Merchants of Dirt
Merchants of Dirt is your insider’s guide to the art and science of building, promoting, and directing off-road races. Join Kyle M. Bondo has he shares 20 years of practical sports management advice that you can use to start your own off-road racing business.
Episodes (119)
Race invention is the mother of necessity
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Does a virtual race in the woods make a sound?
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Keep racing with asynchronous virtual events
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50 Lessons learned from being a race director
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Racing support services you can outsource
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Are you a women-friendly race director?
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Bad crews have worse leaders
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Spectator-friendly racing formats
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Head counts matter
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Yesterday is too late for insurance
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Tales from the collegiate sports laboratory
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Outreach and the Art of Recreational Engineering
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Make event management jelly with Jennifer Crawford
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Oh, no! Where's Kyle? He has all the gear!
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5 things that make a multi-day slog fest special
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Holiday trail time tips
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Take your race promotion on the road
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Everything’s Bigger in Montana
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Four Horsemen of Race Planning Apocalypse
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Save Your race with measures and metrics
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What you can learn from race hater Mr. Murphy
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Inside the Race Director's Studio (Part 2)
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Inside the Race Director's Studio (Part 1)
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Turn a No into a Yes with relationship building
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Your growth model needs to go to the gym
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Mr. Murphy loves your cut-and-paste waiver
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You can't fix a race you never start
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Get busy crunching the numbers with Cy Sack
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How not to suffer registration woes
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Get soggy setting courses with Mark Montague
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Win more customers with strategic messaging
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Get addicted to adventure with Michelle Faucher
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Manage the unknown of race day volunteers
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It is time that your timing was timely
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Fix a bad race course with a good design strategy
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Venue is all about location, location, location
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Build better permits with a proposal process
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Mr. Murphy just wrecked your race day
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Mr. Murphy finds your risk planning hilarious
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Mr. Murphy just took out a racer
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Mr. Murphy just canceled your race
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Earning race customers for life
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Strategies for picking your race dates
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Using market forces to spot off-road racing fads
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Putting the fun back in racing fundamentals
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Principles of a profitable race
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Race profits are evil and other money myths
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All race business systems start with a roadmap
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Handle the politics that mess with your races
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Be a Race Promoter not a Race Director
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