Why Races Use RunSignUp Email

With such great, well established email vendors like Mailchimp and Constant Contact available, why are more and more races turning to the RunSignUp Email system? Free Our email system is free. Constant Contact costs $500 per year for up to 2,500 contacts and MailChimp costs $300+ per year for up to 2,500 contacts. They include some […]

Email Analytics for Registrations

We have expanded our RunSignUp Analytics Platform to show registrations tied to each email. This will show you in detail how each email you send, and each automated email that is sent (price increases and incomplete registrations for example) performs. This type of analysis will be extended over the coming months to also include transaction […]

RaceJoy for Relays

Attention race organizers of relay events! Do you want to provide tracking specifically for your relay participants and their teams? Are you interested in having access to a race day monitoring system that includes direct communication with your participants and key race day personnel? The RaceJoy for Relays video answers why relays use RaceJoy and […]

The Risks of Declining Registrations

There was a recent article on Bloomberg News suggesting that the next financial crisis could start in Silicon Valley and “Fintech”. Fintech is a broad term, but touches all races who use online registration with the movement of over $1 Billion per year thru the 100 or so race registration systems. Here are some of […]

RunSignUp Analytics – E-mail Registration Source

We have released E-mails as the first source tracking for registrations in our RunSignUp Analytics platform – the equivalent of Google Analytics customized for races. This gives race directors new levels of visibility into their promotional efforts that were unavailable before. And it is easy and automated. If you click the green line in the […]

Customize “From” Address on EMail Marketing

You can now set your own reply email address for EMail Marketing. This is set in the Email Marketing Setup: When you set this, your emails will look like this to participants: For advanced users, we still recommend full white labeling. This option is similar to what most email marketing offerings do, but can impact […]

U.S. Registration Market Analysis – September 2017

We do a US Registration Market Analysis every 6 months: September 2015 March, 2016 September, 2016 March, 2017 We try to make it better with your feedback (so feel free to send suggestions or corrections to bob.bickel at runsignup.com). We do this as part of our own internal market evaluation processes, but share it since […]

RaceDay Scoring Alpha Release 0.1.3

As we continue to march toward Beta, we are getting more and more functionality into RD Scoring, the next generation of The Race Director used by timers to score over 11 Million finishers per year. We are also getting an increasing number of timers playing with the Alpha and giving us great feedback. We will […]

Participants Respond to RaceJoy at HAP Crim Festival of Races!

Every August, the City of Flint comes to life as thousands of runners, walkers and fitness enthusiasts take part in the HAP Crim Festival of Races. A weekend-long celebration, the courses take racers through some of Flint’s most beautiful neighborhoods and challenging hills, with legendary entertainment and encouraging spectators all along the way. The race […]

WordPress