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Poetic Promotion: An Ode to Marketing

Continuing the theme of Summer Simplification, let’s take a little trip to Marketing 101, where the seemingly indecipherable concepts under the umbrella of the vast field of marketing — Branding, Strategy, Advertising, PR, and the rest — get their own, well, stanza.
Often when I’m meeting with a client, I reference a category of marketing, for [...]

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Capturing the Gen-Y Audience

The hot topic among my marketing peers of late has been Gen-Y. Ah, the millenials, the twenty-somethings, the first-adopters.  The target audience for buzz-building brands, and for the arts, your audience of tomorrow… or possibly sooner.
At the recent, excellent L2 Generation Next Forum in New York, a series of rapid-fire presenters shared insights on some [...]

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Start with Strategy

Let’s take a moment, shall we, to get back to basics.
Yesterday, a lighting company contacted me about crafting their marketing strategy. When I asked for background on the company, the owner sent me a recently written press release, and at our meeting today, showed me their logo, website, postcards, and briefed me on recent events. [...]

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Never Stop Learning (A Challenge to Get Your Ass to Class)

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Hey, remember college? Your primary responsibilities included keg party attendance, trying to land an unpaid internship, and considerately scheduling dorm room makeouts around your roommate. Oh right, and learning.

Professional life is, admittedly, quite different: [...]

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Super Bowl Smackdown: What the Arts Could Stand to Learn from Sports

I don’t love sports, but I love sporting events. Few experiences rival the theatricality and pageantry of, say, a pro football game, from fanatical fans to enthralling entrances – all with constant emotional engagement. Wait a second – isn’t that what live performance is supposed to do?
The most popular sports go well beyond [...]

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I Am My Own Focus Group

I have come to the conclusion that I am a marketing anomaly. I should be studied so that marketers understand that there are some very different people out there — and that the Facebook-loving, subscription-hating, texting-during-performances audience member of my age range is NOT me.

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