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?

[Jularee]

Happy New Year everyone!
For 2016 my goal is to improve my photography and SEO, use facebook and instagram more, find another shop (or two) to sell my jewelry, and finally do a proper craft show.

Another goal is to clean up/ reorganize my studio and sell or discard supplies that I no longer need.

And... create more, list more, sell more.

[MittenMadeWoodcrafts]

My goal for this year is to KEEP IMPROVING! :) It's tedious, but every picture, SEO, promoting game improvement and interaction helps sales! We'd love to get sales really coming in.

Our ultimate goal is to both be able to to this full time, raise a family, foster/adopt, and live life instead of the 9-5 'normalcy.'

Hope everyone has a GREAT YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[IslandLifeGifts]

Our 2016 goals are to experiment further with SEO and continue to see growth within our shop. Great article about setting achievable goals!

[Former_Member]

My goal this year is to double my sales from last year. I intend to do this by setting aside a full day a week to read achievement articles and plan for the week ahead on how I can best promote my shop and improve my business.

Happy New Year!

[Former_Member]

Happy New Year! I have so many goals for 2016, my biggest one is to get organized! Step 1: buy a planner that allows me to combine my life responsibilities & my crafting goals & To-Do lists. There are so many great makers on Etsy can anyone suggest a store or planner that you love? Thank you!

[KatiaFabricStudio]

My goal for 2016, I would like to have more sales from my shop and to get a my t shirts and bags line.
Now I am working to new products, I want to get up my shop, I am writing a business plan for the year, to care my brand, discovering my target customer and more..hard work of marketing but I think it is necessarely for to be a real crafter organized, I hope so to join my goal.

[Former_Member]

Success in bringing unique things i find in my town to your town for the little ones

[BoyBandzAndBabyGear]

Update my listing photos for the new products I've added. Some of the older listings need more colors added. I want to have this ready by the end of February.

I want to add two spring/ Easter products by the beginning of February as well as my 4 new baby one-piece products.

Another product (BB) by end of March

3 Printables added by end of May.

Whew!

[SarahEGillis]

I just recently opened up my shop and am slowly adding items as I make them, for 2016 I am hoping to get my shop noticed and people to love what I am offering and have success and purchases! https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/MaritimeHandcrafts?ref=hdr_shop_menu

[ItsVera]

Happy New Year everyone and may you all have a successful 2016.
My Etsy-anniversary is in a few days.
January 10, 2010 I opened my shop and looking back I've come a long way.
Just comparing my first photographs then and now.
My sales have increased every year and 2015 was my best year so far.
I'll keep working to improve my shop and sales in 2016.
Thanks Etsy for such a great platform.

[TeaHillCottage]

I want to learn how to make my shop better and get more sales! I have a variety of items and have read that it may be better to specialize. I enjoy both knitting and sewing/quilting. Does anyone think I have to many items or it's not cohesive enough?

[HooperCreations]

I would love to get more activity on my shop and have some feed back from sucessful shops to see what can I improve on mine. I would like to get my shop running to at least 1 or 2 sales per month. Also have a better understanding of the teams and other things that are available for me to have success.
hoopercreations.etsy.com

[UnexpectedTreasure]

Those articles were very inspiring. Unfortunately, last year was a total wash for me all the way around. I lost my father in Dec. 2014 and all of 2015 just kind of went by in a blur. I put absolutely no effort into my shop and barely listed new items.

However, as I'm learning the hard way, life does go on and I'm picking up the pieces and gearing up for a great 2016! Wish me luck.

[Myartspace]

Happy New Year everyone! Have a great year ahead, here on Etsy and most of all in your personal life. Good luck to you "UnexpectedTreasure" be tough and may you experience every day with sunshine in 2016!

I have had a good year, but not the best and I need to work so much harder in 2016 to earn more, since I just lost my day job before Christmas! Good news is that it did make me miserable almost every day and just the past 2 weeks with almost no stress feel like heaven!

I really hope this new year will prove above all of our expectations.
There really is a thing I would like to know....how do you get people to leave feedback more often? Do you ask specifically for it? This remains a mystery to me...I have a collection of Convos saying they were extremely happy but it does not make it into the feedback afterwards.

[Former_Member]

Wishing you all a wonderful and above all successful 2016!

I just launched my shop yesterday, so I don't want to dream too big. It is a full new beginning to me, and I cannot wait to see where it takes me this year, and hopefully beyond. This year I hope to establish myself in the Etsy community, and make loads and loads more cute jewelry.

[EmbellishedCharms]

My goal from 2016 is to have 200 items listed by December of 2016. Along with that, I want to keep track of which items sell the most, and make more of them. Eventually, my plan is to have three to five sales a week.

[Former_Member]

This year, I hope to achieve:
1. Finally getting some sales!!!
2. Increasing my visibility and becoming more established within Etsy
3. Cultivating more relationships within Etsy
4. Establishing whether or not this endeavor is worth it...only time will tell!

[CarrowayCrochet]

To increase the custom orders I get on items such as my minion hats and mermaid tails
To blog regularly, once a week, and keep a routine for sharing and promoting my shop and products.
To build the brand of Carroway Crochet and to develop releationships here on etsy and with members of the teams I am in.

[SHINEmagicJewelry]

Happy New Year !
I would like to sell the first item... ☺
And then the next... next...next... ☺

[buttonsandbottles]

Happy New Year Everyone!

My goal is to have 100 cards listed at all times.

[Former_Member]

https://www.etsy.com/listing/253706209/girl-baby-vest-baby-sweater-girls-vest?ref=shop_home_active_2...

https://www.etsy.com/listing/253625705/free-shipping-baby-dress-and-headband?ref=shop_home_active_21

https://www.etsy.com/listing/252285179/white-baby-vest-for-0-1-years-old-girls?ref=shop_home_active_...

https://www.etsy.com/listing/250097938/free-shipping-baby-vest-clothing-baby?ref=shop_home_active_9

https://www.etsy.com/listing/254361883/baby-vest-baby-cardigan-crochet-vest?ref=shop_home_active_15

[RosesForClementine]

Continue to improve in all ways: photos, products, ideas, networking. I'm a shy type so getting out there more would be huge!
I would like to sell more and feel I need to narrow my range or else widen my ability to get out there and find more sellable clothing. I would also like to have much more $$ to do same, so my goal is to win the lottery!
Happy New Year!

[TeodoraGioielli]

Easy to set and difficult to achieve , setting goals is a fundamental activity
Then you have to work for them !!!!!
I want to achieve a lovely window with beautifully displayed jewelry and light .
one at a time !

[jillamandaclark]

I'm just getting my store going again....now that I found something I truly love and want to spend every day doing. So my goal for 2016 is simply to keep at it for the year....:) Don't give up and keep learning.

[Former_Member]

To create a small business that is ethical, honest, and smart that allows me to help my community.