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At RunSignup and GiveSignup, we are product-led, meaning our focus is on continuously improving our technology for our customers. So where are we focusing our development resources? What has been recently released, and what is coming soon? Join Allison and Bob for a comprehensive update on the 2022 product roadmap, including the following key updates. They cover: […]
As we enter a new year, we are producing multiple blogs that give a full 2021 Product Recap, our 2021 RaceDay Recap, a 2021 Business Recap, our Vision for 2022 and Beyond, and this one – which will talk about our Product Roadmap for 2022. We have a single robust, highly available platform and integrated database that we […]
Our mission at GiveSignup | RunSignup is to build great technology that helps our nonprofit and endurance customers engage and activate supporters to raise money and grow communities. In addition to helping your organization with fundraising events, GiveSignup also helps nonprofits grow and streamline year-round giving with a suite of donation and standalone fundraising features. […]
We usually do our Year in Review in a single blog post. This year has been much too big to put it all in one place, so we are breaking it up a bit. We already published our 2020 Development Recap. This one will cover our product roadmap for 2021. First, we will continue our investment in […]
We held our annual Race Director and Timer Symposium last week. As usual, we shared an overview of RunSignUp and talked about our roadmap ahead. The core message is that RunSignUp is providing an open platform that provides technology to help races thruout the yearly cycle of Promotion -> Registration & Management -> Race Day. We […]
We are really excited about our roadmap for 2016. We will have our 6th birthday in January, and have done a good job of getting the basics of registration right (see our 2015 Year in Review for some details). We are now at the point of being able to bring some really innovative features to […]
We kicked off our 2023 RunSignup Roadshow in Tampa last week, and what a way to start! Attendees joined us at Ordinance One in New Port Richey for three hours of education and conversation over food and beverages. We are thankful to the 45 race directors and timers who registered to join us from around […]
One of our Year End Wrap-up Blogs. Others include 2022 Year in Review, 2022 Availability Report, Company Strategy, TicketSignup 2022 Product Recap, RunSignup 2022 Product Recap, and TicketSignup Product Roadmap. Taking time to reflect on the past year while also planning out the year ahead? We are too! Bob and Allison sit down to discuss company progress and placement for RunSignup, […]
One of our Year End Wrap-up Blogs. Others include 2022 Year in Review, 2022 Availability Report, Company Strategy, TicketSignup 2022 Product Recap, RunSignup 2022 Product Recap, and TicketSignup Product Roadmap. Also, here is our 2023 Roadmap Webinar. We are very excited about the coming year of advancements we have planned for our endurance customers using […]
One of our Year End Wrap-up Blogs. Others include 2022 Year in Review, 2022 Availability Report, Company Strategy, TicketSignup 2022 Product Recap, RunSignup 2023 Product Plan, and TicketSignup Product Roadmap. Also, here is our 2023 Roadmap Webinar. One of the things we pride ourselves on is the concept of Continuous Improvement. Since the fundamental thing […]
One of our Year End Wrap-up Blogs. Others include 2022 Availability Report, RunSignup 2022 Product Recap, TicketSignup 2022 Product Recap, RunSignup 2023 Product Roadmap, and TicketSignup Product Roadmap. Also, here is our 2023 Roadmap Webinar. RunSignup helped our customers process $400 Million for their events in 2022. We have continued our growth in our core RunSignup endurance […]
One of our Year End Wrap-up Blogs. Others include 2022 Year in Review, RunSignup 2022 Product Recap and RunSignup 2023 Product Plan. Also, here is our 2023 Roadmap Webinar. We are bringing back our old Availability and Infrastructure Yearly Report after being distracted by the pandemic. We continue to post blogs about important issues that […]
Q2 2022 saw several trends: Races are down about 20% from their 2019 numbers, and 25% of races over 500 participants in 2019 are not back and likely not returning RunSignup has seen continued market share growth Registration vendors are getting very aggressive given the shrinkage in the market RunSignup / GiveSignup Peer to Peer […]
We laid out our plans for our next generation website capability in this blog post in December, 2021. As with most things at RunSignup, we do incremental releases and continually get market feedback and improve. We released another milestone this week – Organization Websites. This takes the website capability that is built into our TicketSignup […]
Next-generation email marketing is here! Get a look at the new Email Builder with out of the box and custom templates, dynamic data replacement tags, and more. As always, email marketing is free, and Email V2 includes: Free unlimited email sends Free unlimited email contacts Upload your contacts AND custom information Choose from default Participant contact lists Design […]
We are excited to announce TicketSignup, an offering that provides event directors with an intuitive and free event ticketing option that works for simple, complex, and multi-day events. TicketSignup provides event directors with all the tools you need for a successful event, including free email marketing, free websites, integrated marketing tools, and an event day […]
As we enter a new year, we are producing multiple blogs that give a full 2021 Product Recap, 2021 RaceDay Recap, a 2021 Business Recap, a Product Roadmap for 2022, and this one – which will talk about our overall company goals for the future, the foundation of our company, and our strategy for moving forward. Events Our […]
As we enter a new year, we are producing multiple blogs that give a full 2021 Product Recap, 2021 RaceDay Recap, Product Roadmap for 2022, our Vision for 2022 and Beyond, and this one – which will review 2021 from a business perspective. 2021 was a year of “kind of” returning to normal. Our business recovered more than […]
The annual Timer Market Survey for the endurance industry is now open! This survey is designed to provide insights into the timer industry and focuses on understanding timers’ business practices, current challenges, technology used, and obtaining input on products and services needed. It is an opportunity for timers to help their peers and the industry […]
Our 2022 (In-Person!) Winter Symposium is coming up in January, and we wanted to give you a little taste of what to expect before the price increases on 11/1/2021 (at 11:59pm). Education, Education, Education. Our primary goal is for every attendee to head home with new, actionable knowledge regardless of whether you are a first-time […]
While Q2 was about returning to 2019 levels, Q3 saw us return to growth mode with transaction volume increasing 32% over Q3 2019. In 2021 we are comparing our numbers to 2019 – the last year of normalcy. The quick way to see how our community has recovered is to compare the total transaction volume […]
We are excited to announce Single Sign On (SSO) for GiveSignup.org, RunSignup.com, and the rest of our platform’s sites including: TriSignup.com BikeSignup.com AdventureSignup.com SkiSignup.com PaddleSignup.com GiveSignup | RunSignup continues to invest heavily in key platform features, like financials and payments, free email marketing, free websites, and more. At the same time, many of our nonprofit […]
Thanks to all the nonprofits, event directors, and timers, who registered to join us for our Spring Forward Session! You can refer to all the videos and resources below as you start preparing your Hybrid event strategy in 2021. Key Resources These informational hubs are your best resource for a deep-dive into the specific solutions […]
We usually do a Race Registration Market Analysis twice a year – March and September. 2020 was an unusual year, but we did a special one in April, 2020 and September, 2020 to try to capture what was happening in the endurance market. We will share our data and then share observations from the market in general and specific […]
Godzilla vs Kong is expected to hit theaters in March 2021. In the meantime, we have our own fight escalating between two tech giants that is sure to be just as entertaining as the big screen blockbuster. Just like the two titans on screen, Apple and Facebook have been feuding for years. Apple promises to […]
We are happy to welcome Jenn Levas to the GiveSignup development team! Jenn has enjoyed a long and successful career as a software engineer (she won’t let me tell you exactly how long). For the past 12 years of her career she has been leading technical teams and building fleet management software for ARI. Prior […]
TLDR; January – February – Customers are happy, our business is up 29% and life is good! March – OMG-OMG-OMG! We have paid over $75 Million to races that have not happened! Will we survive? Employees take a 50% cut in pay. Everyone stays and works twice as hard. April – PPP! Virtual Races! Employees […]
All Your Tools for a Dynamic 2021 Race Schedule Join us (it’s free!) The 2021 Virtual Winter Symposium is an all online version of our biannual educational symposiums for race directors, timers, and nonprofits. This virtual edition is tailor-made for an unprecedented year, with an emphasis on the event options for 2021 and the tools […]
We usually do our Year in Review in a single blog post. This year has been much too big to put it all in one place, so we are breaking it up a bit into this one, with a recap of this year, and then a blog about our 2021 roadmap. The development team had […]
This is Bob. We will be releasing several year end blogs over the coming weeks. A couple of them will be an overview of the features we released and another for our 2021 product roadmap. But I thought yesterday was worth mentioning. Each morning, I get an email that sends me to a page to […]
RunSignup, Inc. is pleased to announce that an investment affiliate of Payroc will become a minority investor and the Company will begin using Payroc as a preferred payment processing platform. Payroc is making a minority investment in the RunSignup|GiveSignup business to help fund the continued rapid expansion of the RunSignup customer base and provide additional […]
We will be rolling out new pricing on September 1, 2020 for all new and renewed races. Races created or renewed before then will have our current pricing until their event is complete. Our pricing has been the same for the past 10 years – RunSignup.com/Pricing and GiveSignup.org/Pricing, and the time has finally come for changes […]
Top News: RunSignup for Nonprofits Early Adopter Program More than 8,000 RunSignup customers are nonprofits, and more than 95% are connected to a nonprofit in some way. Our customers have been telling us that they want to use RunSignup’s free all-in-one platform and low processing fees for their nonprofit events, websites, and donation and fundraising […]
Facebook has changed the peer-to-peer fundraising roadmap with the addition of Donate and Fundraise tools for nonprofits. Facebook fundraising gives your nonprofit access to the world’s largest social network (2.27 billion active monthly users) and, as part of a broader effort to do social good, there are no processing fees for donations made on Facebook. […]
We are taking a step forward with publishing planned features in RaceDay Scoring – https://racedayscoring.blog/roadmap/. This provides our timing customers with a clear understanding of what is coming in future releases of the product. Next Update is likely coming in the next 1-2 weeks. In Development means we have people actively working on the project […]
We get a lot of questions about why RunSignup is employee owned and if we intend to sell or get acquired. This comes from three angles: First, our customers and prospective customers have a strong desire for stability. They want to make an investment in a technology platform that will continue to grow and get […]
Top News: What IS a CRM for Races? The hottest ticket at our 2018 RunSignUp Symposium was the session on the RunSignUp CRM, and yet, many in the endurance industry don’t really understand the term or how it can impact their business. We dedicated some blog real estate to answer the essential CRM questions: What […]
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 […]
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 […]
Apple has changed the rules for what passes as a valid app (Will Apple’s App Store New Guidelines Trouble Event Apps?) and has started removing hundreds of thousands of apps based on these new guidelines. What this means: If your race has a light weight app that is basically content, or is created from a core […]
This blog is the other half of the blog on When Software Dies. There are obviously many, many reasons why software dies. This blog hopefully helps a few creators avoid mistakes and a few users from making a poor choice that puts them in a costly position to migrate earlier than they planned. 1. No […]
We’ve started to provide an update on how things are going with RunSignUp (Q1 and 2016). The good news is that more races, timing companies, running stores and runners continue to recommend us. One of our key stats we follow is the number of races that process more than 3 transactions with us. Our numbers […]
“Being able to share my race experience with my family and others with an improved level of detail via RaceJoy was pretty awesome.” Rob Gomez On May 14, Rob Gomez, placed first and won the Maine Coast Marathon with a finish time of 2:34 averaging 5:54 minute miles. Rob’s time would have been even less […]
We wanted to provide an update on how things are going with RunSignUp prior to our biannual Endurance Registration Report in early April. The good news is that more races, timing companies, running stores and runners continue to recommend us. One of our key stats we follow is the number of races that process more […]
We “Live Streamed” our Symposium last week. It was our first attempt at this, so we had some technical glitches and some content that could be better and some content that is not there. On the other hand, we captured a lot of great stuff: Bob Bickel: RunSignUp Overview and Roadmap https://youtu.be/9TF9L0Rq0jw?t=4m24s Barbara Herzog: Cultivating […]
We have begun developing our new Photo Platform for RunSignUp. There are two key pieces of new architecture that we are using as we build out this new platform, and they are cool for tech geeks. As mentioned in the 2016 Roadmap, we are developing an open platform for photos for race websites. We anticipate integrations […]
As stated in our Registration Systems Market Analysis, we do a bi-annual internal meeting to discuss how we have done, and plan where we are heading. We thought we would share our current view on what is happening in the registration market in several areas: Needs of customers Types of solutions What is happening with […]
We are a very open company (with things like public annual and availability reports as well as public roadmap), and we thought we would share some analysis we have done as well as general thoughts on the future size and direction of the registration market. We do a biannual planning meeting (we start one on Monday) where we […]
“The third wave of the Internet is about to break. The opportunity is now shifting to integrating it into everyday life, in increasingly seamless and ubiquitous ways.” Steve Case, the founder of AOL, wrote the above comment in a recent article in the Washington Post titled “Get Ready, the Internet is About the Change Again“. […]
Race Management Leader The Race Director and Roger Bradshaw Join Forces with RunSignup The combined company will continue the open platform approach of The Race Director and RunSignUp, while working on a Next-Generation Cloud and Mobile native Scoring and Results Platform Moorestown, NJ and Fremont, MI – January 5, 2015 – RunSignUp, the leading innovator […]
