Benefits of 5Kevents
Improved Participant Experience
Fewer Pages
Required to Complete Entries
Participants
can now sign up for the race with fewer pages to get through. With a faster
registration process, you will receive more participants who complete the
registration—which means more money for your race.
No 3rd Party
Offers
Unlike many
other online registration providers, we don’t try to sell products or services
to your participants. Those extra sells that other providers push on your
participants distract from your core product, your race. We want to complete as
many registrations as possible without causing extra frustration from add-on
sells. Of course our system can sell your merchandise and make an online store
for you, but we will never push any products that aren’t tied to your race.
No Account
Required For Participants
Often
registration providers require participants to create an online account to
complete registration. They continue to harass your participants with offers
even after the registration process is over and make the registration process
burdensome. We believe that these are your participants, not ours, so we do not
require them to make an account. Our simplified registration process helps to
maintain good will toward your event.
Low Online
Fees
Our fees are
nearly 40% lower than Active.com. This means that the cost to participants is
lower with us while you maintain the same level of revenue. Lower total cost
without reducing your entry fee means more participants, and more total revenue
to your race.
Social Media
Exposure
Our registration system makes it easy for participants to share on Facebook that they are running your race, and encourage others to join them. You have the option to turn on the social discount. With the social discount participants are offered a small discount to share on Facebook. This small incentive can translate to dramatically more shares about your event. Our referral program turns each participant into a built in marketer.
Better Race Director Experience
View and
Email Your Incomplete Registrations
As with any
online commerce, a percentage of customers won’t finish the registration
process. Race Entry tracks these participants, so that you have all of their
contact information. You can download each of their email addresses and/or
phone numbers to contact them in assisting their completion. In addition to
storing their incomplete registration the system will send them an automatic
reminder. The reminder will hit their inbox within one hour of them not
finishing the registration.
Lower
Percentage of Incomplete Registrations
Most other
registration companies will not show you the incomplete registrations, because
they actually are producing more incomplete registrations than complete
registrations. This is due to their requiring accounts, having too many pages
to complete to sign up for your race, and the daunting list of extra add on
sells that other systems burden participants with. In contrast, we believe that
the list of incomplete registrations is a tool that you can use to grow your
race, and our automated contact to incomplete registrations can easily help
save you time and make your race more money.
Customizable
Reporting
Many
registration systems have limited reporting that is arduous to figure out. Our
user-friendly system offers the most relevant information and allows users to
look specifically at the revenue by pay-period and tracks each source of money
help you analyze your marketing efforts.
Dynamic
Customizable Forms
Our
registration platform could not be easier to make the custom look and feel of
your race on your registration page. You can have the colors and background
image that you want in seconds. If you want help setting this up your dedicated
account manager can take care of it for you. Our dedicated team of programmers
may be able to help you if you want more advanced customization. We can
accomplish your most specific desires to ensure that you have the information
you need to pull off a successful event.
Prompt
Service Response with a Dedicated Account Rep
We believe that
when you ask for help, it should come quickly and at your specific desire. We
work hard to keep the highest level of service to our race directors, and to
your event participants.
Raise More
Money with Our Powerful Fundraising Tools
5Kevents gives you easy fundraising at your fingertips. We have seen some races raise 35
times more money with our fundraising features than what they brought in with
registration revenue. Our software leverages all the contacts of your
participants, so that your fundraising efforts are not limited to the
participants of your event. The participants or even people not participating
in the race can set up fundraising teams for your charities. They can set goals
and engage socially from their own fundraising page. This feature has been
proven to drastically increase fundraising dollars of even some of the most
skilled charities.
Free
Volunteer Form
Easily
register, contact & manage your volunteers. Our robust volunteer management
system gives you the data you need to manage your team of volunteers. Our
simple form helps you get more volunteers signed up to help execute your race
weekend.
Free
Advertising
Unlike other
registration companies that charge you for advertising on their sites, we give
you free advertising on our site. We win if you win. As you make more money, we
do as well. We want to help to perpetuate the success of your race, so we have
a FREE advertising campaign included with all races that use our system. The
more registrations you receive, the more of your ads will appear on our site.
Advanced
Searchable Results
Our search bar
in the admin is unparalleled. It makes searching for participants easier and
saves you time. It will even help look for what you are searching for before
you even click submit and helps you figure out the spelling as you type the
name of a particular athlete.