I haven’t posted in a long time and I apologize for that. I never posted the yearly reports for KDP nor Etsy and I’m also sorry for that. My mind has been elsewhere these past 6 months. Where is my mind? I have no idea but it’s not focusing on my online businesses. I feel like for the past 6 months I’ve been focusing on non-online stuff like getting my master bedroom remodeled or planning/preparing for the trip to Paris that I won (which was in May and was amazing!!). I haven’t done much work at all online. I plan to change that shortly.
I’ve also been feeling very lost these past few weeks. I think it’s because I don’t have any clear goals to work towards. I have a list of close to 200 scrapbook paper pads and coloring books to publish on KDP but since I don’t have a clear goal of how many to publish each month, I haven’t bothered to publish any of them. With Merch, I have 38 empty slots to fill but I haven’t bothered to fill them. As far as Etsy goes, I think I’m going to let my store die. I’m only averaging about 5 sales a month or $30 before fees. That’s not much and I don’t think adding new listings is going to help bring in more traffic or income. As long as I’m still making a profit, I’ll leave the store open and the listings active but as soon as I’m in the red for two months in a row, I’m pulling the plug on my store. It’s just not worth it. I have better things to spend my time on.
All of this to say that I need some clear goals to work towards. Both in my online business and in my personal life. I want to get unstuck and move forward. I think I’ll start tomorrow by publishing a 6-month Merch, KDP and Etsy income report along with goals for July. I’m also going to make some personal goals but I think I’ll keep those to myself. There’s also another project I want to complete and document on here that’s related to my business but has nothing to do with making money. Stay tuned for that in the coming weeks.
