Venture Overview

Venture Is A Revolutionary Platform

Designed especially for arts organizations, no other system gives you so much while keeping things so simple.

Give your dreams and ideas wings to fly.
Shrinking budgets and cutbacks in staff don’t make the job any easier but the demands have never been higher. But there’s good news; the Venture Platform provides everything you need to creatively build and manage your organization’s online elements all wrapped up in a single, easy-to-use hosted solution. Welcome to a wide open world where you get all of the design, development, and content management tools you deserve.

Build Beautiful Websites That Work On Any Device

Beautiful WebsitesWe offer a completely managed and hosted solution. You don’t have to install any software and you’ll always have direct access to create and edit every aspect of your site’s design, layout, and content. Moreover, our responsive platform means your website will function on all desktop, tablet, and Smartphone browsers so there’s no need to shell out additional resources to design a mobile version of your site.

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Event Management Designed By An Industry Expert

EventsUnlike anything else in the field Venture’s event manager allows you to rapidly create and edit events while freeing you from the hassle of having to replicate event data elsewhere throughout the site. Better still, it’s designed to integrate with every box office and ticketing system available.

Event details are automatically pulled into everything from individual event pages to the user defined event index pages not to mention a variety of customizable RSS feeds, iCal exports, subscription series index pages, full page calendars, and a remarkably interactive calendar widget.

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Unmatched Stability and Support You Need Deserve!

support

We’re more than just code geeks, we’re experts in the field of arts management so support channels go way beyond basic tech questions and you don’t have to waste time explaining to someone who doesn’t know ballet from Brahms why you need something to work the way you do.

Our support reputation is second to none so you can spend less time asking “how do I fix this” and more time asking “what’s the best way I can make this idea work?”.

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e-Commerce Made Easy

e-commerce

Venture revolutionizes your website presence by combining content and event management with a powerful online store in a single platform. Creating and managing an online store has never been easier; you can sell traditional merchandise, virtual and downloadable offerings, and even ink out to third party affiliate providers.

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Build Stronger Relationships With Email Marketing

e-mail marketing

Each account includes a powerful e-mail marketing solution, choose an accounts provided  by our Strategic Partner, Vertical Response or an account from MailChimp. Point-and-click templates, social sharing, integrated Analytics, unlimited list segments, and list import/export are only an overview of features available.

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Integrated Enterprise-class Web Analytics

analytics

Venture fully integrates the complete range of enterprise-class tracking and analytics tools from one of the most powerful providers available: Google Analytics. Moreover, the system is extensible in that you can add or substitute additional metrics services as desired.

We’re Unlike Anything You’ve Ever Seen

It means more to us to see our clients improve marketing performance than basic pride in a well designed tech solution; it means the continued advancement of arts in our culture. Venture brings more to the table with regard to technical expertise and arts industry know-how than any other provider in the field and why should you settle for anything less.

Venture is a business builder, not a mere website builder and since it is a completely managed and hosted solution, you can access it anywhere from any browser which means there’s no hosting hassles or software installation nightmares. So you get to focus more of your time on implementing strategic plans and less on tech oriented geek work.

Venture combines the best features of open source content management platforms and purpose built applications to deliver a sophisticated next generation technology. When combined with our responsible business plan, Venture will have the same impact on arts organizations that Henry Ford’s Model T had on the auto industry.

But that’s just the beginning, Venture rewrites the rules of patron engagement by giving your staff direct control over content in real-time so they can update and refine material in response to your rapidly changing operating environment. Best of all, you don’t need to sacrifice your creative freedom to gain this sort of business functionality. Venture actually helps your marketing and development professionals capitalize on great ideas and shorten campaign development cycles by allowing them to move directly from innovation to implementation thereby transforming those ideas into revenue.

And Venture bridges social, cultural, and generational divides by offering Gen Y a way to work that’s second nature while simultaneously providing more seasoned employees with an intuitive, user friendly way to connect and contribute thereby enabling your organization to benefit from the wisdom and experience of all generations. Venture functions like an administrative force multiplier by helping you unlock the potential of your most valuable asset; your employees. It’s not just about doing more with less, it’s about doing business differently.

Enjoying the music in the overview video and want to hear more?

It’s a song titled Give Our Dreams Wings To Fly, written and produced by Tim McMorris. The style and lyrics embody Venture’s attitude and approach toward our relationship with clients and the field of performing arts. Enjoy listening to the full length track and reading the lyrics:

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Walking down the sidewalk, kickin my feet
As I’m movin’ to the music, step to the beat
I, woke up today, and canceled my plans
And I stepped right outside, with my guitar in my hands
And the notes became alive, as the sound caressed the air
And I kicked it up a notch, as I strolled without a care
Cause I’m going down the road,to a brand new place
And I’ll get there With a smile on my face, yeah

So lift me up, I’m moving on
Singin and dancin’, while I play my song
Yeah, I’m having a good time, keepin it going
Come on clap your hands and won’t you sing along
And now lets take it up high, high, high
Give our dreams their wings to fly
Gotta keep the fire, and keep the fire burnin’
Keep the hope alive, you gotta keep it turning

Feel the music from your head, to your toes, to your shoes
Kick em off, and take a deep breath, and shake off the blues
This is a brand new day,that you can pave the way
Because everything is possible, shout and say, “Hey, hey”

I got it goin, I got it going on and
Keep on pushin up and, I’ll march and move along and
Good things all around, now that I look I can see
And they said it wouln’t happen to me, yeah, yeah,

So take your hands and throw em up, yeah, put em up high
And clap it up and dance it out, up until your ready to fly
Turn the music, turn it up, just a little to loud
If you’re alone, dance like there’s a crowd

And keep it goin every day, every day till the night
From when you first see the sun, until the stars show their light
No, not a care in the world, not a worry for me
I tell ya this is what it’s like to be free

So lift me up, I’m moving on
Singin and dancin’, while I play my song
Yeah, I’m having a good time, keepin it going
Come on clap your hands and won’t you sing along
And now lets take it up high, high, high
Give our dreams their wings to fly
Gotta keep the fire, and keep the fire burnin’
Keep the hope alive, you gotta keep it turning