[Jewelry making - Article 00196] - Re: [Orchid] Keeping trade secrets

[lee]

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    I do not keep trade secrets. Anybody who wants to know how I make
    what I make can ask me. If they live nearby, they can come over for
    food and cerveza and I'll SHOW them how I do what I do. [certain
    restrictions do apply- I am speaking of people who work with metal
    themselves. I would not have any conversations with "designers" who
    operate sweatshops here or abroad. ] 

    At the same time, I must confess that my jewelry business is not the
    model of financial success, but this has to do with marketing issues,
    not a deluge of wanna-be art jewelers knocking off my stuff. In fact,
    they would have a tough time knocking off my stuff, because I do
    mostly one-of-a-kind and do not generally use calibrated stones. And
    I evolve, so they will be shooting at a moving target ;-) 

    I might be better off keeping trade secrets, who knows, but it would
    not be consistent with my character or my philosophy of life. 

    George Bernard Shaw said 

          "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange
          these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But
          if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these
          ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." 

    Thus, openness and sharing of information is not giving something
    away, but participating in mutual enrichment.

Lee

 
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