This past weekend at the Prairie Fire Marathon was the first race in Kansas to offer RaceJoy’s mobile experience. Thanks to race organizers and Fidelity Bank, people were treated to a very unique race experience that included all RaceJoy’s bells and whistles!…
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The Cooper Norcross Run the Bridge Event presented by AmeriHealth NJ (benefiting the Larc School) is coming up on it’s fourth year with registration on RunSignup. As Race Day nears, they were looking for some ways to remind runners to sign up. Using the Repeat…
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Turkey Day is coming! We’re not the only ones noticing how many races there are on Thanksgiving Day: the New York Times acknowledged that for hundreds of thousands, Thanksgiving is now a day of running: http://tinyurl.com/qg6scls Turkey Trot Race Directors: There’s a nice little survey…
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Ever wonder what the mix is of people asking questions? A bit lower on the weekend, but still significant. This is what we see on our support email box over thousands of support queries.
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If you really want to dig more into RunSignup as a company, and the top offerings that we have, check out Bob’s introduction from our 2015 RunSignup Race Director/Timer Symposium. The full video is below, or you can skip to the section…
Read MoreThis last weekend included the 24th year of the Maine Marathon race in Portland, Maine and many finishers took advantage of RaceJoy’s advanced GPS tracking. With more than 800 people using RaceJoy on race day, we had nearly 200 phones live tracked while completing…
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Since we have been approached by several race registration companies to either partner or be acquired, I thought it would be worthwhile to write a blog about registration company valuation. This builds on our Race Registration Market Analysis and Future Trends in Race Registration. This…
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One thing we frequently hear our Partners warn against is the creation of a Race/Run/Walk for fundraising without fully understanding the creativity and labor required to make such an event profitable. Fundraising events can be labor-intensive time vacuums, but they can also be hugely significant…
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We invest a lot in our behind-the-scenes infrastructure. We just completed a fairly major set of projects to improves our resiliency and fault tolerance. In addition, we upgraded the versions of the number of the components we use in our infrastructure. The…
Read MoreWe had a non-critical cache outage last night that caused some response time to be over 2 seconds from 4:05 AM until 5:15AM. Due to our highly available design, the only thing users would have noticed is the system being a bit slower….
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