May to June .:. Monthly Goal Meet up with Modish Biz Tips

My May Goals List was:

1. Spend at least 5 hours a week looking at ways to market/advertise my Etsy shop and increase monthly sales by 7%

2. Re-design my design website and create a new art website

3. Re-brand etsy shop 

(and I redesigned the Blog along with the shop, AND it will give me a jumping off point for the art website design). Not something on my list, but it needed to be done simultaneously. (extra point?). Also developed a mailing list for a soon to come monthly newsletter.

4. Develop an editorial calendar/weekly ideas and post more regularly to my blog

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#1 I did the first half and am back with my etsy shop on Paper n Stitch, am advertising on Modish for May and June (thanks Jena), participated in Jen Wallace's Feed Your Soul project on Indie Fixx, and am running a couple of different specials in my shop. So things have been started, but I realised that the percentage of increased sales was not realistic given I just started advertising (again).

As to #4 I did NOT develop an editorial calendar, but I have been posting more regularly, so I will put one half of #4 back on my June goals.

JUNE Goals:

1. Look for some more ways to promote my shop that are not the paid for kind. Send out more e-mails to folks asking them if they would be interested in writing about my work.  
2. Website Re-Design, back on again, third time's a charm (?) 
3. Develop editorial calendar with regular column ideas for the blog

I am going to leave it at that for this month. So, for June I am all about promoting my work, and making more contacts. OK, Go June!

[You can participate in the Monthly Goal Meetup by visiting Jena at Modish Biz Tips]

Comments

[Lisa]

I didn't see your blog or Etsy shop in its before stage, but it sure does look great now. Your banner is lovely. I liked your goals for June so much, I wrote one of them down for me to adopt next month.

Good luck!

[Glade]

Great goals for June! You should be able to find some free advertising, no prob! You can do it!

[Cynthia At A Shimmy In My Spirit]

Wow. I'm impressed. I like your new banner a lot.

Thanks also for the design work you did for the 2011 calendars...as always they look terrific.

[Kiley Ariail]

Some of your goals are the same as mine, like the one about finding free ways to promote my work. I have a question about #1: do you mean contacting bloggers to ask for features on your work, or do have another plan up your sleeve?

[Jessica]

You did a great job in May! Good luck on your June goals. I'm really enjoying your blog; the writing is wonderful.

[mary lou]

The redesign looks great

[Heather S Thompson]

Your new blog layout is amazing. im loving it!!

[Stephanie]

Wow, everything looks wonderful. I love your design website too - you are so good at so many things :) Impressive!

[glitterysah]

Your blog is gorgeous! Well done for all you completed in May, and best of luck for June.

Glitterysah x

[Jennie from Cravings Frocks]

Just dropping by from the Modish list. Good luck with #1 - if you find out how to get free publicity, tell the rest of us!