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What Are User Journeys, What Is User Mapping And Why Should I Care?

The webinar titled "What Are User Journeys, What Is User Mapping And Why Should I Care?" featured Chad Hester, Senior Solutions Architect here at Unleashed Technologies 

About the webinar:

Understanding user journeys will help us to ...

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7/2/18
Goodness, Gracious, Great Graphic Design: How Visual Communications Benefit Your Garden

Graphic design is the process of visual communication and problem-solving using a combination of typography, photography, and illustration. At public gardens design spans many disciplines and includes event materials, interpretive signage, websites,...

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6/25/18
CRM, POS, OMG! Navigating Data and Systems to Realize Your Institution’s Fuller Potential

We are living in a day and age where big data is discussed in every newspaper, trade publication, or blog we read. Public gardens need to connect more with our customers, deepen loyalty, and generate more earned revenue. But how? This 60-minute, multi-...

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6/20/18
Print: Not Quite Dead

We live in an age where print budgets are slashed and many discussions center around digital strategies for communications and marketing. While it's true that if you aren’t thriving in the digital world you probably aren’t thriving, print publications...

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6/19/18
How to Utilize Your Plant Collections for Powerful Marketing and Engagement

BackOffice Thinking presented at the 2018 annual conference on effective ways for gardens to further engage visitors on their website and intergrate what is happening on the ground with what users can find online. 

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6/15/18
Stuck in Silos- Breaking Barrier through Engagement

Ethan Angelica, Director of Creative & Consulting, at Museum Hack discusses strategies for strengthening public engagement at cultural institutions. 

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3/28/18
The 7 Fundamentals of a Monthly Giving Program (Instant-Access Webinar Video)

If you’re thinking about starting a monthly giving program, this free instant-access webinar video is for you!

Learn the fundamentals needed to start a Monthly Giving program, so you can benefit from the tremendous opportunities it can offer...

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1/24/18
Marketing & Public Relations, Doing More With Less

Presented at the 2018 Small Gardens Symposium by Shane Smith, this presentation looks at low-cost solutions to common public relations and marketing needs. Among the topics discussed are membership strategies, master planning, publications,...

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1/18/18
Email Event Promotion Metrics

Associations are known for bringing audiences together. One of the most popular ways of doing this is through live events.

Email marketing is the primary channel to promote events...

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11/17/17
Taking Out the Guesswork: A Guide to Using Research to Build Arts Audiences

This guidebook was developed out of strong evidence that audience research can strengthen audience-building initiatives by helping institutions understand how to build meaningful connections with different groups. Based on work with a diverse set of...

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11/7/17
Let's Talk Communities & Climate

This guide features research-proven practices for successful climate communication and can play a vital role in every community leader’s tool kit. From talking points to counterpoints, “dos” and “don’ts,” proven steps to create your own custom message...

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11/6/17
Leading Audiences to Take Action! A New Approach from the Field of Conservation Psychology

Audience demographics influence many aspects of public garden operations and can be segmented in numerous ways to address a variety of goals. Increasingly, public gardens are becoming aware of their considerable potential and responsibility in...

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7/9/17
Millennials Engaging Millennials through Social Media Marketing

Social media is an important element of marketing to Millennials. However, some public gardens lack a strategic social media plan and those with a plan may lack confidence in its efficacy. How can public gardens tailor social media strategies to engage...

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7/9/17
Living in a Digital World: Digital Marketing Options for All Gardens

Each Garden has a geographic, demographic, and behavioral footprint they want to focus on. Going digital has made this process easier, more exact, and provided more reliable tools to track return on investment. There are many options to choose from,...

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7/9/17
Connecting to Audiences: Future Trends, Strategies, and Translating Insight into Action

Understanding audiences through insight—whether it’s visitor research, brand assessment, or donor soundings—is key to driving change and action within an organization. This session will illuminate the topic of market insight from three distinct, but...

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7/9/17
Mission Possible: Challenges and Opportunities

Today, our visitors have many more choices on where they reconnect with the natural world. How can you best use your mission to set your garden apart? Can a new mission allow your garden to fluctuate from or see a new foundational mandate? Join...

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7/8/17
Building Common Ground: Museum Hill Partners

Museum Hill in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is home to the Santa Fe Botanical Garden, four varied museums, the largest annual gathering of international folk artists, and the National Park Service. Three years ago these diverse organizations came together to...

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7/8/17
Public Engagement: From First-Time Visitor to Major Donor

While annual garden visitation in the tens or hundreds of thousands provides one metric of success, productive relationships with fewer than 100 major donors can prove far more important to achieving a public garden’s mission, growth and success. Learn...

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2/27/17
Gardens After Dark

Gardens at night offer a sense of mystery, heightening other senses as vision slips away. Evening visitors experience gardens at a special time of day, encountering scents of night-blooming flowers, the magic...

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9/24/16
Develop, Launch, & Sell Private Label Products in the Public Garden World

Your gift shop has the potential to be more than a retail space that sells magnets, pens, and hats with your institution’s logo. Private label products in your gift shop can be a fiscally beneficial extension...

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9/24/16

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