
Press
Release: 5th September 2007
Doncaster Racecourse Roll out Green 4 CRM and
eMarketing
Doncaster Racecourse, host to the prestigious
four-day Ladbrokes St. Leger Festival, has long been
regarded as one of the finest racecourses in Europe.
Recently the course has under gone redevelopment and
now boasts a five-storey Grandstand to cater for a
wide range of excellent hospitality facilities, a
conference and exhibition centre, which holds up to
2,500 delegates and new restaurants and bars.
In addition to smartening up the course’s
facilities, Doncaster is the first Arena Leisure
Racecourse out of the stalls to introduce Microsoft
Dynamics CRM (Customer Relationship Management)
system from Green 4 integrated with their solution
for eMarketing.
The redevelopment work has forced the course to
close for the past 19 months, but this has given
Doncaster the perfect opportunity to make sure that
they have all the systems in place ready for them to
hit the ground running. They have implemented a new
Ticketing system, Gateway Ticketing, from APT
SkiData, this will enable them to capture the
details of all race goers whether they are
purchasing tickets online or onsite. Gateway
ticketing data can then be fed directly into the
Dynamics CRM system.
With all the data in one central repository,
Doncaster Racecourse can maintain a complete picture
of all their different audiences and will be able to
easily segment them to target each group with
relevant offers. The integrated emarketing tool will
provide the marketing campaign delivery mechanism
and will enable the racecourse to send out regular
ecommunications promoting various offers to the
relevant profiled recipients.
Jo Mapletoft, Marketing and Sponsorship Manager at
Doncaster Racecourse comments, "The redevelopment of
the Racecourse and the Grandstand is a huge
opportunity for Doncaster Racecourse. We needed to
make sure that the systems we implement now can grow
with our business. With the sports specific CRM
solution from Green 4, we feel that we have chosen a
best of breed, tried and tested application that
will be fundamental to our marketing activities. We
sent out our first ecampaign this week to promote
the St. Leger Day and we able to instantly recognise
that 70% of the audience opened the email – a
staggering result, which I hope will be set the
scene for our future campaigns."
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