May 2012 .:. Biz Goals

I have just a few biz goal progress things to show for April, first being, I moved the blog! SO now just about everything is finished. This is the first post I’m doing on the new website blog, and it’s definitely a work in progress, kind of a welcome to my show and why don’t you hang around while I finish hanging it… could you hold a ladder please : ) and like that.

I did a lot of prep work for more promotion, had a lot of visitors in April and went away visiting myself. Lots of friends, some wonderfully perfect moments and gatherings of ideas, and experiences, and even got to spend several hours one day, just talking and doodling and making things with some friends. Spontaneity rules, don’t you think?

APRIL Goals

1. Contact the potential licensors I identified in March. Try to get all contacts out by end of April.- May
2. Get packages off to the 2 companies that are interested in my design work before 15 April. - May
3. Put more time and effort into marketing my Etsy shop and trying different ideas/methods. This item needs consistent focus all month. Limit diversions and distractions and disappointments. - I put way more TIME into the shop, but not so sure I did much by way of marketing, to be continued.
4. Finish the About Liz sections of website by end of April. - for May
5. Move the blog to WP by end of April and have a cohesive site. DONE!
6. Continue marketing research and interviews with people I know. Read more. Listen more. Try more. - Tremendously helpful, to be continued!
7. Write {and re-write} announcements and press releases about my current work: jewelery, cards art. Target 10-15 blogs and SEND them out! Stall. Stall Stall.
8. Spend some time each day just drawing. Re-visit the pencil, or the pen and a piece of paper. Think about shadow, think about perspective, go back to the basics! MORE of this please!
9. Practice {everyday} some of the self-care techniques that I learned at the Steady Burn Retreat with Jen Lee and her band of merry-wise women that was held at Teahouse Studio last weekend. I am rearranging my time, and my focus, in so many ways that are helping me to find more creative space.
10. Paint. Create. Revel. Celebrate. Focus. Collaborate. Rest. Repeat.

MAY!

1. Research and contact some retail spaces for jewelery sales. Bay Area, and more.
2. Contact the potential licensors I identified in March. Try to get all contacts out by end of April.
3. Get packages off to the 2 companies that are interested in my design work before 15 April.
4. Etsy shop marketing
5. About Liz on website
6. Press releases and announcements
7. Drawing, sketching, doodling.
8. Practice NOT comparing my progress to other people’s. Practice being on my own timeline, knowing that I will get where I’m going on time.

Hope you all continue into this Spring with a skip in your step and hope in your heart!

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IF you are new to The Meetup or would like to play along, here’s the scoop:

• Post a list of your business related goals for the current month on the 1st of each month on your blog. {If the 1st falls on a weekend, post on the following Monday.}
• Come back over here and leave a link to your goals blog post in the comments of my current month’s goals.
• And then {and this is the most important part, since we are a community} visit all the links in the comments, stop in and say hello, have a conversation, meet and greet and etc.