This weeks challenge is to blog about our dreams for our TPT stores. Before I share my dreams I first need to give you some background. I started my store less than a year ago. A friend of mine told me about the site and her store. She was making quite a bit of money her first few months. She told me I should start a store because all my forms that I create would be great to help teachers stay organized and all my digital scrapbooking skills would come in handy making cute stuff. I was curious so I headed over to TPT to see what it was about.
I am currently 3 classes and 12 weeks of student teaching away from becoming a teacher and instantly fell in love with the sight. I also was a bit upset that I had not found the site sooner....it would have really helped inspire me to write some lessons and units for my classes.
I am a planner, list maker, organizer type of person. I work better when I am organized and when I have a plan. I find my time is wasted away if I don't have a to do list everyday. This mentality trickled over into my job (I work as a DUEA working with autistic children). I began creating forms that I would use in the classroom. The teacher I worked with loved the forms! I stated thinking about what my girlfriend said about me starting a store and jump right on in.
So now on to my goals for my TPT store. I will dream big but I need to start small with achievable goals. So my goals are simple, find a focus for my store, grow my client base, and increase my sales by 20% this year. Starting with these goals will help to reach bigger goals in the future!
I loved reading your post because I completely feel the same way - I wish I had discovered TPT sooner as well! You certainly have a new follower over here :) Love organizational things!
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Caitlin
www.teachinspirechange.com
If you are still student teaching and you already have all this underway, I think you are off to a FABULOUS start! Kudos to you for already getting you store and blog rolling! :-)
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