Welcome Allison Bickel

We are happy to welcome Allison Bickel to the RunSignup team! She is joining the Richmond office and will be helping customers directly as well as creating the systems to make sure we are effective in our communications both internally and externally….

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Internet Explorer Support

We are dropping support for versions of Internet Explorer older than Version 11 on the Race Dashboard. This version was released in October, 2013 so older versions are pretty, pretty old. There is very little use of older browsers, and making the…

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2017 Thanksgiving Registration Stats

We are very thankful for all of the race directors, timers, partners, and runners who used RunSignup yesterday. We are also thankful that our self-serve technology worked so well (and that we didn’t have too many support calls!). At RunSignup, we always…

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What the Running Boom Pop Means for Races

In a recent New York Times article “The Running Boom Has Popped”, Jen Miller says “Road races have hit the wall. The number of finishers in events in the United States has fallen from a peak of about 19 million in 2013 to…

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Lessons for Races and RunSignup from Forbes 100 Essays

The 100th Anniversary edition of Forbes contained a section with short quotes or essays from 100 of the best business minds. There are a number of quotes that are thought provoking for races and for RunSignup. Here are the highlights we took from…

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RunSignup Q3 2017 Results

We’ve started to provide a a quarterly update this year on how things are going with RunSignup (Q1, Q2 and 2016). The good news is that more races, timing companies, running stores and runners continue to recommend us. For us, the highlight of Q3 was…

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The Risks of Declining Registrations

There was a recent article on Bloomberg News suggesting that the next financial crisis could start in Silicon Valley and “Fintech”. Fintech is a broad term, but touches all races who use online registration with the movement of over $1 Billion per year…

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PunSignUp

We wanted to share an inside view of what really happens at our company. Last night Bob sent an email to everyone: I know a number of you work in Moorestown, and a lot of others will be coming in another week…

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U.S. Registration Market Analysis – September 2017

We do a US Registration Market Analysis every 6 months: We try to make it better 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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Welcome Darren Wamboldt

We are happy to welcome Darren Wamboldt to the RunSignUp Team! Darren joins Jeff Kiesel and Meredith Klein as part of our User Experience Manifesto. Darren has led the RaceIT User Experience effort for the past 5 years. Coupling his deep passion for UI design, his coding…

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