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How a Salt Lake City cabbie schooled us arts marketers

A few weeks ago, when I traveled to Salt Lake City for the NAMP conference, something happened. I wanted to tell you the story because it holds some good lessons for arts …

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Building a community classical music portal

Many cities and communities around the country have some kind of portal for classical music, or the arts in general. Many of these portals are funded, if not initiated, by foundations, local …

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Marketing the arts when your budget gets cut

Going Back to Basics and Building for the Future Or how we increased the return on marketing by 68% and put an opera company back on track A little while ago, I …

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Building a performing arts website on no or close to no budget

While I have developed websites from scratch, when I developed a new website for Austin Lyric Opera, I chose to go with a vendor. I needed the help, the service and the …

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Dispelling some untruths about managing the arts

Summer time is conference time, which inevitably leads to discussions about the state of the arts. The topic has been picked up around the blogosphere too. Yesterday I went to an event …

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Remember the Alamo

One of the things I love about moving to Austin is the Alamo Drafthouse. After seeing a movie there, you really can’t go back to a regular theater. The movie I wanted …

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Detroit’s labor dispute and social media

You might have heard about the Detroit Symphony Orchestra labor dispute. It’s not going particularly well. In fact, it’s getting downright ugly. Violinist Sarah Chang—originally scheduled to appear with the orchestra before …

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Imagined, online communities

One of the key elements of social media is “the community.” Without a community, there wouldn’t be a social in social media. But what exactly is this community? In my post on …

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Golden Ages and Unsustainability

There was a minor storm in the classical music blogosphere in the last two weeks or so. What started it was Heather Mac Donald’s article Classical Music’s New Golden Age and Greg …

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1,000 followers on Twitter: from slacktivism to activism (#floodofsupport)

We all know that Nashville got hit with a terrible flood a few months ago. This terrible flood didn’t spare the Nashville Symphony Orchestra (NSO). The orchestra’s damages were approximately $42 million …

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Marc van Bree

I’m not a guru, maven or ninja or whatever the cool kids go by these days. I simply bring solutions and get things done. Backed by 10 years of results converting online and offline, building infrastructures and laying groundwork, and creating, running, and finessing campaigns in a rapidly changing media environment.
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