Sorry, No Emoji’s in Email Marketing
Sorry, but we do not support Emoji’s in our email marketing 🙁 Emoji’s are replaced by 4 question marks now as they used to cut off the email in many cases – “????”
Unsubscribed Emails
There is a now a list of unsubscribed emails for Email marketing. This is available in a report as well as a downloadable CSV. This is helpful if you use other email marketing tools and want to make sure you honor all unsubscribed addresses across various email marketing platforms. This report is available under EMail […]
Email Marketing Updates
We released a series of updates to the Email Marketing system. These include: Ability to exclude recipient lists: Instead of just selecting the lists to send to, you now have to option to select both recipients and exclusions. A few examples of when you may want to use exclusions: You want to email all participants about giveaway […]
RunSignUp Quick Hits…Features Even Advanced Users May Missed
Over the next few days, we’ll be sharing a host of resources from our 3rd annual RunSignUp Symposium. First up: some blog links to features you may have missed. Even our most advanced users often have a hard time keeping up with all our updates (2,000+ in 2015); RunSignUp Sales Lead Bryan Jenkins picked a […]
RunSignUp and Email Marketing (Part Three)
Our first installment of RunSignUp and Email Marketing covered the basic functions of scheduled and automated emails. The second installment covered various email reporting options, and how tag replacement works. The combination of being able to schedule emails in advance, and personalize those emails with information specific to runners has allowed RunSignUp users to employ […]
RunSignUp Registration-Web Tracking Update
RunSignUp has always strived to provide races using any web tracking system with the most accurate conversion data possible, supporting over a dozen different types of conversion codes and providing extensive Google Analytics support. With a recent update, RunSignUp has taken another step forward in its web tracking capabilities, providing even more information to web tracking […]
RunSignUp and Email Marketing (Part Two)
Our first installment of RunSignUp and Email Marketing covered the main features of the RunSignUp email marketing system, including: creating and scheduling emails, setting up automated emails, creating custom email lists, and managing the “from” and “reply-to” settings on your emails. This installment will cover some of the more advanced features, focusing on Tag Replacement […]
More Replacements Tags for Emails
We have added a number of new Replacement Tags to the Email Marketing system: QR Code – %REGISTRATION_ID_QRCODE% Waiver Status – %WAIVER_STATUS% Packet Pickup Description – %PACKET_PICKUP_DESCRIPTION% Packet Pickup Location – %RACE_LOCATION_DESCRIPTION% Packet Pickup Date – %PACKET_PICKUP_DATE% Packet Pickup Time – %PACKET_PICKUP_TIME% Race Start Time – %RACE_START_TIME% : Will be replaced with the start time of the earliest event of the […]
RunSignUp and Email Marketing (Part One)
Welcome to the first installment in a series on RunSignUp and Email Marketing. This series will be broken into four posts: (This Post): Basic RunSignUp email marketing features and capabilities More of the advanced features available in the RunSignUp email marketing system Examples of really cool ways race directors are using the email system to […]
Email Reporting
We have rolled out Email Reporting for Races, Clubs and Partners to show you: EMail Requests Delivered Opens Clicks Bounces Spam Reports In addition, you can drill down into the following non-delivered emails types: Blocked Emails Bounced Emails Invalid Emails Spam Reports Unsubscribed Recipients The statistics are shown in a graphical and table form:
6 Million Free Emails
You have used our integrated email system to send over 6 Million Emails this year so far (early March). There are a wide variety of Emails sent, here are some of the types: Running Clubs are using our Free Email for sending Monthly Newsletters Races upload lists from partners to send emails promoting their race […]
Automated Emails
We are beginning the roll-out of Automated Emails. Since our Email system is tightly integrated with our database, it means we can do very interesting things in an automated fashion. The idea is that we want to provide a very easy way for race directors to enable automated emails for a variety of common functions […]
Download Email Lists
We have made it simple to see how many participants are in each of your lists, and download your lists into a spreadsheet. Here is a sample screenshot of the new EMail List page:
Using Email to Promote Referrals
With the release of Referrals 2.0, there is an opportunity to send reminders to participants to share with their friends. The integrated RunSignUp Email system is perfect for this, since emails are generated right from the database. So you can add Placeholders to customize the email to each registrant. In this case, you will want […]
Email Subscribe Widget
You can now easily add an Email Subscribe form to your RunSignUp Race or Club Website as well as your own website with a widget. This is nice to put at the top of your Race Info page if race registration is not open so you can let them know when the race opens. For […]
Email Marketing – Resubscribing Emails
We have added the ability to resubscribe recipients to emails at the race, partner and club levels. Occasionally, after a marketing or information email is sent out through the email marketing tools – recipients will accidentally unsubscribe their email from future race/partner/club emails. If this happens and the recipient requests to be “resubscribed” – this can be done under […]
RunSignUp Technology: Year-in-Review, Top Ten, and More
If you really want to dig more into RunSignUp as a company, and the top offerings that we have, check out Bob’s introduction from our 2015 RunSignUp Race Director/Timer Symposium. The full video is below, or you can skip to the section that you are most interested in: Intro Year in Review Top Ten List […]
Email Marketing Scheduling Update
We have released an update to the Email Marketing System to allow you to prepare your emails ahead of time, and schedule them for a release at a pre-determined date and time. This update is a time-saver – your email lists are integrated with with your participant data to ensure that emails are always sent to […]
Dirty Dog 15K Trail Run Case Study
We have a series Customer Case Studies, in which we take your stories and share your challenges and successes as a learning tool for other RunSignUp users. This Dirty Dog 15K Trail Run Case Study focuses on tiered pricing for a sellout race, building bib labels, and differentiating your race to create positive word of mouth. View […]
E-Mail Volumes for New RunSignUp E-mail System
If numbers speak for whether people find the new RunSignUp integrated Email system useful, then we have a shining success! Over 3,000,000 emails have been sent since early January. We should be nearing 1.5 Million emails sent by race directors and timers to their runners just in the month of May! We have lots of […]
Email Marketing How To
We have a new How To on the Email Marketing system that is integrated into your Dashboard. This How To covers: – Setting Up Your SendGrid Account – Managing Your Email Settings – Sending Emails – Managing Emails – Managing Email Lists
3W Races Case Study
We have a series Customer Case Studies, in which we take your stories and share your challenges and successes as a learning tool for other RunSignUp users. This 3W Races Case Study focuses on scaling Participant Management, Marketing, and Runner Communication as a growing business. View the PDF Version of the 3W Races Case Study Overview: 3W Races in Colorado […]