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Monday, July 9, 2012

Runnin' a Runnin' Business!

I am the new owner of UtahRunningGuide.com !
Here's the story, briefly:
My superstar running friend started the site a few years ago. She worked hard on it and grew it to be a great resource for runners in Utah and surrounding areas. She had a passion for promoting running events in the state.
But she moved to CA and started a new site, runnersraceguide.com She wanted to sell her URG site, but got overwhelmed and sent me an email a week ago asking if I wanted it. Immediately the wheels in my little head started spinning. IDEAS! Lots of ideas. The kind of ideas I have absolutely NO TIME for and shouldn't entertain.
But I've decided to GO for it!
So I've taken over the site, given it a lift, tuck - the works. Completely changed the focus and advertising program.
I started a Facebook Page for it, where I host GIVEAWAYS for FREE race entries to Featured Races in Utah.

The FB Timeline Cover - for now. I'm not nuts about it. Anybody out there good w/ graphic design?!

This has never been done before - a place where people can try to win free entries to races! That's the #1 reason most runners don't do MORE weekend races - it's an expensive hobby. Problem solved - just come on over to Utah Running Guide and enter to win!

Last week we gave away an entry into
the Half Crazy Half Marathon.This is our
current giveaway! A free entry into the
Save Your Skin 10K run. It's a fun one
along the Legacy Trail. Giveaway ends
Wednesday - go enter! Even if you don't
want to win! Seriously - I need the numbers! :)

It's an innovative advertising approach that I think Race Directors will like, because entering the contest requires "liking" their race page and "sharing" it. That's a big deal, with the potential of getting their event details out to THOUSANDS. Yay for the power of social media!
So. I'm working hard on this. Hoping it will take off. Already, according to web analytics, the site gets about 2,000 unique visitors per month, and we have a Facebook Group (vs/ FB Page) with nearly 600 members I can directly message. So it's good start!
YOU can help - please LIKE the URG site on FB and enter the contests!
My VISION: A site where the best races in Utah are featured, where Race Directors WANT their event advertised, because all the Running-Enthusiasts swarm to Utah Running Guide!

6 comments:

Ashley said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; July 12, 2012 at 7:39 PM
Ashley said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; July 12, 2012 at 7:39 PM
Ashley said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; July 12, 2012 at 7:39 PM
Ashley said...: Sorry! Not sure how I posted the same comment three times, this is great you are running this website. Hope I win some free registrations, that would be cool.; July 12, 2012 at 9:42 PM
Megan Smith said...: Go Chelsea! It's fun when the ideas start churning and what a perfect project for you to take on, combining "free" and running! Good luck with it!--Meg; July 14, 2012 at 9:09 PM
Sally Jackson said...: Awesome--It's fun to have side projects! Have fun with it!!; July 16, 2012 at 10:57 PM

Quotes I want to remember

"The Lord knows our bearing capacity, both as to coping and to comprehending, and He will not give us more to bear than we can manage at the moment, though to us it may seem otherwise. Just as no temptations will come to us from which we cannot escape or which we cannot bear, we will not be given more trials than we can sustain."
- Neal A. Maxwell

"It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters. We become enamored with men's theories such as the idea of preschool training outside the home for young children. Not only does this put added pressure on the budget, but it places young children in an environment away from mother's influence."
-Ezra Taft Benson

“Perhaps there has never been a time when we had greater need to pray and to teach our family members to pray. Prayer is a defense against temptation. It is through earnest and heartfelt prayer that we can receive the needed blessings and the support required to make our way in this sometimes difficult and challenging journey we call mortality.”
-Thomas S. Monson

“Live the gospel as conspicuously as you can. Keep the covenants your children know you have made. And bear your testimony! Don’t just assume your children will somehow get the drift of your beliefs on their own.
-Jeffrey R. Holland

"We hold in our arms the rising generation. They come to this earth with important responsibilities and great spiritual capacities. We cannot be casual in how we prepare them. Our challenge as parents and teachers is not to create a spiritual core in their souls but rather to fan the flame of their spiritual core already aglow with the fire of their premortal faith."
-Neil L. Andersen

"Certainly there are times when getting the family together to read the scriptures does not stack up as a spiritual experience worthy of a journal entry. But we must not be deterred. There are special times when the spirit of a son or daughter is just right and the power of these great scriptures goes down into their heart like fire. As we honor our Heavenly Father in our homes, He will honor our efforts."
-Neil L. Andersen

President Hinckley admonished both men and women to be nurturers. He said, ‘How much more beautiful would be the society in which we live if every father . . . and . . . mother regarded [their] children . . . as gifts from the God of heaven . . . and brought them up with true affection in the wisdom and admonition of the Lord.’ ”
-Susan W. Tanner

"Children are like trees. When they are young, their lives can be shaped and directed, usually with ever so little effort. Said the writer of Proverbs, 'Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it' (22:6). That training finds its roots in the home. There will be little of help from other sources. Do not depend on government to help in this darkening situation. Barbara Bush, wife of former U.S. president George Bush, spoke wisely: 'Your success as a family, our success as society, depends not on what happens at the White House, but on what happens inside your house.' "
-Gordon B. Hinckley

“I give counsel to husbands and wives. Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small. Pray for the love to make your companion’s joy your own. Pray for the love to want to lessen the load and soften the sorrows of your companion.”
-Henry B. Eyring

“Reverent behavior is not a natural tendency for most children. It is a quality that is taught by parents and leaders through example and training. But remember, if reverence is rooted in love, so is the teaching of it. Harshness in our training begets resentment, not reverence.”
-Margaret S. Lifferth

"There is no one perfect way to be a good mother. Each situation is unique. Each mother has different challenges, different skills and abilities, and certainly different children. What matters is that a mother loves her children deeply and, in keeping with the devotion she has for God and her husband, prioritizes them above all else."
- M. Russell Ballard

“As parents, we should remember that our lives may be the book from the family library which the children most treasure. Are our examples worthy of emulation? Do we live in such a way that a son or a daughter may say, ‘I want to follow my dad,’ or ‘I want to be like my mother’?”
-Thomas S. Monson

“Security for our families comes from learning self-control, avoiding the excesses of this world, and being temperate in all things.”
-Kent D. Watson

Monday, July 9, 2012

Runnin' a Runnin' Business!

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