A race’s website is their primary means of branding a race, the promotional tool to draw runners, and communicate with participants about important information. Many race website suffer from one or more of the following problems: RunSignup provides a free race website…
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We now offer a flexible option to allow races to give a discount based on a donation. This example setup offers different discounts for different races and different levels of donation: You can highlight this on the donation page: The discount is…
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With the decline of registrations in our sport, the overabundance of small registration providers, the closing of RaceIt, and most customers abandoning another vendor because of a scenario we predicted in “The Big Short and Registration Payments“, races should make sure they…
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Sports Backers made the transition to RunSignup’s event management platform in 2018 to provide seamless registration to participants across its outdoor fitness events, better engage the Richmond community, and manage event day operations. RunSignup, the leader for registration, promotion, and event management in…
Read MoreWe have released another update to our new Race Websites Template, with some new cool options: Here is a sample page with the new content and countdown clocks and event highlight: This shows a simple example of the event highlighting: Setup is easy…
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Building great software is a complex art. It takes a blend of understanding the problem, creating an innovative solution, leveraging advanced technology, and being able to build a complex system based on code. It does not just happen. You can’t just outsource…
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Corrigan Sports Enterprises began in 1991 as a marketing and event implementation for golf events before growing to include multiple Running Festivals, including the Baltimore Marathon & Running Festival and the Oakland Running Festival, and other large and small running events. Today, they…
Read MoreAs a Payment Facilitator, we have a responsibility to the banking industry and the credit card networks to do background checks on any race who is processing money thru our site. This is to try to prevent things like money laundering, or…
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The closing of RaceIt in November may prove to be the canary in the mine for registration companies in the declining race registration business. There are now rumors of another failing registration company, and there could be more coming. The real harm comes…
Read MoreIn addition to releasing a new company website, we launched a whole new Help Portal. Many thanks to Meredith, part of our crack UX team for coming up with a fresh look for the company website. I love the mobile look and feel…
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