Welcome 2023!
Hi All,
First of all, 🥂 Happy New Year! 🥂I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas with family and friends.
I’m really looking forward to this year, I’ve got some big plans for 2023! Like most people I’ve been looking back and reflecting on the year and my first 6 months in business (possibly a little late to do this for my business but hey ho, better late than never!) and have re-evaluated my business goals for 2023 and the changes I need to make to achieve those goals.
Goal 1
The first goal is to show up more on Instagram as 95% of business comes from Instagram, which is AMAZING but also slightly terrifying as I’m in the hands of the Instagram gods and judging by 2022 they are still working out who/what they are! 🫤 This leads me to my second goal…
Goal 2
My second goal is to diversify where I show up, so I don’t have all my eggs in one basket. So if you are on TikTok please do follow me there, I’m going to be using that more as a behind the scenes platform and if you are LinkedIn please do follow Studio Ercra there.
Goal 3
My third goal is, in October I started to create mockup/stock images and I would love to expand this over the next year. I think this could be really useful for new interior designers and graphic designers to use on their websites and social media. They will mainly be vignette close up images that will represent a style. I’m very aware it can be tricky for interior designers to use stock images, particularly room sets as you only really want to show your own work, however small vignettes are great to fill out small spaces on your website and content for social media.
Goal 4
Collaboration and connections! I’m craving this! I love my business, I love the creativity and I love being able to work anywhere but I miss working with people on a project, and being involved in the design process and contributing my 2 pence into an idea.
The Derelict Home - Rags to Riches
With all that in mind, that adds up to a lot of content needed! So here’s the plan, The Derelict Home - Rags to Riches. I have selected derelict room images from Unsplash, and over on my social media channels together we will visualise the space from Rags to Riches and see it transform using CGI’s. This will give me lots of content to show up on social media, stock images/mockups and hopefully if all goes well, connections and collaborations will open up. It will also be a great way to expand my design skills, particularly as I’m due to finish my Interior Design Diploma end of Feb 2023!
I’m really looking forward to this series, I’ll be showing the inspiration, the modelling, choosing the furniture. I always love watching something transform, and I hope you do too!