Advantages for Gemstone Jewelry Designers to Develop Relationship with Lapidary Shop
It can be a real struggle for a gemstone jewelry designer to design that unique piece of gemstone jewelry. Most designers do not have a working relationship with a specific lapidary shop. This means that the designer is limited to picking out gemstones to work with at random off the internet or perhaps from their local bead store.
There can be some excellent advantages to having a personal relationship with a quality lapidary shop.
The ability to actually design your jewelry around your desired gemstone mineral type, color, shape, etc, really opens the door to truly being able to express your designs as you like. This is especially true for the designer who would like multiple settings on the same piece of jewelry.
Their can be excellent discount opportunities as a regular repeat customer to our shop. I truly believe that once you experience the entire transaction, communication, expertise, and quality of work, you will likely return to become another of our valued repeat customers.
Special favors become second nature. Favors like replacing one stone with another due to a last minute change in your design, re-shaping, duplicating, and many more that are generally completely free.
Opening the channels of communication to regular phone conversations as well as email and or contact forms.
As a lapidary shop I understand the importance of the above and am happy to have a versatile relationship with the designers. Having this relationship can remove a lot of obstacles for a designer.
Repeat customers are a valuable asset to the lapidary shop. As a regular customer, the designer will find extremely quick responses and top of the list placement for order requests.
Sometimes designers can feel that they are limited to working with what is available to them from what they see in various online gemstone stores. Perhaps the designer is uncomfortable with purchasing any other way. This is likely only the case because they have not given thought or had the opportunity to consider such a relationship.
If you are a designer with truly unique and unusual designs in mind, you will find such a relationship just the answer to completing these special designs.
Give us a try. You will not be disappointed!
May 13th, 2008 at 1:32 am
[...] decided to practice what I preach from a previous blog entry, and will design my first piece more around the design / shape of the stones. Then work second with [...]
May 28th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Nice items.
http://excellentjewelrystore.com
October 4th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
[...] designing for the purpose of bezel type settings. Most all cabs have nice beveling. Read the “Advantages for Gemstone Jewelry Designer who Develop Relationship with Lapidary Shop” blog post that tells about the importance and advantages when considering TaoGem as you lapidary [...]