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No Advertising and No Spam

Several races have asked us recently for help in marketing their races.  We offer a number of ways for races to help promote themselves (like giving you free email marketing, providing natural search, Facebook and Twitter integration, the best Mobile reach, integration with Google…

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RunSignup Optimizations for Web Traffic

RunSignup provides races with 4 major ways for races to get the most traffic to their website. 1. Your website! Yes, nearly half of the traffic for registration on RunSignup is coming thru widgets that are actually on other websites. Having your own website…

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Event Transfer API

We added an Event Transfer API: https://test.runsignup.com/API/race/:race_id/switch-participant-events/POST. This allows our technology partners to make more transparent syncing between their application and RunSignup. This works by creating a brand new registration for the registrant and removing the old registrant, so a new registration id is…

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Club Membership Management

We have added the capability for a club member to manage their membership better. Now you can: This is all done from the Club Member’s own profile – improving the self serve capability so Club Directors are not stuck with all of…

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RunSignup Company Strategy and Update

Earlier this week we had the whole team together to review our strategy and work on where we are headed.  We are growing very fast (about 4-5 bigger this year than last), and it is important to make sure we all stay…

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New Financial Reports

This release happened in 2013. The new Financial system we plan on releasing in the next week or two provides Race Directors a whole new level of ease of use and data visibility.  The new system will be up on our Test…

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Importing Club Members – Tips and Tricks

As a follow on to the post on Importing Club Members, we wanted to give some tips and tricks we have learned as more and more clubs are moving to RunSignup. Small Chunks – Import small chunks – maybe 100 at a time.  There…

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Club Membership Renewal

We provide several ways to help Running Clubs get renewals. 1. Automated Email Notifications. You can set up to 5 emails to be sent to each individual that has an expiring membership. You can modify the email that is sent out to have…

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Roots

Some of our users ask about the background of our company. This is articulated on our About Us pages. The real roots, the very foundation of our business is running. In particular it is my experience 34+ years ago on the Bucknell Cross Country…

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1,000 Registrations in 10 Minutes without sweating

We were recently asked if we could handle 1,000 registration in 10 minutes. Of course we can! That is why we spent so much time proving 50,000 registrations in 7 minutes. If you are a geek, read the technical white paper on scaling. We…

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