THE METALMARK ULTIMATE MAKEOVER

My name is Amy Leggett and I am the owner and jewelry designer of The Metalmark, a custom jewelry store that focuses primarily on chainmaille based designs. Winning the Oh My! Handmade Ultimate Entrepreneur Giveaway would really help me get The Metalmark on the path to success!

While I still love weaving chainmaille and it has ABOUT ME WHAT THIS MAKEOVER WOULD MEAN sparked my creative passion, my true passion lies with While we have a come a very long way in a very short period, custom metalwork, especially with sterling silver. For neither I nor my husband have ever run our own business or I have been making jewelry for myself and my the coming year I will be working towards acquiring the worked in marketing or even in retail, so we are learning tools to create custom pieces from unformed metals friends for over 20 years as a hobby, starting with everything - from website design to social media marketing to such as sterling silver, copper and brass. I will continue seed bead weaving and macrame, and then taking product photography and copywriting - from the ground up. to build The Metalmark name and work hard on honing college courses and working with lost wax casting Couple that with the fact that I am a stay at home mom of my social networking skills. There is still a lot of work two young boys and learning has come in fits and spurts. of silver. After working with sterling silver I to do and a lot to learn, but I am excited to meet these realized that metalworking was where my passion Winning this amazing makeover would give me the challenges with the help of this makeover’s wonderful sponsors! lay, but the expensive cost of tools and materials opportunity to work with professionals to learn how to present and manage my business to ensure my jewelry making made it hard to break in to. But late in 2010, I dream becomes a successful reality. Since my husband does all joined a local craft group, and taught myself how the product photography and the majority of the copywriting to chainmaille. After only a few months of he would benefit tremendously from learning how to arrange chainmailling I knew I had found the medium that and shoot jewelry and then describe it so it highlights the beauty of each of my creations. Working with Aeolidia to really sparked my creative passion and together develop effective PR would be invaluable in helping me get with my husband we launched The Metalmark and The Metalmark out there. Combining that effective PR with its website, themetalmark.com, in February of the free advertising on OMHG would give me priceless 2011. Our focus is on making it as easy as possible exposure on a well respected site with thousands of loyal followers. And probably the most valuable prize would be the for customers to convey their vision so I can make monthly mentoring from a fellow handmade artist who knows it a reality. what it takes to succeed!