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Monthly Goals | August Goals

8/01/16

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This post might just be the one “Monthly Goals” post I was actually LOOKING FORWARD to writing!! I STILL can’t get over the fact that it is now the FIRST DAY of AUGUST! Where on Earth has 2016 gone?! It seems like it was only yesterday that I was writing down all of my yearly goals for the new year and I couldn’t wait to get each one of those goals crossed off my list! Now, here it is 8 months later, and we’re more than halfway thru the year! Here’s a look back on everything I’ve been able to do so far this year…

2016 Goals 

+New Branding for Emma Loo (DONE!) & New Website! (Still in the works!!)  Although I haven’t been able to fulfill this goal all the way through…I HAVE been able to “re-brand” in a sense! All of it just takes time…and a lot of learning what I want and being okay with making changes to things mid-way through…hence why the website isn’t up and running yet! I had a vision of what I wanted my site to look like, and then found inspiration elsewhere and now that vision has shifted entirely! I guess I should’ve studied web-design or graphic design in college, because I’m pretty sure my web designer hates me for all the changes I’ve made so far!!

+New Wedding Day and Portrait Collections DONE! I have been able to cross this goal off my list! All new Wedding Day Collections and Portrait Collections have been made! Took a lot of time and work into creating the collections and the packet that goes along with them to send to my inquiring Clients, but it was completely worth it! I love sending my future #EmmaLooBrides something to really help me stand out from the crowd! I’ve gotten nothing but great response from my Wedding Day Collections & Welcome Packets! 

+New Equipment for Emma Loo by 2017! Although our wallets haven’t been able to let us fulfill this goal just yet…we still have 4 more months of 2016 left, right?! We’re planning on buying a 85mm lens and another Mark III body.  I am also in desperate need of a new laptop since mine is a good 7+ years old and it’s got a cracked screen! It’s time for a new one, that’s for sure! 

+Now Hiring! That’s right! We’re looking to hire on a few new people for 2017! I’m in the process now of looking for new assistants to join the Emma Loo team.  I’m in need of an additional wedding day photographer’s assistant, an image editor, and an office assistant.  It would be my dream to find someone who could fill ALL of those shoes in one! I’m looking at expanding the Emma Loo Photography Brand into an associate photographer program by 2018! I’d like to have one photographer for family and portrait sessions, one additional photographer at a more budget-friendly price range, and myself as a wedding-only photographer! Wish me luck!! 


 

Now…onto my August Goals!

Business Goals-

+Get Sample Albums Designed and Created! I’ve been putting this task off for a LONG time now & it’s time to get this DONE! I’ve been putting it off mainly because I don’t like the design aspect of the album process! Luckily, I’ve found a company that would design the album to it’s highest quality…so I’m just ready to get it designed, ordered, made, and delivered to use as samples for my Clients! It’s SO nice to have something tangible in your hands from your very special day…believe me! We absolutely LOVE our wedding album!

+Order New Business Cards & USBs!  Yet another thing that I’ve put off for a long time just because it hasn’t been a priority for me! Now that I’ve officially re-branded with my new logo, it’s time that I create new business cards and USBs that showcase the logo I love!

+New Website & Blogsite AGAIN. ANOTHER thing I’ve put off for many months now simply because I’ve changed my mind over and over again on the design and overall look of the website.  Now that I feel like I’ve found my vision for exactly what I want…I think this can FINALLY happen for me! Thank the Lord!! I’m ready to have a new site that looks great and is professional!

+Start using Schedulegram for Instagram Marketing I never knew that there was an app out there that’ll let you schedule and post your instagram posts, but boy! Has it sure changed my life! Now all I’ve got to do is make the time to schedule out my posts and plan my posts in advance! This will REALLY save me some time and make me put down my phone during such quality time!! I HATE being linked up to my phone 24/7, especially on the weekends…but I have to because I need to market for Emma Loo! Now with Schedulegram, I don’t have to be on my phone all the time posting to social media, because it will do it for me!!

+Finish pre-packaging all Client Gifts! Such a daunting task…or so I thought! Thankfully, my Mom has helped me out a TON with this task! She came over last week and we packaged 25 Client Welcome Gifts, which made my life 1,000,000 times easier! This week she’ll be coming over to help me package USB boxes and Bridal Boxes! She’s AMAZING!

Personal Goals-

+Lose Weight… Why does this ALWAYS appear on my monthly goals?! You’d think that I’d have it done by now…but it always gets put off for the next month! Phillip and I have tried walking at night around our neighborhood, but we always cut walks short due to the recent heat wave! (It is SO hot!!) We need to get back out there and walk nightly! I feel so much better when we exercise…so there’s no excuse! Agh! Maybe I need a workout buddy! Any takers?! 😉

+Schedule our House Painting! Can’t believe that this is REALLY happening! We’ve picked out our painter (who happens to be a good friend of ours, Mr. Keith!) and we’re just playing a waiting game until it gets just a tad bit cooler where we’ll actually enjoy working outside again! (We tried pulling out some bushes in the 100 degree heat…and I almost died. It was awful!) We are planning to paint the exterior house by mid-September! WOO-HOO!!!

+Build & Paint our Shutters! We’ve chosen a board-and-batten style shutter for our windows, and we’re going to build them ourselves instead of buying them (which will save us LOTS of money!!) We’re going to build them all at once and then have Keith paint them…with a color I have YET to pick out!! I’m thinking either a dark gray or a cream color…or even a blue!! See! I’m SO indecisive!

+Print off some of our personal pictures from Sprint & Summer I’m the absolute worst when it comes to making my own personal prints! I’d like to either print off each individual image or create albums for each year of our personal pictures! I have a bad habit of taking my own personal pictures and they just end up living on my hard drive forever!

+Rearrange our Kitchen Cabinets & Counters We have NO counter space in our small kitchen, and mainly because we don’t have a wall mounted microwave, so our counter top microwave takes up LOTS of room! Hopefully, Phillip and I can get handy enough to cut a couple inches of cabinets off our wall above the oven and install a microwave above the stove so we can have more counter space where it once sat! Then I’d be the happiest camper around…especially since I just found THE CUTEST coffee mug holder from Hobby Lobby that NEEDS to be on our countertop! 😉

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