February’s Top News
Just Released: The First Annual RunSignUp Registration Trends Report! We have mined the 31,000+ events on RunSignUp in 2016 and those from 2015 to take a comprehensive look at both traditional running races and broadly defined next generation endurance events that are often untimed. The report – which indicates an overall growth of 0.5% for RunSignUp events – covers real-world questions such as the standard cost of events and the effectiveness of pricing an marketing strategies. You can view the full report and all it’s takeaways here: https://runsignup.com/trends
Introducing RaceDay Scoring! We have commenced the development on RaceDay Scoring, the next generation open scoring platform that will become the next generation of The Race Director over the coming years. We will be focusing a tremendous amount of development resources on this over the next 6 months, but we promise it will be worth the wait. Learn more about why we are building this out, and catch a preview on our RaceDay Scoring Webinar.
Race Director Resources
New Sponsor Management Platform: ICYMI, we have rolled out an initial release for our new centralized Sponsor Management platform as a top-level component on your Race Dashboard. Currently, you have multiple display placement options, sponsor levels, invites for sponsors to create their own display and a notes log, but we’ll be building this out into a powerful sponsor management hub over the coming months.
How To Use Images and HTML Templates in RunSignUp Emails: In response to a question we get a lot…yes, you can add photos (as long as they are hosted online) or use a pre-existing formatted email with the RunSignUp email system. Here’s your how-to!
Encourage Referrals: A Referral Refund Program is key for building an effective marketing strategy for your event…but to make it truly productive, you should be creative about communicating the program to your runners. Check out the fun, unique video that The Mighty Mud Dash made to help explain and promote it to their participants!
We’re at RunningUSA today! Stop by booth 212 to ask some questions (or just say hello)!
More February Race Director Updates:
Sponsor Display Options
Show Sponsor Levels
Volunteer Waiver Report
Custom URL for RaceDay Photos
Acuity Ad Platform Conversion Code Added
Running Store Stories
Two Updates to Race Calendar Widget: First up, we now allow links in the widget to open up a new browser tab directly to the RunSignUp Race Page (leaving the current widget page open). Additionally, the widget has been optimized for viewing on Mobile.
Fundraising Corner
We hosted two fundraising-focused webinars this month to help break down donation options, fundraising setup, and how to empower & motivate your fundraisers. If you missed them live, you can still catch the recordings!
Donations Webinar
Fundraising 4.0 Webinar
Heading to the Peer to Peer Professional Forum later this week? Bryan, Lauren, and Natalie will see you there, and would love to talk Fundraising tools!
More February Fundraising News:
RaceJoy Raves
Expand RaceDay communications with RaceJoy: RaceJoy offers a variety of communications options that offer real-time messaging with a highly engaged audience of participants, their supporting family and friends, and your race operations team, including pre-loaded text formatted message and text-to-audio messages.
RaceJoy at the DONNA Marathon Weekend: RaceJoy provided a full interactive race experience to participants and their supporters at the 10th Anniversary running of the DONNA Marathon, with more than 5,000 runners and walkers using the app.
Fort Lauderdale A1A Marathon Brings the Thrill of RaceJoy to the Perfect Winter Event!
Running Clubhouse
Club Membership Required on Specific Events: Host a race (or a race series) with an event that is exclusively offered to club members? We have a new advanced option allowing you to require a club membership only for specific events.
Heading to the 59th Annual RRCA Convention in Detroit? Jordan, Andrew, Curtis and Johanna are! Let us know if you have questions or need to demo any of the new (or old) RunSignUp tools!
RunSignUp News
RunSignUp Demonstrates Continued Commitment to Secure Data and Transaction Processing with New Leadership Role: RunSignUp Chief Finance and Operations Manager, Kevin Harris, is joining the newly launched Payment Facilitator Committee as the Vice Chair. We are pleased to see this secure form of online commerce grow, and are proud to have one of our employees take a leadership role in shaping the industry.
Help Wanted – UI Developer: We’re hiring! We are looking for a full time UI developer in the Philadelphia area to join our team in Moorestown and help create our next generation platform for the endurance industry.
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May all your races run well!
– The RunSignUp Team
The RunSignUp Monthly Newsletter helps Race Directors, Timers, Running Stores, and Club Officers understand how to use online registration to improve their races and running clubs. We also provide updates on our registration service, RunSignUp. This service provides race management tools, race check-in, kiosks, results, running club memberships, and more.
