april goals check-up + may goals
It's almost May! The weather is changing, the flowers are blooming and the bathing suits are busting out. I do just love this time of year.
April goals check-up:
Product Development:
- Write an additional 10,000 words for a total of 48,000 words written this year.
The month technically hasn't come to a close yet, so I haven't finished this one. But, I'm on track to!
- Experiment with new letterpress equipment.
Yes, got to get my hands super messy this month working on letterpress. It was a little tricky at first and I got discouraged when it seemed to not be working. But, I kept at it and I finally have a better understanding how to work the machine. Now, just to figure out how to clean up in less than an hour...
Marketing/Networking:
- Have 63 Instagram posts.
Check!
- Write 10 blog posts for April.
This post will be #9 and since my husband and I are taking a mini vacay this week, I'm giving myself a break from that last post.
- Email a blogger or fellow business owner once a week.
I wasn't as good about doing this for April. I just kept forgetting. Hopefully I can pick it up again in May.
- Start and set up email newsletter.
Check! You can sign up for it over there on the sidebar. First one goes out tomorrow!
- Purchase Marketing for Creatives by Blacksburg Belle and start to work through it.
Well, ok. So, in April (I promise this is relevant), I spontaneously visited my entrepreneurial parents in Austin. Although they owned a business quite different than mine, business is business and I knew they could give me some meaningful advice. And sure enough, they did. They suggested that I begin to explore wholesale accounts instead of just my own website. So, instead of purchasing the Marketing for Creatives ebook, I purchased a class on selling to wholesale stores by Megan Auman on CreativeLive. And it's been CRAZY helpful. So, I didn't do this one but I had a really good reason!
May Goals:
Product Development:
- Write 10,000 words for a total of 58,000 words written this year.
- Experiment more with letterpress equipment.
Marketing/Networking
- Have 75 IG posts.
- Write 8 blog posts.
Wholesale:
- design all new products
- design line sheet
- finalize wholesale policies/terms
- figure out packaging
- finalize wholesale pricing