Key Administrative Tasks for January
Happy New Year! With the busy holiday concert period closed, it’s time to take care of some important start-of-year administrative tasks. Here are four such tasks to consider tackling within the first couple of weeks of the new year. Issue Form 1099 to Vendors If you paid any of your performers, consultants, or other non-employees at least $600 during the last calendar year, you will need to issue a Form 1099 by January 31 of …
Still Worth a Look for Arts Organizations: Small Business Travel Rewards Programs
In December 2022, ArtsHacker published a guide to three small business travel rewards programs. Two of these three programs (the two airline programs) have had significant changes to the point where the programs we wrote about in 2022 no longer exist, and the two airlines have entirely new programs in their place. Here we provide information about the current programs, and revisit one useful hotel program. If you ever have employees or artists traveling to …
Dangers Of Using AI For Annual Reviews
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Annual reviews are an important component of the work environment. This is especially true in the environment of arts organizations where people wear so many hats it is difficult to feel you are performing any role effectively. Because it is also true that supervisors are juggling the responsibilities of many roles and don’t feel they have a lot of time they can devote to providing quality evaluations, it is understandable that people will look for …
Don’t Let Sliders and Carousels Derail Your Conversions
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If you’re still considering using sliders or carousels on your website’s homepage, you likely want to reconsider. The latest research from the Baymard Institute reinforces the long-standing consensus: these elements are often implemented poorly and lead to detrimental user experience. A section of that report covers sliders/carousels and the news is the same as it has been since we’ve been writing about this topic in 2016. What really stands out in the report is their …
Thank you for the authoritative read on this issue. To me, being able to actually see the icon in the…