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Let’s Cut Right To The Chase: Go Update Your PC To Windows 10. But Before You Do…

For the first time in a (very) long time, Microsoft released a version of its Windows operating system (OS) that’s not only a substantive improvement but a genuine treat to use. It’s free for current Win7, Win8, and Win8.1 users and the actual upgrade process is perhaps the least problematic in Microsoft’s entire history of Windows OS updates. Having said that, here are a few items you need to do before jumping into things. Hardware …

In An Emergency Listen To….?

(Source) If there is a snow storm (or snow monster), tornado, power outage or anything that might raise questions about whether an event you are sponsoring will occur, do people know how learn the event’s status? Sure they can call the box office, but if you are performing at a venue you don’t control or if someone has been unable to change the message on the voicemail, how will people know where to get information? …

How to Create Facebook Video Ads (with real-life results)

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to increase our online engagement, especially through social media. I recently did a small ad campaign to promote our fundraising wine event and had considerable success for as small of a budget as I had. The event did sell out, after all (though not by Facebook advertising alone). So when I came across an article on HubSpot Blogs from 7/13/15 titled “How to Create Facebook Video Ads” by …

How I Got 20 People To Sign Up For Our Email List In Less Than 48 hours

It has always been a bit of a struggle for me to get large numbers of sign-ups for our email list through our website.  I never took it personally because I understand that people’s inboxes are full already before they get my engaging and super interesting emails about Palm Beach Opera. However, we’ve moved to a new email marketing system (dotmailer which I LOVE) which has really powerful automation features and we needed to get …