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Showing posts with label publicity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label publicity. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 04, 2024

Facepalm

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Davies Symphony Hall Photo by Lisa Hirsch Found all over the place, on social media, in email, and elsewhere: Crude as a gut punch, tender a...
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Sunday, November 12, 2023

Mysteries of Publicity

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Throwback Sunday? I'm reminded of an older post in which I lamented that I'm much more likely to attend a concert if I know what you...
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Saturday, May 20, 2023

Publicity and Its Discontents

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If you're a smallish, but reasonably well-funded, opera company, why would you go to the trouble of printing a fancy eight-page, folding...
Monday, May 08, 2023

Don't Be This Small Non-Profit 3

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In 2018 and 202, I posted about issues I had with  trying to renew my membership  in a small nonprofit organization (SNP) and then about  wh...
Friday, July 30, 2021

SFS Ticketing Update

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  Davies Symphony Hall Photo by me So I managed to buy my SFS tickets today, on the last day of their free ticket offer. The process was pai...
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Monday, May 25, 2020

The Cardinal Sin

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Okay, maybe it's not the worst , but it's pretty bad: your organization provides a contact email on your web site, in an email, or o...
Thursday, April 16, 2020

CSO Boasts About Its Music Director's Disinterest in 20th c. and Contemporary Music

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Speaking of messages from orchestras, the Chicago Symphony's latest promotional email includes this gem: (Text in screenshot reads:...
Tuesday, March 24, 2020

Dear Mr. Gelb:

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Lincoln Center Plaza Fountain Photo by Lisa Hirsch Dear Mr. Gelb: I received the following appeal from the Met today: Support ...
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Thursday, December 05, 2019

Note to Publicists

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After I've told two of your publicists that no, I am not going to post about your organization, product, or service, I'd rather not ...
Sunday, December 23, 2018

Blind Faith

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It's best if your web site lists the works you are playing on a particular concert. I can't begin to tell you how much I won...
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Tuesday, July 31, 2018

An Email Error You Don't Want to Make

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I've gotten emails recently from two organizations that left me dismayed at the lack of thought that went into the email. One is from ...
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Saturday, July 14, 2018

Don't Be This Small Non-Profit

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[July 14: Pushing this to the top of the blog because of follow-ups.} Stuff that happened to me when I tried to renew my membership in a s...
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Saturday, April 28, 2018

Pet Peeve

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I've got one (I know, you're thinking "SHE HAS 27 PET PEEVES WE HEAR ABOUT THEM ALL THE TIME SHUT UP ALREADY"): Organiza...
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Wednesday, March 14, 2018

How to Construct a Press Release

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I have in my hot little hands a press release that is making me slightly crazy. It's got the usual copy about how fabulous the organ...
Saturday, October 07, 2017

We Can't Scare People Off

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I gotta say, I am discouraged to see concert write-ups like this on the SFS web page: DVOŘÁK’S CELLO CONCERTO WITH THE SF SYMPHONY Cond...

Why???

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I got a rather odd email this morning, one that is unique in my experience, from a Bay Area organization whose mailing list I've b...
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Monday, April 24, 2017

When Databases Don't Communicate

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I received the following somewhat amusing email from San Francisco Opera: We noticed you were looking into  Rigoletto . We're thril...
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Tuesday, March 21, 2017

Stop, Already!

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Found in my in-box, and this is just a sample : Her program, the complete Goldberg Variations by J.S. Bach, is one of the most  beloved  ...
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Thursday, March 16, 2017

Awaiting the Correction.

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An opera company I won't name just made an entertaining error in the email announcing their 2017-18 season. And I can tell you exactly w...
Wednesday, February 01, 2017

I Can't Even.

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Good grief: SAN FRANCISCO, CA - The  San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM)  begins Spring Semester with a new logo and brand that sho...