How I'm Going to Get There (Notes)

Notes on How I'm Going to Achieve My Goal

Organize transgender musician “summit”

• D, R, and J
• Group on Facebook
• Draft plans

Help at Transgress Fest

Work on getting more gigs

• SD county
• OC county
• LA county
• Booking agency in Long Beach
• Fallbrook open mic?
• Soda Bar
• Casbah
• House of Blues
• Queer bars

Girls to the Front

• Propose April or May

Post liberally to the Transgender Musicians Network Group

Find other Facebook groups for transgender musicians

Write a 10-15 minute sitar set

Take sitar lessons

Connect with East Meets West Music

• and the Ravi Shankar Institute

Look into getting CDs made

Write a blog post justifying my “raw” mix down

Write a blog post about how creativity is a skill

Pay for my domain name

Start a SoCal trans musicians Facebook group

“featuring Emily Williams” on all instrumentals

• or all sitar work

Backup files

Get files on iPhone

UCSD radio

Album reviews

• Alyssa’s zine
• other?
• the Advocate?

Write blog posts on my music theory

Post tablature online

Enter contests

• composition contests
• Guitar Center
• songwriting contests
• other?

Always be ready to perform

• gear ready
• iPad with me and charged
• or iPhone with me and charged

Punk Rock Food Drive

Strategic use of Facebook promotions

• how to measure?
• when to use?

How to measure brand success?

How to measure success in general?

Write blog post about my intent to be “selectively famous”

Read about it

• How to promote
• How to get gigs
• How to tour
• How to market
• How to use Facebook effectively
• and other social media

Up the Twitter use

Plan a GoFundMe strategy for touring

• USA
• India

Print business cards

Renew SoundCloud

Figure out a plan for using metrics

• SoundCloud
• Band Camp
• Google
• etc.

Contact NotApologetic

• Shows together
• Collaborations

Send sitar recording to the shop I bought the sitar at.

Get a CD of my sitar recording to East Meets West Music

Get the sitar piece ready for the stage. Keep developing it.

Connect with Headstone and the Schematics

Market in Korea again