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Growing RunSignup

It’s no secret that RunSignup is growing very, very fast.  Which is great, unless you run into the problem in the graphic on the right. I’m pretty lucky to have been thru a number of fast growth companies.  Mostly successful, but also…

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MapMyRun

We have integrated MapMyRun maps into RunSignup.  This makes it easy to show runners your course map right on the Race Info page. This is very simple to do – just put the MapMyRun URL for your course into the Race Director…

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Race Day Registration Trial

We had a very successful race day registration at the Princeton 5K today.  Many thanks to Bill Boyajian of Best Racing and Donna Dourney, race director extraordinaire for giving us this opportunity!  There were 49 race day entries and we gave them the choice…

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Continuous Delivery of New Code

As anyone who uses RunSignUp knows, we  are rapidly innovating – just take a look at this blog.  There are several secrets to our fast cycle time – great developers, limited scope and focus just on the running market, wonderful customers who…

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Fault Tolerance

We had a problem with one of our load balancers in the middle of the night from a bit after midnight until about 1AM.  Two cool things: 1. No users noticed it since there are at least two in service at any…

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Financial Updates

Over the next several months we are going to be making a number of financial related updates – and we’ve already begun! A couple of weeks ago we lowered our processing fees for larger transactions. As we have pointed out, we make our…

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Mobile Registration for the Young Crowd

We have a Graffiti Run using RunSignUp.  We did some analysis and 47% of the people registering are doing so from a mobile device.  We see an overall rate of about 29%, so the increased rate is most likely due to the…

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RunScore Updates RunSignup Integration

RunScore has done a new revision that makes things even easier for timers to sync participant information and results with RunSignUp. Here is an updated video from Alan Jones.  Let us know if you have questions or suggestions!

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Welcome Bryan Jenkins!

We are happy to welcome Bryan Jenkins to the RunSignUp Team! As more timers and race directors use RunSignUp, we constantly try to make sure we keep our customer service great.  Bryan will join Jordan Desilets who has been helping our customers…

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Race Location – Getting Precise

RunSignup creates a Google Map for you based on your race location.  We put this on your Race Info page for you as well as include it in the confirmation emails that go to your runners. But what happens if Google does…

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