Radiance Blog

For over two years now, Corona Insights has been providing races around the country with a standardized way of surveying their athletes.  This process was developed by Corona as an innovative process for race directors to get feedback and see how their races compare to other races.  Since the survey’s inception in early 2010, over [...]

Sort of. On Monday, the Denver Post featured Corona’s  founder and Principal, Kevin Raines,  and his cross-country run. No, Kevin hasn’t been on sabbatical hoofing it across America. He’s been tracking his daily mileage online. Kevin’s virtual run from Virgina to Oregon is made possible through the National Runners Health Study. He calculates  his daily [...]

2010 marked the inaugural year of the Corona Insights Race Survey and Rating System.  Having several runners on staff, and noticing that many races do not gather feedback from race participants, we decided to create a standardized system that race directors can use to improve their services, and that marketing directors can use to promote [...]

If you work in parks and recreation and currently utilize market research or plan to in the future, then register for Corona Insights’ upcoming webinar on the “7 COMMON PITFALLS IN PARKS AND RECREATION RESEARCH – AND HOW TO AVOID THEM.” These tips will be useful whether you’re planning on hiring an outside firm for [...]

Kevin Raines, Principal here at Corona Insights, and Gary Thorson, Deputy Director of Colorado State Parks, co-presented today at the National Association of State Park Directors’ conference in Santa Fe, NM. They presented a case study of Colorado State Parks’ recent market assessment conducted by Corona Insights. (Click here to see Colorado State Parks’ press [...]

Corona Insights recently finished conducting a park master plan survey for Pioneer Park in Billings, Montana. This survey was the first step in a larger Master Planning process the City is undertaking to help the Billings Parks and Recreation Department determine how to manage, maintain and strategically allocate park resources at Pioneer Park to best [...]

Earlier this year we learned (another more recent article here) that the Arizona State Parks Board voted to close over half of the state parks in the State, in order to help the state government alleviate its current budgetary problems. This announcement and the state’s plan to close 13 state parks appear to be a [...]