A race’s website is their primary means of branding a race, the promotional tool to draw runners, and communicate with participants about important information. Many race website suffer from one or more of the following problems:
- Old, insecure
- Not mobile ready
- Costly to update
- No one to update
- Disjointed, inconsistent user experience when jumping between the race site and registration site
- Disjointed user experience when confirming or changing information
RunSignUp provides a free race website to every race. It provides both Content AND Data. This gives you a single place to manage everything on your website, and you get the power of the RunSignUp CRM system providing services right on your website beyond registration and fundraising, like “find a participant”, editing giveaway or resending confirmation emails, or swapping bibs.
This video hits the highlights:
You can customize the look and feel as well as content of your race website with lots of options, similar to the functionality of a full content management site like WordPress:
- Upload your own homepage hero image
- Upload your own race logo
- Customize the colors
- Choose from multiple template options
- Create any number of pages
- Insert your own any additional content simply, including images and video
- Create your own race menu
And you get the benefits that go beyond what you would get spending hundreds or thousands of dollars per year on a content website:
- Everything is secure with SSL
- You get the benefit of RunSignUp SEO as well as our strong affiliate network of race calendars to automatically give your race maximum exposure
- Up to 5 short URL options like runsignup.com/myrace and runsignup.com/my5k
- Link to your Facebook and Twitter pages, and show your social media stream on the RunSignUp race website
- Strong call to action with SignUp and Donate buttons on every page
- Fully integrated registration, simple donations, race stores and fundraising
- Donation page with goal tracking, donor lists, custom images and more
- Fundraisers and Teams get their own webpages on your race website
- Automatic options for Find a Participant
- Participant self serve for changing information like shirts or even allow runners to change events or do bib transfers without any work for the race director
- Sponsor images automatically appear on every page
- Free results hosting for your timer to upload results to
- Free Photo platform with automated AI driven bib tagging
All in one place.
And soon we will allow races to use their own custom domain names at a very low cost. Stay tuned!
