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Title: VDB Business Strategies Articles
By Holly Mui, SVP of Operations at VDB
Every jewelry business owner hits a point where they look at a bill that keeps coming in and wonder if it is still worth it, and most of the time they answer that by setting the fee next to a loose sense of how much they use the service. For a diamond sourcing platform, that catches the obvious savings, and it misses most...
In May 2025, a luxury jewelry retailer was targeted by one of the world's most active cybercrime organizations. The attackers demanded more than $8 million in cryptocurrency. No ransom was paid, but the company still absorbed $2 million in losses tied to business disruption, investigation, and mitigation. At least 77 gigabytes of data had already left the building bef...
By Holly Mui
Buying new software feels like progress. You identify a problem, evaluate platforms, watch demonstrations, and sign a contract. By the time implementation begins, it can feel as though the hardest decisions are behind you.
Often, that is when the real test begins.
A recent software transition within our own business provided ...
By Tanya Nisguretsky, CEO and Co-Founder of VDB
For decades, my family operated a successful jewelry business on 47th Street in New York City.
We knew the industry from the inside. We understood r...
Gold has always carried emotional weight in jewelry. It represents value, permanence, heritage, and luxury. But when gold prices rise sharply, that emotional value starts colliding with a very practical customer concern: price.
For jewelers, this creates a different kind of sales challenge. The issue is not simply that merchandise costs more. The bigge...