Merchants of Dirt Episode #50

These 50 race direction lessons learned can help you build your roadmap, refine your checklists, or just help you find a place to start.

50 Lessons Learned - The RD Roadmap

Welcome to an information-packed 50th episode of Merchants of Dirt and thank you for listening!

Listen along as I help you take the mystery out of outdoor race direction with 50 lessons learned from being a race director.

After it's all said and done, you'll find out that it's more like 250 lessons learned -- certainly an episode you're going to want to listen to more than once.

Follow along with this episode's handy-dandy checklist:

• 01. Vision
• 02. Ideas
• 03. Research
• 04. Market
• 05. Mission
• 06. Principles
• 07. Budget
• 08. Business Plan
• 09. Model
• 10. Strategies
• 11. Offerings
• 12. Organize
• 13. Branding
• 14. Planning
• 15. Risks
• 16. Rules
• 17. Venue
• 18. Schedule
• 19. Proposal
• 20. Presentation
• 21. Permit
• 22. Build
• 23. People
• 24. Marketing
• 25. Outreach
• 26. Pre-Registration
• 27. Timing
• 28. Courses
• 29. Promote
• 30. Sales
• 31. Trail Work
• 32. Safety
• 33. Volunteers
• 34. Race
• 35. Direct
• 36. Setup
• 37. Registration
• 38. Starts
• 39. Monitor
• 40. Results
• 41. Podium
• 42. Clean Up
• 43. Close Out
• 44. Analyze
• 45. Learn
• 46. Observe
• 47. Review
• 48. Revise
• 49. Measure
• 50. Decide

And Now You Know!

50th Episode Bonus Content

Thank you for listening and being a part of the Merchants of Dirt 50th episode!

As a special bonus just for listeners, please visit http://reckoneer.com/roadmap and receive a FREE Race Promotion Roadmap. With this roadmap, you can follow along with the episode or plot your own path to race success! 

The new roadmap is coming out this Fall, but you can still get a chance to claim the original Race Promotion Roadmap before it becomes a collector's item!  

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