What if the financial pressures facing arts and culture aren't temporary? What if changing audience behavior isn't a problem to fix, but a sign that the models we've relied on need to change?

How many of these questions have crossed your mind lately? “Where have all my subscribers gone?” “How do I build urgency within my staff again?” “What are the true reasons audiences haven’t returned, and how do they see us now?”

“What are Seattle’s biggest theaters banking on to keep them going? Subscriptions.” –Seattle Times, March 21, 2024

Every ticket sold is an opportunity. To meet the revenue needs in the arts sector, making the most out of every single ticket purchase is becoming an absolute necessity. With subscription rates fluctuating and first-time ticket buyers disappearing...

2024 is soon nearing its end - and what a journey it has been. This year we have covered the story of the rising cost of doing business, shared how to take special care to manage your advocate and lapsed segments, and of course, we have really...

Arts and Culture Leaders,

Just two weeks ago, I presented the Keynote speech at Leap Technology’s 2024 Patron Manager Community Meeting in (chilly) Las Vegas. It was a wonderful event, full of the positive energy of a community that hadn’t been together as a group since...

Why should your organization care about recurring revenue? Here’s why: even before the pandemic, running non-profit arts and cultural organizations meant running businesses driven less by available revenues and market demand and much more by...

I’ve been known for saying “…it’s a tax status, it shouldn’t be an attitude…” and recently I’ve been thinking about this statement. I’ve been thinking about the differences in beliefs, mindset and attitude that exists in charitable/non-profit...

Last week I introduced you to Paul Chambers, SUBTA, and SubSummit in Dallas. Celebrating and sharing the success of the $2 trillion recurring revenue industry, Paul started the SubSummit conference because, “…we were running a subscription box...