[Jewelry making - Article 00368] - Re: [Orchid] Keeping trade secrets

[Kimberly Starbard]

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Hi Tracy:

>     Why not take orders for your students and resell them the beads at
>     a small profit? Or make up your own kits? Personally, I don't feel
>     that there's a need to share my suppliers with people whom I'm
>     teaching. 

    I am tossing these ideas back and forth. I just can't decide yet. I
    have many anxieties about selling beads in the town where the
    beadstore I was associated with is located. I don't know how many
    people on Orchid have been involved in a partnership that fell apart,
    but it can be big nasty business. One minute, they were calling me
    family, the next minute, we're in court and I'm "malicious" and
    "money-hungry". 

    To sell beads on their turf means to go head-to-head and, quite
    frankly, I loathe confrontation. Some days, however, I wake up ready
    to take on the World. I change my confidence level with the tides. 

    I think the best thing to do is give my students the best sources
    (not necessarily the bead store sources) and sell them their beads at
    a fair price. It's what they deserve. I want them to get the best for
    their tuition dollar and I want to retain my teaching/selling
    position with the art center. 

    I wonder, what attracts people more...the business end (making all
    those little decisions and putting them together in a successful
    endeavor) or the creation (making all those little decisions and
    putting them together in a successful endeavor)? 

Apparently, today is an introspective day
Kim Starbard
Cove Beads

 
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