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Welcome American Royal!

Can you handle some more good news? Because we just can’t wait to share that we are officially partnering with American Royal to enhance their online presence! We have been talking with Jody and his staff since we first met at the NALS&RMA Conference last summer, and we couldn’t be more excited to be associated … Continue reading “Welcome American Royal!”

Can you handle some more good news? Because we just can’t wait to share that we are officially partnering with American Royal to enhance their online presence!

We have been talking with Jody and his staff since we first met at the NALS&RMA Conference last summer, and we couldn’t be more excited to be associated with an organization that gives over $1 million annually to support youth and education.

From the Horse Show and Rodeo to the World Series of BBQ, this organization does it’s part to keep the fun alive in Kansas City.

During September, October and November, more than 250,000 people will attend the American Royal events, so we better get started! We had our first design brainstorm meeting yesterday, and let me tell you: this is going to be one knock-out website!

Welcome Texas State Forest Festival!

Join us in welcoming the Texas State Forest Festival to the Saffire community! We first met the nice people from Lufkin at the TAF&E Convention here in Austin. After a few phone calls and emails, Cassie took a little trip to East Texas to show them all that our software had to offer a festival … Continue reading “Welcome Texas State Forest Festival!”

Join us in welcoming the Texas State Forest Festival to the Saffire community! We first met the nice people from Lufkin at the TAF&E Convention here in Austin.

After a few phone calls and emails, Cassie took a little trip to East Texas to show them all that our software had to offer a festival like theirs. Turns out, they liked what they saw and signed up right on the spot!

We look forward to working with the team at the Texas State Forest Festival to enhance their online presence as they prepare for their event September 21-25!

Welcome Coors Ranch Rodeo!

It’s hard to believe it, but today we are happy to announce our second partnership with an event in the great city of Amarillo, TX! Our dear friends at the Amarillo Tri-State Fair & Rodeo recommended us to the Coors Cowboy Club, and now we are working on a new website for the Coors Ranch … Continue reading “Welcome Coors Ranch Rodeo!”

It’s hard to believe it, but today we are happy to announce our second partnership with an event in the great city of Amarillo, TX!

Our dear friends at the Amarillo Tri-State Fair & Rodeo recommended us to the Coors Cowboy Club, and now we are working on a new website for the Coors Ranch Rodeo!

We are excited to welcome another rodeo to the Saffire community, and we can’t wait to show you our new ideas for the look and feel of their website.

Now that we have so many friends in Amarillo, I think I see a road trip to West Texas in our future!

Rodeo Austin: Where Weird Meets Western

It is always a highlight for our team when we get to go see one of our events in action, and this Wednesday we drove across town to visit our very first Saffire client, Rodeo Austin! First, we got to go on a tour of their newly remodeled office and the fairgrounds. Our tour guides … Continue reading “Rodeo Austin: Where Weird Meets Western”

It is always a highlight for our team when we get to go see one of our events in action, and this Wednesday we drove across town to visit our very first Saffire client, Rodeo Austin!

First, we got to go on a tour of their newly remodeled office and the fairgrounds. Our tour guides were wonderful and we enjoyed learning even more about their event.

Next, we enjoyed a yummy dinner in the Founders Club. If you ever have the chance to enjoy dinner there, we highly recommend the friend pickles and homemade peach cobbler.

We headed down to our seats and watched an exciting rodeo. As a former intern at Rodeo Austin, Cassie got to see a lot of her old friends, including the one and only Rusty Rodeo!

But we would lying if we said that most of our excitement came from getting to see Josh Turner in concert! He is definitely a favorite around the Austin office, so we sang along to every song he played.

After the rodeo and concert, we headed over to spend some time at the 100X club for drinks and dancing. We enjoyed some live music from Clayton Gardner before we left the grounds.

Overall, it was a fantastic experience and we can’t thank the staff at Rodeo Austin enough for their hospitality. We are proud to be your partner!

Saffire 101: ShoWorks Integration

As we began talking with our clients about what our software could do to make their lives easier we heard over and over again that they would like to enter their results only once. They were already doing this with ShoWorks, and we agreed that there was no need to double the effort to get … Continue reading “Saffire 101: ShoWorks Integration”

As we began talking with our clients about what our software could do to make their lives easier we heard over and over again that they would like to enter their results only once. They were already doing this with ShoWorks, and we agreed that there was no need to double the effort to get results to customers by entering the information again for their website.

We approached our friend Mike Hnatt, and now we couldn’t be more excited to announce our partnership with ShoWorks! It means so much that a company with an incredible reputation in the event industry believed in our vision for the improving the industry’s online presence enough to partner with us.

In today’s episode of Saffire 101, Kirk will show you how easy it is to integrate your ShoWorks results with the Saffire software.

Welcome Lea County, New Mexico!

The original vision for Saffire was to help fairs, festivals and rodeos improve their online presence, but the folks of Lea County, New Mexico saw more to what we had to offer! As our newest clients, this county website will be our first site that isn’t based around a specific event like a fair, but … Continue reading “Welcome Lea County, New Mexico!”

The original vision for Saffire was to help fairs, festivals and rodeos improve their online presence, but the folks of Lea County, New Mexico saw more to what we had to offer!

As our newest clients, this county website will be our first site that isn’t based around a specific event like a fair, but the Saffire software still works for them! They have the ability to create all the pages of basic information they want, but their main goal is to make it easier for their community to find out what events are taking place. What better way to share event information than with the Saffire software?

Please join us in welcoming Lea County, New Mexico to the Saffire community!

Saffire 101: Create Your Own Form

It is no secret that a lot of people are involved in making an event successful. Coordinating and communication information takes up a lot of time, so we wanted to do what we could to make the lives of our clients a little easier. Gone are the days when customers, vendors and sponsors printed PDF … Continue reading “Saffire 101: Create Your Own Form”

It is no secret that a lot of people are involved in making an event successful. Coordinating and communication information takes up a lot of time, so we wanted to do what we could to make the lives of our clients a little easier.

Gone are the days when customers, vendors and sponsors printed PDF forms and mailed them to your office. Now, you can create custom forms to collect the information you need, complete with online submissions. And you no longer need to manually enter the information, because forms come to you by email and you can also export form data to a spreadsheet or any database.

In this episode of Saffire 101, our creative director Jeremy will show you how easy it is to create a form and access the data to learn more about your customers, vendors and sponsors.

Saffire Updates: Version 1.6.5

Last week, up made a few minor updates to Saffire that are now live on our customers’ sites! Here is a quick summary of the changes to bring you all up to speed. 1. You now have the option to print mailing labels for your SaffireCommerce™ orders! We made sure that our software was compatible with … Continue reading “Saffire Updates: Version 1.6.5”

Last week, up made a few minor updates to Saffire that are now live on our customers’ sites! Here is a quick summary of the changes to bring you all up to speed.

1. You now have the option to print mailing labels for your SaffireCommerce™ orders! We made sure that our software was compatible with Avery 5160 labels. You can also add custom text on the receipt so you can use it as a packing slip.
Watch this video to learn more!

2. Now changing your homepage featured events is easier than ever! You will notice on your featured events tab when you add items to your homepage, the dropdown menus automatically sort your events in alphabetical order and display the date for easy searching.
Watch this video to learn more!

3. Your Saffire site is now running smoother with faster load speed on your interactive event schedule, which helps event pages load faster too.

We’re already getting started on our next updates. That’s the beauty of Saffire: we are always improving without having to charge you for every single update. And trust us, we like not having to charge you!

Our trip to the Big Show: Rodeo Houston

As rodeo season got into full swing, the Austin office realized that we all had one thing missing in our lives: none of us had ever been to the Houston Rodeo. Kendra quickly took matters into her own hands and bought tickets for us to take a little field trip down to Houston, and it … Continue reading “Our trip to the Big Show: Rodeo Houston”

As rodeo season got into full swing, the Austin office realized that we all had one thing missing in our lives: none of us had ever been to the Houston Rodeo.

Kendra quickly took matters into her own hands and bought tickets for us to take a little field trip down to Houston, and it was quite a fun evening!

Once we arrived, Kendra, Jessica and Rebekah wanted to take a walk around the grounds, but Cassie headed straight for the arena so she wouldn’t miss a second of the action. She even got to see her childhood friend Kay, whose husband is Pro-Bareback Rider Steven Dent.

We were happy to be a part of the crowd of 76,987 that attended the rodeo on Thursday night as we enjoyed a night filled with fried food and cold beer.

I think I can speak for the whole team when I say that the highlight of the night was Lady Antebellum! They played a great set and really had the crowd going.

(Photo courtesy of Houston Radio Station KHMX)

The next morning, we couldn’t help but notice the cutest cupcake shop on our way out of town. We decided to make a quick stop at Crave Cupcakes to get a treat from their rodeo inspired selection for the ride home. It was a great decision!

The Austin office had a great experience at Rodeo Houston, and we hope to make it back next year. We wish their team the best of luck on the last few days of their 2012 event.

Saffire 101: Interactive Event Map

When we first started working with Rodeo Austin, we created a completely custom interactive map for their website, but we quickly learned that event locations don’t always stay the same. Rodeo Austin needed to make changes, but didn’t have the control. We didn’t think events should have to choose between a custom interactive map at … Continue reading “Saffire 101: Interactive Event Map”

When we first started working with Rodeo Austin, we created a completely custom interactive map for their website, but we quickly learned that event locations don’t always stay the same. Rodeo Austin needed to make changes, but didn’t have the control.

We didn’t think events should have to choose between a custom interactive map at a higher price or just a plan PDF, so we were inspired to create a way for Saffire customers to build and control their own interactive map. We studied the way we created our first custom map and built a tool for customers to choose unique color-coded categories and arrange hotspots themselves.

In today’s episode of Saffire 101, Kendra will show you how to create and manage your own interactive event map.