Last weekend, cyclists took part in a unique event held in Troy, OH called the Tour de Donut. This bicycle event tests your ability to eat donuts, just as it does your ability to ride a bike as fast as possible. Its intended…
Read MoreThis past weekend, participants of the Hell of a Half Marathon and their supporting family and friends were treated to RaceJoy’s live phone tracking and cheer sending as part of their infernal race day experience. The race is aptly named due to the challenging course marked…
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We know that an increasing number of participants come to RunSignup to find a race, RaceInsights data shows about 2.1% of all registrations in the past month come from the RunSignup.com/Races page. To help this grow, we have added new ways to find races,…
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As we have talked about in the past, one of the real concerns for our market is the cancellation of races and race management companies going out of business. Final Kick Events just posted this blog saying: Final Kick Events is shutting down.This…
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There was a recent article in the New York Times by Louis Hyman of the Cornell ILR School talking about how much of the economy has shifted to outsourcing and temp work. “The rise of the gig economy represents liberation from the stifled world…
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We are in the midst of some infrastructure improvements. This is split among a variety of improvements – performance, security, maintainability, availability, and staying on the most current technology. We did a set of improvements in our caching and server connections that…
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We have expanded Multi-Race Bundles to include some more features to make signup even simpler: These are in addition to what has been released for several weeks that include full flexibility to include any number of races, consolidated Giveaways and USATriathlon membership integration. For…
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Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is technology that lets you manage your interactions with customers and potential customers. In the endurance market, CRM is evolving from a buzzword to a tangible technology that race directors need. Your participants are your customers, and you…
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Teams and Groups are becoming an increasingly popular way to attract participants. However, there are always questions about how to make this as simple and obvious as possible to attract the most people. On Monday, August 6, we are taking another step…
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We had a bug impacting emails sent today between roughly 9:55am-10:35am ET, causing emails to be sent with recipients listed in the “To” field instead of being BCC’d. The bug initiated during a migration to the new version of SendGrid’s API; we…
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