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Time To Turn Your Motivation Up To 11 With ArtsU’s Google Analytics Webinar

Wednesday, February 6th, 2019 by Drew McManus

Mark your calendar for February 12, 2019 at 3PM ET for the first installment of Americans (@Americans4Arts) for the Arts’ Taking On Google Analytics webinar. As part of @Americans4Arts’ ArtsU program, I’ll be in special guest mode alongside Ceci Dadisman, the always-dynamic authority on all things GA reporting. Session Description Before looking at any data, it is important to have your Google Analytics account set up properly. Ceci Dadisman, Digital Marketing …

Dear Artists and Artist Managers, Help Us Help You. Here’s What You Need To Provide For Promo Pics And Bios

Saturday, January 8th, 2022Tuesday, February 5th, 2019 by Drew McManus

It isn’t unfair to say most orchestra marketers have anywhere from 5-20 minutes per event for compiling all the related artist information. That includes promo images, bios, and any program specific copy. Unfortunately, too many artists and/or their managers make those tasks so difficult that there’s simply no way to end up with a good result. So as a service, here are some tips for what you can do to help …

Are Atonal Musicians Even Allowed To Have A Sense Of Humor?

Monday, February 4th, 2019Monday, February 4th, 2019 by Drew McManus

A country singer walks into a recording studio and reminisces in song about his late father who was a composer of atonal music. No, it’s not the setup line to the latest joke at the expense of atonal composers, it’s a real thing. While there’s no shortage of tongue-in-cheek fun, this is a real song, Copyright 2019 Merle Songs (ASCAP), written by Merle Hazard. Right out of the gate, the lyrics are …

#TBT When Good Managers Have Little Choice But To Do Bad Things

Thursday, January 31st, 2019 by Drew McManus

I’m traveling for work today so just a quick #TBT post by way of a terrific article from recently retired Baltimore Sun music critic, Tim Smith. He recently started a personal blog to use as an outlet for his ongoing music journalism habit (it should definitely be in your bookmark folder) and one of the early offerings is a piece titled Reflections on the crisis at the BSO. The piece offers …

The Best Way To Begin Learning About The Differences Between Cloud And Hosted Software Is At The Beginning

Wednesday, January 30th, 2019 by Drew McManus

There are no shortages of good reasons why you may be hearing more about “the cloud” lately. The fundamental benefits of a serverless platform produce very real advantages. Having said that, understanding the differences between cloud-based software and apps compared to their traditional hosted counterparts is a knowledge well arts administrators need to dig. To that end, I published an article at ArtsHacker that provides an excellent resource for you to …