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Message from the Executive DirectorJuly/August 2010Greetings from your staff in Cincinnati! We hope you all have a glorious Fourth of July weekend and record team counts at all of your events!
Our executive committee met last week here in the NASC’s own office. It was their first look at the office and its exclusive identity as the home of your association. We are all excited about our prospects for the future, and happy to report that you, too, are excited and pleased to be involved. In the survey conducted at this year’s symposium you were very clear on your commitment to the industry. The survey produced meaningful results. With a rate of return approaching 50% we believe we can use the conclusions to help decide how best to assist you in the coming months and years. I was personally surprised that most of you did not care for cold sweet potato fries. I thought everybody liked them that way! No? One of the most important conclusions was the growing importance of our Sports Events Marketplace. As an association built upon a foundation of networking and education we are pleased to note that many members also look forward to the opportunity to meet with event owners.
Elizabeth Chaney is our point person in terms of recruiting event owners to membership and participation in the marketplace. With only four persons on staff and limited funds for travel there is only so much we can accomplish through Elizabeth’s efforts. So, we all help where we can. This is where you come in: if every member recruited the event owners they work with to come to the marketplace we would have more than four times as many booths as we could accommodate! Knowing it is impossible to get all of your contacts to attend, we can get closer by asking each of you to pass on to your event owners the value you place on our marketplace. Encourage them to expect a call from us, and we will follow through. Just tell us who to contact and we will take it from there! Elizabeth and I look forward to seeing many of you at DMAI in just a few weeks. Have a great summer! Kindest wishes, 
Donald G. Schumacher, CSEE
Executive Director
National Association of Sports Commissions
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