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February 23, 2011

Use Paypal for your Silver Charms and Jewelry Findings Purchases!

Nina Designs is happy accept Paypal as a payment option for your silver charms and jewelry findings purchases! This is a feature many customers have been requesting and for good reason. Here are a few of the great features of using Paypal:

1. Paypal is a trusted and secure way to pay online because it keeps your information private.
2. It’s easy to link your Paypal account directly to your bank account.
3. You can also link your Visa, Mastercard, Discover or American Express card to your account.

Another benefit to using Paypal for your Nina Designs purchases is that if you’re already selling your jewelry online and accepting payments through Paypal, you can turn right around and purchase your jewelry supplies with the same account! This makes your record keeping a bit neater. We hope having this option for shopping with us will make life a little easier. Tell us what you think!

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August 18, 2010

NEW Themed Collections help you find just the silver charm you want

Filed under: Website Shopping Features — Tags: beading supplies, jewelers supplies, silver charms — juanita @ 8:30 am

You can find many of these charms in the Globe Trotter Collection

Here at Nina Designs we create silver charms and pendants that we hope inspire you to create beautiful jewelry. But really that’s just half the story. We also work hard to make sure you can easily find and order those silver charms you are looking for. Because Nina Designs is filled with thousands of jewelry components, sometimes that can be tricky.

That’s why we created the NEW Themed Collections page. There you can find all kinds of silver charms, earrings, pendants, and clasps that cluster around particular themes. If you like to design jewelry that tells a story, you’ll this feature. Suppose you’re a hopeless romantic who loves exploring beaches. Then you’ll want to go straight to the Hearts, Love Letters, and Ocean Collections to find just the thing for that necklace you have in mind. Or suppose you want to tell a story of a young entomologist who wants to travel the world searching for cool insects. Then we’d suggest perusing the Globe Trotter and Insect Collections. Whatever story you’d like to tell, the Themed Collections will help you find the words.

To date, we have 20 Themed Collections planned, everything from Aviary to Yoga Spirit, and Ocean to Woodlands. We sincerely hope you enjoy shopping every one. And, if there is any additional themed category you’d like to see or any other type of shopping improvement you’d suggest, please don’t hesitate to leave a comment.

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June 28, 2010

Jewelry Making Supplies Online

Filed under: Website Shopping Features — Tags: Website Improvements — nina @ 8:00 am

Selling Jewelry Making Supplies online is like performance art. Almost as much time and energy goes into creating your online shopping experience as into designing the silver charms, silver pendants and jewelry findings that we sell there. We are constantly working to improve the website. Your feedback is essential to this process. With that in mind, I would like to thank everyone who participated in the first round of our customer service survey. We will continue to send out the surveys on a regular basis, but no one should get more than one per year. Please know that I personally read every comment and suggestion that comes in through Survey Monkey. All of that information will be taken into account as we design new products and continue to improve the website.

Many of you commented that you didn’t like getting bumped off your page and into the shopping cart every time you order an item. That has been corrected. You also wanted more items listed on each page. We increased the number from 10 to 20. (If we do 50 it will be a problem for anyone with a slow computer but you can set it for 50 if that is your preference). We also heard that our search engine and product suggestions need work. These are particularly thorny issues but we are searching for a solution.

Any other suggestions for the website?

Customer Requested Two Tone Stamping Blank

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June 18, 2010

Shopping for Jewelry Supplies is Now Easier than Ever

Filed under: Website Shopping Features — Tags: jewelers supplies, Website Improvements — leah @ 8:25 am

Over the past few weeks, we’ve added several new features that make shopping for jewelry supplies quicker and more efficient. Our new Express Order feature is for our repeat customers that know exactly what they want. Simply enter the style number and quantity, and the item is added directly to your cart-no more switching between pages! The Express Order feature can be accessed at the top right of every page on our website.

Repeat Customer? Try our Express Shopping Form.

Example of NEW Pop-Up Shopping Cart Window

We also simplified the process of adding items to your cart. Now, after an item is added to your cart, there is a brief pop-up window confirming that it’s been added. You remain on the same page, allowing you to continue shopping without having to go in and out of the shopping cart every time you add an item. This feature was something that many of you requested, and we can see why! It really improves the shopping experience. No more clicking back & forth.

Additional features are in the works – thanks for all your feedback. We value your opinion and work hard to give you what you want! What do you think of these changes? What other features would you like to see?

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May 31, 2010

Improving our Silver Charms Website

Filed under: Customer Service,Website Shopping Features — Tags: jewelers supplies, jewelry business, Website Improvements — nina @ 8:30 am

Designing silver charms is one thing, making them easy to buy is another. We are constantly updating our website in search of the most user friendly experience possible. Some of the improvements are immediately obvious, as when we add videos or launch a blog, but many upgrades are made on the back end. For instance, this week we moved to a larger server, an enormous project that is invisible but will keep our site running smoothly with increasing content and visitors.

We listen closely to your comments and try to build solutions quickly. Recently, we have had requests for an Express Shopping template that would allow customers to quickly type in style numbers and quantities. We also heard that our silk cords and ribbons are tricky to order.

Snapshot of New Easy-to-Use Silk Order Form

We have already improved the silk ordering process by adding an easy to use template where you can order all your colors at once. The Express Shopping feature is almost complete.

Please let us know whenever you get frustrated or have a great idea. Our goal is to create a website that designers look forward to visiting! You can always reach us at nina@ninadesigns.com, or leave a comment on our Facebook page.

What is the most frustrating part of the Nina Designs website? What features would you like us to add?

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May 14, 2010

Purchasing Silk Cord is Now Faster Than Ever!

Filed under: Customer Service,Website Shopping Features — Tags: Website Improvements — leah @ 9:05 am

Our hand-dyed silk cords and ribbons are so much fun to work with, but ordering them through our website could be time consuming. Well, not anymore! We’re excited to introduce a new interface for ordering multiple colors of silk cord. Now it’s easy to select all color options on one screen. No longer is it necessary to go back and forth between the cart and the silk as each individual color is selected (and with 46 colors, this required a time commitment). This new interface will make ordering silk cords and ribbons a breeze.

Nina and Leah luxuriate in a rainbow of silk cords.

And coming soon: an express shopping option for our customers that know what they want and are prepared to order by style number! We’ve heard your feedback and are working hard to upgrade our website and make shopping at Nina Designs easier and more enjoyable. Also in the works: a revision of the “recommended products” feature on the shopping cart. Your opinion matters to us. Is there something about our website that drives you crazy? What would you change if you could?

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October 21, 2009

My Wishlist for Beading Supplies at Nina Designs

Filed under: Customer Service,Website Shopping Features — Tags: design process, Inspiration, time management — juanita @ 10:55 am

It’s easy to shop for jewelry findings from Nina Designs using your Wishlist and Past Order Tools. Sign in to your account and access these tools by clicking on “My Account” at the top of every Nina Designs page. Then you’ll see four tabs. From the one titled “Past Orders,” you can see an image and the item codes of all the things you’ve ever ordered, and a list of all your previous invoices (great for accounting purposes). The other tab you’ll see is “Wishlist.” Here you can securely house your list of favorite Nina Designs jewelry findings that you’d like to buy, but not right now.

With your Wishlist once you’re ready to buy something, all you have to do is click “Add to Cart.” Adding an item to your cart won’t remove it from your Wishlist, so you can always keep it there as a favorite item you’ll want to refer to again and again. I love that feature because once I find something I like I don’t have to find it again. It’s great. I just transfer My Wishlist items to my shopping cart once I’m ready to buy them.

I’ve had this silver link with granulation detailing on my Wishlist forever. It is so beautifully made. I finally bought two of them and made a pair of chandelier earrings with red rice beads. They are the perfect dangles for my earrings and also look stunning with our vermeil style gold plate charms. I’m planning to make a little charm bracelet. I’ll need to add a few other charms from my Wishlist to finish that design idea.

My Wishlist also has all of our Pure Lotus print items listed. I love them all, and have design ideas for each of them. For today, I’ll add the largest round Pure Lotus to my cart from My Wishlist and make a triple strand necklace with a clean, fresh look. I picked up the wirewrapped peridot chain months ago and blackened it. I finally get to use it! As an impulse buy, I also decided to pick up a strand a black fairy ribbon to pair with rough cut quartz crystals with black inclusions. I’m planning a dark, moody necklace that’s gonna rock.

This is just a portion of what I bought on my last order. I really just wanted to share how I do my shopping at Nina Designs. I find this method really works for me, and I hope it helps you shop our site more easily.

Pure Lotus necklace

Wishlist items becoming jewelry

Rockin' necklace idea

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