January 2014 – Adaptistration

Breaking News: $100k Reward Offered For Stolen Lipinski Strad

Friday, January 31st, 2014 by Drew McManus

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 31, 2014 Reward to be offered for Stolen Lipinski Stradivarius $100,000 reward offered for information leading to the safe return of the violin MILWAUKEE (January 31, 2014) – The Milwaukee Police Department continues to investigate the theft of the 1715 Stradivarius violin, which occurred on Monday, January 27, 2014, around 10:20 PM during an armed robbery of Frank Almond following a concert at the Wisconsin Lutheran College. …

Paying The Ticket Price Piper

Friday, January 31st, 2014 by Drew McManus

There were two items of note this week related to ticket pricing strategies. First up is The Metropolitan Opera (The Met), which released data detailing large losses in the wake of dynamic pricing initiatives that ushered in a wave of price increases. Although The Met reversed the decision during Q1 2013, the damage was done and when the fiscal year was complete, they reported average attendance fell to 79 percent capacity, …

Respect Your Recipients’ Time

Thursday, January 30th, 2014 by Drew McManus

Earlier in the week, I mentioned MailChimp email marketing service and how much I like their service, one of the ancillary benefits is a genuinely terrific company blog that focuses on more than just obligatory best practices posts; instead, they focus on lessons learned along the way from their own mistakes. Case in point was one of their posts from 10/31/2012 about reducing irrelevance by way of improved list segmentation and …

Armed Robbers Make Off With “Lipinski” Stradivarius

Wednesday, January 29th, 2014 by Drew McManus

On Monday, January 27, 2014 armed robbers attacked violinist Frank Almond and stole the “Lipinski” Stradivarius violin he used at a Frankly Music chamber series concert that evening. Almond, who is also concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony and author of the non divisi culture blog, was tasered as he approached his car near the stage entrance after the performance and the violin case was driven away within seconds. The case also contained …

Orchestra 990 Project Update: Kickstarter Launches Next Week

Tuesday, January 28th, 2014 by Drew McManus

More good news everybody! The remaining work for the Orchestra 990 Database Project is complete which means all we need to do is get the Kickstarter campaign material finished up, hook it into the required Amazon Payment system, and the fundraising can begin. In fact, the Adobe After Effects project for the promo video is rendering as I type. Thanks to everyone for the reward suggestions vis-a-vis our last project update, …