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GF Weekly Newsletter September 14, 2010 |
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We are happy to announce the design and launch of a new website exclusively for the jewelry industry. You will find different types of template and custom websites
 with online marketing tools as well as Search Engine Optimization and marketing.
Please feel free to view the site and contact us with any comments:
Need a website? Call GemFind
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MTV VMA Awards: Who wore what?
By Catherine Dayrit National Jeweler September 13, 2010
 Los Angeles-In typical MTV Video Music Awards (VMA) style, the fashions at last night's awards show leaned towards the over-the-top (meat dress, anyone?) but in jewelry, a handful of styles, including oversized earrings, blackened metals and stacked bangles, managed to stand out against an abundance of glitzy shift dresses and flamboyant frocks.>>>
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"Why use GemFind for your online marketing?"
 Walter Bauman Jewelers has been very pleased with our relationship with Gemfind. We are delighted with the website that they developed for us. They were very responsive to our deadlines and any issues that we have had. They were also very sensitive to working with the limited time that we were able to devote to we were able the project. They are skilled and professional. It has been wonderful to work with someone within the industry who knows our questions before we ask them!"
Walter Bauman Jewelers
For more information please click here or call 800 373 4373
www.gemfindwebdesign.com
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JA gives design competition a makeover
National Jeweler Sep. 10, 2010
 Trade association Jewelers of America (JA) announced this week several changes to its national retailer design competition held annually at the JA New York Winter Show. Now known as "The ACE Awards," the competition has more categories and expanded eligibility requirements. The ACE Awards will recognize JA retail members whose jewelry designs exhibit the three qualities that form the contest's "ACE" acronym: Artistry, Creativity and Excellence.>>>
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| Gadgets eating into diamond gift market: Rosy Blue India COO
The Economic Times September 11, 2010
 Belgium-based Rosy Blue is one of the world's largest diamond jewellery companies and owns the retail brand Orra. The privately-owned company of Mehta family derives majority of its revenues from the developed world but India is a key part of its game plan as eleven out of twelve diamonds that are sold globally comes from India, says Russell Mehta, nephew of the co-promoters and chief operating officer (COO) of the Indian arm of Rosy Blue. >>>
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Increase sales in 2010
Sell More Through Virtual Inventory
1. Manufacturers and Diamond Dealers upload their merchandise to GemFind.net
2. Retail Jewelers will select from the Manufacturer's or Diamond Dealer's inventory and markup the merchandise...
3. Retail Jewelers will link to GemFind's search engine and showcase their selected Virtual Inventory on their own websites...
4. Consumers visit websites and purchase the Retail Jeweler's Virtual Inventory.
Virtual Inventory gives:
1. Manufacturers and Diamond Dealers the opportunity to sell more to Retailers....
2. Retail Jewelers the ability to sell something they don't have in their stores...
3. Consumers the ability to view the merchandise at a local jeweler or to buy online...
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| Six B2B Selling Mistakes to Avoid
By Daniel Kehrer Business.com
 "Organic growth" - or building a business with your own internal resources - makes especially good sense in today's tough economy. For many small firms that sell business-to-business (B2B), growing through debt financing just isn't an option anymore. But if you're like most small firms that sell B2B, you may be making predictable mistakes that are inhibiting your ability to compete.>>>
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Up to 7 pages of informational site
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| Designer Jewelry at Fashion's Night Out
By Carly Wickell, About.com Guide
 Fashion's Night Out was held at hundreds of stores throughout New York and other cities around the globe on September 10, 2010. Celebrities joined the crowds of shoppers at the event, which was sponsored in the U.S. by Vogue Magazine and the Council of Fashion Designers of America. >>> |
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For more information please click here or call us at 800-373-4373
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Larry in the Sky With Diamonds
By Roe Kalb Israeli Diamond Industry Blog 13 September 2010
 With diamond technology becoming increasingly sophisticated, would you plunk down $20 million dollars or more for a rough stone you'd only looked at through a jeweler's loupe? That's what London jeweler Laurence Graff did in 2008 when he bought one of the largest rough diamonds ever mined - a 478-carat stone mined at Lesotho's Letseng mine. >>>
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By Rob Bates This story appears in the September 2010 issue of JCK Magazine
In June 2000, following a decade of plunging market share, De Beers officially said goodbye to the monopoly game. Over the next few years, it ceased stockpiling stones, unloaded billions in excess inventory, and shuttered its network of offices that purchased rough that fell outside the cartel. And while it once regularly maintained a 70 to 80 percent market share, its share of diamond production is now pegged at 40 percent. >>> |
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Couture gives jewelry Fashion Week exposure
National Jeweler Sep. 08, 2010
 New York--Couture is putting fine jewelry on the radar of fashion editors this week via a special exhibit that will appear in the main hall of Mercedes Benz Fashion Week at Lincoln Center in New York City.Through a first-time alliance with IMG, which produces Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, Couture will unveil the "Couture Fine Jewelry Exhibition," featuring the designs of seven brands that represent the best in high-end jewelry design, Couture show organizers said in a press release.>>>
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Power Failure in Your Store
By Shari Waters, About.com Guide
 We all hope we're never faced with having to operate a retail store without electricity but acts of nature, mechanical problems and other emergency situations could result in power failure at your store.So what do you do when the lights go out during store hours? Start by preparing a power loss procedure before it happens.
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Jewelry process was labor intensive
By JULIE ROBINSON ROBARDS pressrepublican.com Sep.13,2010
By 1936, two thirds of all costume jewelry made in the United States was fabricated from colorful cast phenolic resin. Today, clunky carved bangle bracelets, rings, brooches and necklaces with Bakelite and Catalin components are in high demand by collectors who seek them not only for the material from which they were made but for their design as well. >>> |
| A Very Merry Holiday Spending Forecast
By Richard Dalglish This story appears in the September 2010 issue of JCK Magazine.
 U.S. consumers are poised to give retailers the best holiday season in years, even as they worry about jobs, the stuttering economy, and a burgeoning federal deficit.
The good news was forecast back in January, when Moody's Analytics' Mark Zandi predicted that holiday sales would rise 3 to 4 percent. And now that summer's over, says Scott Hoyt, Economy.com's senior director of consumer economics, "if anything, we might upgrade it to 3.5 percent to 4.5 percent." >>>
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