Drew McManus on the orchestra business.
A number of readers have been rattling my cage asking about when the Orchestra 990 Project Kickstarter Mk II project is getting underway. For those not already in the know, the Orchestra 990 Database Project planned to convert a decade of professional orchestra IRS Forms 990 returns into a keyword searchable database with filtered results. A Kickstarter campaign took place in the spring of 2014 but ultimately fell short of the …
There’s no greater compliment than a steadily increasing readership and to that end, there doesn’t seem to be any ceiling to my needing to thank each and every reader for finding Adaptistration worth visiting, sharing, and discussing on such a regular basis. In fact, traffic is so good it’s having a tangible impact on monthly hosting charges so as a result, think of today’s post is a mini-support drive. Rest assured, …
It can be all too easy to overlook the need for driving email subscription conversion but make no mistake, email is still an enormously powerful tool, even in the wake of SMS and social media based messaging. Nonetheless, after taking a closer look at Adaptistration’s Weekly Email Subscriber list the other week and noticing the mostly consistent increase of 3.5 percent each month since late 2012 without so much as a …
Just a quick housekeeping post today to say that if you have been awaiting an email reply from me via an ongoing or new email message sent anytime over the past two weeks, I would appreciate it if you wouldn’t mind sending me a reminder message. Unfortunately, the hard drive where I stored my email messages failed and is currently out for data recovery; consequently, I don’t want to inadvertently miss …
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, …