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To launch our new website we're running a freebee giveaway on twitter and facebook . To be in with a chance to win a free silver bee necklace either Follow us on twitter and retweet one of the freebee tweets or Follow us on facebook and share the freebee post The prize includes international shipping. Good luck!

I am pleased to be one of the guest speakers for the London Jewellery School Members Networking Event on Friday 29th June, 6.30-9pm. I will be speaking about using social media to boost your business - no matter whether you are just starting up or an established jewellery business. The event is only available to members but there is still time to join. The cost is only 22 pounds and you receive a lot of benefits including - a free taster class gift voucher (worth 42 pounds) - tickets to networking events (like this one!) - members listing on the LJS website and more Hope to see you there!

I am a tutor at the London Jewellery School , teaching on the PR for your Jewellery Business course . The class has been really popular and I'm proud to say there have been some very positive comments from the students that have already attended. In fact, the LJS have already added an extra date to the calendar because of interest from jewellery entrepreneurs. The class runs for 2.5 hours and covers how to promote your jewellery business using a variety of methods (mostly free!) including twitter, blogs, facebook etc. The dates that are currently scheduled for this year are Monday 28th May Tuesday 24th July Friday 26th October Monday 3rd December The class runs from 6.30-9pm on the above dates. For more information please click here I wrote this blog post for the LJS blog about setting up a jewellery business  with some hints and tips for setting up a jewellery business cheaply. I'm pleased to say that the blog post was published on the London Jewellery School blog t...

PR for your jewellery business course The London Jewellery School has a new tutor - me! I am really excited to announce that I will be teaching PR for your Jewellery Business for the London Jewellery School this year. Last year I taught Social Networking for Artists at the Mary Ward Centre. The course was full and will be running again. Social networking and pr are very popular subjects with business owners and, with some helpful tips, you can improve how you promote your business and connect with your customers. So if you want to know how to write an effective press release and who to send it to how to use a business twitter and facebook account effectively to connect with your customers how to promote your products and website Do please book onto this evening taster class. I look forward to meeting you

Mary Ward Centre, London I'm in the middle of teaching a nine hour course called Social Networking for Artists at the Mary Ward Centre, London . This is a new course that I proposed myself at the beginning of the year. I think there is a gap in education for artists and crafters who have not grown up with computers. Often they know what they want to do but not how to get started. Thankfully the head of Art, Sharon Fuller, agreed with me! On the course I am covering setting up a blog (using blogger because I think it is user-friendly for those that are not so computer literate), a facebook fan page and twitter account and what to do with them! I started teaching it last week and I was really pleased to see that the class was full and that there are so many different areas of the arts and crafts represented in the group. I really enjoyed teaching this class and I'm looking forward to the next one. So my question is this. What advice would you give artists and crafters j...