Recent Blogs


Healthy Kids Running Series Case Study

We have a series of Customer Case Studies, in which we take your stories and share your challenges and successes as a learning tool for other RunSignup users.  This Healthy Kids Running Series Case Study focuses on setting up a Running Series within RunSignup, and…

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Syracuse Half Marathon Case Study

We have a series Customer Case Studies, in which we take your stories and share your challenges and successes as a learning tool for other RunSignup users.  This Syracuse Half Marathon Case Study focuses on creating demand through a premium event, and customizing a race to encourage…

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Availability Update

Our site was down from 6:31 PM Eastern for about 8 minutes.  This was due to a deployment we did, which ironically enough was to help prevent issues if the Amazon Content Delivery Network was unavailable, we would be able to quickly…

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Clubs Memberships and One Database

The big advantage of Runsignup Clubs is having a single database that holds all changes and all information.  All Club Officers can see the current information, and more importantly, club members all can see it as well.  If a club member updates…

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Lessons learned from GoPro Video Results

This Thanksgiving Ron Synup took his GoPro to the Lansing Turkey Trot and filmed the finish line. This is using RunSignup’s Video Results capability. The top lessons learned: He learned a lot doing this process.  The filming was fun and easy…the learning came heavily on the…

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Giving Thanks for Results and Notifications

Thanksgiving has become a big day for races. Just as we are seeing an increase in Thanksgiving Day Races, we believe runner demand for notifications is increasing.  Turkey day was also a big day for us to gauge how our new Results 3.0 system is working for…

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Default Answers to Custom Questions

We have added the capability to set a default answer to your custom questions. This will appear in registration with all of our different formats of questions. For example, the setup for the Select menu looks like this: And the runner will…

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Loyalty Program for Priority Registrants

This year we have had several very large sell out races open registration to prior year participants in various ways. One used a password that was sent to last year’s participants that was the only way  to register for the first week….

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Running Club Membership Systems – Leveraging the Cloud

We are seeing more and more Running Clubs making the move to RunSignup Clubs. We noticed an article in The New York Times this morning about how The Cloud is impacting organizations. It can be easily applied to Running Clubs: Ed Lazowska, who holds a…

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Custom Results API – Notifications

We are expanding the Custom Results API to include a mechanism for providing notifications. The concept is that a list of participants can be uploaded to RunSignup a week or two before a race and participants and their friends and families can…

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