This is a list of twenty actions you can take to tune-up and reenergize your creative business this summer.

1) Evaluate your business goals: Do you need to make adjustments?

2) Reconcile your books

3) Follow up with old clients

4) Update your client database:  Input new contacts and remove old

5) Review contracts

6) Make it the holidays in July: reward people who have help you

7) Attend a new networking group:  Attendance is low in the summer and it’s easier to build  connections.

8 ) Make sure you have enough and the proper insurance coverage

9) Clean your office and organize your files

10) Update your computer software, clean your desktop and back up files

11) Follow up on past due accounts

12) Look for ways to cut monthly business costs

13) Increase your rates

14) Take a risk and try something new in your art

15)  Update your web site

16)  Find new ways to save energy costs (especially good this year)

17)  Review your disaster plan (do you have one?)

18)  Review your workflow

19)  Visit a gallery or artist you’ve never seen before

20)  Visit the family and friends you ignored all winter