Plan Smarter, Not Harder: How Work Plans in Maestro Make Next Year a Breeze As Main Street coordinators, local leaders, and small business champions, you're juggling a million priorities—often with limited time and resources. But what if next year didn’t have to feel like starting from scratch? Enter: Work Plans in Maestro—your not-so-secret weapon for… Read More →
Why Your Organization’s Data is a Superpower (And How to Keep It Strong) Data isn't just for big corporations or tech giants—it’s for every Main Street program, every small town, and every community-led organization. In fact, when it’s properly collected, maintained, and used, your data becomes one of your strongest tools for storytelling, stewardship, and… Read More →
Spotlight: Ben Uzelac Ben Uzelac is our Chief Technology Officer (CTO), and the one tasked with bringing all of our designs to life. He isn’t a typical developer, he does both front-end and back-end (the stuff we see and the code that makes it work, for us novices), and he writes in more languages than… Read More →
Spotlight: Travis Brown If you’ve ever attended a conference, participated in a Maestro Town Hall, or watched a Maestro Training video, you may recognize Travis Brown. Travis is our Chief Business Development Officer and the Chief Conductor of all things Maestro. Travis started in Main Street in 2009 with the Historic Quincy Business District (now… Read More →
Property Information You Should Have in Maestro Lately we have gotten a lot of questions and interest in the Property Management section of Maestro. So much so that we wanted to take a few minutes and highlight some of things that we have seen make a difference for organizations. As with most things, it’s best… Read More →
How we became Maestro Community Manager Most of you know Maestro, and some of you know people on our team, but do you know how we got started and how we became Maestro Community Manager? I (Travis) first met the team when I was an Executive Director for the Historic Quincy Business District (now The… Read More →
Involvements you should be using Involvements are a key to unlocking the potential of Maestro. As we have described them before, they are essentially custom fields or custom tags that you can put on any contact, business, or property. They allow you to ditch all the spreadsheets by tracking everything about a person, company, or… Read More →
We're Learning With You The past few months have been very exciting for us. In addition to welcoming many new Maestro communities, we’ve been building some great new tools and features that will be coming in the next few weeks. More importantly, we’ve been working with downtowns on some various projects that have really taught… Read More →
Ditch the Spreadsheets - Use Maestro Instead! One of the biggest assets - and one many of you aren’t taking full advantage of - is your data. You may have your business list, your properties, work plans, and maybe even your contacts in the system. Chances are though, you’ve still got your spreadsheets somewhere with… Read More →
Planning Next Year Using Maestro to make the planning process easier In a downtown organization, like most businesses, planning the coming year is a crucial part of your success. Especially in a volunteer-driven organization, the process can take a long time because there are so many people that need to be involved for a project… Read More →