Getting Ready for the Holidays...

I can't believe it's almost September already, but in a lot of ways I'm excited about it. I'm always sad to see summer go, because I love spending time outdoors, but when the fall comes that means it's time to start getting ready for the holidays and that's a big anticipation each year.

Ever since I started selling on Etsy, I've started to get excited about this time of year more and more. It's so crazy busy with making things, taking pictures, getting things listed in the shop, getting ready for craft shows, doing all the fun stuff that comes along with family and holidays and all of that... not to mention football season and all the yummy goodies that we like to eat in the fall and winter months. Oy!

So. It's time. It's time to start thinking about the change of seasons, the latest trends if your target market depends on it, and also thinking about what new big ideas you can come up with for the coming holiday shopping months ahead.

I've always thought that the holiday shopping season was a great time to really build your business because you are exposed to such a rush of people during that time, that if you can really please them when they buy from you, perhaps they'll come back after the holidays are long gone, and become a repeat customer as well.

My plans this year are to do a couple of craft shows, one in mid November, and one in early December, and leave the rest of my time to doing Etsy stuffs. And I'm also planning on building a few jewelry and soap displays in the next few weeks as well, that I can try to get into a couple of local boutiques, but that in itself is big for me, because I haven't yet approached anyone local to sell my wares. And then too, with the change of seasons comes all the fantasticly yummy scents I can start putting back into my soap line and such like that too. Yay!

Alrighty then, so what are your plans? What are your goals for this holiday season, and what would you most like to accomplish on etsy or off?

*hugs*
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