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Process–Part of Your Fundraising Success

Posted On December 6, 2012 By Shoshana

As part of fundraising week on this blog, I thought you would enjoy this post! Happy reading, Shoshana

Give thanks to the org that started it all! Audience development for the arts and ADS

Posted On December 4, 2012 By Shoshana

Hugs for all of you and Happy Colorado Gives Day!  Isn’t my cat cute? I have set up a Colorado Gives Day giving campaign for BCAA. You do not have to be from Colorado to give to this wonderful organization. The Boulder County Arts Alliance is the organization that first alerted me to the benefits… 

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Top 5 FUNdraising campaign tips for audience development for the arts

Posted On November 27, 2012 By Shoshana

As reiterated at NAMPC, putting fun back into your audience development and marketing is important.  It is also a great way to run a fundraising campaign.  Is it simply a coincidence that “fun” is a big part of the word “fundraising?”  I often have wondered about this. Since it is the time for the majority… 

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Takeaways from the #NAMPC Conference

Posted On November 13, 2012 By Shoshana

I wanted to start out by giving you the link to my Storify – My #NAMPC experience via Twitter.  I ended up winning the Most Tweets Award, and I received this fun t-shirt!  I also won by connecting with more people on Twitter and getting to meet some of these people during the conference.  It… 

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Quick comment on Kaiser post

Posted On November 6, 2012 By Shoshana

For some reason, my comment wasn’t approved on his blog.  I’m hoping it was a technological glitch, otherwise it looks like he is only taking soft comments that agree or do not go against his post too much. To catch some of you up, Michael Kaiser wrote a post entitled: Where Are the Senior Arts… 

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Get out the vote and arts advocacy/audience development

Posted On November 5, 2012 By Shoshana

I am thankful that the election is only a day away.  Being from a swing state, I have been bombarded by emails, calls, and commercials.  It will be most peaceful on Wednesday, November 7th.  One issue that has been brought up is the get out the vote and how this may relate to arts advocacy… 

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Slipping into old habits? – arts audience development

Posted On November 2, 2012 By Shoshana

I have witnessed a few organizations that have started audience development, see great results for their first year, and then lose ground due to slipping back into old habits and ways of marketing.  Audience development does work when you apply it correctly, but it is not a one-time solution.  Instead, it is an ongoing solution… 

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Bonus Blog Post – Halloween YouTube kinda mood!

Posted On October 31, 2012 By Shoshana

Happy Halloween!  I always enjoy searching for Halloween Arts YouTubes to share with you.  Have a safe and happy holiday! [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_2HxZ0Gp4U] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2fSAZ9vRJs] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=887krFvSqXg] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqS-wy43lrs] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpDpAzLgrZU] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qac7ZYhqf2k] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUgDCMTENFg] Cheers to happy and loyal audiences, Shoshana Shoshana Fanizza Audience Development Specialists https://www.buildmyaudience.com “Never treat your audience as customers, always as… 

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Connecting the Dots for Outreach and Arts Audience Development

Posted On October 31, 2012 By Shoshana

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Audience Development Specialists News!

Posted On October 26, 2012 By Shoshana

I have a great deal of new adventures to share with you.  Next week I will be back to regular blogging, but I thought I would take a moment to update you. I signed up for Soundcloud. I have not added that many tracks yet, but this will be the future location for my Audience… 

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