Tag: Do It Yourself
I’m Giving Up on DIY.
by Ari Koinuma on Mar.03, 2010, under Ari's Diary, Ari's Vision, Entrepreneurship, Music Career, Self Sufficient Musician, The Joy of Being on the Way
DIY, as in Do It Yourself.
Hell no. I can’t DIY — no way. Being an indie music artist is to run a business. In addition to making music (production of merchandise) you have to do marketing, customer relations, bookkeeping, web designing, and all the other crap that all small businesses have to do. I’m freaked out already just b/c I have to find someone to prepare my first tax as an LLC (and so far no ones seems to want my business!).
Recently, I realized that I made a mistake. I thought DIY was about Doing It by Yourself. And many successful indie artists make it seem like that’s the definition — they do everything. And that’s what I’ve been trying. And I’m burned out.
At the end of the day, I’m just a guitarist. And a songwriter. There, two shoes to wear — I have no more feet to put more on.
Everything else, I’m going to do it with the firm intention of handing them over to someone else as soon as a person who’s 1) better at it than me, and 2) is more interested in doing that than me, shows up.
I’m not Doing It by Myself. What I want is a team, so I can fire me from every fxcking job I now hold except those two.
There. That’s my new dream.
And I’m gonna make it come true.
