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A week to be thankful

Posted On November 20, 2017 By Shoshana

Thanksgiving is around the corner now. This week, let’s get into gratitude gear and be thankful for all the good in our lives. I am thankful for you, my friends, colleagues, and readers, who have allowed me to continue to share my audience development for the arts journey with you. I am grateful for the… 

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ADS Podcast: Types of Community Engagement

Posted On November 2, 2017 By Shoshana

Today on the ADS Podcast, I will be speaking about the different… 

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Cats, dogs, fly fishing and audience building

Posted On October 13, 2017 By Shoshana

Happy Friday to you! We made it through the week! I wanted to post a quick thought before we go out and experience some awesome arts activities this weekend. Yesterday I saw an ad with a cat that was hilarious. If it had been about fly fishing, I might not have paid much attention, but… 

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Win-Win mentality is best for audience development

Posted On July 10, 2017 By Shoshana

I hope you had a nice weekend! Here is a quick thought for a Marvelous Monday: Always have the mentality of creating, being a part of, and honoring win-win situations in your life. If you are taking advantage of the situation or they are taking advantage of you, it creates really bad energy that will… 

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Subscriptions, dead or alive, with special guest Al Stilo

Posted On February 11, 2015 By Shoshana

After many years of debate of whether subscriptions are dead or alive… 

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#NAMPC 2014 from the Tweet Seats

Posted On November 11, 2014 By Shoshana

  I wasn’t able to attend the National Arts Marketing Project Conference this year, yet I did “attend” via Twitter (with a cat in my lap).  Twitter hashtags are an easy way to keep in the loop as much as possible.  Of course, it would have been more constructive if I could have attended the… 

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2014 YouTube Kinda Mood: Halloween!

Posted On October 31, 2014 By Shoshana

Happy Halloween everyone!  Here are your 2014 Halloween YouTubes.  Click if you dare!   Howls to yappy and boiled audiences, Shoshana Shoshana Fanizza Chief Audience Screamer

Arts for the benefit of all

Posted On October 14, 2014 By Shoshana

I am carving out some time this week to do reading for the good of myself and for business.  To be honest, I am thinking about my next steps and projects – the planning for 2015. One of the books I am reading is “Becoming Enlightened” – translations of the Dalai Lama’s teachings.  One of the main teachings… 

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#Auddev Chat 9/25/14 w/Jim McCarthy

Posted On September 25, 2014 By Shoshana

Customer Service for Building Audiences! Jim McCarthy (@goldstarjim), CEO of Goldstar has been writing blog posts for their new blog resource Selling Out.  I was intrigued by a recent posting called The Easy Math of Good Service and agree with him that stellar customer service is more cost effective for audience building than the high… 

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What matters to them…

Posted On May 31, 2014 By Shoshana

I normally do not post over the weekends, but after my last discussion from Thursday’s post, a thought popped into my mind in a new way. When I was a kid, my family was the upper, lower, middle class family. We had enough for the basics, yet at some moments, we did not have money… 

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