The final deadline for this year’s Halstead Grant competition is fast approaching. Applicants must submit materials by June 9th. The long Memorial Day weekend is a great opportunity to focus on your grant application and get it sent off in the mail. The Halstead Grant awards a $6,000 prize package to a new US silver [...]
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Posted by halsteadbead on February 21, 2012
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This guest blog comes from Layne Freedline, the 2011 winner of The Halstead Grant. Read how the grant affected her and her business last year. The deadline for the 2012 grant competition is June 9th.
The Halstead Grant 2011 Application Now Available
Posted by halsteadbead on October 28, 2010
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Are you starting a jewelry business? Do you have what it takes to be one of the next big names in jewelry design? We are excited to launch the application for the next Halstead Grant for new jewelry designers in the bridge segment. The deadline is June 6, 2011. Download the application now and start [...]
Cowboy’s Sweetheart Jewelry Wins National Award & Business Grant
Posted by halsteadbead on August 11, 2010
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Cowboy’s Sweetheart is the 2010 winner of a national competition sponsored by Halstead Bead, Inc. The Jewelry Design Business Development Grant is awarded to a new jewelry entrepreneur each year.
Targeting Customers: The Key to Marketing Your Jewelry Business
Posted by halsteadbead on August 18, 2009
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Know your audience. This simple principle is the basis of all marketing. Without targeted customers in mind, developing a marketing plan can seem very daunting. And without a marketing plan your efforts can become scattered and counterproductive to your image. Targeted customer groups will direct your energy into strategic, focused and successful marketing. This article [...]
Grant Judging Nearly Finished
Posted by halsteadbead on July 10, 2009
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We committed to an intense schedule of grant judging this year in hopes of concluding the process a little bit earlier than usual. We are on track to do so and expect to announce results in about two weeks, give or take. This will be a fresh batch of incredible new talent for all you [...]
Grant Judging – Getting Organized
Posted by halsteadbead on June 22, 2009
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Wow, it looks like a great pool of candidates in the grant competition this year! We are busy organizing application materials in the judging rooms, sending out receipt confirmations and setting up for the long weeks of judging ahead. We spend hundreds of hours reading through submissions each year. Every judge goes through most packets [...]
Applications are arriving!
Posted by halsteadbead on June 15, 2009
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Grant competition submissions are coming in quickly now in these final days before the postmark deadline on Wednesday. Applicants look great so far. We will begin judging on Monday. Best of luck to all who entered!
