Featured Article Two Non-Traditional Social Ideas for Marketing Your Venue & Performances Peter Corbett, Founder and CEO iStrategyLabs As a social experiential agency, we at iStrategyLabs get to play with all sorts of emerging platforms and methodologies for promoting our clients’ brands and events. The following concepts are ones we’ve tested, and which show great promise in being applicable for arts organizations that are looking to market their venues and performances in new ways. These approaches are meant to be inexpensive and lightweight to produce, yet have impact that can be felt at the box office in terms of lifting brand awareness for the organization.
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iStrategyLabs builds online and offline movements that engage communities through creative marketing, experimental uses of social media, and civic innovation programs of all kinds. They are creative problem solvers and passionate producers capable of building everything from websites, to animated films, to massive festivals.
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The National Arts Marketing Project (NAMP) consists of four components: 1) Nonprofit Marketing Training delivers customized skills and strategies for developing new arts audiences 2) ArtsMarketing.org offers a comprehensive online marketing resource 3) National Arts Marketing Project Conference allows arts marketers to meet for a learning, sharing, and networking experience 4) Basic Marketing Workshops offered by Arts & Business Council of Americans for the Arts affiliates around the country
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