Only 3 spots left for the workshop this weekend. If you are interseted call Shane at TPS and register quick. :-)

There are 3 more slots in the Social Media for Theatres class. If you have been thinking about it- now is the time to grab one of those slots! 

I added a new section due to popular demand! If you are interested- email me at coachmarig@gmail.com and save your spot quick.

6 Wednesdays: March 30th –May 4th
10:00am-11:30am  Pacific Time, USA section of the class.

 

[Beyond Bodies in Seats: Marketing Workshop]

This is posted other places on the site- but I thought I should put a copy of it here so no one misses it.

Beyond Bodies in Seats: Marketing Workshop
By Shane Regan, on January 19, 2011, at 4:56 pm | Category: workshops

PLEASE NOTE: THE DATES HAVE CHANGED
Beyond Bodies in Seats
Authentic Marketing for Arts Organizations

GROW YOUR AUDIENCE and INCREASE YOUR IMPACT!
3 Days- April 9, 10, 16
9:30 am-6:00pm
$165.00 per participant- must be a member of TPS.
Group size limited to 8.

Learn the basics of a new marketing approach that can help support your company’s goals for years to come. Significantly increase audience attendance, donations, and volunteer input while reducing or at least not significantly increasing your current marketing budget. For almost all mid sized arts organizations it IS possible to build a new and vibrant audience base, even in a bad economy.

Significant growth is possible when you start taking audience development as seriously as you take artistic development:
•   Re energize your marketing strategies, or create new ones.
•   Learn how to make selling tickets to your shows easier and more fun.
•   Get your existing patrons to bring in more new audience members
•   Create a comprehensive marketing plan for your organization
•   Avoid common mistakes and learn the right way to use Social Media to market your theatre.
•   Help your artists and marketing volunteers to know what to do and when to do it.

Perfect for marketing staff, artistic directors and artists hoping to start their own organizations. This four-day seminar will take you through the basics of redefining your market niche, creating a compelling message and developing a new plan of innovative marketing strategies. You will explore ways to make your message more effective and get it out to new audiences. You will leave the workshop with your own personalized written plan of action for attracting and keeping new audiences and new volunteers. You will also learn from local organizations about their “best practices” and get a chance to brainstorm with other arts marketers, sharing similar challenges.

Unlike other marketing seminars, this theatre marketing workshop:
**Will give you tangible simple steps that even a “non-marketer” can follow.
**Is geared to low budget methods and innovative ideas rather than expensive advertising or complex initiatives.
**Covers the latest research in audience development and shows you how to take specific steps to leave behind old methods that are no longer working and replace them with new and more effective tactics
**Will directly address the impact this economy is having on small arts organizations and give you practical suggestions for how to adapt.
**Is hands-on. We will help you develop action steps for YOUR theatre or arts organization.
**Is focused on marketing for the arts and led by a marketing expert who is also a theatre practitioner, and therefore understands the art community’s particular challenges and opportunities.

Taught by Mari Geasair
Mari is passionate about helping live theatre thrive by building new and vibrant audiences. She is the Executive Director of Arts Marketing Results and has been working in Arts Marketing since 2004. In addition she has spent the last 12 years as a small busyness coach and has coached over 500 business owners and creative people to successfully market their products and services.  She has had 7 successful businesses of her own, and has served as a marketing director or board member for many theatres. She has been offering the “Bodies in Seats” Workshops to rave reviews in both Colorado and in Seattle since 2006.

Save your spot in this fun workshop today and join us in getting to the core of what will make us all more successful.  The workshop is limited to 8 people only so register early. You should plan on having the same person from your organization attend all 4 days of the workshop in order to get the full usefulness and benefit of this work.

Special Note: This workshop usually sells for $365 per person, but as they do every year,  Theatre Puget is making this available to members at less than half the normal rate. HOWEVER the workshop is limited to only 8 participants and usually sells out very quickly. If your organization is interested please register right away.
3 Month Payment Plans Are  Also Available!
Contact the TPS office for details!

[Social Media Marketing For Theatres A 6 week class in Authentic Arts Marketing on a Budget]

Social Media Marketing For Theatres
A 6 week class in Authentic Arts Marketing on a Budget

6 Wednesdays: March 30th –May 5th 10:00-11:30am Pacific Time, USA
Delivered by teleconference and webinar
Cost $157 if you register before March 25th, Group Size limited to 8.

To register: e-mail Mari Geasair at coachmarig@gmail.com or call 720-201-2530

Stop wasting money on theatre marketing that doesn’t work, and time on a social media plan that is inadequate.  
You can grow your theatre audience through Social Media- if you know how to do it right!

Join us for a step-by-step guide to using social media tools like Facebook, Meetup, YouTube blogs, newsletters and more to get people actively engaged in attending your performances and helping you to grow your organization.  Unlike most social media workshops- this one is exclusively for THEATRE and will address the unique needs challenges and opportunities when marketing live performing arts on-line.

We will cover:
•   How to prepare your website for your social media campaign and why, if your site is not ready, your social media campaigns might not work.
•   How social media differs from traditional marketing and why it’s growing so fast
•   5 golden rules for effective social media communication
•   The most effective ways to use social media to increase participation and tools that will save you time and effort
•   5 key social media tools and where they are best used – including Facebook, Meetup, YouTube, Groupon and blogs
•   The 3 key mistakes most Theatres make that dilute or nullify their social media efforts and how to avoid them.
•   Ways to get ahead of the social media curve so that during the busy times in your marketing season (which are also the busy times in your production schedule) your organization doesn’t “drop the ball.”
•   The hidden social media tool that is uniquely suited for theatres but that few people talk about when they talk about “social media marketing.”
•   Case studies of best practice from small, mid-sized and larger regional theatres that have all used Social Media to increase audience participation and reduce marketing costs.

Who Can Benefit From This Workshop:
This online workshop is aimed at organizations that are just starting out using social media for promoting activity, or who have attempted to use social media and found themselves stagnating or getting less return on their time investment than they had hoped. Your organization might have a Facebook page, or Twitter profile, or be experimenting with Groupon and Meetup but be wondering what to do with it and if what you are doing is actually driving audiences to your venue or just wasting your time. Or you might not have anything set up at all. Either way we can help you refine your process, gain confidence and track your results.
Because this is not a two hour “lecture and leave” workshop, but an ongoing in-depth class you will be able to apply your learning in a variety of ways and from a variety of viewpoints.  As a result, marketing managers, artistic directors, managing directors and  interns and volunteers can all benefit from this workshop and contribute to their organization afterwards while maintaining their unique roles and perspectives.

Instructor:
This workshop is presented by Mari Geasair and the staff of Arts Marketing Results. Mari, Executive Director of Arts Marketing Results, is passionately dedicated to helping arts organizations thrive so that there will be “no more starving artists, or arts organizations.” She has been a marketing coach and consultant since the year 2000, and has been focusing on arts organizations since 2004. Mari helped over 400 different arts organizations and entrepreneurs to thrive while pursuing their missions. Mari has dedicated her career to finding and developing marketing techniques that are low cost, highly effective, and well-matched to creative individuals and arts organizations. Visit www.artsmarketingresults.com for further information.

Details:
•   This course is delivered by Teleconference- with web based support.
•   Dates: We will meet for six sessions, starting Wednesday March 30th and ending May5nd, 2011
•   Time: Class is from 10:00-11:30am Pacific Time, USA,
•   Where: We meet by telephone, you will be given a number to call when you sign up- as well as a web address where you can go to view live links and visual examples.
•   Cost: $157, if you register before March 25th.
•   Requirements: all you need to access this teleconference and webinar is a computer with internet and a phone.

 

To register: e-mail Mari Geasair at coachmarig@gmail.com or call 720-201-2530

Satisfaction guarantee:

We’re so sure you’re going to get useable information that makes an impact for your organization through this webinar that we’re offering a 100% satisfaction guarantee. If you’re not completely satisfied then just let us know and we’ll try and fix the problems immediately. If we can’t fix the problems to your satisfaction then we’ll give you a full refund.

Benefits of online workshops:
•   No travel time
•   No travel costs
•   Learn from anywhere. All you need is a laptop and a phone. You can take this seminar minutes before attending a rehearsal, or seconds after finishing a work meeting.
•   Get the most cost effective training. None of your tuition dollars will be directed towards conference room rentals and bad coffee, keeping the cost low and the value high.

To register: e-mail Mari Geasair at coachmarig@gmail.com or call 720-201-2530

Hey Jim- thank you for the post!

I am constantly banging the drum on this point. We need to invite people into our club and tell them how we are meeting their needs and how they will have great experiences with our arts organizations. We need to help them to care. We need to stop just telling them they should support us because arts are important and if they don't come out and see shows our organizations will die. They don't care until we make it about them and show them how are art can enrich their worlds.

Good art is wonderful, but good art that we actually share with full, vibrant, curious audiences is POWERFUL.

So I am all about meeting to discuss these ideas. AND- I am booked that night. Is there a possibility of a 2nd meeting on a different day?

Kind, quiet, mature local actress/business coach with no pets who doesn't smoke needs a sublet or room rental situation as soon as possible. I am gainfully employed although I do work at home. I do theatre so I am rarely at home evenings or weekends.

Let me know if you know of a possible place!

[You can also listen to a FREE audio recording on a class here http://attendthisevent.com/?eventid=11143155]

Whoops! I forgot the best part!

Go here to http://www.authenticprosperityclub.com/articles for a FREE copy of the first written lesson that goes with the class!

You can also listen to a FREE audio recording on a class here  http://attendthisevent.com/?eventid=11143155

[Weekly Teleconference, Wednesdays 5:30-7:00 PM Pacific TimeStart March 03, 2010 05:30 PMEnd April 07, 2010 07:00 PMCost $165.00]

Hello all! If the stinky economy is causing you stress and worry- now might be a good time to make some deep and permanent changes around money. I am doing another money class and you are welcome to attend. Note: this is way more than an attraction and affirmation class- we will be mixing spiritual knowledge, psychological insight and lots of practical action to make BIG changes. :-) Feel free to pass this e-mail along to your friends. :-)
 
Prosperity Training for Entrepreneurs and Underearners- 2010
 
Weekly Teleconference, Wednesdays 5:30-7:00 PM Pacific Time
Start  March 03, 2010  05:30 PM
End  April 07, 2010  07:00 PM
Cost $165.00 To sign up go to: http://www.authenticprosperityclub.com/Default.aspx?pageId=325697
(Section one of two-  this six week class may be taken alone or as a prerequisite for Prosperity Training 2)

Special for TPS members only- get a $15.00 discount AND pay over 3 months!  In order to get this deal you must use this special link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=HEXNTGK6J878G
 
Healthy, High Integrity Prosperity IS Possible!

Don't cringe when the bills arrive -- Instead, feel calm, proud and excited about your money! Join us for this fun and powerful financial transformation process and take charge of 2010!
 
Create Financial Abundance, Take Control of Your Finances and Create More Opportunity!

Learn practical tools you can start using today to get organized around your money, increase your earning, and reduce your debt. This interactive class will help you to discover the things you are doing that unconsciously draw debt and financial struggle to you, and the simple actions you can take to earn more, spend less, and create honest abundance-without depriving yourself or going against your own values.
Our Prosperity Training for Entrepreneurs and Creative Thinkers will help you to:
 
•   Stop feeling afraid, guilty and stressed out about money-once and for all.
•   Discover the ten "debt magnets," habits that draw debt and unexpected financial expenses to you, and what you can do to reverse this process to attract wealth instead.
•   Learn how to give yourself a raise, without changing jobs or careers.
•   Expand your personal confidence and learn how to get more clients and better paying work.
•   KEEP your new year's resolutions for more prosperity-making sure you get the right tools-- and know what to do and when to do it.
 
Unlike other financial education programs and "prosperity attraction" programs, our program:
 
•   Is designed to put you into practical action right away and simultaneously support deep subconscious shifts in the way you handle money.
•    Is the only prosperity program focused solely on helping independent professionals, artists and entrepreneurs to tackle the complex money issues and opportunities that come with living life on the "road less traveled."
•    Focuses as much on earning more-and finding creative, authentic ways to do it-as it does on telling you to spend less, live within your means and invest more (wisdom you already know anyway!).

About the Instructor:

Mari Geasair has been there. She has been an entrepreneur for over 18 years and owned 5 successful businesses of her own. In addition, as a coach and facilitator, she has worked as an active partner with hundreds of small business owners and self-employed individuals. Personally, she has gone from overwhelmed underearner to a high earner, fully exploring her creativity both through her business and as an actress, writer, and director.
 
What other students are saying about the Prosperity Training:    
I didn't believe you that it would work as well as it did. But I just added up my wealth log for the full 12 weeks of class (parts 1 and 2). My total was $6,738.16 and for the first time in 8 years I am booked solid with clients for the next full month!  And best of all, I know now that I can stop my reckless spending on "comfort goodies" and create real retirement savings. Thank you.
 
~~ Pat Charleston, Vocal Coach, Austin, Texas
 
Weekly Teleconference, Wednesdays 5:30-7:00 PM Pacific Time
Start  March 03, 2010  05:30 PM
End  April 07, 2010  07:00 PM
Cost $165.00 To sign up go to: http://www.authenticprosperityclub.com/Default.aspx?pageId=325697

I guess I am just having a moment of gratitude for EVERYONE who made it all happen this year. I think it is a good event and I was honored to be a part of it. So thank you to all the different people who did their parts to bring it all together this year.

I just ordered from
ABC Pictures.
www.abcpictures.com
1-888-526-5336

Great price, touch up work and oveall quality. If you order today you should get them by next Thursday. At least I ordered on a Tues and had them a week from that Thrus.
They are not however, local.

Good luck!

Hope that helps.

So has anyone in Seattle tried this?: What were your thoughts and experiences? 

[Cathy Reinking, CSA Author of HOW TO BOOK ACTING JOBS IN TV AND FILM: Conversations With A Veteran Casting Director On Mastering The Audition Room And Much More Will be inSeattle to Offer a Weekend Master Class]

Note: I know Cathy and she is ethical, talented and lovely- this is not a scam. I am posting this on her behalf and she was my agent in Colorado. She is very knowledgeable about the industry.

Cathy Reinking, CSA
Author of HOW TO BOOK ACTING JOBS IN TV AND FILM:  Conversations With A Veteran Casting Director On Mastering The Audition Room And Much More

Will be inSeattle to Offer a Weekend Master Class

Saturday Day:

GET MORE CALLBACKS, BOOK MORE JOBS
DAY TWO – Saturday, August 15th, 10am-6pm – limited enrollment of 20, $100 per participant

This Is An Exciting, Hands-On, Practical PERFORMANCE Workshop 

>>>Participate In A Mock Audition That’s As Close To The Real Thing As You Can Get

>>>It’s Not Just About Being Confident And Prepared; Learn To Be Memorable

>>>The Different Styles Of Auditioning For Each Type Of TV Show, Film, And Commercial [/li]

>>>Answer The Eternal Question – “Should I Memorize Or Not?”

>>>Learn 3 Ways To Control The Adrenaline Rush
>>>Each Actor Will Be Videotaped, Analyzed, and Given Honest Feedback [/li][/li]

 
Cathy Reinking, CSA, has worked as a casting director in Hollywood for nearly two decades. Her casting credits include Frasier (for 8 or it’s 11 seasons), Arrested Development, and According to Jim, among many, many other pilots, TV shows, and films. She was the Manager of Casting at NBC, and holds a degree in theatre arts from UCLA.


Contact Cathy at cathycasting@yahoo.com to sign or go to website www.cathyreinking.com

[Cathy Reinking, CSA Author of HOW TO BOOK ACTING JOBS IN TV AND FILM: Conversations With A Veteran Casting Director On Mastering The Audition Room And Much More Will be inSeattle to Offer a Weekend Master Class]

Note: I know Cathy and she is ethical, talented and lovely- this is not a scam. I am posting this on her behalf and she was my agent in Colorado. She is very knowledgeable about the industry.

Cathy Reinking, CSA
Author of HOW TO BOOK ACTING JOBS IN TV AND FILM:  Conversations With A Veteran Casting Director On Mastering The Audition Room And Much More

Will be inSeattle to Offer a Weekend Master Class

Friday Night:
Q & A:  THE TRUTH ABOUT BEING A WORKING ACTOR IN TV AND FILM

DAY ONE – Friday, August 14th, 6-10pm – unlimited enrollment, $25 per participant
Open to all actors, ages 8-80


Some of the topics to be covered are:


>>>What Casting Directors Look For

>>>Top Ten Secrets of Charisma

>>>The Ideal Career For You

>>>Making The Transition from Theatre to Film and TV

>>>Relocating For Your Acting Career; Nightmare or a Dream?

>>>What Type Are You?

>>>The Truth About Pilot Season

>>>The Child Actor



Saturday Day:

GET MORE CALLBACKS, BOOK MORE JOBS
DAY TWO – Saturday, August 15th, 10am-6pm – limited enrollment of 20, $100 per participant

This Is An Exciting, Hands-On, Practical PERFORMANCE Workshop 

>>>Participate In A Mock Audition That’s As Close To The Real Thing As You Can Get

>>>It’s Not Just About Being Confident And Prepared; Learn To Be Memorable

>>>The Different Styles Of Auditioning For Each Type Of TV Show, Film, And Commercial [/li]

>>>Answer The Eternal Question – “Should I Memorize Or Not?”

>>>Learn 3 Ways To Control The Adrenaline Rush
>>>Each Actor Will Be Videotaped, Analyzed, and Given Honest Feedback [/li][/li]

 
Cathy Reinking, CSA, has worked as a casting director in Hollywood for nearly two decades. Her casting credits include Frasier (for 8 or it’s 11 seasons), Arrested Development, and According to Jim, among many, many other pilots, TV shows, and films. She was the Manager of Casting at NBC, and holds a degree in theatre arts from UCLA.


Contact Cathy at cathycasting@yahoo.com to sign or go to website www.cathyreinking.com

 

For all of you out there who are making a living with a "day job" as a vocal coach, acting coach, photographer, massage therapist, dance instructor or by providing some other professional service, you might want to check out this FREE workshop on Thursday morning. (I know morning is evil- but it is the only time I could find to do it as I am in rehearsals at night- like most of you.)

Get More Clients-
Without Losing Your Soul or Your Money
Authentic Marketing in a Tough Economy- For Service Providers

Stop feeling confused and afraid about the economy and learn how you can create opportunity and abundance right now!

What:
A chance to learn what you don’t know, that can double your effectiveness in getting more clients- without costing you a ton of advertising money, or making you feel like a pushy used car salesman.

In this interactive presentation we will look at the six changes that occur for consumers and small businesses during a tough economy and how you can use this knowledge to actually increase market share and profitability when times are tough.  We will also look at the five main free actions most service people should be taking, but are not.’t.

Unlike a typical marketing or sales training, this workshop will focus on information about how customers are buying differently in these tough times, and provides practical steps you can take to create a change for yourself now.

Throughout the workshop we will stay focused on helping you to maintain your authenticity and discover a marketing approach that is fun and right for you while avoiding cold calling, pushy conversations and other uncomfortable "hard selling" techniques. Best of all- it is FREE.

When:
Tuesday July 2nd from 9:30am-12:30pm

Where:
Blue Star Café, 4512 Stone Way
Seattle, WA, 98103
Near the corner of 45th Street and Stone Way

For more information visit:

http://biznik.com/events/authentic-marketing-in-a-tough-economy