Recent Blogs


Rhode Races & Events Offers Picturesque Running

Rhode Races & Events hosts a series of five race experiences in scenic view locations in the Rhode Island area. This event series provide a backdrop of water views framed by race management perfection. Each event offers a half marathon and three events…

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Mobile Google Search Improvements

We have added some new tagging to help Google recognize races on RunSignup so they display high in search results. One of the things we added helps add an image to search results displayed on mobile phones, as you can see above…

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Q3 RunSigup Results

We do a quarterly update on how things are going with RunSignup (2016, Q1/17, Q2/17, Q3/17, 2017, Q1/18, and  Q2/18). The good news is that more races, timing companies, running stores and runners continue to recommend us. And we keep putting out great technology our customers seem…

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Facebook Hack Risks for Races

The recent hack of 50 Million Facebook user accounts was big news in the security industry. (The link above tells you how to check to see if your Facebook account was hacked). The reason it was big news is because many websites (NOT RunSignUp)…

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Infrastructure Updates

We have been doing a number of infrastructure updates over the past few weeks to improve availability, increase performance and assure security. For example, there was a major Amazon AWS outage on September 5 that took out the SQS queuing service for…

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EventBrite IPO and Implications for the Race Registration Market

EventBrite had a sparkling (pun intended!) IPO debut this week. They sold over $230M of stock and their fully diluted valuation now hovers around $3.4 Billion. Their S1 filing with the SEC provides a treasure trove of information that is very interesting to registration companies like…

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Custom Columns for Participant Report

We have added a way to easily customize Column Names/Headings as well as order on the Participant Report. For example, change this default view: to this: This first step in creating a custom report view is to Save the Report after you…

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Geek Corner – GPS Positioning Algorithms

RaceJoy is the leading mobile app for races for GPS tracking, social interaction, safety and monitoring because of the advanced technology that no one normally sees. One of the really difficult problems to solve is identifying where someone is on a course…

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Race Registration Market Analysis – September, 2018

We do a US Registration Market Analysis every 6 months: We try to improve on it with your feedback (so feel free to send suggestions or corrections to bob.bickel at runsignup.com). We do this as part of our own internal market evaluation…

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Repeat Participant Data in Participant Reports

We have added a way to view the repeat participant counts in your participant reports. To view this information, you must first unhide the fields in the report options. You can do this by going to Participants>>View Participants. Select the Report Options…

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