At Seattle Opera, we are working on a project to better track our Artists (Symphony, Chorus, Singers & Teaching Artists) in Tess from a Development perspective. Our union agreements restrict direct solicitation of Artists but yet we have a number of Artists who are also current donors and/or subscribers. Also, how do we track retired Artists (who may or may not also be current donors/subscribers). I would love to hear from others who are struggling with similar issues.
-Kim
Kim OsitisDevelopment Research Manager206-676-5531 | kim.ositis@seattleopera.org
Kim,
We had only just begun the process of identifying current and former dancers in our database at Tulsa Ballet before I left; our process was going to be to assign either an Attribute or Constituent for "Tulsa Ballet Dancer" so that these people could be pulled into Lists via those criteria. From there, we would be able to suppress them from Extractions or otherwise identify them so that they wouldn't be solicited in Development mailings.
Thank you,
Brian