#21 - Spring Clean Your Creative Practice & Business with Becky

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#21 - Spring Clean Your Creative Practice & Business with Becky

De-clutter your personal projects or small business

Becky Helms

Apr 08, 2025

Transcript

Today, we’re doing a little spring cleaning. This episode is for personal projects and for business owners. If you’re not a business owner, you can skip the last half, but if you are, I’ve got a few good nuggets of info to help you spring clean your shop!

Below is the outline I used while making the podcast. I thought it would be beneficial to include it her on Substack just incase you’d rather read than listen.

Personal Projects De-Clutter

Listen to the Creative Retrospective episode #6
1. What works, what doesn’t work, what needs some tweaking?
2. What is fulfilling to you mentally, physically, spiritually?
3. Take time to journal or just think on these questions.
Decide what projects you want to concentrate on and organize
1. Do you have half-finished projects that you want to finally see through?
2. Are there half-finished projects you want to let go of? Things you tried that didn’t really click?
3. Organize in a way that makes it easy for you to pick up and go.
Clean out supplies and donate to a reuse store

Basic Product Based Business Audit

Website Audit
1. Do your available products match your inventory?
2. Are there new photos you could take? Can you compress your photos? Do your photos have alt tags for accessibility and SEO?
3. Are your menus and collections up to date? Can you make it easy for folks to find what they need in three clicks or less?

Inventory Audit
1. Sort your inventory by best to worst sellers and determine what’s moving and what’s stagnant. Can you have a sale? Is there enough for a mystery box promotion? Can you add slow sellers as a ‘free with purchase’ to move it out?
2. What do you like making vs. what’s selling well? Gauge your interest with your customers’.
Space Audit
1. Just clean your workspace! Are there products that still need to be packaged? Props from the last photoshoot hanging around? Is your desk a nightmare? Take a day to reset your space. You might even find extra inventory!