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How to Maximize Your Business Potential
There are countless tools available geared at maximizing jewelry businesses, but there’s just one problem: they’re not connected.
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There are countless tools available geared at maximizing jewelry businesses, but there’s just one problem: they’re not connected.
If the leading services providers were together in one place for anyone to access, that would be a giant leap for jewelers everywhere.
Jewelers Mutual® recognized this dilemma of fragmentation and is seeking to solve it with a flexible technology infrastructure. This advancement is revolutionizing how the jewelry industry operates, disrupts the status quo and provides the opportunity for jewelers to thrive like never before.
The Zing™ platform takes Jewelers Mutual’s core products and services – think business insurance, the JM Shipping Solution™ tool, and JM Care Plan™ products — and ties them in with leaders in other areas. The first two featured are a Diamond Marketplace powered by IDEX and Jewelry Appraisal Solution leveraging the expertise of Gemworld.
IDEX’s Guaranteed Diamond Transactions™ service will allow suppliers to share their inventory, including specifications, grading, and pricing information, so that all jewelers have transparent access to inventory and pricing around the globe.
If the leading services providers were together in one place for anyone to access, that would be a giant leap for jewelers everywhere.
Jewelers Mutual® recognized this dilemma of fragmentation and is seeking to solve it with a flexible technology infrastructure. This advancement is revolutionizing how the jewelry industry operates, disrupts the status quo and provides the opportunity for jewelers to thrive like never before.
The Zing™ platform takes Jewelers Mutual’s core products and services – think business insurance, the JM Shipping Solution™ tool, and JM Care Plan™ products — and ties them in with leaders in other areas. The first two featured are a Diamond Marketplace powered by IDEX and Jewelry Appraisal Solution leveraging the expertise of Gemworld.
IDEX’s Guaranteed Diamond Transactions™ service will allow suppliers to share their inventory, including specifications, grading, and pricing information, so that all jewelers have transparent access to inventory and pricing around the globe.
Watch this video to see it in action!
Gemworld’s pricing expertise is also put in your hands and gives you the ability to quickly calculate the retail value of an item based on your inputs. Diamond and colored gemstones wholesale pricing modules along with an estimated replacement value are accessible too.
Watch this video to see it in action!
While the Zing platform is just getting started, it’s already leveling the playing field and democratizing the industry because it’s open to everyone and will offer everything you need in one location.
This makes it the perfect time to get started! Visit JewelersMutual.com/Zing to take your business to the next level.
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