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Orchestra Bankruptcy Could Have Been Avoided with Marketing

Friday, April 29th, 2011

Recently the Philadelphia Orchestra, an institution in the City of Brotherly Love, announced that it was declaring bankruptcy.

According to Newsworks.com, orchestra president Allison Vulgamore said, “We actually have not marketed our concerts very well, and not spent sufficient funds on marketing.” The article continued to say that “Insufficient marketing is one of many elements causing the orchestra to come up short” and that “…organizations such as the orchestra tend to focus their marketing dollars on subscription sales because it’s more efficient, but they will have to change with consumer patterns.” (more…)

Geotagging to Market Your Business

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Geotagging is looking to become a strong player in marketing. What is Geotagging, you ask?  Here’s Wikipedia’s definition: “Geotagging is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to various media such as photographs, video, websites, or RSS feeds and is a form of geospatial metadata. These data usually consist of latitude and longitude coordinates, though they can also include altitude, bearing, accuracy data, and place names.”  More commonly, you might be familiar with geotagging from popular apps like Foursquare or Gowalla.  Here are a couple good articles on the geotagging marketing and how businesses are maximizing this trend:

The Future of Geo-tagged Marketing, Now

Foursquare, Baby, Foursquare

Foursquare and Starbucks Team Up to Offer Customer Rewards

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