Clean API’s and No Meetings

You often hear the recommendation of “Let’s have a meeting” and “Let’s communicate more”. At RunSignUp we think meetings and communicating are a waste of time. Mark Nigro, the CTO at Bluestone Software and a very bright man, introduced me to the concept that communicating and having meetings was a waste of time. His concept […]

Twitter Ad Conversion Tracking

You can now track Twitter ad conversions like we have had for Google, Facebook and other ad conversion tracking. Conversion tracking allows you to match clicks from Twitter to actual sales that happen. Twitter Ads can be interesting as a low cost way of getting visibility for your race. To turn on conversion tracking, go […]

What Will RunSignUp do with RaceJoy

Hopefully make it successful – which means that over the next couple of years we crack 1 Million users. Here is our plan: Introduce RaceJoy to RunSignUp races and timers. We hope that a number of them see the value in providing this service for their races and will promote the fact their race is […]

RunSignUp Strategy Update with RaceJoy

With the rapid growth of RunSignUp and by adding the talents of The Race Director and RaceJoy to our offering, many people want to understand our strategy. We covered this in our presentation at RunningUSA (and our video of that presentation here). It is worth expanding on now that RaceJoy is formally a part of […]

RaceJoy Mobile Applications Join Forces with RunSignUp

Shared Vision of Innovation Leading to Next Generation Race Experience February 26, 2015 – Moorestown, NJ – RunSignUp, the leading industry innovator for race events, timing service providers, running stores and clubs, announces its acquisition of RaceJoy, the industry’s premium mobile and runner tracking solution. James Harris, creator of RaceJoy, will join RunSignUp to continue […]

Mobile Access Continues to Increase

We’ve been talking about the importance of having a mobile responsive site for a long time, and continue to see the trend towards runners finding races and registering from devices other than desktop computer. At the Yahoo Mobile Developer Conference recently, Flurry Analytics and ComScore presented that they expect Google to change their search rankings to […]

Race Day Reminder EMails and Barcode CheckIn

One of the best things about the new EMail system is the ability to put registrant information into each email very easily. My favorite example is sending an email a couple of days before the race. This example, shows the new ability to add the Registration Bar Code to the email. If you are using […]

New Partner Dashboard Reports

We have added several new reports for Partners to see a quick overview across all of their races. The first is reached by clicking the “View Live Dashboard” button on the top left of the Partner Dashboard. It produces a quick view report of total registrations, transaction volume and revenue share: The Top Races & […]

Facebook Page “Call to Action” Button

Facebook has added the ability for a “Call to Action” button in your main front page image. You should add this now! It is super easy – you will see a button on your page “Create Call-to-Action” like the one below. The select “Sign Up” as your button label as shown on the right. Then […]

Loyalty Program Registration Extended

We have extended the capability of the Loyalty Program to include multiple lists and multiple registration periods. As you may recall, the Loyalty Program allows a race to open up to a select number of participants – most commonly last year’s participants. There are often several lists of people that you may open registration to […]

Becoming a Payment Facilitator

NOTE: We are now a Payment Facilitator. Over the next month, we will be moving to the next level of sophistication in our credit card processing and become an official Payment Facilitator (sometimes called a Payment Service Provider). This will ensure we are meeting banking and VISA and Mastercard processing rules as being an authorized intermediary […]

Nite Lites Christmas 5K Case Study

We have a series Customer Case Studies, in which we take your stories and share your challenges and successes as a learning tool for other RunSignUp users.  This Nite Lites Christmas 5k Case Study focuses on setting yourself apart from the competition to create a successful first-year race.  View the PDF Version of the Nite Lites Christmas 5K Case […]

New Email Features – Draft, List Management and more

As we promised earlier, we are continuing to roll out improvements to the new RunSignUp Email system. We are happy to announce the following new features: Draft Emails Sent Emails Improved List Management (Edit RSU settings, and APPEND to contact list) Ability to send to multiple lists in one send Draft & Sent Email When […]

Gobble Gobble Four Miler Case Study

We have a series Customer Case Studies, in which we take your stories and share your challenges and successes as a learning tool for other RunSignUp users.  This Gobble Gobble Four Miler Case Study focuses on creating techniques for fundraising and engaging Sponsors.  View the PDF Version of the Gobble Gobble Four Miler Case Study Overview: The Gobble Gobble […]

How To RaceJoy Enable Your Race for GPS Tracking

Update (2/26/15): You can now RaceJoy Enable your race directly from your Race Dashboard.  Instructions are here. We just announced a partnership with RaceJoy to allow any race using RunSignUp to RaceJoy enable their race for free. Adding Runner Tracking is a great benefit to your runners and spectators and will put your race on […]

RaceJoy Partnership for GPS Tracking

RunSignUp Partners with RaceJoy for GPS Runner Tracking Strategic Partnership for Next Generation Race Experience February 5, 2015 – Moorestown, NJ– RunSignUp, the leading industry innovator for race events, timing service providers, running stores and clubs, announces its strategic partnership with RaceJoy, the industry’s premium mobile and runner tracking solution. RunSignUp and RaceJoy have a […]

Rock & Stroll Case Study

We have a series Customer Case Studies, in which we take your stories and share your challenges and successes as a learning tool for other RunSignUp users.  This Rock & Stroll Case Study focuses on supporting donations for multiple charity partners. View the PDF Version of the Rock & Stroll Case Study Overview: Rock & Stroll used RunSignUp for […]

Forcing Full Team Entry During Registration

One of the nice things about RunSignUp has been our ability to have team members sign up independently of each other. This allows each person to pay for themselves and answer custom questions for themselves, enter their own USAT number, etc. We have added a new option to force the complete team to be entered […]

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