Recent Blogs


New Registration User Experience

We have released a MAJOR upgrade to the core registration process participants follow to signup for your events as part of our User Experience Manifesto. It is designed for mobile first, with a cleaner look and feel, better flow, improved visibility for groups…

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Random Question Response

We recently had a race that wanted an option to pick a random response to the question of which officer they were running in honor of since there were 900 officers that could have been chosen. This can be setup in the…

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How to Create a Facebook Ad with Custom Audiences

We recently released support for Facebook Custom Audiences, along with a walkthrough of How to Create a Facebook Custom Audience using these new reports. This walkthrough will show how to take the custom and lookalike audiences created in these previous posts and create Facebook ads…

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RunSignup CRM – Your Participant Hub

RunSignup is the hub of information about your participants since your race can use us for your entire race lifecycle – Promotion – Registration – Fundraising – Race Day. We now give you better visibility to your participants across all of their…

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RaceJoy Geo Cheer Points, How-To

Below are instructions on how to add custom Geo Cheer Points to your map in RaceJoy. If you would prefer to learn about this feature in video format, click here.  With RaceJoy’s Geo Cheer Points, you can schedule audio messages to be automatically…

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Series Scoring Adds Age Group Points

We have expanded our Series Scoring module to add the ability to include Age Group scoring. This means a race series can set up a very complex point-based award system adding any combination of: For example, a Race Series wants to award points as…

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Lessons for Races and RunSignup from Forbes 100 Essays

The 100th Anniversary edition of Forbes contained a section with short quotes or essays from 100 of the best business minds. There are a number of quotes that are thought provoking for races and for RunSignup. Here are the highlights we took from…

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RunSignup Q3 2017 Results

We’ve started to provide a a quarterly update this year on how things are going with RunSignup (Q1, Q2 and 2016). The good news is that more races, timing companies, running stores and runners continue to recommend us. For us, the highlight of Q3 was…

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More Validation Options for Custom Memberships

We have added some more options when setting up a custom membership. This is useful for clubs who may want to restrict access to certain events. This is found on the Membership setup page: There are a variety of options including field…

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