RaceDay Scoring for RunScore Users
If you are a RunScore user and thinking about trying out RaceDay Scoring, this webinar session is for you! Bob Bickel and Matt Avery guide you through the key points.
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Category: Use Cases
How a community fundraising run grew from 200 runners to more than 1,000 participants
Johnny’s Jog for Charity is a St Patrick’s Day themed 5k event in West Hartford, Connecticut that raises money for local children’s nonprofits. The run celebrates Johnny’s brief but impactful life by bringing the community together for a good cause each year. Over the past…
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2019 RRCA Convention Wrap-Up
We just got back from New Orleans, and the 61st Road Runners Club of America (RRCA) Convention! RunSignup’s history sponsoring the RRCA Convention goes back so far that no one is *entirely* sure what year it began, but we believe it was 2010 or…
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Alan Jones Sells RunScore
As anyone who follows RunSignup knows, we are huge fans of Alan Jones – naming an annual Timing Award after him to be handed out at our annual Symposium. We are very happy for him, as he has decided to sell RunScore. RunScore was first released 36…
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Processing Fee Price Elasticity
There is a wide variance in processing fees consumers are willing to pay for different events – from low RunSignup-like fees to high Ticketmaster type fees. And yet consumers are willing to still sign up for the race or buy the tickets….
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Randomize “Add a Donation” Charity at Checkout
If your race supports multiple charity partners, you can now randomize the charity that shows on the checkout page for non-donors. This allows races with multiple charity partners to take advantage of the option to ask non-donors if they would like to…
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RunSignup Launches Annual Alan Jones Timer Award
We are very excited to launch the annual Alan Jones Timer Award to recognize an industry race timer who has clearly made an impact on improving the race industry. See the official press release here. Overview As the backbone of the race industry, timers…
Read MoreTeam Fundraising Page Co-Captains
Last year, we released a co-captain feature for team fundraising pages. The feature gives team fundraising captains the ability to grant other users captain access for their fundraising team. This is helpful for large fundraising teams or teams that are managed by…
Read MoreRaceDay Certified Timer Spotlight: Craig Chiger
Craig Chiger, founder of Start to Finish (located in Long Beach, NY), attended RunSignup’s RaceDay Certification training in Orlando, Fla. this year. Since then, he has incorporated RaceJoy’s live tracking and cheer sending as one of the standard services they are now offering as part of…
Read MoreDefault Fundraising Goals
We added the ability to set default fundraising goals for fundraiser teams and individual fundraisers. Default fundraising goals automatically populate a team or individual’s fundraising page(s) with a fundraising goal that you determine. Fundraisers can edit the default goal to greater than…
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