There’s a lot to do on the days leading up to a race. There’s packet pickups. Making sure routes are set and safe. Doing final checks with municipalities to dot the i’s and cross the t’s. With all that going on, it…
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Putting on a race of any size is a big task. And in some cases, smaller races require even more of organizers since they tend to have fewer resources and staff on hand to help out. In order to keep things running…
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California Law Effective July 1, Minnesota Effective Jan. 1 Will Require All Listed Pricing Includes Processing Fees As of October 2024, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, Minnesota, New York and Tennessee have all passed fee transparency laws. New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Virginia all…
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In the business world there’s a commonly cited stat about how it costs five times more money to attract a new customer than it does to retain a current one. Some refer to it as a “leaky bucket.” The moral of the…
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We have all company meetings every 2-3 weeks where different departments share their progress over the past 10-12 weeks. Over the past two weeks we had our Platform team and then our Event Day development teams present, and we thought we would…
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Smaller races had a big year in 2023. According to our Race Trends Report events with less than 500 participants grew by around 14%, while large events actually declined by 16%. There’s a lot to love about smaller events, but they also…
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We automatically upgraded RunSignup’s Invoice system to our next-generation Event Invoicing. Yes, we safely deployed incredibly complex financial code during the day on April 11th while 4,889 events sold more than 30,000 registrations and tickets. The new professional interface makes it easy…
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There are two new reserved entry features. First, if your event is using a custom domain or subdomain, we’ve added the reserved entry link that uses the custom domain. This makes it easier to share branded reserved entry links. In general, customers…
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Ever since the COVID pandemic pricing for most things have been a bit in flux. And races are no different. In 2020 we saw artificially low race prices since essentially all events were virtual and overhead costs were much lower. 2023 was…
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Unless you host something like the New York City Marathon, chances are you want more people at your event. And with race participation numbers getting back to pre COVID levels in 2023, there’s a lot of opportunity to attract new people to…
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