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The Race Director has released a new update that enables team support. Please see Appendix B of the manual for the details and limitations. We continue to get great feedback from timers on this integration, and are continuing to do continual improvements as suggestions come in. Getting Started – RunSignUp Integration with The Race Director
If you are a race director and striving to provide the best possible experience for your runners from registration through the finish line, you need to begin thinking about how to leverage Mobile. Mobile Registration. Today over 40% of people register from a mobile device. If your registration process is not mobile friendly, you will […]
There is increasing evidence that races can combine the power of Facebook and mobile to increase their registrations. 11% of registrations on RunSignUp originate from Facebook, and over 40% of registrations overall are done on mobile devices. The graphic on the right is from a BBC Study showing that ads on mobile are as much […]
Facebook Facebook generates about 11% of registrations that happen on RunSignUp. We give races an several easy ways to take advantage of the natural viral nature of Facebook by giving participants several easy ways to share the fact they signed up for a race on Facebook. Also, a number of races have invested a lot […]
We have added the ability to have question logic. This means that you can show a sub question only if the answer to a previous question is given in a certain way. The example on the right is a simple one – where you only want a runner entering their expected time based on if they […]
We are looking to hire a full time software developer to help RunSignUp continue to provide great web services and cutting edge technology to the running community. This is an opportunity to do great development, work with some very bright people, as well as to learn and broaden your knowledge base. You will be joining […]
We have a new office (300 Mill St., Suite 200, Moorestown, NJ 08057)! Well, actually it is in a 150 year old lumber yard/hardware store building. We are on the second floor. You can rest assured we are not living lavishly on your processing fees 🙂 We are in the process of decorating our office […]
We have implemented a new set of compression technology to reduce the size of pages sent to the browser. This is especially important for mobile browsers since the connect speed is slow and anything we can do to reduce the size of downloaded pages is a win. For example, some of the file size reductions […]
We created some new alternatives for the Finisher’s Certificate. Remember that you can upload your own template as well!
If you have not experimented with Facebook Ads for your race, you are probably missing an opportunity to expand your race. As you can see on the right, Facebook is offering a variety of options for advertising, which can be confusing. Facebook is also making moves that limit the reach of normal posts to as low […]
If you are a major geek, you know that the Heartbleed Bug was recently found and started to be exploited. I am happy to report that we have implemented the fix as shown in this test. Please let website owners that you use know about this. The test can determine if their systems are vulnerable […]
This position has been filled. Keep watching for new positions as we continue to grow to meet customer needs! We are looking to hire an Account Rep 1 for our office in Moorestown, NJ. This person will review the hundreds of new races that are created on our website each month and look for […]
We have upgraded the editing that you can do on RunSignUp when you put up your own Custom Sections. One of the nicest things is that when you paste text in from Word or a PDF document, it strips off all the extra characters that Word embeds. It also does proper font and color matching […]
Here is a cool article about a 300 person race in North Carolina. There are some great ideas in here for any race director. Kelly Stewart, the race director, will be one of our speakers at our RunSignUp Users Conference (don’t forget to sign up!). “Stewart also made registering for the event easier by partnering […]
RunScore has a nice integration to post Age Group Results on RunSignUp as part of our integration. This is where there is a page that just shows, for example, the top 3 finishers in each age group. This video by Alan Jones shows how simple it is and how RunScore and RunSignUp are tightly integrated.
We have been collaborating with The Race Director and a number of timers to make sure this integration is easy to use and powerful. Chuck Block from Michigan Running Foundation was having an issue where when he chose to score a race by chip time and a runner did not have a chip time due […]
Facebook has a new type of advertising mechanism – Offers. You can create an offer for your Facebook Race Page easily by going to https://www.facebook.com/offers/. The way it works is that you pay advertising $ to Facebook and they will put the offer into the feed of your target (fans of your race page and typically […]
