D.I.Y Activity Tracker

Christopher Lars Carlson (@CLCmusic), a student at Berklee, took the initiative to put together a DIY checklist to help you keep track of your ‘interactive duties’ as a social-media savvy indie artist.

Its purpose is to keep track of all your actionable DIY activities: the “business” items you need to keep up in order to build a self-sustaining career.

There is a lot to keep track of when you’re doing everything yourself, and it’s going to be impossible to maintain unless you develop a plan and a reasonable way to track your activities. Chris’s chart is a fantastic place to start. If nothing else, please use this as a template for your activities and tweak it to make it relevant to your own activities. Basically, make something that you will actually use. The point is that you want to use your time efficiently and effectively, and tracking your activities and progress is the way to do it!

Bruce Houghton at Hypebot is hosting the PDF, and you can download it for free here. UPDATE: You can also download the Microsoft spreadsheet now here.

Thanks, Chris, for creating something helpful for everybody!

Christopher maintains the blog A Musicians Journey, which looks into many of the issues that artists are facing in today’s music business.