2,138 stories from Butts In The Seats
Interesting bit of research by Jeff Apruzzese who looked at whether opening for a major band on tour provided a bump in fame to launch them to stardom. Apruzzese had been a live musician on …
When I made my post about the new TKTS booth in Philadelphia last week it occurred to me to check if Opera Philadelphia would be offering it $11 tickets for any seat in the house again this …
For the last three weeks the Freakonomics radio podcast has run a three part series on the economics of live theater, Broadway shows in particular. They are using the example of the effort t…
The iconic TKTS booth in NYC's Times Square and London's West End has branched out and started serving Philadelphia. The Philly branch provides discounted tickets for theater performances, t…
As ever, I am paying attention to data on various trends, one of which is the level of perceived trust of cultural organizations. Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACTS Experience h…
Ruth Hartt made a post yesterday that is getting a fair number of responses from folks in the arts community, including somewhat gratifyingly, board members who need to be invested in the go…
Kyle Bowen piqued my attention today in the Museums as Progress newsletter where he discussed Goodhart's Law. "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. Long time read…
Last week I had an ArtsHacker post covering a sessions sponsored by ArtsMidwest regarding compliance with Trump Administration Executive Orders on DEI programs. The content of this session i…
Short, interesting piece on the INC magazine site on Tax Day about tax mistakes content creators and influencers make that has a bit of overlap for all creative and arts workers. The first a…
The Art Newspaper conducts an annual survey of the social media usage of 100 most visited museums in the world. They have typically taken a look at how museums have been using Facebook, Inst…
Alright so today's post is totally for amusement and entertainment purposes. Except for a pretty narrow use case, I don't really see a connection with arts and cultural organizations. I saw …
Seth Godin had a recent post on the "knock, knock" promotional business model. The way he describes it put me in mind of the Field of Dreams "if you build it, they will come," approach to ad…
A couple days ago, Sam Reich, CEO of Dropout TV announced an $1/month increase in the subscription rate for the service. However, he made it very clear that this increase was for new and ret…
Seth Godin recently made a post warning people against adopting the tactics of those you view as successful as your own. The problem is simple. You don't have a tactics problem. You have …
A professional grant writer had a piece on the Oregon ArtsWatch website where she expressed her disbelief at the Oregon Arts Commission's (OAC) new grant guidelines. But it was all in a good…
Yesterday I received an email letting me know that Colleen Dilenschneider and her colleagues at IMPACTS Experience had released a new post titled Ticket Purchasing Frustrations Are On the Ri…
There was an article on Fast Company this week that discusses customer churn. For the most part the piece is written from the perspective of being a company that has sold another business a …
Earlier this month I saw a news piece about strippers in Minneapolis organizing to form a guild in that city. Stories about people organizing to take collective action and engage in bargaini…
I was recently drawn to the story of Rock School for Dance Education in Philadelphia opening a retail dancewear store out of their location. They spent $150,000 renovating a space that used …
There is a lot of conversation among arts organizations these days about the need to create connection and show the value of arts organizations to the community. I worked with an artist this…
In my post yesterday I briefly referenced research Colleen Dilenschneider and the folks at IMPACTS Experience have released showing that arts and cultural organizations have gained an increa…
Last month, Forbes website hosted an article "6 Things That Arts Leaders Should Do Right Now" It is written in the context of all the funding cuts and policy changes being promulgated on the…
Seth Godin recently made a post that resonated with me. He wrote about how in large organizations and bureaucracies things often fall through the cracks partially because no one is specifica…
To expand a little on yesterday's post about the customer always being right, Seth Godin recently made a post about why people complain. One of the reasons he cites is, of course, to effect …
I have been seeing a number of claims that the full quote ends with "…in matters of taste." As much as I would love that to be true given that retailers have been bludgeoned with the phras…
