 Well, hello. Following on from my previous video, why I'm pivoting my own art, I wanted to share what I'm going to be doing differently in 2023 in terms of my art, my business and a little exciting project in my personal life as well. Now if you watched and completed your art business review and you got my free download as well that gave you the annual art business review form, then you'll likely realise having gone through that process of looking what worked and what didn't work in this previous year, that you might need to be making some changes in the next year. Remember that phrase, what got you here won't get you there? Well, I'm going to be sharing three things that I'll be doing differently next year as a direct result of doing that very exercise. Before I share those three things I'm going to be doing differently, make sure to stay to the very end because I'm going to be sharing a crazy project that I'll be doing in my personal life that's going to run alongside my art and my business and I want to make sure that you don't miss out on the opportunity of following that as well if you would like to. All right, are we ready to dive into those three things I'm going to be doing differently next year. Number one, I'm going to be growing my online membership. Now if you've been watching for a while, you'll know that I have an online course, a building artist business plan, a membership, the art business academy and I also offer occasionally some one-to-one art business coaching. Now up until now with the membership, the art business academy, we focused solely on content and routine. We focused on building out our art business success path, which are the six steps that sit underneath the membership and take you from total beginner with no business right the way through to running your dream profitable art business and all the steps that you need to take along the way. And it's been quite a project, let me tell you, but the feedback from current members is that it's been definitely worth our time, energy and effort of putting together the content and getting those steps in the right order and of course each and every month to make sure that we're delivering high quality new content, the new training, the new downloads, the question and answer session that the members get and of course the most popular item the group coaching. It's been quite a lot of work getting all the pieces to kind of flow together so it's taken a lot of time energy and effort to get it to where it is today and now we are in phase two and phase two it's all about welcoming in many many many new members. So my objective for next year is 100 percent what I've been teaching already and that is to focus on building out and of course engaging with a quality mailing list so my intention is going to be to grow the existing list I have already and continue with that routine that I've set up and I would suggest the same for you no matter how you structure your art business one of your core focuses is going to be growing a mailing list so you can watch and see how I'm going to be doing that over the course of the next 12 months. Of course I have plenty of resources too so I will list the videos and the free mailing list challenge that you can join as well below this video. The second thing I'm going to be doing differently next year is building a solid painting routine now this is definitely something that's only just recently become a must do again so I'm super super excited about that. So since permanently taking on three studio rooms and zoning them for different areas so for example at the moment I am sitting in the front room which is closest to the road and warmest for those of you who live in Australia you'll understand that this is the painting zone and across the corridor I have more of an office an artsy office and then I have a store and kind of making dirty rooms if I need to sand anything or saw something or glue and stick or cut and just make a general mess then I have a big storage and mess zone down there and of course if you watched my previous video how I pivoted my art you'll understand that I have now really stepped into the new version of my thing my art style so of course I'm really excited just to paint at every opportunity so creating that solid routine whereby I come down here in the morning for an hour or two every day and just get the painting done is something that's going to really hold me in good stead for all of next year and beyond. So before this on the art journey I was still exploring trying new things and kind of in that transition from what I done before which is kind of down there you can sort of see a corner of it in this video I think to what I'm doing now which you can't see because it's the other side of the camera but I was not putting real energy in time and building a collection and selling it right and so this is what's new and different for me I'm very excited to be in a place where I feel happy to be out doing that again so that's going to be my second thing I'm doing differently in 2023 and the third thing I'm going to be doing differently is I'm going to be setting up a new standalone art business so now down to the nitty gritty this is the making the money from the art this is the bit that you are likely watching my videos for it's like come on Sophie how do I make the money I know I see the stats I know which videos you watch the most I know why you're here and I totally get it so I'm going to be very transparent as I head out on my journey next year so the very first thing I did drumroll of course I created my own separate new business plan and all of you were nodding and holding on to your business plans aren't you because you've likely got all of those done or you're finishing them off ready for the beginning of next year and in that process I realized of course that my major weakness was my lack of available time to put into the new business you know I have an existing training business and I have that project next year that I'll be coming to at the very end of the video so my time to start this new business is very very limited so therefore I had to look up well how could I design the business in such a way that time wasn't quite such an issue for me so I came up with a kind of obvious solution really I had three different ways that I could structure the business that came to me obviously one is I could take the originals and create products off the originals so therefore I needed less originals and I could have all these byproducts print on demand or drop shipping prints etc etc now I don't actually really want to do that because one of the other main aims is to have less time on the computer so I decided option A not for me option B of course is to create a service with that business now I already have a service-based business so I didn't really want to focus on yet another service-based business or option number three which is what I've gone for while I need to sell somebody else's artwork right so from there my new art business idea was born so remember how I'm also always teaching you how to be super super clear on who your audience are because remember we cannot target everybody we need to niche down we need to create a niche we need to define that audience so my audience is simple they're going to be business owners so small to medium-sized enterprises or even larger corporates so I'll be offering high quality original art of WA by local artists to enhance your working space now if you'd like to follow my journey as I set up and build that business then don't forget to subscribe to this channel because I will be creating a new playlist specifically for the growth of how I structure and grow what's basically an arts agency business starting next year now in a minute I'm going to share with you that crazy project and you'll understand why this will be a fairly slow start and in fact I might not start it till the middle of next year I might not launch it officially until the middle of next year because of a few other things that are going on now isn't this amazing because without a business plan I wouldn't have worked any of that out right I would have maybe said to myself do you know what I need to sell more of my art next year so I'm going to you know find some local people to sell to I'll have an exhibition I'll do this I'll do that and very quickly I could have become overwhelmed because one of my challenges is I don't have so much available time because I'm already running a training business now if I hadn't done the plan I wouldn't have come up with what I think is a super brilliant idea and I'm not only going to be able to build a business for myself but I'm also going to be able to build and support local artists in this area to grow their businesses as well so for me it feels like a win-win and then we're going to enhance walls of local businesses in this Perth area so I feel like it's a win-win-win win-win-win so if he's going to win local artists are going to win and local businesses are going to win so what a great business to build so I'm super excited and like I say don't forget to hit the subscribe button so that you can follow my progress okay drumroll here it is and I hear you say so what is this crazy project you're doing next year Sophie in a couple of days time my partner and I are going to get keys to a property that we've bought locally now the caveat is that probably needs to come down we are going to build our dream home where that property stood so next year we're going to be building a house and it's going to take a while obviously because house building takes a while luckily for me though guess what my partner does for a living he runs a high turnover building company and so it has already designed or we have together already designed the house that we want and so bit by bit alongside him running his business my me running my businesses we're going to be building that house step by step now I know that a lot of you are probably sitting in the nosy camp where I would be sitting if I were watching you with this video and I'd be like I want to see that process I want to watch when you smash down the original house and build a new one right who wouldn't want to see that because you can bet your bottom dollar I am going to be time-lapsing videoing doing all the things every single step of that house built now it doesn't feel appropriate in any way shape or form to put those videos on this YouTube channel because that's not what it's here for so I haven't yet decided whether I'll start a second channel or whether I'll simply put all of it on Instagram but I will let you know don't worry if you want to watch the exact journey of demolishing it's kind of a cute house but it's in a really bad state and it was built a very long time ago it's definitely not renovatable we are going to knock that down and build another one if you want to watch that process then you want to make sure that you are in the place that I'm going to share that and like I say I will let you know so to sum things up next year looks like this number one we've got to put our existing house on the market and sell it number two we have to find somewhere to live whilst we build the new house number three I've got an existing business to run number four I am going to start that new business but you can understand why that won't be happening initially I'm also going to be painting as well oh and my youngest daughter's getting married so we're also going to Europe for that so there's an awful lot of different things all up in the mix next year's going to require a few different things it's going to require discipline it's going to require planning it's probably going to require some patience and it's definitely going to require some self-care time some health routines as well sort of follow how I do all of that make sure that you are following me here on YouTube and over on my Instagram as well thank you so much for watching I hope you're inspired to make your 2023 absolutely incredible and if you're watching this at the time that it's came out comes out then have an amazing Christmas and New Year and I look forward to beaming in through your phone or laptop with more exciting videos from next year so take care everybody thanks so much for watching bye bye