Drew McManus on the Orchestra business | est. 2003

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More Metrics Thursday: Following-Up On Tuesday’s Audience Anxiety Post

Thu, Feb 2, 2019
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I was pleased to get a good amount of direct feedback in response to Tuesday’s post about audience anxiety over what to wear to concerts. The most requested item was additional metrics, so here’s a bit of additional data I can share. Location One of most common requests was a variation of the theme “were

Using Metrics To Identify Audience Anxiety

Tue, Feb 2, 2019
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There’s nothing quite like having access to unique data and to that end, as the webmaster for all the blogs hosted at Inside The Arts hosted, I can dive into multiple years’ worth of metrics data. Not long ago, I was enjoying some data mining and uncovered a fascinating nugget that identified a key anxiety

#TBT, Since We’re Ranting About Images…

Thu, Feb 2, 2019
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In light of Tuesday’s rant about artist images, it seems fitting to bookend it with a callback to another content management rant from 2017 about delivering bio and related promotional copy in PDF format. PDF files are the bane of a content manager’s work day. In a nutshell, they are impossible to use for copy/pasting

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

Tue, Feb 2, 2019
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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

Don’t Miss Capacity Interactive’s 2017 Arts Industry Digital Marketing Benchmark Study

Thu, Dec 12, 2018
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Just in case you missed it, the hard-core data nerds* at Capacity Interactive (CI) published their latest installment of the annual Arts Industry Digital Marketing Benchmark Study. I’m just starting to pour through the material but according to CI, they made a few changes this year. The 2017 report “revamped our approach to focus on
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