Marketing Strategy for Museums is a practical guide to developing and delivering marketing that supports museums' missions and goals. Explaining how museums can be strategic and proactive in their approach, it also shows how to make effective decisions with limited resources.
Presenting examples from a range of museums around the world, the author positions marketing as a vital function that aims to build mutually beneficial relationships between museums and their audiences - both existing and new - and ensure museums are relevant and viable. Breaking down key marketing models, Lister shows how they can be applied to museums in a meaningful way. Setting out a step-by-step framework for developing a museum's marketing strategy and for creating marketing campaigns, which can be scaled up or down. Readers will also be encouraged to reflect on topics such as sustainable marketing; ethical marketing; and accessible and inclusive marketing.
Marketing Strategy for Museums provides an accessible guide that seeks to demystify marketing and boost the confidence of those responsible for planning and delivering marketing in museums. It is aimed at people working in museums of all types and sizes and will also be relevant to students of museum and heritage studies.
Introduction; Part I: Marketing as a bridge - 1. Museums; 2. Marketing; 3. Audiences; Part II: Marketing strategy in practice - 4. Managing and implementing marketing; 5. Developing a museum marketing strategy; 5a. Situational analysis: Where are we now?; 5b. Goals and objectives: Where are we going?; 5c. Target audiences: Who do we want to reach?; 5d. Strategy and approach: How will we get there?; 5e. Tactics and action plan: What are we going to do?; 5f. Resources: What will it cost?; 5g. Monitoring and evaluation: How will we know if we've got there?; 6. Planning and delivering a marketing campaign; Part III: Deeper dives - 7. Branding; 8. Pricing; 9. Communication channels; 10. Messaging; 11. Accessible and inclusive marketing; 12. Ethical marketing.
