More then 10 new design of keychains, very nice, eyecatching and also good selling products, please visit our Fashion Accessories - Keychain collection
Also dont miss the new addition at Fashion Accessories Collection : Wooden Earrings and
Our Piercings are made from wood and bone, custom design are welcome.
Regards,
Athina & Sean
What new in February at Beads-Bali?
Yes, New addition of Wood Necklaces is now ready for you, also dont miss the new Wooden Bracelets and Belts
We also add new collection of Silver Rings, Silver Pendants and Silver Earrings.
All our Silver Jewelery are handmade from 9.25 sterling silver combine with many choice of gemstone — it’s mean if you like one of the collection and wanna combine it with other stone as you like — you are welcome.
Last but not least — dont forget to visit our new product line:
Key Chain collection made from Leather, Glass Beads, Resin Beads, and many more.
more design caming up this week, so dont miss it!
Regards
Athina & Sean (Beads-Bali)
Happy New Year and thank you very much
2006 was very busy year for us.
And we want to take a deep breath and say to all of our customers, have a happy, healthy and profitable new year.
On our side, we’ve spent the first couple of weeks of the new year putting together collections that we believe will knock your socks off.
Firstly, we’ve added some combination silver and stone to our collections.
As always, everything you’ll see is handmade here in Bali using only the best natural materials.
Take a look at:
Silver Bracelets             Silver Broochs           Silver Earrings
  
Silver Pendants     Silver Rings
Also, away from precious metals, we hope you’ll enjoy our new Fashion Jewelry Collection
  
Bracelets                              Wood Necklaces
And, finally, a taste of things to come — here are a few images of our upcoming new line of Piercing Products and more Wood Necklaces — send us an email and we’ll make sure you get a letter when this category goes live.
 
Regards
Athina & Sean (Beads-Bali)
We’ve just uploaded about 50 new hand made, .925 sterling Silver Pendants — that’s silver with shell, mother of pearl, turquoise, gemstones.
We love these pieces — from the very simple to the magnificent, we’re sure you’ll also like them.
Go to: http://beads-bali.com/category.php?category=Silver%20Pendants
Enjoy,
Athina & Sean
We’ve just finished uploading over 300 new models for Beads-Bali.
You’ll see some new silver products (we’ll talk aboult those in just one moment) but we’ve also taken the time to focus on the non-precious stuff — you can call it fashion jewellery, costume jewellery or summer jewellery… or you can use all of the above.
Whatever you call it, it’s inexpensive, organic, handmade jewellery from Bali — we hope you enjoy it.
Go to: http://beads-bali.com/category.php?category=Costume%20Jewelery
Regards,
Athina & Sean
I’ve not yet been able to watch a bandwagon roll past me without at least trying to jump on it and, so, here I go again — late again: Skype.
Now, if you’re in the US or the UK, you can call us cheaply at our US or UK telephone numbers or even more cheaply, skype direct to my laptop (it’s almost always switched on and in front of me).
Here’s everything you need to know about dropping us a line:
Beads - Bali
by Indonesia Export
Office & Warehouse
Jl. Bypass Ngurah Rai 654
Bali, Indonesia 80223
Email: info@beads-bali.com
Skype: sean_hynes
Indonesia (+62) Tel. (361) 721-575 — Fax. (361) 720-889
USA (+1) Tel. (201) 467-5570
UK (+44) Tel. (0131) 208-1282
We’ve been online doing what we do (the voodoo we do) for quite some time now.
11 years this December at the current count — check out the creation date in red below.
Domain Name: INDONESIAEXPORT.COM
Registrar: TUCOWS INC.
Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net
Status: ACTIVE
EPP Status: ok
Updated Date: 21-Sep-2006
Creation Date: 22-Dec-1995
Expiration Date: 21-Dec-2006
My, how time flies when you’re having fun.
Interesting though, a few months ago, I stumbled across a news article in Wired, I think, talking about the web archive [http://web.archive.org] where you could see old versions of Yahoo and the like.
Natch, I didn’t think little old us would turn up on their pages but there we were — at least going back to 1997 — interested, check it out at:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.indonesiaexport.com
We haven’t changed all that much — comes down to a couple of very basic rules: Keep it simple (Stupid!) and if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Sean
We’re Beads Bali (well, you already know that).
The company, at this time, is made up of myself (Sean), my wife Athina and a group of local silver smiths and bead makers. There is also my wife’s puppy, Jolie, and my black lab, Mojo.
We live here in Bali, fairly close to the beach (I can see it from my window as I type this).
I’m fairly new to the beading business but I’ve been working professionally in Bali for the last ten years (or more) exporting handicrafts and furniture around the world with Indonesia Export.
Up until about five minutes ago, I thought I understood the meaning of “Bali Bead”…
… I was wrong (sigh).
I had thought, silly me… SOOOO naive… that a Bali bead was a bead made in Bali. Apparently not.
According to one article:
“Bali beads originated in India. The Indians taught the Balinese how to make the beads. The majority of Bali beads today are still made in India. Some people differentiate between Bali and Bali Style beads.
Bali style beads are made the same way as Bali beads, but do not come from Bali - instead they come from India.â€
It’s the overall tone of the article that bugs me – The Indians taught the Balinese how to make the beads… you’d figure “the Indians†might have called them Indian beads, wouldn’t ya?
It’s five in the evening here in Bali and while I might have been out at the beach or walking the dog or drinking a nice glass of wine, instead I’m at home, at the desk, putting beads-bali.com through its paces.
My favorite part of the process was inserting a picture of our (my wife’s and my) new puppy, Jolie, to draw attention to free shipping. Ah, which reminds me: Shipping is now free!!
Please note picture at left.
I can see the ocean from my window — a small crack of it anyway now dominated by a ridiculous wood house.
Having said that, I’ll most likely have some wine later… and why not?
As has been often the case in the past, the problem has not been the content or even getting it all online.
For anyone who’s interested, the site is hosted at Westhost — a seemingly friendly and straight-forward bunch of people… if they prove otherwise, I’ll update this note.
I would have hosted with IQUEST but I’ve had nothing but hassle, problem and errors for the past couple of months and as they haven’t been able to remove their collective heads from their collective butts, I decided to start fresh with this one domain so while I’m spending the money on click advertising with the all might Google and Yahoo — not to mention the ridiculously complicated and low value for money express submit thingie at Yahoo — I didn’t want to do all that without being one hundred percent sure the site was running properly.
All in all, as easy as 1-2-3 — start to finish, the site was up and running in about two hours. Not bad at all.
And then, of course, the real slowdown begins: getting listed in the search engines and putting these products in front of people who’re looking for them.
Why does it have to be so hard?
A sitemap for Google, a sitemap for Yahoo. Pay for this. Pay for that. Logins, passwords, little picture thingies to make sure you’re not a robot… truly, the lunatics are not only on the path; they’re running the asylum.
It actually takes me longer jumping through all these stupid hoops for no damn good reason than it does for me to put up a brand spanking new website/wholesale operation.
Why is it that I can buy a car more quickly than I can get my site listed. And why do they insist on treating us like we’re out to steal military secrets? Makes no sense.
Anyway, just about all I can do now is sit back and try to be patient as I wait for the search engines to come and visit. And, if I’m really, really, really lucky, someone might send me an email.
Sean
