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How long before a race do people register?

We just ran a report for the races that use RunSignup over the past two years. Here are the results: 26.9 % 1 week in advance16.1 % 2 weeks in advance20.7 % 1 month in advance35.3 % 6 months in advance0.9 %…

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Testimonial

Melinda Tate, the race director for The Middle Half left this comment on our blog: “We are THRILLED with RunSignup! I was a little nervous switching to a new registration service, but now I am spreading the word to all of my race director friends…

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Race or Runner payment for Processing Fees

We just did a count on the breakdown of race-paid or runner-paid processing fees. Clubs are a little more prone to pay the processing fee: We will do another post in 6 months on this topic and see what trends occur.

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Setting Up Sell-Out Races

We had a couple of races open up this past Saturday that sold out quickly.  These are established races who have sold out in the past and they both did some interesting things that others can learn from. Murfreesboro Half Marathon in Tennessee…

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Running Club Member Import

We have overhauled the Member Import in this new version of Clubs.  It makes the import process much easier, and introduces the idea of merging people into Family Memberships. We provide a couple of ways to do the merging into Family Memberships…

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Super and Sub Events – Released

We just released on Super and Sub Events.  What’s that? A Super Event is made up of multiple races, but packaged as one.  For example, a “MegaPack Challenge” would sign a runner up for the 5K, 10K and Half Marathon.  In Race…

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Availability Update – May 2013

Knock on wood.  Our availability improvements in 2012 have proven to keep us on track. Even with a massive upgrade with Clubs earlier this week we have zero downtime in 2013.  I hope we didn’t just jinx ourselves!

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Running Club Information Sharing

We’ve just added a number of options to share information about your running club with different people in the club. Editing Club Members – this gives certain people you authorize to edit club member information – like date of membership, birthdate, etc. Full…

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Reserved Entries

Or, How to let people into your race even if it is closed??? We now offer you two basic ways to let runners into your race even if it has closed or reached its cap. First, with a Reserved Individual Spot.  Simply put…

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