RunSignUp June Newsletter

June’s Top News: Multi-Race Bundles Race Directors have a powerful new tool to drive registrations: Multi-Race Bundles. Offer participants specially priced bundles that include multiple races. Cross-promote events by using popular races to drive participation in newer ones and providing motivation for athletes to participate in multiple races throughout the year. For directors with several […]

Boilermaker Offers Advanced Runner Tracking

One of the Largest 15K Running Events Delivers RaceJoy June 27, 2018 – Moorestown, NJ –  Race organizers of the Boilermaker Road Race are offering advanced live runner tracking with the race day mobile app, RaceJoy. Participants and spectators will be treated to an interactive race day experience with live performance updates and real-time GPS […]

Upsell Your Races with Multi-Race Bundles

RunSignUp’s Multi-Race Bundle solution lets you offer participants specially priced bundles of races that are featured across your race websites and easily managed from your Race Dashboard. One of the most effective ways to use Multi-Race Bundles to optimize registrations and transactions across your races is the classic upsell: “If you sign up for the […]

Cross-Promote with Multi-Race Bundles

Race Directors have a powerful new way to drive registrations on RunSignUp. You can now offer participants specially priced bundles of races that are featured across your race websites and easily managed from your Race Dashboard with Multi-Race Bundles. This solution lets you cross-promote and upsell your races on the front-end, with automated participant and […]

Donation User Experience Update: Part 4

As part of our continuing user experience update to the Donation & Fundraising section we have released a big update to the donation section. Highlights include: The donation field is much larger and uses color highlights for clarity. Using the donation field is now more intuitive. It will select or deselect the appropriate level button […]

Swag Rewards!

We released a new Swag Rewards capability, allowing race directors to give participants swag for reaching specific milestones. In V 1.0, race directors can choose to issue swag to participants once they refer a specified number of participants to register for their event. Future versions of Swag Rewards will expand the type of activities that […]

Sales Tax & Your Race

Yesterday the US Supreme Court struck down a 1992 landmark decision (Quill Corporation vs. North Dakota) that had previously barred states from seeking sales tax from businesses unless they have a physical presence in the state. The 1992 decision had allowed online ecommerce businesses to thrive by not having to comply with the myriad and […]

2018 Symposium: Last Call!

With a little less than a month to the Opening Reception, we’re closing in on a sellout for the 2018 Symposium. If you’re still on the fence (or simply procrastinating), the time to register is now! Our Symposium is designed for race directors, timers, and race management/race series companies, with a variety of sessions for […]

Referral Names in Participant Profiles

We have added a way for referrers to view the names of their referrals through their RunSignUp profile. Registrants/Referrers can view this information by going to their PROFILE and selecting the MY REFERRALS tab: From there, the referrer will be able to see a list of their referred registrations. We show the first name, last […]

Yin and Yang – Long Term Planning and Continuous Delivery Balance

Warren Buffet and Jamie Dimon wrote an Op-Ed this week about too much focus on “Short Termism”, and how it harms businesses and the economy. They argue for doing away with public quarterly reports and emphasize “Clear communication of a company’s strategic goals—along with metrics that can be evaluated over time—will always be critical to […]

The Power of Continuous Improvement and the RunSignUp Community

Some of our team was out presenting to a prospective customer yesterday. During the demo, the customer requested a feature – forcing participants to scroll thru the entire waiver form before allowing them to confirm. One of our team members sent a message to Bob to see if we could impress them. In 35 minutes, […]

Donation User Experience Update: Part 3

Today we released our latest update to the donation user interface, Cards & Lists. The fundraiser cards have been completely redesigned. The cards now feature our “Tile” design as well as making the readability of the card content more clear and concise. We also added a new feature that allows users to toggle between list […]

How The Scott Coffee Run Uses RunSignUp

Bob was inspired to start RunSignUp based on being one of the race directors at the Scott Coffee Run. Eight years later, it is useful to see how the race makes use of RunSignUp technology today (this will be a long blog post). Promotion Race Website – We used to have a website managed by […]

Bellin Run Offers Advanced Live Runner Tracking

RaceJoy’s Runner Tracking Offered at One of the Largest 10Ks in the Nation June 5, 2018 – Moorestown, NJ – RaceJoy, the industry’s leading race day mobile app, is available at the Bellin Run, one of the largest 10K races in the nation. The race organizers are providing participants and spectators with RaceJoy’s advanced runner […]

Donation User Experience Update: Part 2

In this weeks donation update we focused on the fundraising tabs. The tabs have been redesigned with a clean modern feel and a new mobile option. On a mobile device, if there are three tabs, they will turn into a dropdown menu. This provides a better experience for mobile users. In addition, the “Become a […]

RunSignUp May Newsletter

  May’s Top News: Custom Source Tracking for RaceInsights RaceInsights, our analytics machine that tracks every click, registration, and transaction on your race website, can now track custom sources to provide a granular look at your marketing ROI. Set up custom URL’s to use for specific campaigns – a Facebook Ad, a promotion from a […]

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