Conquer App

I've made a lot of mistakes since starting Conquer App, but my largest has been a lack of attention to our brand. Looking back, I really didn't understand what a brand was up until a few months ago. Sure, we've always had a logo, a color palette, and some fonts we liked, but it didn't go further than that. And with no immediate ROI, investing in design/brand has always been hard for me to justify. Over the past year I've gotten some negative, but honest feedback on the Conquer brand. Some of it I agreed with, some of it I didn't. But what was clear was that Conquer wasn't being perceived in the same way I imagined it to be. And I definitely didn't have the skills to fix it. In the last 6 months I've read as much about branding as I could get my hands on. I was lucky enough to convince Éva Goicochea to join Conquer as an advisor and together we compiled a list and interviewed dozens of agencies before deciding on AWP. With the help of Eva, Mariane Vaillancourt, Emanuel Cohen and Mariusz Ruciński, we've built the skeleton to what I feel is a rock solid brand. Most importantly, it's a brand that I'm really proud of. Today, I'm excited to share our rebrand of Conquer (CNQR). Like any brand, it's a work in progress, but I've included some assets below so you can get a sense for our new look. This is the first of several exciting announcements that we'll be sharing at Conquer over the next 30 days. www.conquerapp.io

Someone's gotta do it! At Conquer we joke that there are two types of people... 1. Those who show up to the party 2. Those who are willing to throw it The former is easier, but the latter, rewarding. I know that there are a lot of CONNECTORS on LinkedIn. People that are eager to make new connections- both professional and personal. Conquer allows you to do that, through sports. We are looking for community leaders in NYC to host games. It can be for networking, fundraising, or just for fun. With a private group (work team, religious group, friends) or open to the public. Regardless of your WHY, if you want to bring people together through sports in NYC, we'd love to partner with you... ...and we'll provide the space and equipment. https://lnkd.in/dhxq27pd

I'm excited to be hosting a last minute Sports Tech mixer during #NewYorkTechWeek Please join us on Monday June 3 for an evening of pickleball and casual networking. Top sports tech investors and founders will be in attendance, so if you are looking to work in sports, raise capital for your sports tech startup, or are looking to source deals within sports tech, this event is a must attend! Special thank you to our sponsors House Pickleball, 35V, and The Lemon Perfect Company. Spots are limited and filling up. This event will be curated, so please comment/reach out to me if you are interested in attending. You can request to join below

Imagine your company personally engaged in working as a team, with their endorphins, adrenaline, and dopamine levels boosted. Now imagine them in the office the next day. --- Introducing Conquer Corporate - giving employees access to unlimited local sports games in NYC. With our corporate program, employees can play at their convenience. They don't have to commit to the same day every week. In fact, they can sign up for a game with a co-worker as little as 30 minutes before it starts. Employees that play together, stay together. If you're an HR leader, manager, or employee that is interested in our program, I'd love to talk with you. "Us" Conquers "Me"

Mixing sports and networking isn't anything new. But adult athlete Tim Frazier takes it to another level, and we think it's pretty cool. Check out the story on our blog. #sports #networking #adultathlete #soccer #adultsplaysports https://lnkd.in/gfhSfC59

Below is a quick demo of my favorite internal tool that we have at Conquer App. We call this "Snapshot". *Shoutout Blake Hirt and Tanner Luke for designing and building this bad boy. Snapshot is SUPER powerful. It shows us everythingggg that's going on in each of our markets and is used by everyone on our team. Even some of our top organizers use it to see how they're doing! With any marketplace, you are constantly juggling supply and demand to make sure liquidity (matching demand with supply) is high. For us, ensuring strong liquidity is especially challenging since we are matching 10+ players (demand) to one game (supply), and those players need to be roughly the same skill level and be available at the same time 😅. I highly recommend building a tool like snapshot if you have a hyperlocal marketplace or a business that operates in multiple markets. A few recent use cases: 1. Using Snapshot, we saw that fill rate for NJ soccer was 98% in December with 0 games cancelled. This informed us to push our organizers to host more as demand is clearly outpacing supply for NJ soccer. 2. In Chicago we had a drastic drop off in performance for Pickleball in the last week of December. It turned out that most of our pickleball games in Chi are held at schools which were closed for the holidays. We made a few calls and got our organizers set up at private facilities for the week. 3. We saw that our retention for NYC soccer has been poor. We bought some of our organizers new equipment, have asked them to make an extra effort to make the experience better for players, and have lowered game prices to help boost retention. https://lnkd.in/e6VWckxK