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Little things we do add up for our users. One is when people enter their address, we ask for their Zipcode and then auto-fill the City and State. We use ZipCodeAPI to do this little magic trick. Since the average city is 8 characters long (http://www.geographylists.com/list17f.html), and a state is 2 characters, RunSignUp has saved […]
December’s Top News 2017 Year in Review: As the year comes to a close, we are doing our annual look back at the progress made throughout the last 12 months, and setting a roadmap for the coming year. Here are some highlights: 100% Uptime: For the second year in a row, we’ve maintained 100% uptime – even […]
When researching the blog on the RunSignUp History, we came across these blogs where we rambled about the meaning of our company, why we work, how we treat customers, and who we learn from, etc. Here are a bunch of them, with links and highlighted content (from old to new – and you will see […]
Sometimes people think we achieved our success easily or quickly. Actually, we are an 8 year overnight success… As we close out our 8th year, we figured it would be interesting to take a look back. Bob co-owned the Moorestown Running Company in the Spring of 2009, and put up a blog looking for a […]
Note: The new Race Website has been released on January 2, 2017! Soon after your New Year Eve’s celebration, we will be releasing a major upgrade for Race Websites. This will provide every race with a second, more modern option that has a lot of flexibility in the design. Here is a sample default page: […]
We’re just finishing our 8th year, and we are more excited than ever about bringing technology to the endurance market. (Take a look back at 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, Q1, Q2, and Q3). First and foremost, our customers count on us to deliver a fast, reliable service that pays them on time. We had our second […]
Knock on wood, but it has been another great year for RunSignUp availability, hitting a perfect 100% for the second year in a row! As we covered in February when a major outage for many sites on the Internet like Slack, Trello and Venmo, RunSignUp’s advanced infrastructure was able to weather the storm. And having […]
As we approach the year end and our 8th Birthday, it is useful to take a look at our original Guiding Principles and make sure we are still aligned. There are actually 3 sets of Guiding Principles that are each self reinforcing – hopefully a kind of perpetual motion machine! The first set is basically […]
Convenient Access to Race Information RaceJoy has recently released new content capabilities for race organizers providing the ability to add custom content in three key areas: General Race Information Schedule of Events Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) All are self-administered by the race and edits can be made at any time through race day. Content is […]
Yes, we are growing and hiring again! We are looking for a Sales Representative to join our fast growing company. The ideal candidate has experience working in inside sales in a high volume, fast paced environment. We are looking for a person to join our sales team who is fast-learning and self-motivated. This is a […]
The Race Director, one of the two leading timer scoring software packages in the market, has released the 2018 version.To get started with Race Director 2018, please renew your annual support subscription now. You can update your support subscription using the Buy Now button found under the Download menu at TheRaceDirector.com website, or click the […]
We run the 3E (Endurance Event Education) webinar series year-round, with educational sessions focused on giving race directors tips and hints to help them improve their events and increase their participation. If you find it challenging to reach potential participants, you don’t want to miss the next two webinars that we have scheduled this week […]
If you are a frequent reader of the RunSignUp Blog, you know that we run our technology stack on Amazon AWS. Not only are they the largest Cloud service provider, they have the broadest array of services for the lowest price. It has served us well – we do about 2,000 releases a year, we […]
Bayshore Marathon opened this morning. This is a very popular Marathon, Half Marathon and 10K in Traverse City, MI. The Half Marathon is already sold out, and when they opened at 9:00 this morning there were a crush of people waiting to register. This year, they have RaceInsights to see what is happening: They can […]
