Weekly Announcement 2/10 - ATX Marathon!! + CV 25!!+ R2B (last day to apply) + NB Review Programs, W's in the chat lol
Hello and GM!
There are a lot of fun updates for the global community in here. And there will be some surprises along the way lol
It has been about ~1 month since we have launched the app! That is insane.. THANK YOU to everyone for being present, sharing your ideas, and helping us continue to shape the future of our community. If you are vibing with it, then hell yeah! If there are things you'd like to see improved, plz plz plz let us know (like actually plz let us know). The only way we can make this better is if you speak up. Majority of the feedback has been positive but we truly want to know what you aren't loving, so we can fix it!!!
In the profile section of the app there is a button that says "Submit a Bug" or "Submit a Feature" when you submit the form, a notification is sent directly into the slack channel of the community engineers and we do our best to get back to ya ASAP!
Ok!!! LETS DIVE IN!
Spark notes here
- ATX Marathon (150 free shirts)
- Community Vote 25 (brands)
- R2B (last day to apply)
- NB Review Programs (a bunch live)
Race Week in Austin (exclusive NB x Endorphins shirts) - free!!!
and the vibes are very very high! In the app, you will notice a list of events at the top of your cities home page. You will also notice some events are highlighted in Gold. These are global events! We created global events thanks to your feedback so we can ensure you and all global members can have details about big race weekends outside of your main city!
Where: Better Half Coffee and Cocktails
Arrival time: 9:00 am
Run starts: 9:20 am
The first 150 attendees will receive an exclusive NB x Endorphins collab shirt that was designed in collaboration between our ATX City Lead Maddie and global community member Zach!!!
Additionally, Mush and Shokz will be supporting the event with giveaways and raffles!
Community Vote #25 - brand vote!
For those who have recently joined the community, Endorphins is a community led organization! This basically means we constantly ask for your feedback and then do our best to implement it to ensure we can continue to grow the community in a direction that supports you and your best interest!
Enter community vote 25!!!
What will we be voting on.... Endorphins would not be what it is today without the support of our brand partners (run ur way).
Also - cool to add - this vote happened in 2023, and led to our ongoing partnership with New Balance! We took the results and showed them to our now friends at NB and it was the basis of the relationship we have formed with them!
As I am sure you can imagine we get a lot of inbound messages from brands asking to do partnerships... while we are open to working with brands... majority of the time we end up saying no!!! This may sound crazy... but how could we say yes if we aren't sure you and the rest of the community believe in the brands we work with...
This vote is entirely on what brands you like, what brands you would want to see supporting our community, and how you would like to see brands involved within our ecosystem. As always, we will take the results and bring them directly to our contacts at each brand to see if we can work together to develop deeper connections for us all.
This vote will be going down this week, more details to come!!
Road To Brooklyn - last day to apply....!!!
We are hosting a 1000% free training program in collaboration with New Balance leading up to the RBC Brooklyn Half Marathon on May 17th. Here is the full post with all the details and how you can apply!
The important details, free NB shoes, free cobranded NB x Endorphins singlet, free access to our training technology!!!, in person workouts in NYC, an orientation, and post race party. Its gonna be lit!
Program start date is scheduled for the last week of February.
We will be selecting 100 participants to join us on the Road to Brooklyn. If you are selected you will receive an email from us directly later in the week!
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If you made it to this point, toss a W in the chat and we will choose 5 of ya to take home some NB shoes! (lfgggggg)!!
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NB Review Programs!!
One of the coolest parts about working with New Balance has been our review program! In short, NB wants to support our community and also make the best gear possible. Throughout the year, NB will select a handful of our members to participate in review programs where you will receive NB shoes or gear in return for an honest review that will potentially live on newbalance.com!
Right now, we have about 8 review programs live! AYYY!! Which means ~thousands of you have been sent gear / shoes. If you have been selected, you will or already have received an email from me about how to submit your review....
Disclaimer - if you have been selected and haven't received your designated product, it may arrive within the next week. If you dont have your item by 3/1, reach out to me here in the app and we will get it sorted out!
The MAJOR callout here.... we need to have an 80% completion rate on reviews... if we don't hit that number... the review programs stop. Sooooo if you have been selected, please take a moment to review your products so we can continue to offer this to our community.
Stay on the lookout for more details to see if you've been selected!
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Lets see some W's in the chat and lets have an awesome start to the week!
Only the best,
Tyler
(also - congrats to the birds and our Philly community. I am not an Eagles fan and it hurts me to write this lol)