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…
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This 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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At RunSignUp, we’re technology nerds. We love thinking of – and then creating – fancy new features and functionality, but in a vacuum that technology is useless. Andy Harris from Columbus Running Company gave a great presentation at the 2015 RunSignup Race Director/Timer…
Read MoreAs stated in our Registration Systems Market Analysis, we do a bi-annual internal meeting to discuss how we have done, and plan where we are heading. We thought we would share our current view on what is happening in the registration market in…
Read MoreRaceJoy had a big turnout this weekend with four key races in the North East: Fifth Third Capital River Run Rochester Marathon Newport Liberty Half Marathon Detroit Women’s Half Marathon We had more than 2,000 people use RaceJoy for its GPS live…
Read MoreThere have been outages on Amazon AWS, our cloud infrastructure provider, this morning. This has caused some delays in completion of transactions and notification to customers. The good news is that unlike other systems with less fault tolerance built into them, RunSignup stayed…
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