Dec 31 2008
Goal Setting: Business
As I go over my 2009 goals, I note that the lion’s share of them are business-related. This makes sense: I spend the lion’s share of my time on business! This year, I want to do three major things, all of them interrelated: increase my income (by a specific amount, but I won’t actually share how much), use my time more effectively, and increase exposure for my writing.
That last one is the most fun to think about, and the most challenging. It requires investment (of time, and some money), creativity, and probably as much disappointment as success at this stage. Here are a few of the ways I hope to increase exposure this year:
1. Go on virtual tour! I hope to run at least one blog tour this year, hitting fifteen blogs in a month. I’m working on getting YouTube book trailers together, thinking over interview templates, and figuring out how many books I can afford to give away in the process of touring. This one is going to be fun!
2. Submit new work every other week, both to fiction and nonfiction markets. I’d like to break into at least one new magazine as well as writing for my regulars.
3. Build the Web site. I’d like to make this site more helpful than it is now. Among my plans: blog regular reviews of fiction and nonfiction related to writing, come up with a couple of online courses/seminars for young writers, and post writing tips (from the Writing Tips book I’m planning to write this year).
4. Go to a conference! This has been a dream for years, and this year, I’m making it happen. I’m planning to attend the Writer’s Digest writer’s conference at BEA in New York City this May.
What are some of your business goals this year? How do you plan to reach them?
