The price is right: Do you charge too little?

When a Facebook friend was seeking advice regarding pricing his work, I obliged with a few lessons I've learned over the years, and while I didn't at that time intend to share my note with a wider audience, I soon realized many of my colleagues in the jewellery industry...
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BaselWorld 2014

Hakim El Kadiri walks the Rado booth at Baselworld with the air of a proud papa. With a couple dozen watches peeking out from various wall and standalone cases, he knows them all, inside and out. And so he should.
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The culture of the supernatural: Pearls for the ages

Organics are cropping up everywhere—in your local big box supermarket, at the neighbourhood farmer's market, on the menu of your favourite bistro.For centuries, luxury organics—namely pearls—have been popular personal adornments for the fingers, necks, ears, and wrists of the powerful and the wealthy. It's a fascination that continues today.
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Are you selling under-karated jewellery?

When Greg Merrall's students called him over to look at what they'd found, he knew right away it certainly wasn't silver. Although the coins they had purchased from a Toronto supplier carried the appropriate stamp, once melted, the metal neither looked like 999 silver nor acted like it.
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The humility advantage

See if this applies to you or team members in your organization: You've been working in your industry for several years. Your responses to requests from customers, prospects, and co-workers are fast and accurate. Your product knowledge is one of your greatest strengths. If this is the case, the...

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