December 11, 2017 Making Strides: Winter Edition Winter is a season to reconnect with family and friends, to brainstorm great ideas for your next event, and look forward to the new year ahead of you. Our team has been busy improving the Race Roster platform for you and your participants. Let’s review the highlights since our last update. Articles
August 8, 2017 Making Strides: Summer Edition We’re excited about some new changes we’ve been working on for the summer season. We hope they make your lives less stressful, increase your impact and help you make the most out of the rest of the summer! Articles
April 26, 2017 Making Strides: Spring Edition We’re excited to return with the spring edition of Making Strides. Below we’ve compiled 5 product highlights from 2017. Check out the new features below and reach out to our Customer Success team if you’d like more information. Articles
January 30, 2017 In 2017, Reflect on why you do what you do As we close the books for 2016, I wanted to send a BIG thank you to our events, timing partners, charities, non-profits, and your participants. Together we accomplished a lot last year. Record numbers for Turkey Trots, unprecedented amounts donated to charities, and the automation of tasks that turned days of work into the click of a button. Articles
January 3, 2017 Making Strides: December Updates to the Onsite App & More We hope you enjoyed your holiday parties, family time and used your down time to plan your 2017 events. Here is a summary of what we were up to last month… Articles
December 13, 2016 Activate Gifting for the Holidays It’s the most wonderful time of the year! We know there are some last minute shoppers who are still scrambling for their gift ideas. If there’s a runner, biker or swimmer in your life we have the perfect gift idea for you: an event entry. Articles
November 28, 2016 Making Strides: November’s New Features Do you feel the weather changing in your part of the country? Our software has been changing and improving too. When the snow or rain starts falling, it can be a great time to start configuring your winter or spring events and preparing for a launch. This month’s updates are fundraising focused, and with the… Articles
October 12, 2016 Making Strides: October’s New Features We’re excited to update our community on recent product updates. This curated list will help you better manage your event registration and provide early notice for new features. Articles
September 13, 2016 Making Strides: New Features on Race Roster Making Strides is a new monthly update from Race Roster to keep Event Organizers up to date on all the great technology being released. It’s back to school season and we have some great releases to supercharge your fall promotions. If you want more information on any of these features, please contact director@raceroster.com. Inventory on Swag and Ability to Change Display… Articles
August 9, 2016 Making Strides: New Features on Race Roster Making Strides is a new monthly post from Race Roster to keep Event Organizers up to date on all the great technology being released. Bookmark this post or grab your coffee and get started. If you want more information on any of these features, please contact Support@RaceRoster.com Race Roster Knowledge Base/Online Support Portal (Phase 1) Our Knowledge Base allows you… Articles
July 7, 2016 Making Strides: New Features on Race Roster Making Strides is a new monthly post from Race Roster to keep Event Organizers up to date on all the great technology being released. Bookmark this post or grab your coffee and get started. If you want more information on any of these features, please contact Support@RaceRoster.com Mail Chimp API connected with Race Roster Race Roster is now connected with the… Articles
February 1, 2016 What Can an Email Client like MailChimp Do for Event Organizers? Email remains an important line of communication between event organizers and prospective participants. Whether you’re marketing or communicating critical event day details, you’ll find yourself asking… ‘How do I know my content is reaching participants?’ To better understand your participants’ degree of engagement with the content you provide, MailChimp reporting allows for insights otherwise not… Articles
January 5, 2016 Out & Back: Race Roster’s 2015 Year in Review Dear friends, colleagues, clients and competitors 🙂 Happy New Year! I hope you had a restful and energizing holiday. I’d like to first thank our amazing staff for a great 2015. At Race Roster, we experienced another year of intense growth and it wouldn’t have been possible without our dedicated team. I’m also very grateful… Articles
December 4, 2015 Brilliant Holiday Gift Ideas for Runners Racers: Are you struggling with ideas for gifts or last minute stocking stuffers? Event Organizers: Do you want to kick-start December registrations? Look no further! Last Christmas Race Roster revealed an industry-first functionality called Gifting. Gifting allows the friends and loved ones of runners, riders and swimmers to purchase race entries as gifts for events… Articles
October 23, 2015 is your registration technology hampering your fundraising efforts? Millions of dollars are raised each year through endurance-focused fundraising events; but could we be raising more money if we made it easier for people to give? Given the number of running events focused on raising funds for charity, it seems only logical that a race director would attempt to remove as many barriers as… Articles
September 1, 2015 Race Roster, One of Six Companies, Handpicked for Silicon Valley Program One of London’s fastest growing technology companies has been handpicked to participate in the Canadian Technology Accelerator, CTA SF, in San Francisco, California. Starting in September Race Roster CEO Alex Vander Hoeven and Marketing Manager Dennis Mazajlo will fly to the West Coast. Race Roster is seeking strategic partners that can turn their fast growing company into a global brand in recreation technology.… Articles
August 13, 2015 Race Roster Surprises Staff with Apple Watches On a Friday in late July, Race Roster employees were instructed to meet at 7am at Masonville Mall in London, Ontario for a team event with no further instruction. After a few groans, the team arrived to a surprise that no one expected. The 40 employees were led to the Apple Store and greeted by furious applause from Regional Managers and… Articles
July 20, 2015 Canadian Shot Putter balances training and full time job while preparing for the world stage at the Pan Am Games Tim Hendry-Gallagher will be cheered on by all of his coworkers from Race Roster when he competes in shot put at the Pan Am Games in Toronto, Ontario on July 21st. Since moving to London almost two years ago Tim has been a key member of the support team at Race Roster, one of London’s… Articles
May 4, 2015 Strollers, Kids, Headphones, and Dogs No, this is not a sequel to Trains, Planes and Automobiles, Race Directors should be prepared to receive questions about what is and isn’t allowed on race day. Increasingly there is a demand for music, kids and pets to accompany racers during a race. Each of these requests carries unique safety challenges that should be… Articles
