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.
Table of Contents
Foreword (Philip Kotler).
Introduction.
The Author.
Prologue.
1. The State of Performing Arts Attendance and the State of Marketing.
2. Exploring Characteristics of Current and Potential Performing Arts Audiences.
3. Understanding the Consumer Mind-Set.
4. Planning Strategy and Applying the Strategic Marketing Process.
5. Using Strategic Marketing to Define, Deliver, and Communicate Value.
6. Delivering Value Through Pricing Strategies.
7. Conducting and Using Marketing Research.
8. Leveraging the Internet and E-Mail Marketing.
9. Identifying and Capitalizing on Brand Identity.
10. Building Loyalty: Subscriptions and Beyond.
11. Valuing the Single Ticket Buyer.
12. Focusing on the Customer Experience and Delivering Great Customer Service.
Epilogue.
Notes.
Index.