After months of it sitting in my inbox, I finally got around to sampling the plenary sessions from the League of American Orchestras’ summer conference. I found myself riveted by the Luncheon Plenary Speech by Alex Laing. He was mentioning how his performance would be better if he could look out into the audience and…
My client, composer Gustav Hoyer stopped by the ADS Podcast to talk…
Happy Sunday! I wanted to share what it is like in meetings with my clients. Most of the time, they come to me with challenges. I listen as intently as I can, think about it, and then follow up with ideas for solutions to work on. The group normally takes the ideas and helps to…
Wonderful Wednesday to you! I have a few random thoughts I would like to share with you today. Collaborations – Your vision must match! I am working with a group that has a collaboration with city constituents. They worked hard to raise money for the project, and the city agencies put up the other half…
I tend to receive many emails with the hope of me writing something on my blog about their service, new book, etc. Most of the time the hopeful content has nothing to do with audience development. Normally I just junk mail most of them. Today, I could not ignore what was in my email box.…
Happy Friday! This will be a quick one. I have been avoiding setting up an account with the NY Times, which is how they are starting their audience development process of moving the free viewers to paid patrons. After not being able to access several articles, I had to give in. I signed up for…
As you know, dear reader, I don’t post unless I have something to say, when an idea strikes. After over 10 years of writing this blog, I still get surprised myself when something new pops up. It did today. I am reading a book called “Happy Gut,” by Dr. Vincent Pedre. Lately, I have been…
I received a direct mail from an organization I have had no contact with for three years. At that time, I was a supporter. I did not say take me off the list when I stopped supporting the organization, and I still get some mail from them from time to time. This year, I received…
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