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Spring Clean Your Marketing

It’s that time again: post your own piece of marketing wisdom in the comments or via Twitter (tag us!) and you can win a seat at the IAA Global Marketing Summit in NYC on May 4.
It’s spring, and any devotee of lifestyle magazines or reality TV knows that means makeover.  Time to assess your marketing [...]

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We Are All Marketers Now: Why Marketing Matters to Non-Marketers

As a way to network, build my craft, and continually generate new ideas for clients, I’m part of a business book club with a group of NYC-based entrepreneurs.  We rotate through popular books on business models, strategy, marketing, sales, and more. (Note: all of us were trained as artists, and therefore none of these books [...]

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The #1 Marketing Mistake Artists Make

It happens with every client whose product is their art. Whether I’m advising on a promotional campaign, revising previously written copy, or advertising a new production, the artist’s reason to produce is all too often presented as the audience’s reason to care.
This is when I put on my Serious Consultant Face and say, “If you [...]

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Orchestra R/Evolution

Conference season is upon us, and many of the major national arts service organizations are having their annual meetings this week. I’m in Atlanta right now doing double duty: blogging and helping out at the League of American Orchestras conference, and speaking at a session at the Chorus America conference on Friday. The opening session [...]

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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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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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