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ACTIVE Network — Activity Cloud

Product Management — Data Analytics & Monetization  |  2015 – 2016

Our customers weren't IT people. Some weren't even business people. They were passionate event organizers who loved what they did — running races, coordinating competitions, building communities around sport. They didn't know how to manage pricing models or run a marketing campaign. The job wasn't just to give them data. It was to build a tool that did the hard thinking for them, taught them as it went, and helped them make a profit so they could keep doing what they loved.

Single Pane of Glass

The core UX philosophy was simple: stop making organizers export data into spreadsheets and figure out what to do with it. Instead, bring the data, the decisions, and the execution tools into one place. See it, understand it, act on it — without leaving the dashboard.

The platform aggregated over 15 years of industry-wide registration data, letting organizers benchmark their event against historical trends and local competitors — visually, not in a CSV. Geographic heat maps translated participant zip codes into targeted ad spend decisions. And when an organizer was ready to act, they could build and deploy a Facebook or Twitter campaign natively, without jumping to another tool.

The outcome: measurable increases in registrations and per-event profitability. For organizers who'd been running on gut instinct, it was the first time the data was actually telling them something they could use.

Activity Cloud Platform
Target Marketer

Dynamic Pricing & Market Prediction

Dynamic pricing was just beginning when I joined. What we needed wasn't just a pricing tool — it was a smarter prediction model. I led the revamp of the data analytics engine to more accurately read market signals and upcoming engagement patterns, so we could move prices ahead of demand rather than reacting to it.

The goal was optimizing ROI at the event level — pricing that reflected actual market conditions, not just a schedule set at registration open. That kind of proactive adjustment required both better data and the confidence to act on it.

Geographic Heat Maps

Participant zip codes turned into visual maps showing exactly where the most profitable audience lived. Organizers could point localized ad spend at real concentrations of likely registrants — not guesses.

In-Platform Campaign Execution

Build, schedule, and deploy Facebook and Twitter campaigns without leaving the dashboard. Integrated with ACTIVEWorks Endurance so organizers could act on a customer segment — like past runners who hadn't registered yet — immediately, not after an export.

Visual Marketing Funnels

Real-time tracking from message creation to event registration. Every step of the funnel visible, no spreadsheet required. Organizers could see drop-off, optimize messaging, and know what their spend was actually returning.

Dynamic Pricing Triggers

Dashboard indicators identified the optimal moment to deploy urgency triggers — early-bird deadlines, tiered discount expirations — based on real registration pace and market data. Pricing that moved with demand, not against it.