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Metal Pressions Is The Quintessential Great American Small Business Success Story.Through hard work and innovative ideas, a husband and wife team are changing the way the world shops for jewelry. They started with a meager budget and a big dream. Two people looking to make exceptional hand crafted jewelry and huge waves in the personalized jewelry industry.
Jewelry has been a part of the human culture for more than 100,000 years. The earliest known pieces were simple sea shells punctured to make rudimentary bead bracelets and necklaces. Over time, jewelry evolved into many forms, from the exquisite scarab collars of the ancient Egyptians to the over-the-top display of material wealth by today’s rap stars. One common thread throughout the centuries was the desire to own unique, one-of-kind, custom-made jewelry. Today, a husband and wife team living in Savannah are using the internet and a self-designed proprietary software platform to put the creative process of designing custom jewelry in the hands (and minds) of clients all over the world.
Metal Pressions was founded in 2008 by the husband and wife team of Elisha and Andreas Argentinis, two Connecticut natives who relocated to the Deep South (Savannah) in 2004 but found the corporate world less than fulfilling. Elisha, a biology major with a creative flair for custom-made crafts and jewelry making, had begun making money on the side with several lines of jewelry items sold through local shops and a few online marketplaces. As the demand for Elisha’s custom-made jewelry began to grow, the young couple decided to leave the corporate world and devote their full attention to making Elisha’s hobby into a full-scale business enterprise. Combining Elisha’s artistic talents with Andreas’ background in business, manufacturing and internet marketing was the perfect match of skills and experience. As Andreas began researching the custom jewelry industry, he continually ran into two major roadblocks: geographic constraints of being located in a small Southern market, and the restrictive and limited design options available via existing online jewelry makers. As the pair discussed different business development strategies, they kept coming back to the concept of an online free-form design tool allowing users to layout and design custom jewelry without restrictions or limitations. As they talked, the idea for a revolutionary online jewelry design tool was beginning to form and the concept for their business model and online company, MetalPressions.com, was born. After three years of research and development, Metal Pressions is launching their online jewelry design platform, a ground breaking WYSIWIG jewelry design tool. The software is user friendly, highly intuitive and provides each customer the ability to design, online, the exact piece of jewelry they envision in their own mind. With no limitations and no restrictions, the online jewelry design tool goes wherever the customers’ imagination leads them. After the customer designs their personalized piece, Elisha and Andreas faithfully recreate their vision in gold and/or silver. Every order is a handmade original and each character and symbol is created by individual craftsman’s tools. While Metal Pressions standard line of jewelry and accessories includes necklaces, bracelets, pendants, charms, key chains, tie clips, money clips, cufflinks, their creations are limited only by the customers’ imagination. While word of Elisha’s quality creations continues to spread, Andreas sees the launching of the new online design tool as a whole new chapter for the family business. MetalPressions.com has taken the time-honored trade of jewelry making and blended it with modern technology to offer an unprecedented shopping experience with amazing results. Visit www.metalpressions.com/ojd.aspx and see what your imagination can create. Then let Metal Pressions do the rest.
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