Arts Marketing Insights: The Dynamics of Building and Retaining Performing Arts 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.

JOANNE SCHEFF BERNSTEIN, coauthor of the acclaimed and best-selling Standing Room Only, is an educator, consultant, speaker, and author in the field of arts and culture management and marketing. She is adjunct associate professor of business institutions at Northwestern University and taught arts management at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management for eight years. She consults with arts and service organizations and speaks frequently to audiences worldwide.