Recent Blogs


Boilermaker Opening

Boilermaker opened “Open” registration today on RunSignup. They had opened a loyalty program last week. Things went well, as you can see from the post below! We always like to do an assessment of our systems and how things worked and share that publicly….

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RaceJoy at the Haddonfield Adrenaline 5K

The Haddonfield Adrenaline 5K enabled RaceJoy for their race this morning. There were 1,000 people signed up for the race and about 800 finishers (there was a big snow storm on Friday). There were 65 runners with RaceJoy on their phones and…

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RunSignup’s RaceJoy Live Tracking at Gate River Run

RunSignup’s RaceJoy mobile platform was heavily accessed at Gate River Run in Jacksonville, Florida this weekend. Close to 250 people used RaceJoy’s PhoneTrak feature with about 110 being participants and 140 being spectators. Supporting spectators were tracking participants live on the race…

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Birmingham Track Club Case Study

Birmingham Track Club and RunSignUp The Birmingham Track Club moved their Club membership to RunSignUp in June 2014, and have taken advantage of the opportunities to cross promote their Club and the races they put on.   About the Birmingham Track Club BTC…

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Notifications at McGuire’s St. Patricks Day Race

We continue to see more races adopt notifications in partnership with their timers. This service is provided for free to races that use RunSignup for registration and very inexpensively for races even if they do not use RunSignup for registration. This past weekend…

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Boilermaker Loyalty Program Opening

Boilermaker, the historic 15K road race in Utica, NY, opened up a Loyalty Program registration this morning at noon. They are opening up registration only to finishers of last year’s race for a week – next weekend they will open remaining slots to everyone…

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Database Maintenance

UPDATE: the migration was successful. It took 2 minutes from 10:45 – 10:47. There were no lost transactions, but some people did have to wait on the checkout page or click refresh. A second migration ran from 3:00PM- 3:04 PM. We are…

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Clean API’s and No Meetings

You often hear the recommendation of “Let’s have a meeting” and “Let’s communicate more”. At RunSignup we think meetings and communicating are a waste of time. Mark Nigro, the CTO at Bluestone Software and a very bright man, introduced me to the…

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Twitter Ad Conversion Tracking

You can now track Twitter ad conversions like we have had for Google, Facebook and other ad conversion tracking. Conversion tracking allows you to match clicks from Twitter to actual sales that happen. Twitter Ads can be interesting as a low cost way…

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Why RaceJoy?

Many people are asking why we acquired RaceJoy and are integrating them with RunSignup. The answer is quite simple. RaceJoy is Cool Technology! And lots of people are going to use GPS tracking in races in the years to come. Also, James…

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