Recent content by geti

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    Anyone Use Lead Forensics?

    My experience of using the Lead Forensics service, which I'm still paying for due to being locked in a contract, is that it doesn't work for me. My target customers are independent retail jewellers and most of the tracking results were picking up large companies with no connection to the...
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    Wordpress, Joomla etc

    Hi CraigieDD - That's interesting? I run a few Joomla sites, but I haven't come across mention of this before - could you give me more details please?
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    Jewellery business-where do i start??

    Or you could establish your name as a designer and sell high end work - too many people are importing cheap jewellery and you need to sell a lot of it to make any money. That's why the UK jewellery industry has gone down the pan because the work has gone to the Far East - we need more designers...
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    Jewellery business-where do i start??

    Hi Lottekay, Chatting with other jewellers and designers is a good way to start, you can pick their brains and get ideas by joining jewellery forums. Cooksons the bullion dealers have a forum and there are another couple of big ones, UK Crafts forum and (strange name this one)...
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    Marketing tool

    Hi Sharon, thanks for the feedback and the compliment. I hope we didn't keep you waiting for them it's a bit hectic down here at the moment with wedding season. "I think mine's pretty unique as I asked for the platinum stripe to be moved a little, so as not to be an identical copy of Jon's...
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    Marketing tool

    Hello. I have set up a jewellers directory website (The Diamond Yacht Club) whereby it's original aim was to promote my Titanium wedding ring manufacturing company and its customers. The idea being that if I can help them to sell more rings then we sell more rings. The project seems to be...
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    Newcomer

    Hi Princess. Yes we do sell online under the Fat Cow Designs name, both websites are now listed in the signature link. Titanium rings are fairly new in the UK. It is only this year that they seem to have taken off for us and it is fairly bubbly at the moment what with it being wedding season...
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    Viral marketing

    sorry I just spotted the marketing forum section :-)
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    Viral marketing

    Has anybody had any success at viral marketing and how did you do it? I have a little experiment going that I started tonight on my website w-w.diamond-yachtclub.com. I am offering £1000 to the person who brings the most clickthroughs from a banner on their site - has anybody else tried this...
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    Newcomer

    Hello everbody, I run a company designing and making Titanium wedding rings and just wanted to say how refreshing it is to come across a really useful business forum such as this one.