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Latest Blogs on Race Marketing
When to Open (Renew) Next Year’s Race?
Your race is coming up this Saturday. In the back of your mind you are wondering “When should I open next year’s race?” The answer, of course is when you are ready! This blog discusses some of the options, tradeoffs and various…
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Greater Philadelphia YMCA Gobble Wobble
It’s no secret that Thanksgiving day is the biggest running day of the year. And in the Philadelphia area, the Greater Philadelphia YMCA has traditionally hosted a local Gobble Wobble across several locations. In 2024, they’re continuing to refine their events, with…
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Getting Merchandise for Your Race
Endurance events tend to hold a special place for people. Whether it was a bucket-list item like running a marathon, or having a fun day with friends and family at a 5k, holding on to those memories is important for a lot…
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Social Media Links for Websites V2
Social media links for Race Websites V2 make it easy to promote your event or organization’s social media pages. Feature icons that link directly to your Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, LinkedIn, X (Twitter), and custom links. Social Media Links is a website component…
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RunSignup University Independent Study: Updating Your Marketing
We recently held our inaugural RunSignup University. The two day event gave attendees an opportunity to deepen their product knowledge and get the most out of RunSignup. Being there in person was certainly the best way to learn the most, but seats…
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How to Set Up a GA4 Account and Integrate with RunSignup
This blog is part of our Marketing Analytics series. It explains how to create a Google Analytics 4 account and integrate with your RunSignup events. It’s easy and free to set up GA4. To get started, all you need is a Google…
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Marketing Analytics for Events
This week we did a series of 3 webinars on Marketing Analytics for events. Analytics help your event(s) make informed marketing decisions. There are two analytics tools that we covered in our webinar series: RaceInsights and Google Analytics 4. RaceInsights RaceInsights is…
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Marketing Analytics: RaceInsights Reporting
Thanks to everyone who joined us for Part 1 of our Marketing Analytics Webinar Series focused on RaceInsights reporting. If you missed the webinar live, it’s not too late to catch up with the on-demand version. You can also find links to…
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Reaching New Runners Through Referral Rewards
Referral rewards have been a favorite marketing tool for RunSignup customers since their introduction in 2016. Referrals work like this: How Well do Referral Rewards Work? We know referral rewards work: we’ve seen individual races get as much as 20% of their…
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Engaging Younger Runners
Making inroads with younger generations – like Gen Zers – is becoming increasingly important. As previous generations age out, they’re becoming a larger part of the potential pool of participants for endurance events. Currently runners 18-29 make up just under 16% of…
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5 Tips for Small Races to Get the Most Out of RunSignup
Putting on a race of any size is a big task. And in some cases, smaller races require even more of organizers since they tend to have fewer resources and staff on hand to help out. In order to keep things running…
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Three Ways to Engage Past Participants
In the business world there’s a commonly cited stat about how it costs five times more money to attract a new customer than it does to retain a current one. Some refer to it as a “leaky bucket.” The moral of the…
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