Kats_Claws

Hi Are there any small shops selling sledges in or near Wincobank? Don't really want to take my car out to go buy one and our buses aren't running Thanks

Just wondering as I purchased an advert in the magazine and was told it would be distributed 2 weeks ago, both my mum and dad live in the area and neither have had it delivered yet. Has anyone had it yet so I at least know they have started delivering? Thanks

Thanks Donna I take the pictures of the items myself xx

I'd be interested in a privacy policy could you email me some more info please [email protected] Thanks ---------- Post added 03-12-2012 at 20:12 ---------- Thanks i know i may have paid too much but as i said in a previous post you live and learn... but its great to know that you would buy from it. Orders through the website have gone crazy in this last month so i must be doing something right... i have had more orders in a month that i had in a year on my old site (90% of my business was through facebook and exhibitions!) I appreciate all the comments everyone x

I did read the PDF thank you. I do have a terms and conditions page which needs to be agreed to before the order is placed. There is a tick box to confirm the customers have read them. As I said in my previous post, my address is going on the website today Thanks

I am arranging for my address to go on the website with a caveat of visits by appointment only. I also don't need to worry about returns as the items are bespoke and non returnable under the DSR. This is detailed on my website Thanks

The phone number and email address... Simply, I just don't use my land line and didn't even think about putting it in there. I may look into getting it forwarded to my mobile and then I won't have to worry about not picking up calls. Business address- yes it is run from my home and I don't want people just turning up at any time of the day. I happily arrange appointments for people and am happy to provide the address, but don't want anyone thinking its somewhere they can visit like a shop. If I put something like 'my studio is based at my home in Sheffield, if you would like to visit so I can take prints, please contact me for an appointment' would that be better? The email address - again when I was sorting my own website etc I didn't have a clue how to get an @printscharming...... Email address so that had to do. If I'm honest I never thought my business would take off like it has. And now I feel like I am trying to catch up with my 'technology' side of things. I'd love to have matching domain and email but again, don't know how to go about it. I picked a @live account as I could access it from my iPhone easily and I didn't know how to get a professional looking one so made do. I have built this business up from nothing. Had no training in silversmithing, stamp making, websites, SEO etc - I have had to learn it all myself in the 3 months prior to starting the business and the 20 months since. I'm not a thick person, I'm very switched on and business minded. I want my business to succeed and constructive criticism is great, please just make sure it's not tipping over into being derogatory about my work. My work IS high quality and I put hours into each and every item I make. There is no machinery used to make the actual charm, they are even polished completely by hand (bye bye to my own fingerprints at this rate! As for the brief I gave the company, it was 'elegant' and 'easy to navigate' there was other things too but I can't remember. I selected the colour scheme, so I have no idea what the comment about all the other sites are about. There are some individual comments I want to reply to so I will do this on the computer tomorrow Thanks again

Wow! Didn't expect this many responses. Firstly thank you to everyone for your replies. Now to answer your questions... The site has cost me a great deal of money... Into 4 figures... And before you all start having hissyfits, I know this is probably a naive thing to have agreed to but it was a family friends business and I understood they would be doing a site worth many hundreds more than that and I was getting a good deal... You live and learn. Secondly the domain.... I set up my business with no silversmithing training and no idea what issues a longer website may bring. This was the domain I bought and the one I have printed on all my literature. I also own 6 other domains ( which are pointed to this site in a hope of helping with SEO) one of which is prints-charming.co.uk - much better and I don't know why I didn't think of looking for this when I first set up my website but again - it's all about learning. My lack of responses - simply had a busy few days and hadn't been back on line. Had no idea about all these replies. One thing I would like to dissagree with is about my business name - I LOVE my business name and have never had anything but comments about how good it is and I think you have looked into the whole meaning of printing a little too much. It is imPRINT jewellery where I make a stamp and Push it into the silver. And I make CHARMS so I think PRINTs CHARMing is quite good. The jewellery uses handPRINTS, footPRINTS, fingerPRINTS, pawPRINTS... so needen't necesserily be referring to the method of printing, but more WHAT is being imprinted... Besides that's not got anything to do with the website and I didn't ask for opinions on the name. Sorry to sound touchy but the business name never has been and never will be an issue. How do you know they are silver.... As someone else said, silver under 7.78g doesn't need to be hallmarked by law. This helps me keep costs down for now. I do intend to get a sponsors mark as soon as I can and get all the items hallmarked. The only problem is that this will add not costs (if I can help it), but time on to the creation of the items. I am on my phone so can't remember any more comments so ill have another read and post some more comments shortly Thanks again everyone

I set my business up just over 18months ago making silver imprint jewellery. I made my own website from a vistaprint template which did the job ok (once I worked out how to add the PayPal option so people could actually buy online...!) I have now had a website built for me by a company in Sheffield and as I'm so used to looking at it I was wondering if I could have some feedback on the site please? Is the first page appealing? Anything missing? Are the other pages easy to navigate? Are you left with any unanswered questions? To me, it's a million times better than my vistaprint site that looked like I had done it on MS Paint... But opinions from people with website / SEO / design backgrounds would be brill :-) The website is http://www.printscharming-online.com Many thanks in advance

i'd be interested in knowing what other dates there will be http://www.printscharming-online.com

i would be interested to sell my imprint jewellery http://www.printscharming-online.com

Hi, if you do find a venue, i'd be interested in booking a stall. I amke silver imprint jewellery and you can see examples of my work here... http://www.printscharming-online.com please let me know if this is the type of thing you would like there xx

you can have their paw print, and even nose print, minaturised and put into pure silver!

http://Www.printscharming-online.com Xx

i have emailed you about these 3 events and wondered if you had received? i have emailed a few people about variour events and have searched my inbox but cant find a reply from you. my email address is [email protected] and my website is http://www.printscharming-online.com thanks x