If you can recognize and redirect the habit cycles that drive your own routines, you have a much better chance at changing them successfully.
Manage your motivation. Even with the best habit cycle in place, you'll need a degree of motivation to persist through inevitable low points. Your reasons to continue have to outweigh your reasons to stop. Here are 9 ways to boost self motivation by increasing your reasons to continue and decreasing your reasons to stop. Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin is another book in the achievement genre that I find extremely helpful. It shows you how to use practical, actionable habit building strategies that suit your disposition, so you can work with your natural inclinations not against them.
If you want to take a more comprehensive look at habit building, I think you'll find a lot of value in the strategies presented in Better Than Before. If you're new to selling at craft fairs, January might seem awfully early to start planning for shows that won't happen for another months. You might be surprised to discover just how far in advance you need to apply to some of your local shows.
Many shows open up the application process several months in advance, so if you want to start selling at a few craft shows this year, you need to start planning sooner rather than later. Your local arts association or crafts guild will be an excellent resource for finding shows in your area. They probably even publish an annual craft show directory for your area. Note important deadlines and application requirements.
A craft show directory is a great starting point for finding shows in your area, but occasionally craft show directories contain mistakes. When you check deadlines, go directly to the show's website so you can be sure you're getting important information directly from the source. While you're checking deadlines, you can also look for other important information about the craft shows that interest you such as:.
All of that information will help you to assess each craft show and decide which ones you'd like to attend. Art studio tour organizers also typically start accepting applications for both spring and fall tours quite early in the year. If you think you might like to participate in your local studio tour, start your research now.
Your arts association will have information about that event as well. Get fabulous photos of your products. Your product photography can make or break your craft show application. Whether you hire a pro or take the photos yourself, product photography is no place to cut corners in your juried art show applications, particularly if you're applying to more competitive shows or if you're applying to a competitive category like jewelry or painting.
You might not need to start your applications in January. That will depend on the deadlines for shows you'd like to attend. But don't wait until the last minute to apply to juried art shows that interest you. Complete your applications thoroughly, carefully, and in a timely manner. Plan to attend as a customer if you won't be a vendor. There may be shows that interest you but you can't attend this year because you're not ready for them, or you were not accepted. Put those show dates in your calendar, and plan to attend them as a customer if at all possible.
You'll be able to check out the vendors, see whose booths are full of paying customers, and learn what works so you'll be ready to apply to those shows in coming years.
Plus 5 free printable thank you for your purchase tags, and 2 cute wall art printables to decorate your home for fall. Prepare for Christmas craft shows and online holiday shopping with help from style and shopping trend forecasts and holiday craft fair booth photos. Get craft business tips when you need them! Click here to Contact Me. Return to the Home page. A table of contents makes it easier for the reader to find specific sections as they read through your plan.
The executive summary is the most important part of your business plan. It needs to be straight to the point so aim to have it be no longer than one page.
The purpose is to summarize the main points of the plan, which helps save your reader time. They can then review the sections that are of most interest to them if they want to learn more. Remember to keep this section concise yet inspiring. This section includes a list of basic information about your business. This section is where your brewery concept comes to life. Your business description provides paint a clear picture of your vision and goals.
Below are the areas a business description should include:. What legal structure are you going to adopt? Will your brewery business be a sole proprietorship, partnership, or corporation? Who will be involved and what role will each one of them be responsible for? Will some wear multiple hats? Be concise in this section, as there are many brewery licenses and laws you need to comply with.
Your brewery concept is the overarching idea you have in store for the business. Take the time to describe why your idea is unique and what differentiates you from other breweries. Why should beer drinkers choose your business over the other ones in the area? Also, consider what kind of experience you want to create for your customers. Having a brewery is not just about what you serve to customers. Your brewery mission statement is one sentence that sums up what your brewery will achieve.
Think of your end goal as the ultimate driving force behind your business. Your mission statement should be short and high-level enough that it can be displayed on marketing materials. It needs to be straight to the point in expressing what your business is about. Your short-term goals describe your first year as a brewery owner.
Long-term goals involve bigger picture thinking. They are things like how to scale your business or expand into new markets. Be descriptive in this section, but also realistic. In this section, you can Include a sample menu that helps represent your concept in greater detail.
Answer the following questions and consider the effects they will have on your business:. Describe your concept with as much visual detail as possible, such as colors and design elements. Communicate why these details are important and how they relate back to your brand. The business description section covers a lot of detail, so ending with a summary is a good idea to emphasize the most important points.
A good way to gather intelligence is to do a competitor analysis. Visit your competition and document their product offerings, marketing tactics, business practices, pricing, and brand positioning. You can also ask people in your prospective neighborhood about how businesses perform in that area, and what they wish to see.
By gathering as much information as you can, your marketplace assessment will be realistic, address the needs of your target audience, and provide you with inspiration on how to differentiate yourself from competitors. The marketplace section includes the following components:. This section provides an overview of your target audience.
Consider details like demographics, psychographics, and sub-segments of your target market. Create customer profiles that include demographic and psychographic information. Get qualitative and quantitative data, and reference external resources that provide statistics about your customer segments.
Note that each customer segment within your target demographic will have unique profiles. Include relevant statistics about past and current trends within your target marketplace.
This can be anything that relates to the demand for a brewery, as well as social and economic factors that have affected similar businesses in the area.
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