How Many Hats Can You Wear?

I’ve been doing a lot of things lately business wise. Blogging, speaking, facebooking, tweeting, event planning, marketing, consulting and who knows what else. But the more I think about these things, it becomes very clear as to what I should do. I should be doing what I do best, and it’s crystal clear what that [...]

Rite Of Passage: Bad Yelp Review

About a month ago, I wrote a blog post titled “Looking At Diamonds…And Myself” after an interesting customer experience. That experience, along with my reaction to this guy, landed me a negative Yelp review – click here to check it out. I even ran across Inc Magazine’s article “You’ve Been Yelped” shortly after, which describes [...]

Looking At Diamonds…And Myself

I had an enlightening experience today with a customer. He came in to look at some diamonds we were holding for him, only to tell me that he found another diamond from an e-tailer and just wanted to look at settings. I explained that we don’t just sell mountings and set other company’s diamonds in [...]

My Baltimore Blizzard Engagement Ring Story

The seventh biggest blizzard in Baltimore history and the biggest blizzard ever in December couldn’t have come at a worse time for retailers. It was the Saturday before Christmas, and to make it even worse we were having our Holiday Party on Sunday, complete with live music, food and drinks. Well, I had a diamond [...]

I Don’t Like The Redskins, But I Love Washington DC!

We just had our first Buying Event at White Flint Mall in Bethesda, MD. It went very well. We’ve cultivated a big following in DC though our website, with customers coming to our store from DC and Northern Virginia on a regular basis. So we teamed up with my cousin, David Samuelson, who happens to [...]

Introducing BaltimoreDiamonds.com!

We are so excited here at Samuelson’s to announce the launch of our new updated website, with a new URL, BaltimoreDiamonds.com. I want to thank our team for a job well done. David and Garth did a great job! You’ll notice a new homepage, history page, diamond specials link, and more. We have a little [...]

The Diamond World is Changing

I knew it! The brands are breaking down. I just ran across this article from The Wall Street Journal about Tiffany and Co and other big retailers cutting and polishing their own diamonds in Botswana. Graff has owned Safdico Diamonds for a while, but he doesn’t sell to the masses like Tiffany. What jumped out [...]

Stockbrokers and Business Consultants…Worth It?

My father always said to me regarding stockbrokers, “If they knew so much they’d be millionaires.” I get that. Here these guys are picking stocks for clients and they have no idea what they will do. That would be like me advising people on what the gold or diamond market will do (and charging them [...]

Petra Diamonds Finds HUGE 507 Carat Stone

They found some big ones this week in South Africa, most notably a 507 carat white Type II clean diamond. I’m sure they’ll try to get a 200 carat out of it, and I can’t wait to see what this thing looks like finished! From Reuters: LONDON, Sept 29 (Reuters) – AIM-listed Petra Diamonds (PDL.L) [...]

Guest Blog Post: To Bid Or Not To Bid

This is an awesome guest blog post by Dana Kiyomura, expert in estate and antique jewelry. Dana has an office in NYC where she buys and sells vintage jewelry and you can follow her on Twitter @winebrilliant. “Bidding at a jewelry auction is time consuming and can be dangerous. First you have to preview the [...]

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