Readership Survey Results Part 2

Part 1 in this series examined the 2009 Readership Segmentation Survey demographics and this installment will continue by examining and comparing respondent’s media and culture habits along with blogging and online habits. Undoubtedly, these sections produced some of the most fascinating and constructive data from the entire survey and will serve as some of the most useful information for other cultural bloggers and arts managers…

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Readership Survey Results Part 1

Let me guess, you’re between 35-55 years old, male, Caucasian, do not have children, are well educated, are at the high end of the IRS 25% tax bracket, and reside in one of five states with the most electoral college delegates. At least that’s how the data from the 2009 Readership Segmentation Study describes the average Adaptistration reader…

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So That’s Who You Are

The 2009 Reader Segmentation Survey received hundreds of responses and out of that mix, one lucky entry was selected at random to win the free three month subscription to the Naxos Music Library. Thank you to every reader who completed a survey; the response was incredible and although I wish everyone could receive a prize, congratulations go to Bill Busen of Illinois whose entry was selected as this year’s winner…

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Checking In On Charleston

The 2/18/2009 edition of the Charleston City Paper published an article by Greg Hambrick that does a good job outlining the current situation at the Charleston Symphony Orchestra. According to the article, the organization projects a major cash flow deficiency sometime in March and is pressing musicians to reduce the number of salaried members. We’ll be looking at this situation closer at the end of next week, in the meantime, Greg’s …

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Putting Out Some Fires

Yesterday’s article generated a good bit of direct email messages from managers across the country. Some enjoyed the article and found it enormously useful and others were very upset. In the case of the latter group, the issue mentioned most often could be summed up as displeasure over focusing on the negative without offering solutions otherwise. I can understand where that would bother some but at the same time, I did publish an article a few weeks ago entitled A Meaningful Approach To Concessions which functions as the antithesis to yesterday’s post…

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