Industry Coverage

Calgary, Alberta, Canada – Instappraise, developer of an innovative and easy-to-use jewelry appraisal creation and management solution, is pleased to announce an exciting new partnership with Picup Media, provider of jewelry photo retouching and maker of the GemLightbox jewelry photography tool.

We’re excited as two new companies join our partners program! Instappraise (jewelry appraisal software for jewelers, gemologists, appraisers, pawnbrokers and more) and NS8 (ecommerce security software).

Laura Stanley heard the “be online now, during this lockdown” message repeatedly as she sat through two days of speakers at the recent American Gem Society Conclave. The sessions were held online this year and the message kept resonating with her. Everyone at Conclave who had anything to do with sales or marketing were encouraging us all to get online,” said Stanley.

‘Love has not been cancelled,’ resonated with Spicer. So much so that it’s now on one side of Spicer Greene Jeweler’s building to remind the town. Read about their campaign here.

There are a number of great industry experts offering free consulting, discounted services, and free resources for jewelers in this challenging time. Take a look!

Podium, the leading interaction management platform for local businesses, today announced the addition of Payments to its existing suite of interaction management tools, allowing local businesses to utilize text messaging to securely take payment directly from the Podium platform. 

Jewelers are now able to sell diamonds directly online from curated vendors through GemFind’s new tool.

Both stakeholders will benefit from this integration in a multitude of ways. The fact that the quality of product photos is influential to 75% of online shoppers means that it can dramatically increase your target buyers’ purchase intention.

Verizon is selling the outdated Tumblr blogging site to Automattic Inc, owners of Wordpress. Could something big be coming to the Wordpress platform in the future?

Ryan Blumenthal of Corinne Jewelers will be joining Clientbook as a strategic advisor to help retailers gain visibility and control over the customer experience.