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Top News: Introducing Marketplace We have released Marketplace, a new hub for race directors and timers to connect with dozens of vendors and services that we have partnered with. Why Marketplace? At RunSignUp, we strive to bring choice to races. We are an open platform, ensuring that our customers can select the best options for their events, […]
Last weekend, cyclists took part in a unique event held in Troy, OH called the Tour de Donut. This bicycle event tests your ability to eat donuts, just as it does your ability to ride a bike as fast as possible. Its intended to be a fun event for all types of riders. Not only […]
We have released Marketplace, a new menu option for race directors to find dozens of vendors and services that we have partnered with to benefit our users – creating a vibrant community that adds value to our platform and to your participants. Why Marketplace? At RunSignUp, we strive to bring choice to race directors. We are […]
New Certification Program for All Timers RunSignUp announces its new RaceDay Timer Certification program with a four-city U.S. tour in January 2019. RunSignUp offers a full suite of race day products for timers, encompassing everything from scoring to live results and race day check-in to RaceJoy’s live participant tracking to help timers deliver a quality […]
This past weekend, participants of the Hell of a Half Marathon and their supporting family and friends were treated to RaceJoy’s live phone tracking and cheer sending as part of their infernal race day experience. The race is aptly named due to the challenging course marked by steep hills and the hot weather common in […]
We know that an increasing number of participants come to RunSignUp to find a race, RaceInsights data shows about 2.1% of all registrations in the past month come from the RunSignUp.com/Races page. To help this grow, we have added new ways to find races, that should also help to attract new searches from Google and […]
We captured some of our favorite presentations from the RunSignUp Symposium on video and are gradually sharing them with all our customers and friends. You can check out all the presentations that have been uploaded here: https://resources.runsignup.com/symposiumpresentations/ Our latest video release is the Email Marketing presentation by Allison Bickel and Andrew Burke. They review list […]
As part of our Team/Group sign up improvement we have made a few design and usability improvements to the user interface. We have updated the radio buttons with our new tab component and we have also created some nice messages for no team selected and team registration required. This creates a friendly interface that communicates […]
Oklahoma’s Tulsa Run Offers RaceJoy’s Live Tracking and Cheer Sending August 22, 2018 – Moorestown, NJ – Race organizers of the Tulsa Federal Credit Union Tulsa Run are offering participants and spectators the most advanced form of live tracking on race day with the mobile app, RaceJoy. Participants and their supporting family and friends will […]
As we have talked about in the past, one of the real concerns for our market is the cancellation of races and race management companies going out of business. Final Kick Events just posted this blog saying: Final Kick Events is shutting down. This was not an easy or simple decision to make. I have […]
There was a recent article in the New York Times by Louis Hyman of the Cornell ILR School talking about how much of the economy has shifted to outsourcing and temp work. “The rise of the gig economy represents liberation from the stifled world of corporate America. But for the vast majority of workers, the […]
We are in the midst of some infrastructure improvements. This is split among a variety of improvements – performance, security, maintainability, availability, and staying on the most current technology. We did a set of improvements in our caching and server connections that improved the core response time of a race page load from 140 milliseconds […]
We have expanded Multi-Race Bundles to include some more features to make signup even simpler: Team Joining Combining Questions Combining Add-Ons and supporting shipping address validation Display Customizations Granting access to non-race directors Detailed Transactions download Combining Results Notifications Corral Support Single Bib Number option These are in addition to what has been released for […]
Races can now take advantage of the ROAD iD and RunSignUp partnership for their races announced earlier. We have made this very simple to setup and for ROAD iD to become a sponsor for your race. Simply go to the National Sponsor menu item on your Race Dashboard to turn on the ROAD iD sponsorship. […]
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is technology that lets you manage your interactions with customers and potential customers. In the endurance market, CRM is evolving from a buzzword to a tangible technology that race directors need. Your participants are your customers, and you need to promote your race(s) and deliver customer service to your current, past, […]
Teams and Groups are becoming an increasingly popular way to attract participants. However, there are always questions about how to make this as simple and obvious as possible to attract the most people. On Monday, August 6, we are taking another step forward as part of our User Experience Manifesto to help races maximize the […]
