Resources tagged with promotion

CircuitWest: The Search for Audiences Handbook

The Search for Audiences handbook is a tool for helping presenters (venues) build audiences. It details the research techniques CircuitWest and its participating members used for 12 Western Australian presenters in its projects involving focus groups (qualitative) and, in some cases, surveys (quantitative). It provides an overview of the main factors that influenced audience behaviour across the studies, as well as details the research questions … Read more

What do venues think makes effective touring copy?

What do venues think makes effective copy for touring events?

In this two and half minute video, marketers and managers from five small scale arts centres talk to Heather Maitland about the kind of copy they need from touring companies. All the venues are members of Theatre Forum, the industry body for the performing arts in Ireland.

Touring to rural venues

Orchestras Live is a national music charity that takes professional orchestras to rural venues to enable as many people as possible to experience live world class orchestral music. Each year they work with over 60 promoter partners, ranging from professionally run arts centres to voluntary music groups presenting music in community halls and churches. Based on Orchestras … Read more

How to promote live music

Generator is recognised as the UK’s leading music development agency and, among other projects, it runs Mapped Out, a development programme for emerging live music promoters. Generator has set up a touring network and supports promoters with practical audience development and marketing. Bob Allan organises Generator’s programme of advice sessions, master classes, training courses, seminars, … Read more

Getting big audiences for contemporary classical music

Kroumata is a full-time chamber orchestra based in Sweden. Its mission is to perform contemporary music and promote the work of Sweden’s living composers wherever possible. This case study discusses how Kromata developed its audience and started to lead the way in contemporary classical music.

The role of an arts ambassador

Arts Ambassadors have been used for many years for a range of promotional and marketing activities. This short guide looks at how they can be used, gives examples of how and why organisations have used them and the pros and cons involved. It also discusses two approaches: the promotion-focused approach and the audience development approach … Read more

How to run a successful promotional marketing campaign

This article was first published by Promotional Marketing, a website that aims to keep its readers up to date with the latest industry news, information relating to new campaigns, and features. This article stresses the importance of certain operational processes and outlines why they are key to successful promotional marketing campaigns.

Promotional products drive action

This short article from Promotional Marketing was first published in January 2013 and shares top-line findings from research commissioned by the British Promotional Merchandise Commission. So if you’re not sure how effective promotional products are in comparison to other channels of customer engagement, this is worth a quick read.

Why voting competitions are a nightmare

We may not all be in a position to offer a £10,000 prize as in the case of the example in this article from outside the arts, but this is worth a read if you are considering a voting competition. Do you have a clear set of terms and conditions? With the ease that social … Read more

Attracting young theatre audiences in Sheffield

The How Much? Project was an audience development scheme aimed at developing new young theatre audiences in Sheffield. This research summary discusses the findings – the changes relating to price, product and promotion.