2018 Year in Review
Amazing how time flies – we are heading into our 10th year! It reminds me of a Bill Gates quote: “Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.” We never thought…
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Continuous Branding
Is that a new logo??? We talk a lot about Continuous Improvement. Our product reflects that with 1,500+ updates per year. We continue to offer our customers more and more. We continue to hire new people. More and more races continue to…
Read MoreWelcome, Brian Flynn!
Our customer team has grown again with the introduction of new Sales Representative Brian Flynn in our Richmond, VA office. Brian has a BS in Human Development and Learning and a Masters of Education, as well as an extensive personal and professional…
Read MoreWelcome, Emily & Sean!
We welcomed two new people to our Account Management team in Richmond, VA this week – Emily Warejko and Sean Callahan! As Account Managers, they will work closely with many of our customers, providing race reviews and guidance to ensure that races…
Read MoreThe Art of Software
That snippet of code is part of the thousands of other lines of code that are part of our Race Insights that generates your dashboard statistics: At RunSignup, we consider software an art form. The brilliant developers creating the software that manages the lifecycle…
Read MoreBig Mess Up
Soooo, we messed up. A large marathon used our email system to send out pre-race information emails. One of the cool features of our CRM-driven email is that you can put “tags” into an email and they populate from the database automatically. …
Read MoreRunSignup and Acquisitions
There is a wave of consolidation coming in the race registration business, as we’ve written about several times. Between a flat industry and too many smaller vendors who do not have the critical mass to build a complete platform, many registration companies will…
Read MoreZingerman’s 12 Natural Laws of Business
Zingerman’s is an amazing business in Ann Arbor, MI. It started as a deli over 30 years ago and has grown into a group of 9 businesses doing over $40M annually (that is a lot of pastrami sandwiches!). One of their businesses is ZingTrain that helps other…
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Q3 RunSigup Results
We do a quarterly update on how things are going with RunSignup (2016, Q1/17, Q2/17, Q3/17, 2017, Q1/18, and Q2/18). The good news is that more races, timing companies, running stores and runners continue to recommend us. And we keep putting out great technology our customers seem…
Read MoreRace Registration Market Analysis – September, 2018
We do a US Registration Market Analysis every 6 months: We try to improve on it with your feedback (so feel free to send suggestions or corrections to bob.bickel at runsignup.com). We do this as part of our own internal market evaluation…
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