September Goals!

[SnarkFactory]

What are you goals for the new month?

Mine are:
1. Continue to see a monthly income increase
-at least a minimum of a 25% increase; shoot for more!
2. Have at least 3 of EACH "made to order" items available at all times
3. Ship out items in 24 hours or less for as many orders as possible
4. Actually succeed at bookkeeping and tracking expenses
-Why is this part so hard? Geez!
5. Review each older listing and edit out all the "newbie" mistakes I made when I first opened
6. I'm quickly learning it's not the # of sales that matters, but the income. However, I'd like to reach 100 sales as quickly as possible. Hopefully this month.

[Former_Member]

Those are great goals! I'm making note of #2. I don't really have specific monthly goals, but it's probably not a bad idea to make some. Reached my goal for the year of having 100 items in my shop. My other goal is to make 200 sales. There, I said it. Now I have to do it! Good luck reaching yours!

[Former_Member]

i have to go on a business trip tomorrow and will be gone for 1 week so i will have to make my goals for september excluding this one week
1. minimum goal of 1 sale per month (next month it will be 2 sales)
2. continue to increase views
3. list daily (except for the one week i´m gone)
4. make as many items as possible, also christmas items
i think i will reevaluate my goals when i´m back

[Former_Member]

1. Add more listings
2. Increase my sales
3. Work on my SEO
4. Be more active

They're almost the same goals but still I have to work harder each month.

[KennaInAfrica]

1. Add more items
2. Work on titles and tags
3. Promote,promote,promote
4. Try create a variety of color Scawls,not sure if people like them
5 .Actually get the ball rolling in terms of sales.

[Former_Member]

1. increase my listing stock ready for the holidays
2. try to identify and make something people like
3. make some sales

[Former_Member]

1) Hit 60 items for my big show in KC on Oct 6th. (I am not posting everything on Etsy yet -- takes too much time)

2) Take more photos of my items with a model

3) Continue to make treasuries and new blog posts.

4) Get ready for Xmas season.

(notice I haven't said a thing about sales? most of my sales are NOT coming from Etsy :(( )

[Former_Member]

1. Sell at least 30 items
2. Increase Facebook followers to 200
3. Increase listings to 180
4. Finish inputing initial inventory into software program.
5. Get independent website finalized

[hipposdream]

I have 3 major goals :
Have fun , have fun , have fun , .... :-)

[LittleAcornToronto]

1) Take inventory of all the beads/stones/components I have that haven't yet been utilized in any of my jewelry design and store them separately so I can actually use them (there's bound to be at least 100 unique items - multiples of each)
2) Make 30 new pieces with some of these unused pieces
3) Photograph, photoshop, and list all 30 of these.
4) Create and implement an Etsy Exit strategy... The goal is to quit Etsy by Jan 31st, 2014 (5 months today)

[Former_Member]

1) List new items that are lying around
2) Start a monthly newsletter
3) Have at least 20 new newsletter subscribers, and no more than 5 unsubscribes
4) Get at least 10 sales
5) Start & list at least 1 new product line
6) Continue to hammer out our new shop brand and feel.
7) I'll steal your #5 OP!

Lofty goals, but If you shoot for the moon and you might at least land on the stars ;P

[SnarkFactory]

"If you shoot for the moon and you might at least land on the stars."

That's wonderful, Marcia! I'm gonna adopt that as my new motto :)

[Former_Member]

lol! I try ;P

[Former_Member]

My goal is to make lots of like on my blog for an extra credential to shop owners. Etsy has been nothing but supportive about feed back in the past and I am grateful. With the new feedback regulations, I think it necessary for our stores to get extra credentials apart from Etsy for our stores on the web. I like to build a presence for other crochet fans on my blog, where you can refer your customers to see how many "likes" you shop has gathered. That will have the advantage for YOUR shop to be "seen" on Google in a different place, which is imperative to drive traffic to our shops. Kind of like a banker recommends to diversify your money, search engine experts recommend different places on the internet for your shop pops up. It helps to make you known. If you are interested send me an e-mail pattrnstriedandtrue@gmail.com. I made an outline as to what you shop information should cover, similar as to your "about page" for your Etsy shop. You gladly can add feed back from your shop in the comments of you merchant page, have photos and refer to your shop per links, direct to your face book page or other connections you have. It would be just one additional place where Google can pick up your info.

The other goal is to sell at least 50 patterns this month.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/161241366/hang-in-there-kitty-crochet-pattern?ref=listing-shop-header-0

[LeahYardDesigns]

Hi Everyone!

Goal #1: Make and list more items (fun part)
Goal #2: Have my first sale before my partner's birthday, so I can take him out for a celebratory drink! (funner part)

Good luck to everyone, great goal setting skills we are developing here!

[JaxtonandJill]

My goals are,

1. finish and ship all of August sales!!
2. create more ready to ship items, especially when Christmas is right around the corner
3. get a better hold on my finances.
4. spend more time with my family then with the business.{ my priorities are lacking }
5. Start saving more money to get a Brand new sewing machine. aka. the Husqvarna Viking designer diamond or the ruby. yummy!!
6. Refer my customers to another shop, rather then try to tackle it myself especially when I have never done it before. { but I learn that way }
7. Start 2014 goals and try to stick to them this time.

[Former_Member]

Hi everyone! My business goals for September are:
1. Get 20% more sales than August which means 28 sales in September!
2. Get up to 180 listings
3. Start a monthly newsletter

[MissTanDesigns]

1. Get 10 sales this month.
2. Have more "Made to Order" items ready.
3. Get up to 175 listings.
4. Stay positive.
5. Keep climbing.

[PrairiePrimitives]

1. Reach 100 listings.
2. Surpass my 2012 Etsy sales ($14 away!).
3. Make & list Christmas / holiday items.
4. Get a day job.

[SunMoonJewels]

I have been very busy for the past 2 months with my daughter having a baby. Now I am kind of free and have time to do my stuff. So my goal for this month is
1. Retake pictures of my jewelry and increase my views and have some sales.
2. Organize my beads and my work area.
3. Post at least 2 items everyday.

[Former_Member]

I've also been very busy these past few months. Back in March, I had rented a jewelry booth in a local shop. I had signed a lease for three months and was virtually stuck paying more than I was making there. I was finally able to pull all of my merchandise out of the booth (over $3,000 worth) and close down. Unfortunately, I hadn't added those items to my Etsy shop. Now, I'm slowly adding them. So, one of my goals for September is to get all of that merchandise listed in my shop.

My internet provider also happened to go bankrupt during the time that I was renting the jewelry booth. I'm on a limited income and every pinched penny counts. I'm saving up the money I make from my Etsy sales in order to get internet turned back on. Until then, I visit my local library every day and keep up with my shop like that. September goal #2? Get internet turned back on.

I'd also like to re-take some of my pictures. I'd like a more uniform feel to my shop and I really enjoy the way the jewelry on book pages looks. So . .September goal #3, retake pictures.

September goal #4 - I finally have an entire room that I can dedicate as my work space. I just need to get it organized now.

September goal #5 - I'm probably a little late in doing this but I need to start on my Christmas/New Year's inventory. Last year I was not prepared and I'm certain my shop suffered for it.

[Former_Member]

Goal: add at least 40 items to my shop and make my first sale. Hopefully it will happen since most of the items are Halloween or dark themed, and Halloween is near :)

[Former_Member]

My goal is 1. Exceed income by 30 %. 2. Ship as many orders as possible within 24 hours. 3. 25% increase in no. Of sale than last month. 4. Mark shipped items as shipped within 24 hours of shipping.

Wishing everyone The Very BEST!!

[Former_Member]

1. hire a photographer
2. start my bookkeeping
3. change my packaging
4. improve SEO
5. improve product descriptions
6. reach 100 items
7. build an eCommerce website
8. gain more blog followers
9. Have 20 sales
10. Get ready for the holidays
11. Participate in a trunk show

So much to do & so much research!

[Former_Member]

Sell 100 pre-holiday
launch new eco-friendy products in the Fall
work on SEO
blog like crazy