Capulin Contemplations — Business

Sometimes I feel like a baby learning to walk. I think I have the crawling part down. But now it’s time to stand up. I have a tendency to hide when things get really hard, when I might get criticized by negative feedback or just plain silence. Maybe it’s my mid-life crisis talking but I’m tired of hiding. I’m ready to take risks: heart-pounding, gut-wrenching risks. So, it’s time to move on from the safety of crawling and to learn to stand without a crutch, to be ok with falling.

I attended a small show recently featuring maybe ten artists, quite a few of them jewelers, hoping to get ideas about their setups. What I got instead was a valuable lesson in what not to do.

Most of these artists made a mistake so large it likely cost sales. A mistake I’m sure I could have and would have made myself.

There’s nothing much better than the sparking of ideas. Some random sight might inspire me to come up with a particular design, which might inspire a client to come up with a variation, which in turn inspires me to take that variation to a different place.

And sometimes my clients come up with custom designs I never would have thought of.

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I was disappointed by one of my suppliers the other day.

This particular company went on the defensive by yelling at their followers, berating their clients, and whining about their lot in life.

Far be it from me to ever follow such an example.