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We have two customer service positions now open at RunSignup; a full-time and a part-time Technical Customer Service Representative. You can work from our Moorestown, New Jersey office or from the convenience of your home. Below are more details. Interested in applying? Send your information to kristina@runsignup.com.
The biggest US running day of the year had an impressive showing in 2022, with 756,894 people participating in 730 races across the country and raising more than $1.8 million dollars for charities. That represents record participation on the platform, likely due to both an increase in market share and a strong rebound of the […]
Over the last couple weeks we’ve had a few nonprofits report issues with their Facebook Fundraiser integration. Meta has undergone some changes over the past month and our previous contacts are no longer with the company. We are still waiting on Meta to release a fix to the Fundraiser API and provide our team access […]
Note from Dec. 15 2022 – We have deployed an upgraded layer of software that controls our session management that is adaptive to high demand and removes the problem with the Apache Webserver cache mechanism that caused some slow performance on Thanksgiving morning. We had over 750,000 people sign up for 730 Turkey Trots who […]
As with other Founders Corner blogs, I like to write these blogs to help myself make sure I am thinking about things clearly, as well as communicate important information that I want available to all employees and customers so we can get feedback and we all understand the path forward. I’ve written about pieces of […]
On this Thanksgiving Eve, we wanted to take a little time to say our thanks as a team! Here are 20 things we’re thankful about this year. 1. Thanks to Our Customers (that’s YOU!) First and foremost, we are SO THANKFUL for our customers. Our business only exists because of your business, and we’re thankful […]
Following up on our recent introduction of Deduplication Options for Email v2, we wanted to go behind the scenes to explain how our email delivery system is being further optimized. Enterprise level email delivery is much harder than it may appear. Like many things with an internet based product, we have to spend a lot […]
Asics announced the acquisition of a leading European registration provider, Njuko. This is in addition to their other acquisitions of RunKeeper (training app), Race Roster (Canada and US registration) and RegisterNow (Australia registration). Congratulations to Pierre Duvelleroy and his team, who have built a good quality company who operates the right way with reasonable fees […]
There are now 3 deduplication options for Email V2: You can select your preferred deduplication option on the Recipients page where you select Email Recipient lists to receive an email. We will walk through each deduplication option in more detail. Email, Name, and Placeholders We recommend using this setting for all race communications that use […]
As race organizers, you know what it takes to put on a race and all the efforts involved on the backend leading up to race day and on the big day. But what do participant’s experience when they interact with all those great services you’ve set up? This webinar covers this topic and specifically dives into what participants experience as they go through the various RaceDay tools available for events who use RunSignup’s registration. Since these integrate with one another on the backend, participants receive a more streamlined and connected experience.
Part of Bob’s continued ramblings. Eventbrite has had a history of overstating things a bit too much. This blog digs into the details of how Eventbrite is: There are plenty of customers who will begin to understand these impacts in the coming years and why they will move to TicketSignup for our free websites that they […]
American Express had some outages on Friday night, November 18, 2022. About 10-15% of credit card transactions on our platform use American Express credit cards, and some of those transactions took extra time and some failed. When we try to process a transaction that fails, our processor (Adyen) gives us a status code back. Sometimes […]
Part of Bob’s continued ramblings. This one covers an overview of the how and why we do reviews and our compensation. Annual Reviews We like to do reviews and compensation adjustments on an annual basis. There are a number of positives around doing this on an annual basis: Reviews Over the past several years we have […]
Email V2 stats now show in RaceInsights Analytics. This gives you even more insight into how your emails drive website views, registration numbers, and revenue. RunSignup email is free and you can send unlimited emails. However, it’s important to balance frequency and quality – if you send too many emails with poor content, your contacts […]
Part of Bob’s continued ramblings. I’ve been asked a number of times in the past couple of days, including by my daughters (who know I am a Swiftie) if we could have handled the load that Ticketmaster could not? The simple answer is kind of. Seating Our biggest limitation is seating charts. We do not do […]
he webinar below covers RunSignup’s new announcer screen for race organizers and timers to use on race day. Powered by RaceDay Scoring, the announcer screen streams personalized participant information as they cross timing points on the course. This newest feature enables race announcers to make timely personal public recognition of race participants- an honored tradition of on-site endurance events.
Registrations for the 2023 RunSignup Winter Roadshow are open! As we announced in September, we are foregoing our traditional Symposium this year in favor of smaller events that allow us to reach more race directors and timers all around the country. We’re starting off with eleven Roadshow Stops between January and March, and you can […]
Part of Bob’s continued ramblings. There have been tons of layoffs recently in the technology sector. The major factor driving this is a shift from investor perspectives of value on growth vs. profitability. And that was driven by very low interest rates. That is not the point of this blog, but just to follow that […]
Your race website is automatically created and sync’ed with all the information you input when filling out the race wizard. A fully functional website helps organize your race information in a structured and easy to find format while also allowing you to add custom branding to make your website eye-catching and uniquely yours. In addition […]
RunSignup offers a wealth of free products and features events can take advantage of to support these efforts and we know many event organizers may not be aware of all that is available to them. So, to help our events we host webinars that focus in on using the tools that specifically support increasing registration numbers. We’ve also shared many best practices and tips for approaches we know that work.
Feature Updates Updated Membership Display to show even if there is no Membership Number. Some Memberships at RunSignup are set up without the concept of a Membership Number existing. In this case, we will show the membership and whether or not they are a member instead of hiding any membership that does not have a […]
We did a quick check-in on how some of the data is looking this year so far for registration (November 7, 2022). We have been tracking how far races have recovered post pandemic. We also have done an annual wrap-up after turkey trots are done. Last year there were 617,000 participants across 640 Turkey Trots […]
RaceDay Scoring now offers new external display options. This Timer Tip Tuesday covers how timers can make use of HTML Scroll Exports.
Many endurance events across the country are continuing to see registration numbers are lower than pre-pandemic levels – especially if you are a mid-sized event. Yet your cost to put on events is going up. This webinar focuses in on ways you can rebuild participation levels and increase registrations. There are many tools at RunSignup that are free and effective for marketing your race and encouraging registrations with strategic pricing discounts.
We have been tracking a data point this year where we look at a cohort of races that were on our platform in both 2019 and 2022 by the month the race occurred. Meaning we looked at races that happened in October of this year (2022), and compared if they were also on our platform […]
