"Audience behavior began to shift dramatically in the mid 1990s. Since then, people have become more spontaneous in purchasing tickets and increasingly prefer selecting specific programs to attend rather than buying a subscription series. Arts attenders also expect more responsive customer service than ever before. Because of these and other factors, many audience development strategies that sustained nonprofit arts organizations in the past are no longer dependable and performing arts marketers face many new challenges in their efforts to build and retain their audiences. Arts organizations must learn how to be relevant to the changing lifestyles, needs, interests, and preferences of their current and potential audiences.
Arts Marketing Insights offers managers, board members, professors, and students of arts management the ideas and information they need to market effectively and efficiently to customers today and into the future. In this book, Joanne Scheff Bernstein helps readers to understand performing arts audiences, conduct research, and provide excellent customer service. She demonstrates that arts organizations can benefit by expanding the meaning of ""valuable customer"" to include single-ticket buyers. She offers guidance on long-range marketing planning and helps readers understand how to leverage the Internet and e-mail as powerful marketing channels. Bernstein presents vivid case studies and examples that illustrate her strategic principles in action from organizations large and small in the United States, Great Britain, Australia, and other countries."
By:
Joanne Scheff Bernstein (Kellogg Graduate School of Management)
Foreword by:
Philip Kotler
Imprint: Jossey Bass
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 231mm,
Width: 114mm,
Spine: 25mm
Weight: 522g
ISBN: 9780787978440
ISBN 10: 0787978442
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 02 November 2006
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Professional & Vocational
,
A / AS level
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Foreword vii Philip Kotler Introduction xi The Author xix Prologue 1 1 The State of Performing Arts Attendance and the State of Marketing 5 2 Exploring Characteristics of Current and Potential Performing Arts Audiences 25 3 Understanding the Consumer Mind-Set 49 4 Planning Strategy and Applying the Strategic Marketing Process 65 5 Using Strategic Marketing to Define, Deliver, and Communicate Value 89 6 Delivering Value Through Pricing Strategies 117 7 Conducting and Using Marketing Research 143 8 Leveraging the Internet and E-Mail Marketing 163 9 Identifying and Capitalizing on Brand Identity 193 10 Building Loyalty: Subscriptions and Beyond 209 11 Valuing the Single Ticket Buyer 235 12 Focusing on the Customer Experience and Delivering Great Customer Service 249 Epilogue 263 Notes 267 Index 281
Joanne Bernstein is the executive director of Lake Forest Symphony in Illinois.
Reviews for Arts Marketing Insights: The Dynamics of Building and Retaining Performing Arts Audiences
“…the chapters stand as worthwhile updates of a field that has faced a variety of changes and challenges in that intervening decade.” (Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 05/01/2008)
