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National Arts Marketing Project Newsletter

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Featured Article
Thinking About Audience Research? Four Rules for the Perplexed (Part 1)
 
by Peter Linett
 

“We just had a planning retreat with some of our board members, and they asked us questions about our audience that we couldn’t answer. So we realized we need to do a survey...”

As a researcher who works with arts organizations and museums, I get that call or e-mail frequently. The marketing director of a theater, classical ensemble, dance company, or art museum will get in touch, often passing along a detailed request-for-proposal for audience research, and sometimes already armed with a list of survey questions that she and her executive director brainstormed together.

For more from Peter, click here.


National Arts Marketing Partnership Webinar:
Marketing for the Independent Artist

How to Advance Your Career and Build Your Business

Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. EST

Attention artists! Take control of your own marketing by learning what it can and can't do for your careers. Discover the basics of marketing strategy based on those objectives and how to make it real. Presenter Deborah Obalil will address the difficult balance of making art while running a thriving small business.

This webinar is free to professional members of Americans for the Arts.

Americans for the Arts members should register here. Not a member yet? Join Americans for the Arts and get access to this and more free webinars.


NAMPRadio: Content Management Systems

In NAMPRadio's fourth podcast episode, we talk about content management systems for cultural websites with awesome special guest host and Executive Director for the Center for Arts Management and Technology at Carnegie Mellon University David Dombrosky.

Is it easy to update your arts group's website? Do multiple people on your staff have the capability to make changes? If not, you should consider having your website run on a robust content management system. Ten people need to update? Not a problem. Want a mobile version of your site? Get it in 30 seconds via installing a free plug in.

Listen in as the team talks tech and learn new ways to simplify your website infrastructure with, in many cases, free or open-source tools.

Listen in and subscribe via iTunes or e-mail.


NAMP News

The Evolving Consumer
Brands adapt to the new consumer mindset in the downturn.

Learning from Haiti
What philanthropists and nonprofits should learn from responses to Haiti.

Sharing Data
Our culture shifts privacy standards with changing technologies.

Reaching Out
Is your social networking reaching a diverse demographic?

Find Me!
Location-based mobile applications open up real-time marketing.


The National Arts Marketing Project (NAMP) consists of four components:
1) Basic Marketing Workshops offered by Arts & Business Council of Americans for the Arts affiliates around the country
2) Nonprofit Marketing Training delivers customized skills and strategies for developing new arts audiences
3) ArtsMarketing.org offers a comprehensive online marketing resource
4) National Arts Marketing Project Conference allows arts marketers to meet for a learning, sharing, and networking experience

SAVE THE DATE:
2010 National Arts Marketing Project Conference
November 12–15, San Jose, CA

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