce
(You can too!)
Once I got started on eBay I needed a place to keep my pictures.
I didn't know about AuctionWatch.com.
I shopped around and found with InterLand.com
that I could get a website for $40.00 setup and $19.99 a month.
I registered my domain name with InterNic.net
for $70.00 that covers two years.
I needed a way to accept credit cards. They had not started
PayPal.com yet. I looked
in my local phone book, and found a service that was in line
with everything that I could find on the Internet. Plus the
owner Steve, talked to me. So for $32.00 a month I got the equipment,
each transaction cost me $.25 plus 1.2%. I looked around for
some shopping cart software, to open and online store. I tried
some but was never happy with it. One day I found a review of
a site called FreeMerchant.com
yes it is free. I set up a store, it even has limited support
for Quickbooks-Pro My accounting software.
Updated April 19, 2002 -- Okay I finally out grew FreeMerchant.com,
they had started charging. I bought this shopping cart software from
a company out of Australia. It took me a couple of months to get it
they way that I wanted it. But here I am
Will I ever get rich? No The best I can figure the market for
Gemstone Beads is about 55 Million annually.
Jerry Smith, Owner |
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