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If you've participated in track events for any length of time, you may have thought to yourself, "I bet I could do this!" But unless you've volunteered with an organization you may not know how to get started.

This week we released a new report for BMW CCA clubs- Release of Waiver and Liability Form.  We worked directly with the BMW CCA National Office on this one and have their official approval.  You'll find it in the Reports section of the Admin beneath the Detailed Reports (One-Pagers) section.

The form includes:

• Pre-printed event name/ location and event date
• Official language approved by BMW CCA National Office
• Pre-printed attendee name in alphabetical order with space for their signature
• Easy-to-print PDF format- MUST PRINT IN COLOR

And in case you missed it last year, we have a Release and Waiver Liability Form specifically for our PCA regions as well. It's approved by the PCA National Office, includes their official language and all of the other features noted above.

Questions? Give us a call, we'll walk you through it.

Thursday we're headed to Toronto for our second visit to the Canadian Motorsport Expo.  We'll be showing off our new product RaceHero along side MotorsportReg.com, as well as catching up with customers.  Some great car clubs like Canadian Automobile Sports Club- Ontario Region and the Vintage Automobile Racing Association of Canada will be exhibiting as well as the race organizers from Targa Newfoundland.  And if you're into NASCAR, the King himself, Richard Petty, will be making an appearance.

With the excitement of a new season (and possibly a reality check from the weather), you might not realize that it's time to get down to business! And if you haven't started your season yet, it's fast approaching.

We've put together a pre-season checklist to help you prep for a winning season:

3. Set up a membership event- Get this annual pain in the b*tt task out of the way and make it easier for you and your members by accepting online membership renewals.

2. Create a gift certificate event - There's a whole year of holidays and special occasions ahead of us (Valentine's Day is just around the corner).  Give your participants the chance to get a gift they really want!

1. Get your events listed early - Do it NOW!  900,000 people looked at our calendar last year and they're already determining which events they're going to attend this year.

Back in 2003, our founder, Brian Ghidinelli, started MotorsportReg in exchange for some track time at an HPDE event held by his local BMW CCA club.  You could say that this company was built on DE events.  Ten years and 13,000 events later, we haven't forgotten the key role driving instructors play in attracting and encouraging new drivers to our sport.

To thank all of those instructors out there, and continue the education process, we've teamed up with Ross Bentley to present a very exciting FREE webinar-

If you post to your organization's Facebook page, you need to read this!

On Tuesday Facebook made some significant changes to the way your status updates are ranked in the News Feed.  According to Facebook, people generally don't like to interact with text updates (an update with text only, no images, or a text with a link only) from companies as much as text updates from their friends. So they've decided to demote the importance of text updates from companies in the News Feed.

This is the second part of a blog series we started in December covering the 3 guiding principles for AWESOME registration forms:

1. Entice
2. Inform
3. Guide

Today's blog post will focus on Enticing and Informing your attendees.

Don't leave your attendees out to dry

Whether you use your online registration forms as a stand-alone event information and registration portal, or simply a means of collecting your attendees' data, you don't want to leave them wondering what to do next after they click the Register button.

Make the first thing your participants see welcoming and exciting. Let them know how excited you are that they are considering your event. And confirm that they are in the right place by repeating the event's name and date.

The Early Bird Gets the Worm

It's a well-used saying, but if the shoe fits... well, you know what I'm going to say next.

Many attendees are planning for the entire season, both budget wise and time-wise, right now.    And they're coming to our National Calendar (all 900,000 of them) to look for events.  So if your event is not listed, chances are they're choosing an event from another organization.

If you caught our end-of-year statistics blog you already know that 900,000 unique visitors looked at events on our National Event Calendar last year!  So just having your events listed on our calendar is a great way to promote it. But that's not enough.

Kick off the New Year by streamlining your membership management. If you are already using MotorsportReg.com, why not add membership sign-up and renewal to your online offerings and make it one-stop shopping for your attendees!

Your organization can run a membership event just like you hold registration for a meeting or any other event. It makes it easy for everyone:

• Attendees can go to a single place to complete their membership and register for events
• Event Organizers can manage all of the information about their members using a single software tool
• Membership events will show up on our public calendar as well as your attendee's dashboard
• If you are on the premium plan, membership events will also be displayed on your private MSR landing page