Recent Blogs


RunSignup for the Long Run

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…

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Import Participants Update

Importing participants is important to every race – whether you still get paper entries still, or have some last minute registrations, or you are moving to RunSignup from another platform (thank you!). We’ve updated our longtime Import Participants tool! Here is the…

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240 Timers Get RaceDay Certified!

RunSignup’s RaceDay Timer Certification tour held its final session in Orlando this week and  attracted the highest attendance of the four-city locations with 100 timers being certified. An impressive 240 timers are now certified on RunSignup’s RaceDay Technology Suite and have received…

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Welcome Alyssa Stone

Alyssa Stone joined the development team at RunSignup this week! Alyssa is a Comp Sci grad of Rutgers in 2015, and has worked on various Web, PHP and Drupal projects in the NJ and Philadelphia area. She grew up and lives in Moorestown…

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Welcome, Lewis Jones!

Lewis Jones has joined our Richmond, VA office as a Customer Success Manager! Previously, Lewis worked at Race IT for 5+ years, operating as a jack-of-all-trades who handled everything from financials to analytics to data management to account management…and more. He has…

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Year to Year Participant Declines

We are preparing our yearly Race Trends Report for release at the RunningUSA conference. One of the stats is a comparison of races that happened in 2017 and 2018 where we could measure growth or decline. The Top 1000 Races has a decline in…

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Timer Certification in San Francisco

This week’s RaceDay Timer Certification Tour is in San Francisco where we’ve been training race timers on RunSignup’s RaceDay technology. We intentionally kept this venue to be a smaller group than the others and it has been great to have more one-on-one…

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Custom Race Dashboard

We have brought the power of a Custom Dashboard we introduced a few weeks ago to our larger Partners to each and every race that uses RunSignup. Here is some of the eye candy you can customize to show just what you are looking…

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New Colors and Banner Images for Race Websites

We have refreshed the default color options and banner images we have for race websites. Of course you can choose your own, but most races just opt for the defaults. This is also in preparation for our update of the left menu…

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How Secure is Your Race Website?

I was talking with someone today about whether races feel an obligation to keep their customer data safe. The conversation was triggered when I was talking to a small registration company owner and found they had many security vulnerabilities like their site…

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