Thursday, May 15, 2025
Seth Godin made a post last week that aligns with the idea that it is easier and cheaper to retain a following rather than constantly trying to acquire new customers. Aubrey Bergauer will of…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:32AMWednesday, May 14, 2025
Last month an article in The Guardian reported that the number of parent reporting that they enjoy reading aloud to their kids 0-4 has dropped from 64% in 2012 to 41% for the same age group …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:06AMTuesday, May 13, 2025
Last week, Philip Cubeta had linked to a story on Inside Philanthropy analyzing the collection and distribution practices of donor advised funds (DAF). I have previously written about proble…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:36AMTuesday, May 6, 2025
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 …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:32PMMonday, May 5, 2025
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 …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:12PMThursday, May 1, 2025
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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:18AMThe 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 performance…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:18AMTuesday, April 29, 2025
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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:32AMThursday, April 24, 2025
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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:48AMWednesday, April 23, 2025
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 …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 06:24AMTuesday, April 22, 2025
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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:06AMWednesday, April 16, 2025
In March, Arts MidWest sponsored a webinar on the Trump Administration’s Executive Orders on DEI. The webinar was led by attorneys from McDermott Will & Emery LLP. Lawyers were eligibl…
SOURCE: artshacker.com at 04:23PMShort, 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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:54AMTuesday, April 15, 2025
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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:32AMThursday, April 10, 2025
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 …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:36AMWednesday, April 9, 2025
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,” approa…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:24PMTuesday, April 8, 2025
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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:48AMWednesday, April 2, 2025
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 …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 05:03AMTuesday, April 1, 2025
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 go…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 04:12AMFriday, March 28, 2025
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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:42AMWednesday, March 26, 2025
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 …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 08:06AMTuesday, March 25, 2025
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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 01:48AMTuesday, March 18, 2025
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 …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:36PMThere 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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:54AMThursday, March 13, 2025
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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:48AMWednesday, March 12, 2025
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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 03:54AMTuesday, March 11, 2025
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…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:18AMWednesday, March 5, 2025
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 effec…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 12:42AMMonday, March 3, 2025
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 p…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 11:32PMWednesday, February 26, 2025
Short, interesting piece in the Chronicle of Philanthropy discussed research that found when non-profits varied their messaging on Facebook, they received more donations. They are careful to…
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 09:12PMNina Simon posted that she had been interviewed on Kyle Thiermann’s podcast (also on YouTube if you want view a video of them talking.) They talk for awhile about Nina’s transition from …
SOURCE: insidethearts.com at 02:54AM 
