Last year went something like this....
1) Open Etsy shop.
2) Figure out what to do with Etsy shop.
3) Be impressed with self.
4) Open and then close various other stores after realising they are all, basically, Etsy.
5) Do exclusive range for very nice business person to go on sale soon
6) Sign contract for artwork to go on sale soon
7) Whilst waiting for the people in 6 & 7 to get organised, decide to open own website
So far, so good...one by one we were ticking off the things on our business plan, achieving our goals and making sure we only took on one new thing at a time.
It's now only late Feb and so far, this year has gone something like this....
1) Design and build new website in a week. Be unbearably smug.
2) Decide shopping cart wasn't good enough, sign up to new one (more on that in next post) and rebuild the whole thing again. Be more smug and start ad campaign.
3) Still waiting for people from last year, so contact local gallery. Gallery says yes they'd like some stuff for spring. Plan new work. Grin lots.
4) Offer to do basic website and product photos for artwork people from last year because they are too busy. They say yes - money comes in, paying for frames for gallery work, all good. Should be up and running by March.
5) Get message from exclusive range lady to say that's going live in March too, as it happens, with its own ad campaign. Look a bit anxious.
6) Get message from gallery to say they want to meet up and pick some work in a week or so.... that'd be March, then.
So far, today has gone something like this....
1) Drink too much coffee
2) Wonder where to start
3) Hide behind sofa :)
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will write again in March and tell everyone how it went 
