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Cancelled Races

As we discussed a couple of weeks ago, more races are being cancelled. This is a major problem for our industry as it gives a negative image and may over time create more questions on the part of participants when they sign up…

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RaceTrends: Are Races Declining?

Today, we’re taking a look at one of our most controversial findings from our 2017 RaceTrends Report: are races growing? Data Definitions To make sense of our findings, you’ll want to keep in mind a few parameters: Registration Totals Finishers vs. Registrants Over…

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RaceTrends: Why Mobile Matters

Over the course of the next few months, we’re going to pull some of the most significant findings from our 2018 RaceTrends Report and break down how the numbers impact your events. First up: Mobile Adoption! Mobile Adoption It’s no secret that people are…

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RaceTrends: Why Mobile Matters

Over the course of the next few months, we’re going to pull some of the most significant findings from our 2018 RaceTrends Report and break down how the numbers impact your events. First up: Mobile Adoption! Mobile Adoption It’s no secret that people are…

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Bring Back My Fundraising Team

We have made it simple for fundraisers to “bring back their team” – sending them invites once your team fundraising page is complete. Set this up in your Fundraising Settings (Dashboard—>Donation—>Setup) and click on “Enable Bring Back my Team”) Once this feature…

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Conditional Refunds

We have released a new participant management feature that will allow participants to receive a refund when someone else takes their place. This is particularly useful for sell out races with a waitlist. A good example is a race may be sold…

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Designed for Growth

RunSignup has become the largest endurance registration company in the US with over 15,000 races using us to register over 4.2 Million participants. Our growth continues to build as more races use us, and our technology platform grows to help races across…

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Feeling Obnoxious

This is Bob. I am at the Running USA conference (which has been awesome!). However, I am feeling like some people may view me as being a little obnoxious. The reason is I have been very vocal about the potential problems our…

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Preventing Changes in Participant Management

One of the great features of RunSignUp is the ability to let participants make their own changes. However, some races want to prevent editing of certain fields – in particular people changing their names to do improper bib transfers. We now have…

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The Next Shoe to Drop in Registration – Folding Races

One of the big rumor topics at Running USA is this article speculating that a race registration company is “under heavy fire for delinquent payments and misrepresentations of balances owed to race organizations” We have talked about it in our “Is Your Registration Company…

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