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After taking some time off following my departure from accesso, I am seeking a new opportunity within ticketing or a related industry. In the meantime, I am offering consultative services for venues and organizations, both for-profit and not-for-profit, covering live entertainment (sports, performing arts, music) and attractions (short-term or ongoing). My services include: - Evaluation of your current ticketing software provider and its technology - Participation in demos for ticketing and CRM software platforms, as well as third-party integrated solutions - Reviews of proposals and agreements, along with negotiation tips - Assistance in RFP creation, plus evaluation and assessment of bid proposals - Marketing and distribution Please DM with any questions regarding services and rates.

A big part of guest experience is listening to, understanding and supporting guests around their needs and expectations. If you attended our webinar on accesso Intelligence this week you got a chance to hear about Voice of the Visitor. It shows you patterns in how guests feel about their visit, flags risks you might otherwise miss and benchmarks everything against industry data. The Voice of The Visitor State of the Industry Report released with the webinar is worth a read 👇 https://lnkd.in/eFm6hgGT #VoiceoftheVisitor #Dexibit #accessoIntelligence #GuestExperience #AI

Times change, and right now everyone is focused on how to embrace AI and integrate it across the digital enterprise. What excites me about accesso Intelligence is its ability to connect systems in a meaningful way. For visitor attractions, that means a deeper understanding of guests, their preferences, behaviors and engagement across the journey. It's not just about data and reports. It is about real insights you can act on. Operators can drill into transactions and interactions, then use what they learn to introduce the right response and level of flexibility across channels. Managers are empowered to make informed decisions that improve the human-centered guest experience. https://lnkd.in/gnaqB3iY #AI #GuestExperience #DigitalTransformation #DataDriven #accessoIntelligence

The moment a guest walks up to the box office without a ticket, the operator has already lost some control of that interaction. Not just in a revenue sense, though that matters. In a sequencing sense. You cannot personalize what you do not know is coming. You cannot staff correctly, shape demand intelligently, or intervene at the right moment if the picture of who is showing up only becomes clear after they arrive. That is the structural problem most operators are still working around, and it does not get solved by adding another point solution to an already crowded stack. The conversation around AI in this industry tends to stay at the strategy level, which is interesting but not always useful to someone who is actually running a venue on a busy Saturday. What matters operationally is whether the people making real-time decisions can get the right information fast enough to do something with it. Why did last weekend underperform? Where did spend drop off and when? What does that tell us about how we position next month? Those are not reporting questions, they are operational ones, and they require a layer of intelligence that cuts across all the systems an operator already relies on, not just one of them. That shift is what accesso Intelligence is designed to make possible, and we are walking through it live today. You won’t want to miss this one! https://lnkd.in/eF9rM9gV

For years, operators in attractions built their tech stacks the same way: best-of-breed ticketing from one vendor, food and beverage from another, retail from a third. Each product may have been the right choice on its own. But buying best-of-breed from five different vendors created a hidden cost. Every new system came with its own guest profile, its own way of understanding entitlements, and its own integration requirements into everything already running. A decade later, operators aren't dealing with a technology strategy. They're dealing with tech debt held together by point-to-point integrations that nobody wants to touch. The cost isn't just technical. It's operational. Staff at the register can't see what the guest is entitled to. Managers can't get a unified view of spending. A meal plan sold in ticketing is invisible to the F&B system. And the complexity only grew with every product bolted on, because none of these systems were designed to know about each other. What I find most interesting is how this changes the conversation with operators over time. Early on, the questions are about features and functionality. Does this product do what I need? But operators who've been living with these fragmented stacks long enough start asking a fundamentally different question: how does this all fit together? They stop evaluating products in isolation and start thinking about how identity, entitlements, and data move across their entire operation. That's not a technology question anymore. That's a strategic shift. We're seeing it play out in real time. Customers who came to us for ticketing are now exploring Freedom, our F&B and retail platform, not because we pitched them, but because they've seen the value of systems that are already connected. That pattern is exactly what's shaping our ecosystem at accesso. accessoPay connects payments across ticketing, F&B, retail, queueing and mobile, and that same principle of shared connectedness extends to guest identity and entitlements. But the bigger point isn't about us. It's that the smartest operators in this industry are evolving from a procurement mindset to an architecture mindset. They're not just asking "what should I buy." They're asking "how should this all work together." And the operators asking that second question are the ones reshaping how this industry thinks about technology.

Next week we will be exhibiting at AALARA 2026, Gold Coast, Queensland-Australia. If you're around and want to learn more about how accesso solutions can maximize your revenue and improve your operation, drop me a message or find me at the event. On top of our ticketing, ticket distribution, F&B, and full entertainment venue management, we recently added 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, to bring all the operational data — ticketing, retail, F&B, visitor behaviour — as well external data points into a conversational AI-powered analytics layer, generating actionable insights. I am looking forward to speaking with all the attendees!

Making sense of all the data you already have, combined with the various elements that make sense for your operation, should not be complex and tedious. Register at the below webinar and see how accesso Intelligence answers your questions.