What are your goals for 2016?

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Happy New Year, Etsy Success Team!

I hope you’ve had some time to relax and reflect on all you accomplished last year. As you’re thinking about your goals for 2016, you may find it helpful to check out a few resources we recently shared in the Seller Handbook!

In this article, find out how four sellers achieved their goals in 2015 (and get inspired as you make plans for the year ahead): http://etsy.me/1Z3Bs4M

Discover tips for investing in your personal and professional growth this year, from designer Vana Chupp of LePapierStudio: http://etsy.me/1OxEA7z

And lastly, check out entrepreneurship coach Kari Chapin's strategies for setting achievable goals and reaching them. Get ready to dream big! http://etsy.me/1Z3BCt8

What do you hope to achieve this year?

[Former_Member]

Hi I'm Kate!

My goal is to double my sales this year. I know it's a lofty goal, but up until the past couple months, I've not devoted as much time as what I want to, to my shop. I work full time, and although I keep up on my orders, I haven't devoted the time to marketing my shop and learning the ins and outs of Etsy. But that's going to change in 2016. I've been watching tutorials, joining teams, working on improving my shop and Instagram & Twitter accounts. I'm going to keep moving forward!

Thanks for the inspiration & motivation!

Cheers!

[Former_Member]

Hello Everyone,

I'm Mindy. We are a family based business , who loves to work together. We love crafts & want to share our love of crafts and ideas. Our goal for this year is to be top seller in Etsy. I know its' a little bit too far to achieve instantly but it may be achievable towards may be end of this year.

Happy Etsy, Happy Selling, Good Luck for all the new & old sellers in Etsy.

[Former_Member]

Hi Katherine Bollenbach,

Good wishes and good luck for your first sale in Etsy. Loved your shop and items. I'm sure your first sale will be very soon.

[Former_Member]

Hello, friends! You all have so lovely goals, great and small. I could't say better. My goals are just the same: to make my shop more interesting, to add new items and make my first sale. Best of luck to all of us.

[Former_Member]

Sell 300 items..! We've had 3 sales so far... Long way to go :)

[Former_Member]

My goal is to add GREATLY to my inventory. That is easily done by committing to adding at least 5 new items a week. This will/should have an outcome of more sales.

[NorthernLitesGifts]

My goal for 2016 is to sell more items than I did last year.

[Former_Member]

It's Spring!

I've started a blog which is still pretty rough but I am actually creating for the first time and not just letting the images fade in my brain. I have had over I now have at least one person visit my shop everyday which is exciting. I have received many favorites, but the next goal is to get a buy.

Is there any advice on how to go from favorites to buys?

Here is my blog

Fyo.gallery

[Former_Member]

removing a part of the items hopefuly by sale :D
And if all goes well, I'd like to add more items that are not too similar to what I have right now.

[CarolaFlowerDesigns]

Wholesale 2016 !!

[Craftydoodlebugs]

ive sold 33 items this year pretty good I'm working hard on my store and my seo so I hope I can really get this to work for me I would love to stay at home and work from here full time one day.

[Former_Member]

My goal is for my 50% off clearance sale to actually have me some sales.

[ThompsonGirl]

My goal for 2016 is 1) to have "press-worthy" product shots of my jewelry creations, and ones that really encourage potential buyers to make the purchase and 2) equally compelling product descriptions. I sell VERY CONSISTENTLY in person, where people can see and touch the work. However, I've had trouble translating that success into online sales with customers who aren't familiar with what I do.

[FlowerFair]

My goal this year is to use social media productively. I'm kind of a techno-phobe so it's all new to me. But I now have

a twitter account: https://twitter.com/FlowerFair1
a Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/FlowerFairDesigns/

Next up, Pinterest!!!

[Inklets]

My goals change, but one that I've had for a few years now is to develop the graphic design side of my micro-biz. We'll see how it goes...

[ExcusemyFrenchShop]

-Opening my website
-Mastering Pinterest and Instagram (just getting started)
-Building up my inventory and finding my product niche.

[Former_Member]

Waiting for my first order!!
https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/UniqueGiftsbyLau

[AlanCordiner]

To start selling things and to improve in what I do day by day and week by week.

[Former_Member]

My Goal for 2016 is raise my selling to around 20,000 dollars per year.
Sound great!!!

Good job everyone

[Former_Member]

I started my fashion accessories design in this year and just upload some of my items yesterday on Etsy.

[Florencehandmade]

Increase my sales and make new designs. It's been a while.

[Former_Member]

Goals for 2016:

~Focus on taking excellent photos to capture the unique aspects of my items. Quality photos = SALES!!
~Work on adding new inventory weekly...I would love to add it daily, but I want to be realistic :-)

I will just stick with 2 for now and see how that goes! Hope everyone is having a fantastic 2016! Good luck!

[Former_Member]

I've just returned to Etsy after finding it quite hard to attract an audience to my own website which I've now closed down. I do ok at markets but I had always planned to have an online business.

So I'm currently working at getting my stock up to 100 pieces listed. Master photography lol because I drag my feet doing it.
Aim for 3 sales per day.
Pie in the sky?? What do you think?

[ForeverYoursEtchings]

We are new to Etsy since November, 2015 and continuing to learn a lot!!

We are happy to say so far that we have reached 20 sales! Yeah!!!
I know that is not a lot but we met one of our goals that we set last year.

We have 3 goals set for this year:

1. To add additional product to our shop - 100 listings by June 1st
2. Increase our sales
3. To continue to have fun learning Etsy

[CraftyGirlMerch]

My business goals for 2016 are to add more products, and hopefully have a successful business year! Hubby and I are saving up for our first house, so I feel the pressure a bit...but even if reopening my shop amounts to nothing, at least I've had fun designing items :)