Exercise: Take an Honest Look at Your Financial Situation
Megan Auman
Lesson Info
3. Exercise: Take an Honest Look at Your Financial Situation
Lessons
Class Introduction
04:31 2Why Do You Want to Make Money from Your Craft?
02:13 3Exercise: Take an Honest Look at Your Financial Situation
01:34 4(A)lways (B)e (R)eleasing
06:03 5Priority #1: Email List
13:34 6Priority #2: Your Product Photography
05:52 7How to Build an Audience
07:51 8Which Audience Building Strategy is Right for You?
03:52Audience Growth Strategy: Search (with Tiffany Whipps)
08:45 10Audience Growth Strategy: Press (with Brigitte Lyons)
19:45 11Audience Growth Strategy: Visual Content Creation
07:30 12Is Your Growth Strategy Working?
04:53 13Honing Your Craft
09:35 14How to Optimize Your Experimentation
03:57 15How to Handle an Evolution in Your Craft
11:29 16Build Your Momentum Plan
09:28 17Simplify and Celebrate Your Progress
06:12Lesson Info
Exercise: Take an Honest Look at Your Financial Situation
So this is something that I want you guys to just take a second and write down. So whether you're watching online or you're in here, you complete this sentence. I need to make money from my craft because so in my case, it's I need to make money from my craft because I'd rather spend my time in my studio making jewelry, then get a real job. Another really interesting example that I heard I heard an interview with Susan Peterson, who is the founder of Freshly Picked. They make the little baby moccasins, and if you guys have seen any of my classes, you've heard me talk about her before, cause she's pretty much a marketing genius. In this interview, I heard her say, when I started my business literally. My goal was I wanted to be able to walk into Target and by anything I wanted, like that was her goal. And that is the business grew. She was like, Okay, now that's my goal for my employees. I want all of my employees be able to walk into target and buy anything they wanted any time. That wa...
s her goal. So then, once you've written this gold down. You also want to think about than what this statement tells you about your financial needs. So for me, it means that like I need to pay for my studio, right? I this really pretty studio. I got to make sure that I'm paying the bills on that. I have to pay my share of the bills. I like traveling clothes, so I have to do that. And I want to do that primarily from the sale of my jewelry. Right. That's my goal. So we kind of talked about those, like your big reasons. But I really want everyone in this audience to share that actual sentence. I need to make money from my craft because