Thank you for joining us for our RunSignup Roadshow! We’re so excited to get to meet more race directors and timers from around the country. If you’d like to dive a little deeper into any of the topics covered at your meeting, we have a set of resources for you below.
RaceTrends
If you want a quick-to-reference PDF version of the RaceTrends report, or more details from our midyear updates, you can find that at the links below.
Key Resources on Topics Covered
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Email V2
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Miller Park Zoo: Engaging the Community with Races & Events
Miller Park Zoo in Bloomington, Illinois, uses both RunSignup and TicketSignup to power their annual race and ticketed events. From a springtime Zoo Stampede to the popular Brews at the Zoo, the zoo leverages each platform’s unique tools to create seamless participant…
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Custom Reply to for Volunteer Emails
You can now set a custom reply to for Volunteer Emails. This allows volunteers to email with an address that is not the main race contact. There is an overall setting to apply to all Volunteer emails. In addition, you can override…
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Marketing Strategies for Small Races
Hosting a small race doesn’t mean you need a big marketing budget to make a huge impact. With the right strategies – smart email communication, QR codes, referrals, and strong storytelling – small races can grow registration, boost engagement, and build loyal…
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Back to School 2nd Period: Email Marketing V2
This is the second class in our Back to School series reviewing the key content and updates from the last year before you dive into the busy fall race season. This class covers using RunSignup’s free and unlimited email marketing to communicate…
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What’s the Difference Between Social Links & Social Sharing?
When you’re setting up your race it’s easy to get tripped up by the different ways your event connects to social media. Two of the most common features – Social Links and Social Sharing – sound similar but serve very different purposes….
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Twin City Track Club
Twin City Track Club: A Community-First Club The Twin City Track Club (TCTC) has a long history, having been founded in 1977 to promote running and ensure there were local races in their hometown of Winston Salem, NC. Today, it’s a multi-faceted…
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Email V2 Template Sort Options
There are new sort and display options for Email V2 templates. For super users of Email V2, this update makes it easy to manage many templates. In addition to an easy search option by template name, you can organize templates for easy…
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San Antonio Road Runners Prickly Pear 50K/15K/5K
The Prickly Pear 50K/15K/5K, the oldest trail race in Bear County at 23 years, is one of two trail races organized by the San Antonio Road Runners (SARR). While most of the club activities are centered around road racing, Prickly Pear Race…
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RunSignup 101 Email V2 Q&A
Did you miss our RunSignup 101 Email V2 webinar? Not to worry. Here’s a quick run-through of the most asked questions from the webinar that will help you get started with using Email V2. Does Email V2 have a report for email…
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Blackbeard’s Revenge 100 Ultra & Relay
Blackbeard’s Revenge 100, a “road race as bold and untamed as the pirate it’s named for”, was introduced by Trivium Racing in 2019 to fill a gap left by the cessation of another long-standing 100-miler. While the second running of the race…
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Event Powered Websites and Email – The New Requirement for Events
Since the dawn of using the Internet for signing up for events online, collecting information and processing transaction $dollars have been the core requirement. Over the past several years, Websites and Email that are POWERED by Event data have become the new…
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3 Things You May Not Know About Automated Emails
Automated emails are a powerful built-in tool with RunSignup, but many race directors may not be utilizing them to their full potential. Whether you’re new to the platform or a seasoned user, there are several customization features that can make your automated…
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The Latest Marketing Updates
Marketing Strategies for Small Races
Hosting a small race doesn’t mean you need a big marketing budget to make a huge impact. With the right strategies – smart email communication, QR codes, referrals, and strong storytelling – small races can grow registration, boost engagement, and build loyal…
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Pricing Your Race for Growth
As a race director, you’ve built a successful race and have a solid pricing model. Now, you’re ready to grow and expand your event! RunSignup offers a range of free marketing tools that race directors can take advantage of. Today, we’re going…
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Harpoon 5-Miler: Pushing the Envelope with Marketing 365 Days a Year
Continuous Improvement for a Sellout Race The Harpoon 5-Miler has sold out many times in it’s 24 year history, but that doesn’t mean the race is simply riding on its coattails. After facing challenges reigniting enthusiasm post-COVID, the race has exploded in…
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When to Open (Renew) Next Year’s Race?
Your race is coming up this Saturday. In the back of your mind you are wondering “When should I open next year’s race?” The answer, of course is when you are ready! This blog discusses some of the options, tradeoffs and various…
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Greater Philadelphia YMCA Gobble Wobble
It’s no secret that Thanksgiving day is the biggest running day of the year. And in the Philadelphia area, the Greater Philadelphia YMCA has traditionally hosted a local Gobble Wobble across several locations. In 2024, they’re continuing to refine their events, with…
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Getting Merchandise for Your Race
Endurance events tend to hold a special place for people. Whether it was a bucket-list item like running a marathon, or having a fun day with friends and family at a 5k, holding on to those memories is important for a lot…
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Social Media Links for Websites V2
Social media links for Race Websites V2 make it easy to promote your event or organization’s social media pages. Feature icons that link directly to your Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, LinkedIn, X (Twitter), and custom links. Social Media Links is a website component…
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RunSignup University Independent Study: Updating Your Marketing
We recently held our inaugural RunSignup University. The two day event gave attendees an opportunity to deepen their product knowledge and get the most out of RunSignup. Being there in person was certainly the best way to learn the most, but seats…
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How to Set Up a GA4 Account and Integrate with RunSignup
This blog is part of our Marketing Analytics series. It explains how to create a Google Analytics 4 account and integrate with your RunSignup events. It’s easy and free to set up GA4. To get started, all you need is a Google…
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Marketing Analytics for Events
This week we did a series of 3 webinars on Marketing Analytics for events. Analytics help your event(s) make informed marketing decisions. There are two analytics tools that we covered in our webinar series: RaceInsights and Google Analytics 4. RaceInsights RaceInsights is…
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Marketing Analytics: RaceInsights Reporting
Thanks to everyone who joined us for Part 1 of our Marketing Analytics Webinar Series focused on RaceInsights reporting. If you missed the webinar live, it’s not too late to catch up with the on-demand version. You can also find links to…
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Reaching New Runners Through Referral Rewards
Referral rewards have been a favorite marketing tool for RunSignup customers since their introduction in 2016. Referrals work like this: How Well do Referral Rewards Work? We know referral rewards work: we’ve seen individual races get as much as 20% of their…
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All the Latest RaceDay Updates
RaceJoy’s New Predictive Tracking
RaceJoy recently introduced predictive map positioning, giving timers a powerful new way to deliver a “big marathon” style experience. With this feature, spectators can now see every participant on the course—even those not carrying phones—by combining chip timing data streamed from RaceDay Scoring with…
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2026 Timer Education Summit
JANUARY 27-28 in TAMPA Elevating Timer Skills, Technology & Community RunSignup is hosting its 2026 Timer Education Summit January 27-28, 2026 at the University of South Florida Health CAMLS facility in Tampa, Florida. This year’s summit continues RunSignup’s commitment to helping timers…
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Can RaceDay Scoring Handle My Weird Scoring Situation?
One of the most common questions we hear from timers is: “Can RaceDay Scoring handle my unique scoring situation?”The answer is almost always yes – and often in more than one way. RunSignup’s RaceDay Scoring is both powerful and flexible, giving timers the ability to…
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Back to School 4th Period: RaceDay
This is the fourth class in our Back to School series reviewing the key content and updates from the last year before you dive into the busy fall race season. This class covers RaceDay tools, with a focus on new real-time releases…
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Cross Country Timing with RaceDay Scoring
As cross country season approaches, timers are preparing for smooth and accurate timed scoring. This guide—based on our annual deep dive webinar—will walk you step-by-step through the best practices for configuring cross country events in RunSignup’s RaceDay Scoring. Below is a high level…
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iTRI365 Scales Race Production with RaceDay Scoring
Overview What began as a female-focused endurance coaching initiative in 2015 has grown into one of Texas’ most dynamic timing and event production companies. iTRI365’s evolution—from triathlon coaching, to timing, to directing annual events—reveals the entrepreneurial drive behind its success. At the…
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Mobile Timing App’s Photos Data Usage
We’ve had a few questions from timers and race organizers about how much mobile data is used when uploading photos through RunSignup’s RaceDay Mobile Timing App. When capturing and uploading hundreds of participant photos, especially over a cellular connection, even small file sizes…
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July 4th, 2025: More Holiday Running Records!
The numbers from 4th of July runs are in! While 4th of July races don’t quite compete with Turkey Trots in terms of holiday traditions, it’s become firmly established as a popular race day. And, compared to 2024, we’ve seen 4th of…
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Timer Dashboard – New Intuitive View and Real-Time Readiness
RunSignup’s RaceDay development team is continuously working to enhance RunSignup’s Timer Dashboard to provide more value to timers. Now available is a new table layout with improved organization, featuring easy-to-navigate tabs for Ongoing, Upcoming, and Past races. This update makes it more…
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RaceJoy’s Premieres Predictive Pace!
RaceJoy raises the bar once again for RaceDay technology with its new Predictive Pace feature! This advancement expands real-time participant tracking on the course map to everyone. In the past, only participants who enabled RaceJoy’s GPS phone tracking appeared in the map…
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RaceDay Scoring: Handling 2.5 Million Reads
RaceDay Scoring Version 5 launched in 2024 with the ambitious goal of providing a platform capable of timing any size or type of event. This spring we had a customer test our limits. The bad news is RaceDay Scoring was a bit…
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More RunSignup AI RaceDay Apps – Result Receipts
RunSignup’s RaceDay products offer timers and races a complete set of tools from corral and bib assignments, to scoring, results, notifications, realtime tracking, integrated photos – all for free. RunSignup AI is bringing even more capabilities by giving customers an easy way…
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All the Latest on Memberships
Private Membership Levels
We have added Private Membership levels to our Membership product. Private memberships can be visible to the public or hidden. They can also have a password. A good example is a swim club that requires becoming a member by becoming a bond…
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Back to School Extracurricular 1: Memberships
This is an extracurricular for our Back to School series reviewing the key content and updates from the last year before you dive into the busy fall race season. Your first Extracurricular covers the next generation Memberships product for running clubs and…
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New Membership Dashboard
We have released the new customizable Membership Dashboard. The new dashboard gives membership directors a quick view of the past year, as well as some key metrics displayed as cards at the top of the page. Here are some examples from live…
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5 Ways RunSignup Memberships Makes Life Easier
Nearly 1,000 membership organizations have been created since the release of our next generation Membership Platform, including clubs migrating from the legacy Clubs platform, new Membership organizations, and test organizations. At the heart of Memberships is a simple goal: making Membership sign…
Read MoreTwin City Track Club
Twin City Track Club: A Community-First Club The Twin City Track Club (TCTC) has a long history, having been founded in 1977 to promote running and ensure there were local races in their hometown of Winston Salem, NC. Today, it’s a multi-faceted…
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Membership Renewal Popup
We have added a popup if a current or past member is signing up for a new membership. This prevents people from signing up for a membership multiple times, as well as makes it simpler for members to renew their membership more…
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Memberships: Running Clubs and MORE
When we first created RunSignup Clubs in 2013 it was specifically to fill a technology gap for a segment of the endurance community: running clubs. The upgraded RunSignup Memberships, released 11 years later, provides a significant upgrade for those running clubs. However,…
Read MoreMigration of Remaining Clubs to New Membership Product
Over the next couple of months we will be migrating all remaining Clubs on our old Club product to our new Membership product. The new Membership product was released a year ago, and we will be winding down support for the old…
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New Orleans Track Club
The New Orleans Track Club (NOTC) is a membership organization composed of and administered by runners and walkers. With 2,000 annual members, the NOTC was founded in 1963 to promote running in the New Orleans Area. There are a number of perks…
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Membership Apple Wallet & QR Code Support in RaceDay CheckIn
We’re excited to announce a new enhancement to our RaceDay CheckIn App: the ability to look up participants by scanning their Apple Wallet Membership QR code. This integration makes the check-in process faster and more accurate, providing a quick alternative for participants…
Read MoreMembership October 2024 Updates
We continue to make steady progress on our Membership product, like we do across our entire product line with a steady pace of improvements. We are seeing great adoption of the Membership product as outlined in this blog earlier in October. Member…
Read MoreMembership Organization Product Adoption
We released the new Membership Organization product earlier in 2024, and in about 6 months we have seen hundreds of organizations either migrate from our old Club product or onboard as brand new customers. The migration and onboarding have been exceptionally smooth…
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