This is the first article in a series I was commissioned to write for an Australian trade magazine called Jewellers Trade.  It appeared in the February 2012 edition of the magazine which is circulated all over Australia and New Zealand. For this article, I was asked to come up with some unique marketing tips that jewelery shop owners could use during the holiday season to boost their marketing and make   Read More ...

This is an article I was commissioned to write for the Australian trade magazine Jewellers Trade.  For this article I was asked to interview several local jeweler shop owners and talk to them about tourmaliune and its “local” appeal (Maine is one of the few places on Earth where tourmaline is actively mined).  I contacted both Pyramid Studios and Striking Gold and the owners were kind enough to take time out of   Read More ...

  Japan has long been regarded as the world leader in forward-thinking technology and robotics.  Some of the ideas to come out of the Land of the Rising Sun are so “fashion forward” that they seem almost backward to us over here.  Don’t believe me?  You wouldn’t see stackable, coin operated plastic “hotels” set up on the street in bee-hive like cubicles in the states, would you?  How about pre-cooked,   Read More ...