Recent Blogs


2017 Availability Report

Knock on wood, but it has been another great year for RunSignup availability, hitting a perfect 100% for the second year in a row! As we covered in February when a major outage for many sites on the Internet like Slack, Trello and Venmo, RunSignup’s…

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Guiding Principles

As we approach the year end and our 8th Birthday, it is useful to take a look at our original Guiding Principles and make sure we are still aligned. There are actually 3 sets of Guiding Principles that are each self reinforcing –…

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Custom Content for Races Now Available in RaceJoy

RaceJoy has recently released new content capabilities for race organizers providing the ability to add custom content in three key areas: All are self-administered by the race and edits can be made at any time through race day. Content is flexible and…

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Why AWS is RunSignup’s Business Model too

If you are a frequent reader of the RunSignup Blog, you know that we run our technology stack on Amazon AWS. Not only are they the largest Cloud service provider, they have the broadest array of services for the lowest price. It…

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RaceInsights Into Bayshore Marathon

Bayshore Marathon opened this morning. This is a very popular Marathon, Half Marathon and 10K in Traverse City, MI. The Half Marathon is already sold out, and when they opened at 9:00 this morning there were a crush of people waiting to register….

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Kevin Lai Joins RunSignUp Customer Support Team!

We are pleased to announce that Kevin Lai has joined RunSignup as the newest member of our customer support team. Kevin will become our primary support person on the weekends for RunSignup, Race Director and RaceJoy in addition to some support coverage…

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Welcome Allison Bickel

We are happy to welcome Allison Bickel to the RunSignup team! She is joining the Richmond office and will be helping customers directly as well as creating the systems to make sure we are effective in our communications both internally and externally….

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Runner Profile Page Enhancements

In case you don’t remember, this is what a profile page used to look like: and here is what it looks like today! What did we change? What new features are we adding next? We hope you are enjoying the latest enhancements to…

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Email Trends

With the recent release of RaceInsights, we are giving customers in depth insight into how your marketing efforts are being received. But how is your race doing compared with others? What can you learn from others? In February, we will be releasing the…

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A Detailed Look at RaceInsights

We introduced the basics of RaceInsights in this blog; now, we’ll delve deeper into the technology and how you can use it. The basic theory behind RaceInsights is that race directors (you) need access to the actions behind your race registrations to make…

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