Patron Technology President Eugene Carr Launches New Arts Marketing Blog
January 31, 2007
New York, NY – Patron Technology announced today the launch of a new blog by Eugene Carr, President and Founder of Patron Technology. Mr. Carr’s blog will provide a snapshot of his perspective on what's going on in the e-marketing world now and how it relates to arts marketing.
For the last decade, Mr. Carr has been a pioneer in arts marketing on the Internet. Prior to founding Patron Technology in 2001, Mr. Carr was the Founder and President of CultureFinder.com, an award-winning arts information portal, which was funded by America Online and Comcast.
He is a regular guest speaker at arts industry conferences and is the author of Wired for Culture: How E-mail is Revolutionizing Arts Marketing (Second Edition) (2006), Sign-Up for Culture: The Arts Marketer's Guide to Building an Effective E-mail List (2004), and Web Sites for Culture: Essential Principles for Great Arts Web Sites (2005).
Mr. Carr’s career spans both arts management and the corporate worlds. From 1987-90 he worked in travel industry marketing at American Express. Then, from 1991-1996, he served as the Executive Director of the American Symphony Orchestra at Lincoln Center, and simultaneously served in the same position for the Concordia Orchestra beginning in 1994. He founded High Five: Tickets to the Arts, an award-winning organization that offers a five-dollar ticket program for NYC high school students sponsored by Citibank & TicketMaster, and served as its first chairman of the board. He earned undergraduate degrees in History and Cello from Oberlin College and Conservatory and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
To read and subscribe to Mr. Carr’s blog, visit: http://blog.patrontechnology.com.
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About Patron Technology:
Patron Technology, Inc., an online marketing software and consulting company, serves the arts and not-for-profit industries with cutting-edge technology and e-marketing expertise. The company strives to revolutionize arts marketing by enabling organizations to maximize the potential of marketing and communications on the Internet. The company’s main product, PatronMail, is a Web-based e-mail marketing system used by over 800 institutions in 47 states and eight foreign countries.
