NickVenturella.com 6-21-18 - What do you need to measure

What do you need to measure

Last weekend my colleagues and I had a great time introducing Eleven to the musicians in attendance at the Between the Waves (BTW) conference and the Madison Area Music Awards (MAMAs) - congratulations, by the way, to all the MAMA winners!If you're a musician and haven't already taken the Eleven Music Career Assessment, please do so, it will help Eleven create more useful and meaningful music business services to help working musicians make a better living pursuing their craft. Plus, there's a valuable bonus download when you complete it. Feel free to pass it along to any musician friends you know.That actually brings me to what I want to talk about in today's newsletter -- metrics!How are you measuring your success toward your pursuits? How do you know your succeeding, or need to course-correct to reach your goals?For example, my music business friends and I are designing Eleven's services to help musicians be in a better position to pursue music as a full-time career. At a basic level, they need to increase their fan base to ultimately yield more opportunities to increase their income. Measuring the growth of their fan email list is a metric to that end.What do you need to measure at work or in your personal life to allow you more opportunities to reach your goals?It could just be ensuring you're taking some action everyday to accomplish more small victories on the road to your annual goal. Whether or not you took action today toward your goal is a metric worth capturing. Check out the Provision Journal for this kind of process.If you haven't already, be sure to spend some time to identify what you need to track to ensure you're moving in the right direction toward your goal.Hit reply and let me know what you're tracking and/or how it's going.

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If you're interested, join me this evening (Thursday June 21, 2018). I'll be performing from 6pm until 7pm at the Alicia Ashman Public Library in Madison, WI as part of the Make Music Madison event. If you're around, stop by the show. 

Sincerely,Nick VenturellaNickVenturella.com