Nautimaritima Blog

I met up with a few of my old college friends last week at a local café for some catching up as we haven’t seen each other for more than a year now after graduation. Most of us haven’t change much and we were talking as if we’ve never been away from each other. We exchanged stories and experiences of our current working life and the challenges we’re facing at the workplace. However, when it came to Hannah’s turn to share with us, we were slightly surprised to hear that she isn’t working. Instead, she is running her own e-business and she has been for several months now. She is dealing with women handbags and purses but, there weren’t anything like the ordinary handbags/purses one would find in shopping malls.

This is because her handbags were affixed with beads, crystal beads to be exact. Some of us thought there was no way she could make a living selling crystal beaded handbags as not everyone could afford them. However, Hannah went on and explained why her goods wouldn’t cost a fortune. According to her, she got the bags and purses as it was, without any crystals on it that is. And whenever she gets an order from her webpage, she would then buy the crystals or beads the customer would want on their bags from her online source.

She also secured a deal with her online retailer where she could obtain the crystals at wholesale value instead of the normal prices. She told us she only went for swarovski beads or swarovski crystal beads as their cut and design was by far the best, compared to other brands. She informed us that her bicone beads and crystal beads handbags are the current bestsellers with at least 5 new orders each week. After listening to Hannah, all of us couldn’t help but felt a little envious of her success as she did not need to slug it out at a nine to six job like we do and still make a very good living.