George Ingraham

Current

Owner / Operator at TaoGem Gemstones
Purchasing and Sales at TaoGem

Education

Spokane Community College

Recommended

3 people have recommended George

Connections

17 connections

Industry

Arts and Crafts

Websites

George Ingraham’s Summary

Professional experiences go far beyond the following which cover my present professional experience related to semi-precious gemstones.

Joined up with a few popular web developing and SEO building forums. I have finally settled into CST online business building forum.

Sales have excelled beyond the realistic goals set in the beginning of building this business.

The results have allowed me a truly professional online presence.

Future goals include continued shop building, and excelling even further with online SEO. To also learn and apply jewelry making with silversmithing as a medium that I plan to use towards building a line of finished jewelry to a separate ecommerce site.

I am making good progress with jewelry designing using silver as my primary design medium.

To take that experience, incorporate it into the community forum, building an even stronger lapidary membership.

I cut and sell my gemstone cabochons via my online gemstone store. Also offering custom cut gemstone requests.

Also have a WordPress blog and the entries to that blog are also forwarded by way of a utility program to my blog within the Ganoksin Blogging Network.

My Lapidary / Gemstone Community forum is a community forum for members from every imaginable gemstone related niche to gather. Sharing a great many topics. Generally beginning with discoveries of various minerals, cutting, shaping and finishing cabochons right on up to and including the designing of jewelry and other gemstone related artwork.

Many of those same members also participate in my Lapidary Community WebRing.

I participate within two separate Ning social networking communities. One specific to jewelry design, and the other is jewelry related and also offers online business development support.

George Ingraham’s Specialties:

Competitive Analysis, SEO, XML, HTML, CSS, eCommerce, Social Networking, Community/Group Building, Blogging,

George Ingraham’s Experience

Owner / Operator

TaoGem Gemstones

(Arts and Crafts industry)

January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)

Online sales site development, blog, SEO, PHP, CSS, HTML, online marketing, advertising, business networking, social networking and maintenance for search engine presence and indexing.

Developed and maintenance for Lapidary / Gemstone Community. TaoGem's online forum. A community for lapidaries of every imaginable gemstone related niche to gather. Sharing a great many topics. Generally beginning with discoveries of various minerals, cutting, shaping and finishing cabochons right on up to and including the designing of jewelry and other gemstone related artwork.

TaoGem offers semi-precious gemstone cabochon supplies to designers. Interesting Unique and unusual loose cut gemstones.

Lapidary shop for special custom cut gemstone cabochon requests.
Purchasing and Sales

TaoGem

(Arts and Crafts industry)

January 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)

Purchase pre-cut semi-precious gemstones in quantity at wholesale for online resale. Also Purchased Chinese snuff bottles in quantity at wholesale for online resale.

Responsible for all marketing and sales via eBay store of which I was solely responsible for developing and maintaining,

George Ingraham’s Education

Spokane Community College

Archetectural Drafting 1980 — 1982

Graduated and used degree to go into FHA approved housing plans drafting modifications and improvements..

Additional Information

George Ingraham’s Websites:

George Ingraham’s Interests:

Expansion of TaoGem to include jewelry designed from our gemstones., Semiprecious gemstone cabochon cutting contracts.

George Ingraham’s Groups:

Indie Jewelry Designers,
International Jewelry and Accessory Designers,
Manufacturers and Suppliers,
Jewel Pros Worldwide,
Jewelry Designers,
Jewelry Designers...2,
Jewelry Design Social Network Group,
Lapidary Community Forum,
Gem cutter & faceters,
Diamond & Jewelry Who's Who,
Lapidary Community Webring,
Ganoksin Community Network,