Juggling five brand deals at once is where deadlines slip and quality drops. This tracker gives every project a single row — status, owner, due date, and next action — so nothing falls through the cracks.
Add every active project. Create one row per live project or brand deal. Include internal content, not just paid work, so the tracker reflects your real workload.
Assign a stage. Set each project's stage (Brief → In progress → Review → Delivered → Paid) so the pipeline shows where the bottlenecks are.
Write the next action. For every project, write the single next action and who owns it. A project without a next action is a stalled project.
Review and re-sort weekly. Once a week, sort by due date, clear anything delivered, and confirm every active project has a fresh next action.
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Your single source of truth for everything in flight. Sort by due date and keep the next action filled for every row.
| Project | Client | Stage | Due date | Value | Next action | Owner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YouTube integration | Acme Co | In progress | Jun 24 | $5,600 | Send first draft | You |
| Reel bundle | Bright Labs | Brief | Jul 02 | $1,200 | Confirm hooks | You |
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Keep every deal in one tracker with a status stage, a due date, and a single next action per row. The discipline that prevents dropped deadlines is reviewing the whole list on a fixed day each week and re-sorting by due date.
A simple pipeline of Brief, In progress, Review, Delivered, and Paid covers most creator work. The key is defining exit criteria for each stage so everyone agrees when a project moves forward.
