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Welcome Charnele Williams

We would like to welcome Charnele Williams as our VP of Marketing! Charnele will lead our RunSignup | GiveSignup Marketing team (Johanna and Shelly – don’t worry, no one is going anywhere!). Charnele Williams is a University of Virginia (Wahoowa!) alumni and…

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Timer Survey Findings Debrief

Timers can get a debrief on the recently completed Timer marketing research survey by watching the recorded session below. More than 160 timers participated in this year’s survey. Topics covered include general timer business attributes, impacts of Covid-19, timer strategies, and timers’…

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Who Are the Virtual Runners?

Anecdotal evidence has long suggested to us that virtual runners are not the same people who show up on race day, but the sudden flood of virtual events in 2020 gave us enough volume (and enough motivation) to pull some new reports…

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Facebook Ads Domain Verification

Facebook has added a new Domain Verification step to their Ads platform. This is a way they hope to minimize the impact of Apple’s iOS 14 changes. The good news is that you can accomplish this with your RunSignup | GiveSignup Domain Hosting. This…

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2021 Virtual Winter Symposium Wrap-Up

We wrapped up our 2021 Virtual Winter Symposium on Thursday. Like all of our customers who had to go virtual this year, we missed seeing everyone in-person, but we were grateful for the chance to move forward in some capacity. The bonus?…

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2020 RaceTrends Report

We have released our annual RaceTrends report, mining our internal data to  evaluate the state of the endurance industry. It goes without saying that this report is unlike any other and every piece of data reflected the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, showing significant…

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What Happened to GoFundMe Charity?

In November 2019 we wrote about the abrupt brand and platform shut-down of Crowdrise following their acquisition by GoFundMe. While Crowdrise was designed for nonprofits, GoFundMe has been designed from the start as a platform for individual fundraising for many purposes. The change caused…

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Buttons – It is the Little Things…

Bryan was having a discussion yesterday with a customer and explaining some of the behind the scenes work we do, and they were surprised by all the stuff they never see. Also yesterday, we released new buttons. It really was a consolidation…

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