Holiday Boot Camp Week One: Set a Goal

[#1]

Hi team,

As part of our first week of Holiday Boot Camp, we're excited to chat about goal setting. How are your goals coming along? We encourage you to share and discuss your goals here.

Also be sure to attend our Online Workshop “Set Goals and Streamline for Holiday Success” this Friday, October 11. Etsy Seller Jenny N Design will talk about setting goals, standards and workflow processes. Register here: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/8536321367

Not signed up for Boot Camp yet? Sign up here: https://www.etsy.com/emails/seminars

Looking forward to hearing about your goals!
Shannon

[Former_Member]

My goal is to have more steady sales, I plan on putting up several new items each week and working on SEO and clearer photos

[Former_Member]

My goal is to optimize my workflow so that I can use my time efficiently to create. I'm currently working on a beautiful christmas packaging for my items and want to stock up to 100 items. Also very important for me: Find really good packaging material to ship my items safer!

[BePrettyBeBold]

My Goals Overall: To grow my business (very unique eh : ) ) I have had steady growth for the last few months, but there is always room for improvement. I should set an amount that I want to make and focus on that lately I just do what I can in between all my priorities and Etsy. I feel busy all the time. One reason I signed up for this. To have assignments to focus on.

[PotteryLodge]

Just signed up. This is my first holiday season on Etsy so I am a bit nervous of what to expect...October has been very busy for me already and I can't image how I am going to manage all of my orders in Nov/Dec. At this point it seems impossible.

Goals--

1. Get 150 items listed by October 31st and try to keep 150 items in my shop throughout the holiday season.
2. Learn to wrap my products faster...This seems to be a big time consuming task at the moment and I am trying to learn how to wrap nicely and do it fast!
3. Order more shipping boxes in larger sizes. I seem to have more people ordering multiple pieces and my current boxes just aren't big enough..bubble wrap takes up so much room!
4.Order A LOT of more bubble wrap so I don't run out...I go through so much of it.
5. Last I want to get some shelves built in my studio so I can start making multiples of my popular pieces to keep them stocked and be able to ship them faster and have more time to create new pieces!

Best of luck to everyone! : )

[ThanimaEthnicCrafts]

Being comparatively new to Etsy, my goal is to improve my sales by listing more items..This is my passion and all my designs scream my goal to create something with a unique touch...hopefully I can represent my shop the way I want....I am reading about success stories and trying to learn more and more about updating titles tags and desc to attract more people into my shop...Good luck to everyone...!

[Former_Member]

My goal for this week is to ensure that all my shipping profiles are up to date now that profiles can be linked directly to items

https://www.etsy.com/teams/7716/announcements/discuss/13144852/

[PaperDotCo]

My goal is to increase my efficiency by reconfiguring my home studio, having a shipping station.
Also deciding what products I want to pre-make for christmas.

[Former_Member]

My goal as a new seller to Etsy is to set up a holiday theme, retake my pictures and to add more items along with participation in the classes being offered

[Former_Member]

My goal is to re-boot my shop with better shipping profiles. I wasn't able to attend the Friday session but I understand it was excellent. I won't miss the next one.

[Former_Member]

My goal is to re vamp my photos and try and establish a more streamlined process for my items and shipping!

[SpangGangDesigns]

My goal this week is to make up loooots of inventory for upcoming season! Can't wait!

[AngelqueCreations]

My goal is to learn as much as I can about marketing and merchandising, I am attending several craft fairs and I am always looking for ways to draw people to my booth.

[Former_Member]

My goal is to have a listed inventory of over 60 items by next week. I'm at 47 now; and a model shoot set for this week.

(also, is this the thread where we can find a partner to team up with on Holiday Boot Camp?)

[Former_Member]

My goal is to list new items, take some new photos and improve my listings descriptions and tags and, of course, make some sales!!

[Former_Member]

I just overhauled the look of the majority of my listings with new photos. This week's goal is to work on SEO so I am driving more traffic to my shop. It finally is starting to look the way I've always dreamed it could. Now I need to really get found here and beyond.

My monthly goals are:
Continue taking the updated photos for current listings
Order packaging materials from the shipping suppliers
Stock up on my 'thank you gifts' that are included in my holiday packaging
Order holiday thank you post cards for my current and past customers
Send out an e-newsletter blast to my mailing list
Pitch my shop to a couple of blogs. (This one is the beast untamed for me - yikes!)

[Former_Member]

We have a real backlog of goods in my corner of the world - after moving this summer the Etsy shop took a backseat and it's time to start using it to supplement our income again - the ultimate goal is to have at least one of our incomes be provided by a stay-at-home business.

That being said, I've set up a photo studio in the garage with cohesive design (gray and white striped chevrons + white) so that the shop looks more professional. On weekends we will be shooting our hearts out. My goal is to shoot at least 20 items every weekend and list four a night every week night to keep the shop constantly fresh.

Financially, we are hoping to reach at least $1,000 in sales with crafts by the end of the year (includes craft fairs, etc.) without having to make any new work (for the time being!)

[PaintingsbyPhilomena]

My goal is to reach more people and list more items, optimize my SEO, add more items - maybe art prints,gift cards, note cards, featuring paintings etc. to my shop and get more sales !

[Former_Member]

4 new items listed by Oct. 31st. Since none of them are actually completed, and this goal sounds tiny, for me, it's kind of large.

[Former_Member]

My goals are to change all 75 of my listings and to make it up to 100 listings.

First goal is do-able this week, second one, I'm going to say by Halloween, you can hold me to that!!

If I haven't done it, please reprimand me!

[HoosiermammaV]

My goal for this year is to get all my items Holiday ready by putting them in a Fall/Winter setting. I have 100+ items so I'd better get crackin',

[Former_Member]

My goal is to get more items posted to my shop, better my titles, and also update some of my pictures. I really want to increase looks and sales. So far only one sale.

[Former_Member]

Who would like to be my partner? I'd love to meet someone along this crazy journey who will help me stay with it!

Feel free to convo me!

[Former_Member]

My shop opened three weeks ago and I was lucky enough to make the first sale on the 10th day of opening! I want to follow this as an encouragement and plan:

-5 additional sales in the next three weeks;
-designing new products to fill my first page with products;
-team on Etsy to learn from peer shop keepers and gain visibility

[Former_Member]

LOL. Well, I've set my goal of listing at least 150 items, but I can't say I've made much progress toward it.

;)

[Former_Member]

My biggest goal is to list at least 50 more items in October. Then I will have 100 items in my store. I have lots of jewelry ready to photograph and other items ready to make. Another goal is to be ready for a craft show in November. Fortunately, I have a lot of my "to do" list accomplished so I can focus on my Etsy store.
My biggest mystery is this: my sterling silver extenders sell quite well, so why don't my other items sell as well?