Here's an exercis you can try:

I'm always so excited when I have classes coming up that I will be teaching. Getting ready to teach at the Bay Area Bead Extravaganza (B.A.B.E.) next week. Already have 16 students and expect it to jump to over 20.

I'm teaching The Art Of Selling Your Arts And Crafts and Getting your work into a gift Catalog.

These are classes geared toward those students who have already started selling their work in various venues: craft fairs, home parties, online, and to stores. There will be a spectrum of experience which will make the class more interesting.

I'm going to start with the Satisfaction Wheel of your business. It's a chart where you really get an overview of how satisfied you are with the various areas of your business. You draw a big round pizza pie and divide it like a pizza into sections naming each section things like: my work space, pricing, sales, design technique, inventory, craft fair success, selling to stores, online selling, display, and any other area of your work life that you will "grade" for yourself. You will then put a dot in each triangle of the pizza indicating how satisfied you are with that area of your business. So, for example, if you are not satisfied with your work space you might put a 2 (near the center of the circle which is a zero in satisfaction). Then you go around to each piece of the pizza pie and connect the dots from one section to the next. (You can add any of your own sections that you wish that I may not have named so the "pizza" might have 6 or 8 or 10 or 12 or more sections.)

This is an exercise only for you, the artist so you can get a visual of how satisfied you feel about the different areas of your business regardless of how new or experienced you are. The center of the circle is zero satisfaction, the outer circle is 10 in satisfaction. You may love your design sense (10) but think you need work in the skill area (5 maybe)....Hope you get the idea.

Let me know what you think about doing this exercise. I would love to hear from you.

Love,

Nanette

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