{"id":5472,"date":"2011-12-05T09:45:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T17:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/?p=5472"},"modified":"2011-12-05T09:45:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T17:45:21","slug":"what-did-you-accomplish-this-year-and-what-is-your-plan-for-next-year-six-questions-you-need-to-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/what-did-you-accomplish-this-year-and-what-is-your-plan-for-next-year-six-questions-you-need-to-ask\/","title":{"rendered":"What Did You Accomplish This Year and What is Your Plan for Next Year – Six Questions You Need to Ask"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ListWith the new year approaching quickly it is time to review your accomplishments from the last year and put a plan in place for next year.<\/p>\n

If you want to succeed you just can’t fly by the seat of your pants every day. You can’t move forward if you don’t know where you want to go. You should take some time to think about where you want to go with your career in the next year and more importantly why. Don’t get caught up in the common cycle of tour, record, release product, tour, record, release product. That is not a plan. That is just following everyone from the last 25 years. Touring, recording and product are important, but think about what you are hoping to gain by doing each of them. Don’t be afraid to do it a bit different. If you say I want to release a new CD because I want to sell them and use the money to fund the band you need to also ask\u2026 how many CDs are you going to sell? Be honest. Will you really make enough money to make a dent? Is your band in a building your fan base mode? Then maybe you should consider using the new recordings as a way to gain new email addresses, Facebook likes, Twitter followers, YouTube subscribers. You could sell one fan one track and make $.99 or you could gain the ability to directly communicate with a fan moving forward and maybe sell them more than one track.<\/p>\n

You don’t need to create a 50 page business plan, that is overkill in my opinion. But, you should at least create a basic list or outline of what you hope to accomplish and why you want to accomplish each item.<\/p>\n

Here are six questions you should be asking, it is important to be honest and realistic. This is not something your fans are going to see and review. This is your internal business plan.<\/p>\n

Six Questions You Need to Ask to Plan for Next Year<\/strong><\/h2>\n

1. What did you hope to accomplish in the last year?<\/strong> – Be real, on the cover of Rolling Stone should not be on this list unless you are Lady Gaga.<\/p>\n

2. Did you accomplish these items?<\/strong> – Maybe you partially accomplished something, make a note of that.<\/p>\n

3. What prevented you from accomplishing those items you didn’t finish?<\/strong> – Another moment to be really honest. Not everything will succeed, most things won’t succeed. But you should be able to learn from what you did not accomplish to help you not repeat the same thing a second time. Learn and move forward.<\/p>\n

4. What do you want to accomplish in the next year?<\/strong> – A basic list is all you need. Again, be real.<\/p>\n

5. Why do you want to accomplish these items?<\/strong> – If you say you want to tour in three new states, why? What will this accomplish for you?<\/p>\n

6. How will you move forward to accomplish these items?<\/strong> – What actions will you need to take to succeed.<\/p>\n

Now you should have a number of tasks and action items which you can start acting upon. Create mini plans or projects around each task or goal and get started.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the new year approaching quickly it is time to review your accomplishments from the last year and put a plan in place for next year. If you want to succeed you just can’t fly by the seat of your pants every day. You can’t move forward if you don’t know where you want to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28,12],"tags":[1255,1256,1257,1258,578],"class_list":["post-5472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","category-music-marketing-2","tag-accomplishments","tag-business-plan","tag-goals","tag-planning","tag-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}