Happy New Year Everybody!
I’m recovering from the holiday season and getting back into the swing of the regular routine, and I’m curious – what are your business resolutions this year?
What about other resolutions? Do you want to get more focused? Do you want to get more organized? Do you want to learn anything in particular? I’m going to share some of mine, but I want to hear yours first.
Just comment below – I’m all ears!
31 Responses to “What Are Your Handmade Business Resolutions for 2010?”
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I'm Christine Gierer, jewelry maker, online marketer, and founder of Handmade Results.
Handmade Results is about handmade marketing with impatience.
My Philosophy? "Love what you do... but don't be all day about it!" ...
Get to the good stuff that made you want to make stuff for money in the first place.
(And to spend time creating jewelry instead of incessantly marketing)!
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Hi Christine! One of my resolutions is that I want to blog more!
My goals for 2010 are to get better organized, turn my beading hobby into a full time business, and learn how to make filet netting with glass beads that are stable enough to hang from curtain rods. At the moment, the problem is that once hung, the weight of the beads pull the netting together in the center, rather than hanging as straight as curtains!
For me it’s that I simply want a successful business with ACTUAL sales that won’t sap all of my free time. I have two Etsy shops, my new jewelry shop at http://www.notjustboysfun.etsy.com. I have really only started research and marketing in this past month, which is one of the reasons why I have only had ONE sale with my photo biz. Pathetic…I know. I want to be successful at this and not waste my time, so I am searching other alternatives as well outside of these oversaturated marketplace sites, which is where Handmade Results comes into it. I’ve got a lot to do and want to do it right this time around. Here’s to business success this year!!
This year I want my new Jewelry biz http://www.notjustboysfun.etsy.com to do well. By that I mean ACTUAL sales and real profit. Both are Etsy sites and I have only recently begun marketing and research, which would partially explain the abysmal sales. Enter Handmade Results. I’m not limiting myself to just these oversaturated marketplaces. Ultimately, if I can get the profit I want and not spend all my free time doing it, than I will be happy as a clam!
I am going to get more focused.
I am going to get more knowledge
I am going to sell, sell, sell, jewelry
I would like to know more about the basics of websites, domains, shopping carts, etc…
If possible I would like to know a range that I may expect to pay for all of those things that I need to start my website.
I am very excited about the new year!
I know you are going to be a huge part of my sucess this year.
Happy & Blessed New Year,
Boni Linnemeyer
boni-karen by design
#handmaderesults: What Are Your Handmade Business Resolutions for 2010? http://www.handmaderesults.com/1077/resolutions-2010/
I’d love to be able to have more home parties. The 2 I’ve had have been great. I’m going to keep in touch with a small group of women who have expressed an interest in having shows over the next few months. Hopefully keeping in touch will spur them into action!
To start a new jewelry business with my buddy selling our chain maille jewelry.
Boni, I’m excited too!
Well with 2010 well under way. I’ve made a promise to myself to get my work station organized, to teach myself how to use my new torch. In addition I’ld like to have enough pieces completed so that at the craft fair this year I have enough supply to meet the demand for my wire wrapped jewelery.
Bev C and I went halvsies on the SBI site and I’m jazzed about what I’ve learned so far. Makes alot of sense and I agree with your theme of ’slow and steady’. It will take time to build a site and develop a product line and market that will lead to a successful venture, but I see I can’t just make what I like and hope people will buy. So my goal is to apply what I am learning and in the process stop working so scattered, but become more focused. Thanks cause you’ve been an inspiration.
2010 Goals:
Going north, above the 60th parallel to visit family.
To finish some jewelry designs I have been working on for nearly 1 year. (difficulties with finding some supplies.)
Finding time to continue fixing & repairing my version of “This Old House”.
Concluding an economic course.
And
Finding new skills to incorporate into my humble jewelry business by paying as much attention to Christine Gierer’s lessons as possible.
Plus a plethora of other elements to be dealt with, hopefully progressing as one thing at a time is accomplished.
Thanks for sharing Eileen, Terri, Christy!
I bought into SBI. I am learning so much. I am being careful and taking it slow. Not my usual way of functioning. I am using FrontPage as my editor and integrating it is sometimes quite a challenge.
While I continue to spend 3 days a week in my brick and mortar studio/shop, I have just about shut down my blog and my original site – hadn’t sold anything after 2 years anyway.
I am slapping my hands to keep from building my online gallery, while building my new SBI inspired content pages.
In other words I am busy – busy – busy – and I think it will last for some time.
Christine, I had been thinking about linking old site to new for sales, but had not yet decided. Does that usually work? Using SBI site contents to draw people to Sales Site?
Hi Christine,
Happy New Year!!
I have massive hopes for 2010. This is the year that celebrities start wearing my jewellery!
On the 2nd of January I started to really research how to get my designs into the hands of people in the media this year, and I’m determined for it to happen.
It’s early stages yet, but I feel extremely positive about this goal, and think that’s half the battle.
I hope this is going to be a big year for all your readers, and look forward to all your great advice.
Can’t wait to read other resolutions, as I always love that kind of motivation.
Take care
Lisa
http://www.zendesigns.com.au
Hi JoAnne – do you mean link to it for the payment processing? Or do you mean for the traffic from your old site? Because if you want it for the traffic, you can do a redirect or forward it (if it’s on your own domain). If you can’t forward it, I’d put up a notice to go to your new website.
For the payment processing aspect, I assume you mean send them to artfire to order and pay? Is that what you mean? Because if that’s the case, I would probably just add paypal buttons to my website and make a new optimized page for each product to get the seo traffic. Sending people elsewhere (where they can get distracted and click away from your product) is not a good idea. Unless there is a very good reason, I’d keep the order pages on your site with no links offsite on your sales pages.
This year I really AM gonna get more organized & focused. I’ve been trying to do EVERYTHING, so I’m gonna put a lot of effort into finding my perfect niche. I’d like to become profitable enough to quit my day job. Thank you, Christine, for pointing me in the right direction. I look forward to our journey this year!
I’ve just started all of the legal work to get my business established. I borrowed money from myself to get everything set up legally with the idea that I need to go ahead and start filing income tax, etc. due to the amount of money that I’ve put into the business in 2009.
So my immediate resolution is to finish my inventory (I’m about 1/2 done) and then get with a “business manager” type to tell me what the next steps are to be taken before filing income tax (I want to have that done by mid to end of February).
My long term resolution is to do my dead level best to get all the benefit possible from Handmade Results and SBI. Yes, I AM a glutton for punishment and signed up for both even though I still have a more than day job to keep with with as well.
Happy New Year and I’m really looking forward to this experience.
My goals for 2010 are : To become focused on the niche I would like and to not
secound guess my choice,
I would like to build a successful website through SBI
I would like to incorporate my other creative desires and
interests and combine them with my jewelry making
Ultimately, I want to have a successful jewelry business
next year at this time.
Oh my word Christine……your classes so far have been just amazing. I am learning so much. I have had an online jewelry website for about 6 months and haven’t really done much with it due to time restraints but mostly because I just wasn’t sure how to market it. I have my niche narrowed down to 2 or 3 – I may just go with 2 instead of 1. Anyway, I like your videos, but I am really liking the new format……it doesn’t make me feel so overwhelmed with trying to play catch up because I work full time and it has been hard trying to keep up.
I am totally psyched up to get it in gear and get more sales! I am planning on having my first jewelry open house this spring, which I am hoping will get me some bookings for jewelry parties and custom orders. Yahoo!!
Debbie
Hi! My goals for 2010 are:
* Continue to glean everything I can from your great lessons, Christine!
* Find my niche market
* Start my first SBI website
It should be an EXCITING new year!
Lianne
I was recently terminated from my employer and do not have any income coming in. This is the perfect time to really focus on selling my handmade jewelry and having income coming in. I would love to be successful in this endeavor.
Welcome Sandra! I don’t want to give you false hope though – it does take some time to build a jewelry business online. It’s much much cheaper than a bricks and mortar business, and faster, but it doesn’t happen overnight. And it is a real business – you can’t think like a job where you put in hours and money comes in. You need to be strategic to get results from the time you spend. I can tell you that if you follow my course you should be in a great position for sustainable growth by the end of the year!
Hi Lisa – How EXCITING!
I’d love to hear what your strategy is for getting celebrities wearing your jewelry!
To learn more,make my business card and start making beads for brides.
The year 1010 is going to be a good year for me. I’m going to get better organized, think positive, make a time schedule for myself that is realistic and that I will follow that includes time for making pieces for the fantastic website that I’m going to have, time for Christine’s classes, time to work on my SBI site, time with my parents, time with my husband and the one thing that I need and haven’t had is time for me, just time to relax and not have anything pressing to do, doesn’t have to be a long time but I need some me time. That might sound bad to some of you but it’s something I think everyone needs especially if you’re a caregiver, sometimes you let others needs come before yours for so long until one day you just have to take some me time.
Well that’s my 2010 resolutions and I hope that by 1011 to have my site up and going well and I know I will be saying a big thanks to Christine. I just need to keep myself on track. She can give us the tools but we have to do the work and use them.
Hey Tammy
That sounds good to me. I JUST got web expressions 3 and my only resolutions thus far are to get the website up and running, to use the ideas that Christine has provided and start making money. sounds crass, but my partner and I REALLY want this to work so maybe, just maybe, we can be self supporting.
Good luck with your goals!
Over the past year I started dabbling in online selling, and thankfully I caught your website before wasting years of effort. In 2010 my goal is to do the research seriously. Once I have done that and tested it out, I will rebuild my business with a stronger and clearer goal in mind. Thanks Christine!
Awesome! Thanks Mary.
Its the middle of Feb. and I’m just now getting around to posting my goals. You want to know why? I have been so busy working on all this SBI information! Its really awesome to feel like you are finally getting somewhere. My goals for 2010
Short Term
Start Content 2.0
Get to page 8 in the action guide so I can add contact info to my site
Get over my fear of dealing with the links that have me boggled and avoiding it(at least I’m focusing on content)
Content, Content, Content of course
Long Term
I’m not so great with long term
Get to the point where I feel my site is stable and not just a huge work in progress(does this every happen?)
Decide if this site will be able to support a product (made by me)
Find my style and decide from there on taking on a second site(very long term)
I feel like I have already accomplished so much, I purchased SBI in November and I actually have a website now(though its just starting!)www.make-paper-crafts.com. I know its not a jewelry business but I signed up thinking I may be able to benefit from the information here and I was right. The one thing I believe helped the most was Christine’s enthusiasm over SBI I had been looking into for 3 years ( its a lot of money for me) but never got up the never to go through with it. Thanks!
That’s awesome Cynthia! I’m so excited for you. I’m rewatching the SBI Action Guide myself. Great information. I’m impressed by how clear and well laid out everything is.