Sitecore Experience Awards
New York Road Runners
SEA category: Most intelligent content optimization
Category Winner
Project brief
New York Road Runners, the world’s largest running organization, for the first time in its 50-year history has used a single system to increase sales, boost engagement with customers and drive interest in site content.
About
New York Road Runners
Nonprofit
North America
Products
Salesforce
XP
Connectors
XM
CHALLENGE
Market unique, personalized digital experiences
- Depreciate the custom-built legacy eCommerce platform and replace with a modern product
- Centralize customer experience into one core digital platform
- Integrate various third-party record sources
- Provide high level of flexibility in building products, bundling and pricing
SOLUTION
Solutions used
- Sitecore Experience Manager (XM)
- Sitecore® Experience Platform (XP 9.1)
- Sitecore® Experience Database (xDB)
- Sitecore Experience Commerce (XC 9.0.1)
- Sitecore Commerce Connect
- Sitecore Connect for Salesforce Marketing Cloud
- Integrations include:
- Azure CosmoDB
- Azure Functions
- REDIS Cache
- Service Bus Solutions
OUTCOME
Marketed unique digital experiences tailored to different runner personas
- Increased site content by 2X
- Boosted customer consumption of ancillary running content
- Grew engagement with content by 50%
- Expanded sales of Brooklyn Half Marathon, selling out in 30 minutes
- Enabled sales across various commerce scenarios: subscriptions, one-off-purchases, physical sales, digital and flash-sales
- Created a continuous buyer experience