The Truth about "Wholesale"...
The biggest thing that's constantly misunderstood by people trying to start a home business on the Internet is the word Wholesale.

A lot of people think that working with real wholesale suppliers means that they will magically be able to sell products for less than anybody else on the planet, for ever and ever. They'll be the only one who ever gets such good prices, and they'll earn millions because no competition can touch them. They retire, and buy a big house in Beverly Hills, complete with a butler, and the whole works!

Then they realize they may actually have to compete with companies who have more buying power and get better prices, and suddenly the dream's over. They run around crying that the supplier is not a real wholesaler, and is a cheat. The sky is falling, and  all their dreams are being blown away by BAD people who 'falsely' claimed to be wholesalers. The fact is that they've realized a perfectly normal aspect of retail sales that they had not anticipated, and need to learn.

There are no magic bullets in the wholesale biz, even though there are plenty of people who will tell you that there ARE. Don't believe them! When you're in business you will always have to compete. It's all part of sales, on the Internet or anywhere else for that matter!

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Important Bead Facts & Tips:

Beads are the oldest and most universal art form. Beads have been used throughout the ages and in virtually every culture, not just as adornment but as an expression of social circumstances, political actions, or religious beliefs. Beads have also been widely used as a form of currency; as a symbolic representation of curative power; and as protection in the form of a talisman. Ancient ancestors used readily available raw materials such as bone, horn, teeth, ivory, stones, nuts, seeds, shell, wood and a variety of plant and insect resins as beads. By using these natural materials, man created all styles of artistic ornamentation for himself. The variety was vast and ranged from headdresses, hats, caps, hair combs, earrings, and necklaces to bow quivers, waist belts, breast ornaments, skirts, cloaks, and shoes.

A very popular type of bead is...

Cloisonné
Cloisonné, an enameled art form with a history as colorful as the beads, dates back more than 500 years. As one of Beijing's most famous exports, the Chinese have made cloisonné enameling a distinctive art form. Cloisonné production flourished during the reign of Ming Emperor Jingtai in the mid-15th century. Most pieces of this period were made with special blue enamel as the base color, therefore creating the Chinese term for cloisonné: jingtai-lan ("Jingtai Blue"). Cloisonné now ranks as one of China's major contributions to the world's fine arts. The traditional method of making cloisonné is an elaborate and complicated process.