Competition to win a pair of Lindstrom pliers

[Amethystjewellery]

I have recently re-launched my website and am promoting my new supply of Trinity Brass Co (tm) findings by asking people to join my site and create a piece of jewellery using some of the items available via my website. Other products sourced from elswhere can also be used but the main emphasis should be on using brass to create an authentic vintage look.
The prize will be a top of the range pair of LINDSTROM pliers.....not to be sniffed at!
So, first you have to join my site...then wait until I email the full details in a day or so.....then get making!

Ooops! Forgot to post the link: http://www.beadybeauties.com

[Amethystjewellery]

I am going crossed-eyed today uploading "stuff" to my website so that I can get the competition up and running. Hopefully lots of people will enter to win the pliers, there will be no charge to enter, but you need to join my site to get the details. :)

[Solunar Silver Studio]

Hi, When I looked earlier I had a lot of problems loading up your pages and there wasn't very much on your store page to make anything with so I think other people may have been a bit confused too about what we were supposed to be making jewellery from. Now I see there are some brass componants coming on so it makes more sense!! You'll have to tell us when you have finished uploading stuff and we can start again!!:Y:

[Amethystjewellery]

Hi, When I looked earlier I had a lot of problems loading up your pages and there wasn't very much on your store page to make anything with so I think other people must have been a bit confused too about what we were supposed to be making stuff from. Now I see there are some brass componants coming on so it makes more sense!! You'll have to tell us when you have finished uploading stuff and we can start again!!:Y:

Oh dear! I don't know what the problem was with loading the pages...gremlins I suppose!
There are quite a lot of items on there now, but I but I am going to upload some more bits and pieces when my brain stops spinning. Competition will be set up when I have finally got all of the items on the site, phew!

[Amethystjewellery]

Hiya again. I have now uploaded most of the items that I have in stock except for the chain and wire.
Comments on the site would be appreciated and anyone who wants to enter the competition should now join my site to get the information emailed to them, good luck!
Sheena

[Solunar Silver Studio]

Hi Sheena....I hope you don't take offence from any of the following as none of it is said with any unkindness behind it!! It is just a thought or two from someone who has not got a lot of spare cash floating around... If I wasn't looking for a reason at your website I would have been a bit put off by the way you have worded some items on your store page (it looks like you are charging £0.70 for one single 1" headpin =:-O, for example). It is only after you click through...which I did eventually (but a lot of people might not)...that you realise it is for 20 pins!! The same applies to some of your other findings...you don't want to scare off your customers before they go through to the next page to find that the prices aren't really inflated!!!

I hope you don't mind me mentioning it...but you did ask!! It could just be the way I am reading it as I am not entirely with it today!! But you don't want to scare people off your site before they even look at your goodies!!

Otherwise...I love the blue colours!! I'm very into blue at the moment. And I am quite taken with the filigree stuff. I've never really thought about brass as a componant before...must get my thinking cap on.;)

[Amethystjewellery]

Hi Barbara....hmmm..I will change the Listing headings to include the fact that headpins, eyepins and jumprings come in packs of 20. The other items are individually priced though and I do suggest that prople email me for combined postage costs for large items such as the jewellery busts (hasn't been a problem up until now :confused:)
Thanks for your input as the glaringly obvious is not always obvious to me....especially after uploading 40+ items to my store.....oh well, onwards and upwards, as they say.

[Amethystjewellery]

Details of how to enter are now on my website.

[mizgeorge]

Don't want to be a pain, but I have something niggling at the back of my mind about competitions. I think you have to publish all sorts of rules and regs and also offer free entries etc etc.

If I recall, it's OK to make it a 'free prize draw'.

Might be worth checking?

[Amethystjewellery]

I will check it out! Thanks for making me aware that it might not be all right for me to ask people to actually buy one finding from my site. (off to correct the competition listing)
On a negative train of thought now....
You know, I am beginning to wonder why I am holding this comp. at all because people are so suspicious of anything nowadays. O.K. - it is a marketing exercise on my part to drive people to look at my new-ish website and to perhaps click on the buy button, but it is also a genuine competition to encourage people to think outside the box and use something that they may not have tried before - brass.

[Di Sandland]

I will check it out! Thanks for making me aware that it might not be all right for me to ask people to actually buy one finding from my site. (off to correct the competition listing)
On a negative train of thought now....
You know, I am beginning to wonder why I am holding this comp. at all because people are so suspicious of anything nowadays. O.K. - it is a marketing exercise on my part to drive people to look at my new-ish website and to perhaps click on the buy button, but it is also a genuine competition to encourage people to think outside the box and use something that they may not have tried before - brass.




Free comps will always attract more entrants - something for no material cost is attractive to everybody. Do this and the chances are that some folk visiting your site might actually buy something.

I hope I haven't offended you but I'm sure this might be why your take up on this offer has been low.

[Petal]

I must admit, I avoid competitions involving free anything, because I'm too cynical to believe that I might win something of value for nothing!


Jx

[Emerald]

Hi Sheena i have looked at your site and although at the mo dont use brass have deff added you to my favourites, good luck :)

[lesley]

I'm not big on competitions either and if I hadn't come across Sheena before I would be a cynical old f*rt.
However, I've found her to be a genuine and helpful lady and I wish you all the best with your relaunch.

The site looks fab by the way. :)

[Solunar Silver Studio]

Don't be too downhearted!![] On the basis that all publicity is GOOD publicity your promotion has worked pretty well!! 145 times your thread has been read and I wouldn't mind betting that most of those readers has gone over to see your website. It certainly has made me think about looking into the possibility of using brass in future designs. I think another problem that you might have hit by putting it on this forum is that most of us have a lot to do in very limited time and we generally have a set idea of what materials we are using for the particular ideas we have on the go at the moment. You may well find that you start getting sales off your site in the new year when people have got Christmas over and are looking for inspiration to add to their 'new lines'. I have been told by other people that you just have to think long term when building a business and not to expect things to happen overnight! I'm not too sure HOW LONG we have to wait though!!:confused::(. And also that most promotional material only yeilds a 10 - 20 percent response if you are lucky!!

Erm...remind me....What are we in this business for????:-D

[Petal]

It is fine, you won't upset me more than I am already. I will pull the competition and not be so presumptious in future, lol!

Please don't be upset, because I didn't mean to upset you. [] I just meant that I don't enter any competitions for anything, ' cos I'm a cynical old f?rt!

As Bee says, any publicity is good publicity!

love
Jules x

[Kalorlo]

Hi Amethyst. A suggestion if you do a future giveaway - why not give away a brass centrepiece or little bundle of brass things that could be used to make something. That would both encourage people to use brass, and they'd be more likely to buy extra findings from you to finish their piece! You could offer to display what they'd made on your site, too - promotion for them, inspiration for visitors.

Top of the range pliers are nice, but... we probably all already have pliers! It doesn't have that "must enter" push.

I'll remember your site, though, and I do use brass now and then.

[Amethystjewellery]

Its O.K. I am chilled about it now, I went for some bead therapy and spent far too much today!
Thanks too, for the positive responses.