Drew McManus on the orchestra business.
Did you know that the single largest employer of full-time professional musicians is the United States Armed Forces? Set aside some time today to learn more about the ensembles and their missions. The United States Air Force Band The United States Army Band “The Presidents Own” United States Marine Band The United States Navy Band The United States Coast Guard Band
#NAMPC 2015 was a fantastic conference and you can expect a round up post coming soon via ArtsHacker as a joint article with my co-presenter and ArtsHacker contributor, Ceci Dadisman. As for today, I’m in the normal sort of catch-up mode after being away at the brain etch-a-sketch shake that is a conference; as such I want to point out two articles of note that deserve your attention. (Purportedly) Sleazy In …
In the course of preparing for the #NAMPC Click Click Done session, my fellow panelists and I came up with the idea of create a dedicated microsite especially for the session. Dubbed SessionSYNC, it was inspired in large part by The Walking Dead StorySYNC program in that is designed to be accessed primarily through tablets and Smartphones, but unlike the interactive style content for that purpose (such as polls and quizzes), …
I’m en route today to Salt Lake City for the 2015 National Arts Marketing Project Conference (#NAMPC) where I’ll be integrated into several areas of the conference: leading a panel on Developing Google Analytics Skills, providing one-to-one coaching on Inking The Right Deal: demystifying web, CRM, ticketing, and email marketing RFPs, and hosting a Dine-Around event (tonight!) with the discussion topic Understanding The Relationship Between Web, Ticketing, & CRM. In addition …
Yesterday’s post, Channeling Your Rage Over Health Care Costs, produced some fascinating discussion by way of social media and one topic in particular that emerged was the conflict created by an orchestral employer offering one level of health care to musicians and something entirely different to administrative employees, the latter of which is typically comprised of two tiers: “executives” (top tier employees) and “staffers” (entry to middle tier employees). After some …