Copywriting Errors That Can Ruin Your Orchestra's Website

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There’s a wonderful article at Smashing Magazine by Bradd Shorr entitled Five Copywriting Errors That Can Ruin a Company’s Website. Although geared toward more of a geek crowd there’s quite a bit for orchestra professionals to benefit from so to that end, I’m going to highlight some of Shorr’s points within the context of our field. Error #1: Writing Inwardly Having worked in-house for many years, I’ve fell victim to the …

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Adaptistration Has The Best Readers

There has been some fantastic discussion from the Square credit card reader system post from 3/15/2011. In particular, Colorado Springs Philharmonic Marketing Manager Nathan Willers provided some excellent, and candid, firsthand insight into the service. [Spoiler alert: he has good things to say about Square]…

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What’s In a Name? Part 3

It has been awhile since we examined the issue of orchestra domain names (here and here) but a recent comment to an article about the Detroit Symphony Orchestra musician website made me realize that all of the attention and advice here directed toward orchestra associations on the importance of registering domain names applies equally to player associations…

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A Conversation With An Orchestra Website

Properdiscord.com recently posted a video entitled A conversation with an orchestra website preceded by the following description: “I was looking at orchestra websites today. They annoyed me. I started to wonder what they would say if they could talk.” True that. And the resulting video is laugh out loud hilarious. With the annual orchestra website reviews about a month away this video couldn’t appear at a better time so take a moment and watch the video…

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