2025 Goals: Part 1

Education and Advancement!

As a writer, editor, and streamer, there is a lot that I can learn to improve on all of those areas. I truly believe that if I start investing in myself and in those areas, I can change the situation that my family finds itself in. I can get us out of a bad housing situation and into something that is truly ours. I can stop worrying that we’re going to be homeless. That’s one of my personal goals for 2025 that will be supported by my business goals. 

You may have noticed that I broke the business goals into three areas: writing, editing, and streaming. I’m also going to split this into three posts, starting with my writing goals!

My overall goal? Two books. I want to do one more toy store
book and possibly wrap that series. That or figure out a better way to market
it. I think I need to talk to Phoebe about keywords on Amazon. She’s much
better in that area than I am. She offered before, but we just never got around
to it. Okay, so let’s break this down in more of a list format.

–           
Keywords with Phoebe

o  
See how much she’d charge to go over all 6 current
books

–           
Write 2 more books by December 2025

o  
Bongo’s Buddies

o  
Holidays at the Toy Store Part 2 (obviously
working title there)

–           
Merch

o  
This is a cross-pollination kind of thing with
streaming.

o  
Build up the fourthwall store.

§ 
Character shirts

§ 
Logo shirts

§ 
Hats

·      
Baseball

·      
Beanie

§ 
Mugs

§ 
Notebooks

§ 
Tote bag

o  
Talk to Will about getting designs from him

o  
Talk to Maxx about some new designs

o  
Talk to Eric about using the book covers in some
fashion

–           
Shows

o  
Alma – March

o  
Lansing – July

o  
Grand Rapids – November

o  
St Catherine’s – November

* Midland (?)

–           
Craft Shows

o  
Middleville

o  
Hastings

o  
Lake Odessa (Christmas)?

*  Hastings – Jingle Mingle (Library)

–           
Show Stock

o  
My books

o  
Coloring book

o  
Snow Paw

o  
Cthulhu books

o  
Mittens (?)

o  
Stickers (?)

o  
Pins (?)

o  
Prints (?)

–           
Library readings

–           
Bookstore signings

–           
Holiday Bundles

–           
Look into ALLi (see Russell email 11/27)

–           
Set up a mailing list

As you can see, I’ve put a lot of thought into this. It’s that important to me. This is just part of a three page document that I wrote out. Come back soon for Part 2: Editing. 

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