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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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Quick post – more random thoughts for audience development for the arts

Posted On October 17, 2012 By Shoshana

I am off to Austin, TX for a family wedding.  I wanted to post a little something before I leave.  Today I have been thinking a variety of random thoughts due to interactions with people: Are we getting caught up on the words?  I had someone ask about whether I thought “Community Engagement” was overused. … 

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Audience Development for the Arts Songs!

Posted On October 12, 2012 By Shoshana

It’s Friday!  Yesterday as you know, we had an #auddev chat.  During the chat, one of our chatters, Becky Peters a.k.a. @bpeters99 tweeted a song title that stuck in my head: Love the One You’re With by Crosby, Stills and Nash.  Of course this was in reference to loving your current audience. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5IVuN1N6-Y] It… 

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#Auddev chat, Thursday, October 11 at Noon ET on Twitter for arts audience development

Posted On October 8, 2012 By Shoshana

I wanted to make sure you were all invited to the #auddev chat we will be having this Thursday: Audiences’ Preferred Connections Co-host Cindy Marie Jenkins, L.A.’s own Storyteller/Outreach Nerd, and I will be conducting a chat about audiences and how they prefer to connect with us. So dig up your latest surveys and let’s… 

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Everything needs to be considered for good arts audience development

Posted On October 1, 2012 By Shoshana

There is a tiny little debate happening, although it might have been caused by a misunderstanding.  It has been brought up that sometimes we need to look at the programming, if (and there it is, if) the programming is no longer selling.  We also have to look at the marketing messages and branding, the audience… 

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My apologies to my email subscribers – #Auddev chat 9/27, Noon ET – Arts, Change & Audiences

Posted On September 27, 2012 By Shoshana

I was using the Storify export function, and it wigged out. I apologize for the repeated bogus posts. Here is the actual chat transcript I was attempting to post: [View the story “#Auddev chat, 9/27, Noon ET – Arts, Change & Audiences” on Storify] Cheers to happy and loyal audiences, Shoshana Shoshana Fanizza Audience Development… 

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YouTube Kinda Mood – Arts Audience Development and Advocacy (5 Videos)

Posted On September 21, 2012 By Shoshana

It’s Friday!  I haven’t posted some YouTubes in a while.  I looked up some more current Arts Advocacy videos.  Here’s what I found: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ90-qfW94E&w=420&h=315] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGwnPQkoFtk&w=420&h=315] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv_w2e2E7MI&w=420&h=315] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4is8MR_yaB0&w=420&h=315] [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2xl7-5aeA4&w=420&h=315] Have a great weekend! Cheers to happy and loyal audiences, Shoshana Shoshana Fanizza Audience Development Specialists https://www.buildmyaudience.com “Never treat your audience as… 

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3 ways for artists to make friends with arts audience development

Posted On September 13, 2012 By Shoshana

    I was having a conversation with a friend about artists and our resistance to doing the work we have to do in order to build our audience.  Many of us view the audience development/marketing side of our businesses as boring and that “thing” we “have” to do that takes our precious time away… 

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Leading with quality art experiences for arts audience development

Posted On September 12, 2012 By Shoshana

Today I have a guest blogger for you.  Please welcome Paul Stavish, Audience Development Manager of Oregon Ballet Theatre.  He came to me with an idea of building audiences, not through quirky marketing deals and promotions, but to go beyond with artistic experiences for your audiences and communicating with them passionately about your art.  The… 

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Websites and arts audience development

Posted On September 7, 2012 By Shoshana

I have been a little MIA this week, but I did want to end the week with a quick post.  In the past, I have written about the process of branding properly as being the first step to audience development.  This branding process includes a website. A website can be a slightly bigger budget item,… 

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