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		<title>An Online Registration Tool to Save You Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Goldring Nesbitt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently a number of our clients have asked how they will know when someone registers online for their events.  Do we send an email to the administrator each time someone new registers?  For a number of reasons, we do not.  We do, however, offer what we think is a better solution: the Snapshot Widget.  SignMeUp’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.signmeup.com&amp;blog=24128446&amp;post=370&amp;subd=signmeupcom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Enhancing Online Registration Security:  3 Simple Tips</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Goldring Nesbitt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the recent Zappos security breach, in which hackers gained access to the personal information of 24 million Zappos customers (of which I am one), many articles were published on how to protect your online data.  Being in the business of online registration and credit card processing, SignMeUp obsesses over security.  However, many common security violations [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.signmeup.com&amp;blog=24128446&amp;post=354&amp;subd=signmeupcom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Event Management:  Five Tips for Starting Fresh</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Wonders</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Wonders is Event Manager for Mudathlon and many other events, and a long time SignMeUp online registration customer. In 2009, a group of organizers that traditionally had focused on marathons and half marathons was looking to expand its scope and put together a different and unique event.  After many potential versions, we settled on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.signmeup.com&amp;blog=24128446&amp;post=341&amp;subd=signmeupcom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Allen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Providing your credit card number to a website for merchandise or online registration payment&#160;is common these days.&#160; I do still get the occasional phone call from a relative who gets nervous about typing in his or her card number for an online purchase, but for the most part online payments have been accepted for everybody [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.signmeup.com&amp;blog=24128446&amp;post=316&amp;subd=signmeupcom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Pro&#8217;s Perspective:  From Running Marathons to Running a Marathon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:55:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Dowling</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a 13 year stint as a professional runner, my day to retire from competition came upon me in the City of Brotherly Love during what was then known as the Philadelphia Distance Classic.  I always wondered how it was going to end and in this case a strained calf muscle put my running career [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.signmeup.com&amp;blog=24128446&amp;post=299&amp;subd=signmeupcom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making Lemonade:  Portland Marathon takes on Occupy Portland</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Goldring Nesbitt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever been faced with a completely out-of-the-blue, totally unanticipated problem that could ruin your event?  Les Smith confronted just such a situation during the October 9 10,000+ participant Portland Marathon and Half Marathon.  It was called Occupy Portland &#8211; Portland’s version of the current Occupy Wall Street movement.   A few days before the Marathon, Occupy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.signmeup.com&amp;blog=24128446&amp;post=281&amp;subd=signmeupcom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>5 Tips for Better Broadcast Emails</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 15:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Goldring Nesbitt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Email is without a doubt one of the easiest ways to publicize your event and its online registration page.  However, considering the volume of email we all receive on a daily basis, is it really effective? The answer is yes, provided you follow some simple steps. To increase the chances your email will be delivered [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.signmeup.com&amp;blog=24128446&amp;post=270&amp;subd=signmeupcom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Online Registration Time-Saver: Auto-Numbering</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diane Goldring Nesbitt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an event manager, you’re always looking for ways to save time managing the online registration process.  Have you checked out our auto-numbering tool?  Found in the More Tools section of your Form Menu, auto-numbering, as its name indicates, auto-assigns numbers or codes to each registration.  You can upload a list of numbers or codes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.signmeup.com&amp;blog=24128446&amp;post=251&amp;subd=signmeupcom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Using LinkedIN to Increase Event Registration:  3 Great Tips</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Jarett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alex Jarett is Founder &#38; Executive Director of the Technology Executives Club At the Technology Executives Club we have 14 events each year in the Chicago area (we use SignMeUp&#8217;s online event registration system for most of them!).  Although we have a steady customer base that attends regularly we need to bring in new attendees to each [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.signmeup.com&amp;blog=24128446&amp;post=239&amp;subd=signmeupcom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Black Triangle but No Black Hole:  New Online Registration Menus</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Jarett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently SignMeUp’s Chief Technology Officer, Jim Peltier, sent around a blog post published 7 years ago by Jay Barnson, a video game programmer.  The article, still relevant today, describes how Barnson’s team once burst into hoots and hollers of celebration over a black triangle displayed on the screen.  The financial controller came into the room [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.signmeup.com&amp;blog=24128446&amp;post=229&amp;subd=signmeupcom&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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