The Next Shoe to Drop in Registration – Folding Races

One of the big rumor topics at Running USA is this article speculating that a race registration company is “under heavy fire for delinquent payments and misrepresentations of balances owed to race organizations” We have talked about it in our “Is Your Registration Company…

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RunSignup Releases Second Annual RaceTrends Report

Moorestown, NJ – RunSignup released their Second Annual RaceTrends Report, coinciding with the kickoff of the Running USA Industry Conference kicking off on Sunday. The report was built by mining the RunSignup registration data over a three period to generate transparent statistics,…

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SLLLOOOWWW Site for 6 Minutes

Sorry! We ran a database migration (something we do often to upgrade the database to add tables or data fields) that really hit the servers hard for about 6 minutes from about 2:12PM until 2:18PM Eastern today. We apologize for the slow…

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Top 100 Road Races 2018 Analysis

We have assembled the Top 100 Road Races in a consolidated list and will be maintaining this along with our RaceTrends Report and bi-annual Registration Market reports on a continuing basis. This helps us understand the market better, and we hope it helps others as well….

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Is Your Registration Company Safe?

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…

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Sports Backers Transitions to RunSignup

Sports Backers made the transition to RunSignup’s event management platform in 2018 to provide seamless registration to participants across its outdoor fitness events, better engage the Richmond community, and manage event day operations. RunSignup, the leader for registration, promotion, and event management in…

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Interview with Chris Tomlinson from Corrigan Sports Enterprises

Corrigan Sports Enterprises began in 1991 as a marketing and event implementation for golf events before growing to include multiple Running Festivals, including the Baltimore Marathon & Running Festival and the Oakland Running Festival, and other large and small running events. Today, they…

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Why RunSignup Asks for Payment Account Information

As a Payment Facilitator, we have a responsibility to the banking industry and the credit card networks to do background checks on any race who is processing money thru our site. This is to try to prevent things like money laundering, or…

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Registration Company Viability

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…

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Designed to Delight: Launching the new Runsignup.com

You might notice that our homepage looks a little different. As web trends and technologies evolve, company websites that once were modern and fresh can start to feel a little tired. RunSignup is a growing and innovative company and it needs to…

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