I have made hundreds of very nice, high quality ear rings made out of nice glass beads and I am only asking $5 a pair for them. I don't have much money at all for advertising and am not good at selling them to people in my community. I am not interested in opening a store quite yet. If I did it would be pointless anyway since I only have ear rings and don't want to do any other kind of jewelery quite yet. I am hoping to figure out how to market these online for free or very cheap and make descent money. Any successful entreprenuers out there with some good advice and/or tips?
There are quite a few websites that you could use to sell your jewelry but not many free ones.
Craig's List is free but is only local so your market would be much smaller.
Bonanzle is the newest Ebay competitor and is much, much cheaper than Ebay.
Etsy is fantastic for handmade goods and has a wonderful community.
Ecrater is another newer auction site but I don't have much experience there.
The absolute cheapest way would be through free classified ads sites such as
Craigslist http://www.craigslist.com
Google Base http://base.google.com
Kijiji http://www.kijiji.com
But also try Etsy http://www.etsy.com -- it is an auction site for handmade items. It is way cheaper than eBay though of course less consumer traffic compared to eBay
