My 100 day goal and sales trackers - free printables!

At the end of last year I joined the 100 Day Goal with The Business Bakery.  My aim was to make 100 sales in 100 days, sounds pretty simple?  Well I only got 262 orders for the whole of 2016 AND that included our mini Christmas rush, so it will take some work.
I could have just set the goal myself and plodded along doing my best to achieve it, but I wanted the motivation and contacts that being part of a group working towards a goal brings.  Everyone's goals are different, but the group is a wealth of knowledge and building the right kind of contacts never hurts.
One of the recommendations for achieving your goal is to set up some kind of tracker for you to see your progress and in turn stay motivated.  I love a tracker and so of course I had to design one to fit my planner.  Whilst I was at it, it seemed only natural to also build a sales revenue tracker, so you get another 2 freebies from me this week!

Our first freebie is our sales revenue tracker.  There is a little key at the top with boxes for you to colour in to differentiate between the various amounts.
The bulk of the tracker is the days of the year and a box for you to colour in the relevant revenue total.  At the end of each month is a space for you to write your monthly revenue total.

I am personally not including P&P in mine just the item total, but how you use the tracker is completely up to you.  It will be easy to see at a glance the entire years revenue patterns and should help me plan a little better advertising etc in years to come.

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If you have any problems downloading or would prefer a PDF version, it can be downloaded here.

Our second printable is our sales volume tracker.  I like to see at a glance just how many orders I have done over a certain period (on all selling platforms) so that I can hopefully improve year on year and plan how best to use my working time etc.

This tracker is very simple, just the months on the side with the days on the top and a daily square to write your daily total in and a space at the end of the month to write in your monthly total.

I know that if you are a successful seller that sells 10+ a day then the spaces may be a little wee for you to write in your daily totals, but this is definitely a good tool for those like me that haven't quite made it to that stage yet.

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If you have any problems downloading or would prefer a PDF version, it can be downloaded here.

I'm happy for you to distribute our printables however you wish, but they must remain free at all times.

Getting to grips with social media

As I mentioned in our introduction post we are in the middle of a re-brand and are currently adding clothing and apparel to our range of items.

To try and get our new items seen by as many people as possible, I know we need to be more active on our social media accounts.  So far we put most of our energy in to facebook and we've managed to grow an amazing audience that seem truly interested and excited about our work, but we've let our instagram, pinterest and twitter pretty much fend for itself.

I have a secret to confess, I am pretty addicted to lists and planning.  If I have a list with a juicy box ready to tick off or strike through, I'm much more likely to do something.  In fact I have been known to add an item to a list I've already completed, just so I can tick it off!  So in order to make it more likely that I will succeed in growing our social media presence, I needed some kind of list or tracker.

I'm fortunate enough to be part of an amazing Etsy UK Sellers Help Group on facebook that has all kinds of amazing advice!  One of the admins Jennifer has not only a successful Etsy shop, but a great blog that is full of helpful tips and tricks for maximising your etsy shop.  This blog has been pinned to my browser pretty much constantly since I found it a few months back.  Jennifer has quite a few posts about social media and my favourite has to be the one about her social media posting schedule.  Jennifer not only goes in to detail about her own schedule, but has researched the best times to post to different social media platforms and then added all of this on to a habit tracker.

What's a habit tracker, I hear you cry?!  Best way to describe it is with a visual

The numbers at the top are the days of the month and the column marked 'action step' on the left is where you put your goals that need to be completed.

Jennifer's also had extra hand written stats about her accumulated followers, earnings etc and I knew that the less information I had to hand write each month, the more likely I would be to use it.  So I created my own.

I've stolen borrowed all of Jennifer's fab information (I've checked it's okay with her to share ;)) and compiled it onto a printable.  I can now see at a glance exactly what I need to do each day and should be able to schedule some posts too!

To help anyone else that also needs to work on their social media game, please feel free to download from here.  I'd also highly recommend you pop across to Jennifer's blog, this lady sure knows her stuff!

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If you have any problems downloading the image above or would prefer a PDF version, it can be downloaded here.

**UPDATE**

We've been using our planner for just under a week and so far so good!  As you can see I've colour coded the different social media platforms, you obviously don't need to do this, I just like the pretty colours lol

We've had another Etsy shop owner ask if I could make the template editable and I promise this is on my to-do list!

I've also been busy adding a social media planner that has been quite handy for trying to plan content in advance.  At the moment it is all feeling a little over-whelming, but I am pleased to say that we've not missed a post! (although my timings may be more than a little out).

Simply right click and select 'save image as'

If you have any problems downloading the image above or would prefer a PDF version, it can be downloaded here.

I'm happy for you to distribute our printables however you wish, but they must remain free at all times.