Merchants Of Dirt Podcast

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. T