Pop quiz: What does VenueDataSource (VDS) provide IAVM members?
Answer: Resources, membership value, empowerment, and information.
IAVM represents more than 2,000 venues around the world. We are stronger together, and the key to moving our facilities forward is information and community. The association provides its members educational opportunities unlike any other. It provides its members opportunities to grow in the industry, ensuring long-term success for public venues for generations to come.
VDS is just one more asset for IAVM members, and its guiding Research Advisory Council is reigniting our efforts in providing you—our IAVM peers, partners, and key stakeholders—more and better tools, information, and data.
VDS provides the place where members go in search of working knowledge of the association—available on demand. VDS provides members an opportunity to benchmark yourself, your career, your venue, and more. VDS captures and maintains the pulse of the industry.
Do you know where your salary stands compared to your industry peers? Do you know where your peers are saving money or spending money in annual expenses? Do you know where your facility rates in terms of its use of 21st-century technology?
VDS knows and can share that information with you instantly. The best part of how VDS does what it does? Trust. The information we collect is 100 percent confidential. Even the top brass in IAVM doesn’t have access to the information provided BY our members—just the overall end results of the anonymous totals.
Our goal is collect as much information as we can from members, for members. Information that can influence and direct your career, your decision-making ability, and how your facility performs.
We need your help to continue our efforts. We need your responses to our quarterly surveys. We need your ideas of what you need to help you move forward with your facility. We need you to be our partners in this quest to continue being the keeper of our best practices.
We provide reports AT NO COST to those who participate in the surveys. But anyone can receive the reports at little cost. Should you need a custom report, VDS can create one for you at little or no cost.
VDS leverages our association’s collective skills and dedication and provides a home for living documents and information for addressing any issues that could negatively affect the way we do business.
VDS is your resource of choice to help you manage better and smarter with the tools of our association.
VDS will continue to capture IAVM’s living best practices and will continue to make them available to its members, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year—FREE.
You can find us on this monthly blog; on Twitter @VenueDataFrank; in weekly newsletters discussing trends, facts, and asking poll questions; at the sector conference and VenueConnect—everywhere you VDS, you’ll find us. No matter where you go, there we are.
