E-book Category: E-Business
E-book Title: Wire Writing Secrets
Book Description: A few Examples of what you'll discover...
- Jewelry skills anyone can learn !
- How to Generate $1,574 a week using just a few tools..
- How to become skilled at making wire names, even if you're brand new to making jewelry..
- I am about to reveal the CLOSELY GUARDED SECRETS of the ancient skill of wire writing
- These Unique Names you can sell at craft markets and they are GUARANTEED to make you money..
- A Business you can start that DOESN'T COST THE EARTH to set up..
- If you are in the Business of making your own Jewelry, this is one skill you Must Not Ignore
- Make Money at Weekend Markets - You don't have to give up your day job !
- No Sales Pitch needed - Your names will walk, no, RUN OFF THE SHELVES !
I was wondering how to tell my story, so I got a friend of mine to interview me..
"So tell me how you started selling Wire Names?"
"I've been doing it for 26 years now and most of the time its been my only income and i've been really grateful to the guy that showed me and he never bore, he was never protective about showing me the skill.
In fact he didn't really show me that much, he basically, gave me an alphabet in wire and then I just taught myself and every day I went up to him and showed him a sample of what I'd made and said hey whaddya think? (laugh) is it any better? and he'd say "yeah, better better" (accent) because he was japanese this guy.
Eventually there came a day he left town usually he was moving around a lot, so, he didn't even mind the competition in fact we set up together one time I remember.
I remember making one name I had this crappy little display with one name on it, and the name was Maria, in Greek, because it was in Greece we were selling, which is spelt with a p it's spelt with an english p so its Mapia instead of Maria so I made this name Mapia or Maria and it was probably the commonest female name in Greece at the time, and probably still is.
This was in '85 and or '86 cant remember which, and yeah basically I just (laugh) I had this little tiny display with this one name on it when this guy left and I just put it up and just to see what would happen and lot's of lookers I remember and I must have sold one eventually because I had to replace it.
So you know, once I'd sold one name that was it really, I mean then it gives you the confidence of being able to sell stuff and I just basically built it up from there and created a bigger display and brought it off the ground so it didnt look so, so crappy and er yeah that was the start of it that was 26 years ago and still making them today (laugh)"
"Tell me about this Scandal you had with another Name Bender?"
"Yeah, so one day I was checking my email and I came across this email saying you've got a new youtube message, I thought great, someone's commented on my video.
So I went to youtube had a look at my comments, and there was this broken english type of, type of comment that, basically saying that I was ah giving away all the secrets of the Name Benders of the world, and that what I was telling people was that, it shouldn't be told, which I thought was really strange, because here's a guy thats obviously been making these names for donkeys years, and he's trying to protect his own, his own real estate so to speak.
He's got the idea that he'll make more money the fewer the people know about this thing so this is a really strange point of view in my eyes because there's plenty of people on this earth to learn this skill and in my eyes what it is that you can, anyone can learn it, and anyone can make money and, this is what I did when I first started in 1985"
What is name jewelry exactly? Never heard of that ! - Someone told me one day when I was selling my earrings, "There's this guy selling Names round the corner" - Huh? I went and had a look...
That got me thinking.... Hmm.. I make basic jewelry, make a pittance and it takes me hours to make it !
This Japanese guy making names, does two hours work, makes a Heap of Cash, packs up and leaves !
I don't know about you, but I knew which I preferred !
It wasn't rocket science I guess, so I started to learn how to make peoples Names from wire every day from there on in..
Today I just sell them over the Internet, but then I sprung on a great idea ..
What if I could put all my knowledge I have learned over 24 years into a book? Well, more specifically an Ebook that teaches this amazing craft to other people?
Sure it makes me money, but it potentially can help thousands of other people (like you !) to start a low cost small craft business where you can set your own income by selling at craft markets, shows, festivals etc. or just on the internet?
Or even just the thrill of knowing a new craft skill as a hobby?
Here are a few hurdles I came across when I first started out on this venture which could be the very questions you may be asking..
- How long would it take to learn this new skill ?
- Could I do it ?
- Would I be nervous selling to the public ?
- Would my work be good enough ?
- Where do I get all my supplies ?
- Could I afford it ?
- What if it turns out that I commit to this and I fail miserably ? I would have wasted my time and money..
- Will I do what I usually do - start something and never finish it ?
You may relate to one or more of these, a couple of them were real problems for me ! I got my friend to interview me again with those very questions above:
"How long did it take you to learn the skill of wire writing?"
"Well, that's a good question, I remember I was making basic earrings so I bought all these beads and wire and stuff from Covent Garden in London down to Greece in my backpack and I first started selling beaded jewelry, pretty simple jewelry but there was heaps of competition for that, so when I actually started to make the names it probably took me about 2 months and I really wasn't practicing that much, I practiced in my spare time while I was selling beaded jewelry probably about two months before I was selling to the public I actually learned it quicker than that, it took me a long time to pluck up the courage to sell them though."
"Did you ever doubt you could do it?"
"I might have had a little bit of doubt there but really it was just a question of survival, it was either that or pick oranges and tomatoes and stuff like that with my friends who were earning horrible wages and were coming back from their days work covered in this green stuff, which I think it was some banned chemical like DDT they were using, everyone was getting infections, so I thought, no way, I'm not doing that so, yeah, no I didn't really doubt I could do it, I just did it."
"Were you ever nervous selling to the public?"
"Oh yeah, that was a big one for me, I remember I made all this jewelry and I had a stack of it ready to sell, this was before I started selling the names, and I just couldn't pluck up the courage to go out there and just face these people looking at me and thinking I was some kind of weirdo, yeah it was very weird, a weird feeling. (Sigh) I dunno one night I basically waited till I'd got down to my last dollar, really, my last drachma or whatever it was, I just had to go out there and make money and that's how I got over it."
"Did you think your work was good enough?"
"Yeah, I practiced a lot to make sure I got it perfect but its just one of those things you just had to test it, you know, you hope the people are gonna like it obviously, but if they don't like it they won't buy it basically, and it probably happened a few times I don't really remember but I just got better and better as I went along, yeah I just think it was good enough."
"Where did you get your supplies?"
"Yeah, at first I was on this island of Crete and there was (laugh) very small towns and I dunno I was just lucky I guess, there was this craft shop in town, or hobby shop, or whatever you wanna call it, it sold these packets of silver plated wire, I just basically bought them out, bought the wire from this shop and the tools, I don't remember, I must've got them from the same shop, but there wasn't much to really worry about because I only had to buy round nosed pliers and some snips and the wire, and I just made a basic display out of some type of cork board or something, I can't remember now, yeah so the supplies weren't really a problem."
"Did you ever think you could fail?"
"Ah that's similar to the other question well, no, I didn't, you know I just - as soon as I'd sold that first name that was it, I just knew I couldn't fail, it was basically a matter of just getting better and better and practicing all the time, and yeah, no worries there."
"Could you afford it at the time? To start this Business?"
"Well, could I afford it - I had a dollar (laugh) to my name when I first started and you know, I had all the jewelry made up, yeah look, it started from nothing, basically, almost zero, so I wish I'd known the skills that I've written in this ebook now (laugh) when I'd started I mean it would have been really helpful, but, yep like I say, one dollar, that's all I started with."
"Did you ever think it would become a Business for you ?" "No I, I had no idea, in fact, this is gonna sound really stupid but I think, I didn't even realize it was a business until I think probably, ten years later after I started, I didn't really treat it like a business, it was just a way of making money and when I finally became aware of entities like (laugh) sole traders and all this kind of stuff, yeah, I didn't even think about it, but now it just became a business, and I treated it like a business, and it's still a business today and yeah, I quit selling at the markets, about 4 years ago now and just sold on the internet, and yeah, its been a great little business."
So now my previous problems are Your Opportunity...
Introducing my Ebook, 87 pages jam packed with Instructions and Photographs. This Skill could make all the difference to how you make money in the future..
Heres a quick preview of what you will have at your fingertips.. - Starter Tools, and Tools to use for the Professional (Pages 6 - 8)
- Different types of Wire you can use and Stiffness of wires (Pages 8 - 10)
- How to grip and position the Pliers (Pages 11, 12)
- Commonly used Wire Bends in letters (Pages 14 - 18)
- Different types of Loops (Pages 19 - 23)
- How to make All Capital letters A to Z with full diagrams and instructions (Pages 25 - 49)
- How to make All Lower Case letters a to z with full diagrams and instructions (Pages 50 - 75)
- How to Embellish your name with a heart symbol (Page 76)
- Step-by-step instructions on how to make a Name Necklace (Pages 77,78)
- Step-by-step instructions on how to make a Name Badge (pin) (Pages 79, 80)
- How to make Special Combinations of letters (Pages 82 - 85)
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