A race’s website is their primary means of branding a race, the promotional tool to draw runners, and communicate with participants about important information. Many race website suffer from one or more of the following problems: RunSignup provides a free race website…
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With the decline of registrations in our sport, the overabundance of small registration providers, the closing of RaceIt, and most customers abandoning another vendor because of a scenario we predicted in “The Big Short and Registration Payments“, races should make sure they…
Read MoreWe have released another update to our new Race Websites Template, with some new cool options: Here is a sample page with the new content and countdown clocks and event highlight: This shows a simple example of the event highlighting: Setup is easy…
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Building great software is a complex art. It takes a blend of understanding the problem, creating an innovative solution, leveraging advanced technology, and being able to build a complex system based on code. It does not just happen. You can’t just outsource…
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The closing of RaceIt in November may prove to be the canary in the mine for registration companies in the declining race registration business. There are now rumors of another failing registration company, and there could be more coming. The real harm comes…
Read MoreRaceInsights now allows you to see specifically the amount of money coming from Registrations and Donations. Here is an example. Note how the table at the bottom shows the amount of each coming from website referrals and from email (you can drill…
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Races offering RunSignup’s RaceJoy mobile tracking and cheer sending can now publicly share their official interactive course map built in RaceJoy. Race organizers are able to post their official course maps on websites, through emails, or on social media sites like Facebook….
Read MoreOur new vertical navigation race website template is now available! We have been working hard to design and develop new options for your race website. Let’s take a look at the highlights of the new design. Modern responsive design with a fixed…
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RaceJoy has recently released new content capabilities for race organizers providing the ability to add custom content in three key areas: All are self-administered by the race and edits can be made at any time through race day. Content is flexible and…
Read MoreBayshore Marathon opened this morning. This is a very popular Marathon, Half Marathon and 10K in Traverse City, MI. The Half Marathon is already sold out, and when they opened at 9:00 this morning there were a crush of people waiting to register….
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