Annual Art Business Review – How To Sell More Art Next Year

Art Business Review

The new year is here. Were you happy with your art sales last year?

Are you hoping to sell more art next year?

How much more income would you need to generate to reach your new goal?

How many paintings would you need to sell to reach your new goal?

Are you going to increase your art prices for the new year?

This post is outlined for you to start setting goals for the new year.

How Will You Achieve More Next Year

Another year has come and gone. You’ve spent many hours learning how to market and promote your art.

Are you happy with the results, or were you hoping for more?

Let’s go over the tough questions you will want to answer to see where your art business is and where you would like it to be next year.

Setting Goals For Next Year

Before you start to think about setting goals for next year, take some time to look at what you have accomplished in the past 12 months.

The information you gather will help you to make better decisions for the next twelve months.

This is the time to discover what worked for you and what didn’t work so you can revise your art marketing plan and make your time more productive.

If a strategy produced positive results last year, place it at the top of your to-do list for next year.

Discard any strategies that fell short of your expectations and develop a new plan.

Reviewing Last Years Goals

Setting goals is an important business strategy that will help you to build a successful art business.

Let’s take a look at how you did with your goals last year.

• Did you set goals last year?
• If you set goals did you revisit them regularly and did you achieve them?
• Did you struggle to write your goals?
• Where your goals specific, measurable. attainable, realistic, and timely?
• Did you set a year goal, six-month goals, and monthly goals?
• Did your marketing strategy complement your goals?
• Was it difficult to stay focused on your goals?
• What can you do differently next year to help you stay focused on what is important?
• What marketing strategies did you implement that help you to reach your goals?
• What art marketing strategies did not produce the results you were hoping for?

Productivity

Let’s take some time to assess your productivity for last year. 

Do not be discouraged if you struggle with time management. Time management is challenging for many people. The good news is that you can learn how to manage your time better by being aware of what needs to get done and how long each task should take.

Once you have everything laid out on the table, you can start planning your days better.

Answering the questions below will help you to be more productive with your time.

• Are you easily distracted during the projects you are working on?
• If so, what are your distractions, and how can you reduce them?
• Do you have time management goals (To-do list)?
• If so, did you stick to them?
• Do you set time limits for each project you are working on?
• If so, did you stick to them?
• What are your roadblocks?
• Are you wasting time on strategies that are not working?
• If a plan is not producing positive results, discard it, and develop new strategies.
• What can you do differently next year to be more productive?

 

Art Business Overview

Next, you will want to assess how well your art business performed and discover any weaknesses that have to be addressed to reach your new goals.

• Did you keep track of your finances, money coming in, money going out?
• Did you set art selling goals? 
• Did you reach your goals and if not what were your roadblocks?
• How did you strategize?
• What new resources did you discover?
• Are you using the new resources?
• Did you improve your technology skills?
• What new skills did you learn that will help you to be more productive next year?
• Did you generate more traffic to your artist blog?
• What can you do next year to increase the amount of traffic your blog is generating?
• Did you gain new followers on your social media platforms?
• What can you do differently to build a larger following?
• What were some of your accomplishments?
• How will you make more profit next year?

Artistic Skills

Spending time enhancing your artistic skills will make your art more valuable.

What did you improve on last year?

• What is your niche?
• Did you focus on your niche or did you try different subjects or mediums?
• Have you worked on enhancing your artistic skills relating to your niche?
• What are your creative struggles?
• Did you try to work on your struggles or did you ignore them?
• What can you do to overcome your struggles?
• Did you visit any art events or galleries?
• Did you take any classes?
• Is your studio organized and ready for you to get to work?
• How will you enhance your creative skills for next year?

Accountable

You are the CEO of your art business, and you have to learn how to be self-motivated and hold yourself accountable.

• Did you hold yourself accountable for your art business strategies?
• Did you spend enough time in the studio?
• Would you like to spend more time?
• If so what changes will you have to make to achieve that goal?
• What platform are you using to sell your art?
• Are you happy with the platform or are you thinking of using something different?
• If so, what will you have to do the achieve that goal?
• How many blog posts did you publish each month?
• How many newsletters did you send each month?
• How many social media posts did you publish each week?
• How many sales did you promote during the year?
• What can you hold yourself more accountable for next year?

 Business Marketing Statistics

• How many Original pieces of art did you sell last year?
• How many would you like to sell next year?
• How many prints did you sell last year?
• How many would you like to sell next year?
• How many new people joined your mailing list last year?
• How many new people would you like to join next year?
• How many new Facebook followers did you gain last year?
• How many new followers would you like next year?
• How many new Pinterest followers did you receive last year?
• How many would you like for next year?
• How many new Instagram followers did you receive last year?
• How many would you like for next year?
• How many new Twitter followers did you gain last year?
• How many would you like for next year?
• How many daily visitors did your blog generate last year? 
• How many would you like for next year?

Final Thoughts On Annual Art Business Review

To grow your art business next year, you will have to know what you did last year and develop a plan that will help you make better decisions and keep yourself accountable with your new plans.

This annual art business review is an excellent check-list to see how well your art business performed and what you can do differently to see better results next year.

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