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Keep These Marketing Talking Points Handy

Wed, Sep 9, 2019
by Drew McManus
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Arts marketers spend most of their time thinking about communicating with potential ticket buyers but there are plenty of other points of contact to consider. To that end, there’s a good piece at Muse by Damian Bazadona titled 7 Challenges of Marketing Live Events, Advertising’s High-Wire Act (h/t Scott Silberstein).  While I don’t think it
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Baltimore Ratifies One-Year Deal

Mon, Sep 9, 2019
by Drew McManus
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The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) ratified a new on-year collective bargaining agreement (CBA) Monday morning that gets the orchestra back into the hall for rehearsals ASAP. The Baltimore Sun published an article by Mary Carole McCauley and Christina Tkacik with initial details but that information is, at best, vague. On one hand, it appears that
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Do We Really Want To Find Out How Much Is Too Much?

Mon, Sep 9, 2019
by Drew McManus
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William Blake wrote “you never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough” and while that packs plenty of good, it isn’t something you should want when thinking about how far you can push employees beyond a breaking point. Joe Patti published a thought-provoking post last week about the discouraging earning
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Speaking Of Time Wasters…

Fri, Sep 9, 2019
by Drew McManus
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There must be something in the air, yesterday I posted something about the time suck that are logo requirements and later that same day was a tweet from @ArtsAdminSay about the habit some foundations have of online grant applications that require uploading a PDF of the very information you just entered into several dozen different
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Dear Funders: Your Logo Requirements Are Wasting Your Own Money

Thu, Sep 9, 2019
by Drew McManus
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Requiring grant recipients to display the logo from the company/foundation/agency providing a grant is a common practice. It highlights the funder’s support and that public attention can help inspire additional support. The whole thing works great…until it doesn’t. By nature, logos come in one of three basic aspect ratios (the proportion between width and height):
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