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Drew McManus

How To Stop Saying No To Ideas

Thu, Oct 10, 2015
Adaptistration People 001
Experience is a wonderful thing; it provides leaders with the ability to analyze a large amount of variables in short order while simultaneously arriving at a decision with a reliable degree certainty that it is indeed the best course of action. After a certain career threshold, this skill becomes a second skin, you wear it

Make Images Behave Inside MailChimp RSS Templates

Wed, Oct 10, 2015
ArtsHacker.com
MailChimp (MC) is one of the most popular email marketing providers for a host of good reasons but even the best of providers have a few minor annoyances and in MC’s case, it’s the inability to dynamically resize images via an RSS campaign so they fit inside both Smartphone and standard email client windows. Since

BRAAAAAIIINS, er, FEEEEES

Tue, Oct 10, 2015
Adaptistration Zombie
There’s a terrific post over at Vu Le’s NWB in the form of nonprofit Halloween stories from nonprofit managers and the one that struck a chord was the First Place contribution about a terrifying tale of board ambush to raise program fees 50 percent. For the orchestra field, program fees translate to earned income; which

Mastering the Art of Getting Things Done @Americans4Arts #ARTSBlog

Mon, Oct 10, 2015
taking a cue
If you haven’t been following it already, Americans for the Arts blog salon on arts marketing started up last week and my contribution went up over the weekend. Titled Mastering the Art of Getting Things Done, the post focuses on the need for arts marketers, and I’d go so far as to say arts managers

Variances, Exceptions, And Special Considerations! Oh My!

Fri, Oct 10, 2015
Adaptistration People 023
Imagine for a moment that you’re passionate about Haggis, so much so that you went to school to study everything you could learn about Haggis and earned a degree in Culinary Arts with the goal of launching your very own startup food truck that does nothing but produce Haggis dishes, let’s call it Pluck You*.
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