Recent Blogs


Event & Race Emergency plans for Coronavirus

Update (3/4/2020): The CDC has issued guidance for mass gatherings and large community events. It contains a number of good suggestions for the basis of a plan. As we write this, Coronavirus is the headline of every news story and the subject of every…

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Spartan Buys Tough Mudder

As we talked about a couple of months ago, Tough Mudder did go to bankruptcy court and ended up with a settlement deal. Spartan will acquire Tough Mudder for $700,000 plus assume debts of $10 Million including honoring prepaid tickets. According to Obstacle Racing Media, Spartan…

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Welcome, Camaron Ballard!

Camaron Ballard is joining RunSignup’s Richmond, VA office as a Junior Sales Representative, bringing 10+ years of sales experience ranging from insurance sales to RV sales. Camaron has a musical background, studying music in Memphis, TN and focusing on Blues/Rock Organ. He…

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Sales Tax Update for Wyoming

The power of our community has benefited our Sales Tax implementation again. Since beginning this project, we have had help from dozens of our customers who have helped provide clarification to how their local sales tax laws apply to races and nonprofits….

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Broad Street and More Sell Out Races

Yesterday, February 17, 2020, was a big day. We processed over $3.4 Million across over 50,000 registrations. There was the big 30,000 lottery drawing for the Blue Cross Broad Street Run. Also the 1,400 person drawing for the Horribly Hilly Hundreds. Oh, and there…

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Early Steps on French and Spanish Support

With our announcement yesterday of custom wording for buttons, we are starting to begin to meet the multilingual needs of races. This is important as there are many Spanish speaking people in the US, and races want to be welcoming. In addition as…

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$1 Billion

RunSignup turned 10 years old in January 2020. On February 14, 2020 our platform will have processed over $1 Billion for our customers – our community’s little unicorn. This represents over 24 Million registrations and almost $100 Million in Donations. We must…

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Participant Tracking: Promotion = Usage, Less Questions

Most races offer some form participant tracking as it has become a standard expectation of participants and spectators alike. However, each race is different in the types of tracking that is being offered. Some may issue just a start and finish alert,…

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What Should Your Processing Fee Be?

A couple of years ago we wrote a somewhat intellectual blog on the “Price Elasticity of Processing Fees” that included fancy graphs. As we talk with lots of customers at the RunningUSA conference, this is once again a hot topic. The simple…

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What is your Participant Value?

This is Bob. We are heading to the RunningUSA Conference this weekend, and this is the question I will be asking over and over again. We want to try to get feedback on the value of a participant as part of designing…

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