TRS was recently profiled by Running USA for their weekly newsletter.
Based in Indianapolis, TRS — with five full-time employees plus the support of a technical team (which is a separate company) — was originally founded as an event planning agency. “We needed a volunteer management software system and realized we couldn’t buy anything that worked right so we partnered with a custom software company and created the system that is now called TRS,” said Matt Judge, TRS sales manager.
Both Judge and TRS‘s president are avid runners and one of the primary reasons they joined Running USA was that running events use a lot of volunteers and TRS is the premier management software. Said Judge, “It is a natural fit for us. Our relationship with the One America Indy Mini-Marathon has been such a success that we felt that we could replicate this success with other running events. Our system is flexible and customizable, which is different from everything else on the market and TRS is backed up by world-class customer service at no extra charge.”
One of the main benefits that TRS utilizes is the Running USA membership list which they access through their member login on the Running USA website and contact members directly. “We have used this to get clients. For instance Team Ortho has moved its volunteer management system to TRS,” said Judge.
Judge reads every word of the weekly Running USA Industry E-News and says, “It helps me have intelligent conversations with people in the industry.”This was the first year TRS attended Running USA’s Annual Conference and it was “a home run,” according to Judge. “The conference was enormously valuable to us. It helped introduce TRS to dozens of running event organizers who had never heard of us. We almost immediately signed a new client, and we have advanced discussions going with more than a dozen event organizers to utilize our volunteer management software. We plan to take at least two or three people to conference in 2011.”
Source: Running USA
TRS · February 2010 · Edition One
DID YOU KNOW?
TRS offers many credit card processing options for online registration. The funds are deposited directly into your bank account.
EVENT INDUSTRY NEWS
The Chick-fil-A Bowl, a long-time TRS client for volunteer management, was a sell-out for the 13th straight year in 2009.
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Florence May, President of TRS, will be a guest speaker at the Running USA conference in San Diego, CA. She will be speaking February 1st between 11:15am-12:15pm PST on “How to turn your Volunteers into your Fan Club”.
Topic Summary. It is time to remake the volunteer management model to deal with reality: life moves fast, people have unlimited options as to how they spend their time, technology is an omnipresent force, and many aspects of the American culture work against building a sense of community. This session will address why: effective communication by the volunteer manager is essential; volunteers need to know they are valued and have something real to contribute; volunteer managers need to embrace the technology tools available to them; and to establish a loyal community of volunteers, it is vital to build long-term relationships to overcome the centrifugal forces of modern life.
A few TRS race management clients include: 500 Festival’s One America Mini-Marathon, Kentucky Derby Festival, Rock n Roll Marathon Host Committees in San Antonio and Seattle.
TRS (The Registration System) has been selected by the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee and by the Indianapolis XLVI Super Bowl Host Committee for online volunteer management.
TRS is customizable online registration. It was developed by professional event managers and is used to register, manage and stay in contact with large numbers of participants at leading events across North America. TRS is headquartered in Indianapolis and provides customer service with technical support from its US offices.
Company President Florence May said the software system and service team are capable of supporting events the magnitude of the Super Bowl.
“Our experience working on the 2009 Tampa Bay Super Bowl, nine NCAA Men’s and Women’s Final Fours, the Jack Nicklaus Memorial Golf Tournament and the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games is invaluable,” May said, noting that TRS users manage “a few hundred to many thousands of registrants.”
Event managers use TRS online registration for purposes beyond volunteer needs, including conferences, fundraisers and ticket sales. In 2009, the TRS software was translated to accommodate the first European event clients.
“We know of no other online registration tool with multi-lingual capabilities for both registrants and administrators,” May said.
“We work with the best event managers in North America.” May said. “The Super Bowl host committees are extraordinary clients who have high standards and demand excellence from their suppliers,” she said.
In observance of the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S., the TRS offices will be closed on 11/26 and 11/27 and will reopen on 11/30. The system will continued to be monitored and any support issues should be directed through our ticketing system. Have a safe and wonderful Thanksgiving!
Online registration system TRS (The Registration System) announced its expansion into Europe.
The first TRS European registration site, in French and Flemish, will go live in September 2009 for a Belgian client managing corporate workshops.
Others will follow soon after in additional languages.
Customer service and technical support will continue from the company’s headquarters in Indianapolis.
TRS was created by event management agency Simply Hospitality. It is designed to gather and manage registrant data using the mindset of a professional event planner.
It was created in 2001 to manage the more than 1000 multi-lingual volunteers for the US Grand Prix (Formula One race) in Indianapolis and is now used by hundreds of the best-run events across North America and beyond.
TRS is used for online registration, management and contact for conferences, volunteer needs, ticket sales, tours, festivals, and events of all types.
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TRS (The Registration System) is online registration for volunteer management, sporting event participants and paid online registration of all types, including conferences, tours, ticket sales and fundraisers. TRS was created by professional event planners in Indianapolis who needed it for the Formula One race. Other event managers saw it and asked to use it; TRS is now in use across North America and beyond. TRS online registration users range from local youth sports to the Tampa Bay Super Bowl and everything in between, including PGA golf tournaments, several sports commissions, the Gator Bowl, the 500 Festival Indy Mini Marathon, the Rock ‘n’ Roll Seattle Marathon and the Rock ‘n’ Roll San Antonio Marathon.
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