Colleen Quigley leaves Portland devastated

kimberwood wrote:

[quote]Inuktitaat wrote:

She doesn’t make money from modeling, she has a few product sponsorships which she promotes to her bot followers and some actual followers. Side note I find it curious that she is always injured but is paid to promote Hyper Ice and collagen proteins. Proof that neither product works?

She definitely has a lot of bot followers or her actual followers just don't like her. I did a very rough, non-scientific study comparing her IG like rate to other US female athletes. I looked at the last 5 IG posts that are at least 1 day old and averaged out the percentage of likes to followers per post.

Quigley

247k followers

approx. 29,176 total likes

2.36% like rate per post

Sydney McLaughlin

1M followers

approx. 2,060,445 total likes

41.21% like rate per post

Sha'Carri Richardson

2.3M followers

approx. 2,545,238 total likes

22.13% like rate per post

Her direct competitors:

Emma Coburn

504k followers

approx. 83,449 total likes

3.31% like rate per post

Grayson Murphy

68.7k followers

approx. 32,621 total likes

9.50% like rate per post

The findings above suggest that Quigley is not much of an "influencer". She is a great athlete, and will hopefully continue to be, that probably views whatever endorsement deals she picks up as a side hustle. Any semi-competent brand manager would do a more sophisticated version of the study I just did and draw the conclusion that either most of her followers are bots or not her actual target demographic.

Obviously, Richardson and McLaughlin have loyal and interested followers but what I found most interesting was comparing her with her steeplechase contemporaries. Coburn is a significantly more accomplished athlete and has a more engaged social following than Quigley but seeing Murphy, a less accomplished athlete, exceeding Quigley's total likes with less than 30% of total followers was a surprise to me.

^ this.

I checked her follow count and she has lost followers every single day for the past month: 1080 in the past 30 days alone.

Prior to that, there are groups of days where she gained hundreds per day, for no particular reason. So it’s not that hard to assume those were the days they were being bought.

Runner4ever!! wrote:

There’s a reason for a drop in price. You have to earn your pay. When was the last time she won or came close to winning any major race? Or for that matter even compete?

She's made multiple world teams behind TWO Olympic and WC medalists. She's a world class steepler that happened to have a bad season following a world wide pandemic. End of story.

Dog Trainer Elite wrote:

Coleen will be fine with or without running. Splits time between LA and Flagstaff, great contract through 2024. Likely made six figures on the sale of her condo in NW Portland. Boyfriend works in finance. Loads of connections within the media world. Great family support.

If that is what devestation looks like, then we should all be so lucky.

This...she's set for life and won't struggle again, if ever.

She is in prime position to secure a sponsorship deal with Bass Pro Shops, considering how frequently she goes fishing for compliments on Instagram. Her tenacity to reel them in has to be considered professional at this point.

This is a very interesting analysis. Those rates are outrageously high for Sydney and Sha'Carri. Having an engagement rate of between 3% and 5% is quite good especially when the number of followers starts getting big (+1M).

Why does her Instagram profile state she is she/her? Isn’t that obvious?

Quigley's incessant Beam sponsored posts probably has an effect on her like count. Followers will tend to ignore clearly sponsored IG posts, especially if they keep seeing you hawking the same sponsor repeatedly.

Side note: Too many Beam sponsored posts. It's starting to look kind of creepy how many athletes are hawking it, and how often they do so. You've passed the threshold of diminishing returns, guys.

Lol this thread is idiotic. Quigley is doing just fine and will do just fine without even having to run a PR again, and that upsets a certain sect of LRC.

If you want to find someone who left Portland devastated, search “Shelby Houlihan”.

That sect being men with mild Asperger's, age 18 - 49 that have never known a woman's touch? They are well represented here.

I think she is really attractive. To me more so than Coburn and Sydney. Its great she can make a living without having to genuflect to the Nike.

There's something to the first point: I don't follow CQ, but I typically won't like a post that looks plainly sponsored.

On the side note: amen.

dwight808 wrote:

She posted on her Instagram that she’s moving out of Portland today.

Dropped by Nike, no BTC coaching, dropped by agent, hasn’t performed for LuluLemon so will likely lose her sponsorship with them too.

Does her running career have ANY future?

Why are you so excited by her “failure”?

I don’t understand how it affects you. You are massively insecure.

Why don’t you write a post explaining why you feel this way.

not on the list but wrote:

dwight808 wrote:

She posted on her Instagram that she’s moving out of Portland today.

Dropped by Nike, no BTC coaching, dropped by agent, hasn’t performed for LuluLemon so will likely lose her sponsorship with them too.

Does her running career have ANY future?

Why are you so excited by her “failure”?

I don’t understand how it affects you. You are massively insecure.

Why don’t you write a post explaining why you feel this way.

Ok since you asked. I used to think she was really cool and I was all for her, but she became big headed, treated several people I personally know pretty awfully, and her running has suffered in the process.

That’s why I feel this way. I am excited by her failure. It’s known as karma.