How to Promote a Museum,
Arts or Cultural Organization
Are you in charge of promoting a nonprofit arts or cultural organization and don’t know where to start? Point Taken, a public relations and marketing firm specializing in nonprofits, explains how to promote a museum, arts or cultural organization.
In the age of smart phones, OTT & CTV, marketing automation, search engine marketing and constant changes in news organizations, you may not know where to start promoting an arts or cultural organization. By creating a strategic plan, you can develop data-driven tactics that will bring more patrons to your museum, theater, performing arts center, music festival, arts festival, gallery exhibit, opera or symphony.
In order to create a strategic plan, you need to take a high-level look at your organization, including your nonprofit’s goals, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) and your messaging. Talk to your stakeholders and ask tough questions to create a strategic plan that helps you to understand your nonprofit better so you can market the organization. With the first part of your strategic plan ready, you can create public relations and marketing tactics that answer the question of how to promote a museum, arts or cultural organization.
As a team of senior-level marketing and public relations professionals, we have created a number of tactics to promote museums, arts and cultural organizations. A few tactics that might help you promote your nonprofit include:
- Set Up and Analyze Google Analytics: Who is visiting your website, how are they getting to your website and what content are they viewing?
- Analyze Your Social Media Analytics: Which networks are performing best? Which posts are sparking engagement? Which networks are pushing traffic to your website?
- Analyze Your Paid Advertising Analytics: Are your paid ads driving action? How much are you paying per visitor?
- Analyze Your Email Marketing Analytics: What's Your Open Rate? Whats Your Click Rate?
- Ensure Your Email Marketing List is Up-to-Date: Supress subscribers who aren't opening your emails or ask them if they want to resubscribe.
- Rethink Your Messaging: Do your key messages describe your organization's value proposition in current times? Does it explain how your organization is different?
- Create an Editorial Calendar: Put all you content in one place so you can properly plan for special events, promotions and other announcments.
- Promote Your Organization to the Media: Create a compelling pitch to secure media coverage.
- Test, Retest and Test Again: Keeping testing your marketing and PR efforts to ensure the are performing for optimal ROI.
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