goals

From Flam­ing Hot!

How do you track the progress of your glass busi­ness? Do you set goals and bench­marks to be reached? Do you have detailed direc­tives? Do you just plod along and let it hap­pen? Tell us what you do to keep your busi­ness thriv­ing. Blog it!

Up until now I haven’t really had goals and bench­marks for my glass busi­ness. The “busi­ness” part of it just sort of hap­pened. A year or so after I started lam­p­work­ing, I started sell­ing the occa­sional bead or set, and that made me real­ize that it was becom­ing an endeavor that had best be made a legal and proper busi­ness. So in sum­mer 2006 I got the tax ID num­bers and busi­ness license and such, and started fil­ing the nec­es­sary paper­work for sales tax and such.

For 2007 I didn’t for­mally set out any goals for the year. I thought I’d try out a show or two, maybe a cou­ple of auc­tions, and see what hap­pened. So I did, and a few things hap­pened — enough for me to decide that this is worth continuing.

It’s almost 2008, and maybe it is time to think about some more con­crete goals — get more spe­cific about shows, about online sales, about a bet­ter plan to keep it orga­nized. But I will make the main goal to enjoy what I am doing, and not let it get out of the hand so that it stresses me out!