Resources tagged with relationship



The changing face of business sponsorship

The arts have a much richer role to play within a modern, competitive and sustainable business environment. This guide sets out how arts organisations can create new relationships with businesses and achieve a more varied set of outcomes.

How to build a good relationship with the local press

Do you feel like you’re sending your press releases out into the void? Helen Nugent, former Times journalist and founding editor of cultural website Northern Soul, shares her secrets for building a more fruitful relationship with your local arts journalist.

A best practice guide to assessing agency creativity

The Judging Creative Ideas guide is aimed at arming marketing professionals with a best practice guide to assessing creative ideas from communications agencies. While the steps outlined may not be relevant to every creative idea process that you go through as arts marketers this provides some extremely useful steps to go through and aims provide some … Read more

Models for institutional co-operation

This report looks at what strategic alliances could be developed between organisations to achieve back-office cost efficiencies, and how these could be extended front-of-house to include more collaborative business models. It considers approaches to new kinds of artistic collaboration, establishing better connections to culturally diverse communities and organisations, and the development of imaginative federated fundraising … Read more

Building relationships with stakeholders

We often think that research sharing between venues and visiting companies is a contentious issue but during some past research Heather Maitland talked to 50 companies and many of them said things like: ‘I don’t encounter massive problems as we have good relationships with venues who are happy as long as they get something in return.’ So what is a good relationship and … Read more

Managing a diverse range of stakeholder relationships

In March 2006 Manchester Camerata’s partnership with the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) was selected as one of only seven exemplars to take part in phase three of Mission, Models, Money (MMM), an independent action research programme for the arts and cultural sector. Over the following twelve months, the process of developing Manchester Camerata’s strategic alliance … Read more

Niche marketing: focusing on the few

A short study into the value of niche marketing using the example of the successful Opus One subscription series for the Hallé in Manchester. This article analyses why and how this form of marketing can work and why it might not be suitable for all organisations.

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Converting supporters into 'raving fans'

This article looks at how the Baltic has increased visitor frequency by making the visitor experience an unrivalled one, aiming to convert those who might be supporters of the museum into ‘raving fans’. Claire Byers explains how technology has played its part but so too has staff training.

Using technology to develop audience relationships

In this article Martin Vogel examines how technology can authentically serve the purposes of an arts organisation. He looks at the importance of developing a technology strategy for audience relationships that takes into account an organisation’s resources and priorities.