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How do you know if you need audience development?

Posted On June 22, 2012 By Shoshana

This is going to be an easy one this morning.  How do you know if you need audience development?  If you still need to build your audiences and you still need more support in the form of volunteers, donors, sponsors, board members, you need audience development.  It’s that simple! It is not a matter of… 

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How to go beyond demographics for arts audience development

Posted On April 6, 2012 By Shoshana

I had a conversation with an arts center yesterday.  They mentioned that they are working with a marketing company and are busy pulling their target audience information after some research.  I was concerned that they were only going as far as to target demographics, such as age, gender, income, zip code, etc.  It is good… 

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#Auddev Chat 11/28 11 am ET Audience Development for individual musicians…

Posted On April 28, 2011 By Shoshana

Today at 11 am ET, I chatted with Erica Sipes and others about how individual musicians can use audience development concepts and ideas to build their audiences.  We mainly touched upon the 4 C’s of audience development: Connection, Community, Collaboration, and Caring. Below is the full conversation.  I hope you can join us next time,… 

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