Thank you for joining us for our RunSignup Roadshow! We’re so excited to get to meet more race directors and timers from around the country. If you’d like to dive a little deeper into any of the topics covered at your meeting, we have a set of resources for you below.
RaceTrends
If you want a quick-to-reference PDF version of the RaceTrends report, or more details from our midyear updates, you can find that at the links below.
Key Resources on Topics Covered
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Websites V2 (Now Available!)
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Email V2
The Latest Email V2 Updates…
Email V2 Template Sort Options
There are new sort and display options for Email V2 templates. For super users of Email V2, this update makes it easy to manage many templates. In addition to an easy search option by template name, you can organize templates for easy…
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San Antonio Road Runners Prickly Pear 50K/15K/5K
The Prickly Pear 50K/15K/5K, the oldest trail race in Bear County at 23 years, is one of two trail races organized by the San Antonio Road Runners (SARR). While most of the club activities are centered around road racing, Prickly Pear Race…
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RunSignup 101 Email V2 Q&A
Did you miss our RunSignup 101 Email V2 webinar? Not to worry. Here’s a quick run-through of the most asked questions from the webinar that will help you get started with using Email V2. Does Email V2 have a report for email…
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Blackbeard’s Revenge 100 Ultra & Relay
Blackbeard’s Revenge 100, a “road race as bold and untamed as the pirate it’s named for”, was introduced by Trivium Racing in 2019 to fill a gap left by the cessation of another long-standing 100-miler. While the second running of the race…
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Event Powered Websites and Email – The New Requirement for Events
Since the dawn of using the Internet for signing up for events online, collecting information and processing transaction $dollars have been the core requirement. Over the past several years, Websites and Email that are POWERED by Event data have become the new…
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3 Things You May Not Know About Automated Emails
Automated emails are a powerful built-in tool with RunSignup, but many race directors may not be utilizing them to their full potential. Whether you’re new to the platform or a seasoned user, there are several customization features that can make your automated…
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Custom Wording for Email V2 Header
Email V2 headers now use custom “Sign Up” wording for call to action buttons. You don’t need to do anything, custom wording is automatically respected in Email V2. If you would like to set custom wording for the Sign Up button, navigate…
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Event Type Recipient Lists for Automated Registration Follow Up Emails
Events use RunSignup’s free automated emails to seamlessly set up abandoned cart reminders, price increase, and drip campaigns. Now races can set up segmented drip campaigns with event type recipient lists for automated registration follow up emails. For example, set up separate…
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How Much is Free Email Worth?
This year our customers will send 800 Million Emails. For Free. We have about 30,000 events on our platform, so that translates into over 25,000 emails per event. Those emails are effective – 17% of registrations come from those emails. Our customers…
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RunSignup University Independent Study: Email V2
We recently held our inaugural RunSignup University. The two day event gave attendees an opportunity to deepen their product knowledge and get the most out of RunSignup. Being there in person was certainly the best way to learn the most, but seats…
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Three RunSignup Tools that Save You Money
When we talk about planning races, we tend to focus mostly on the more logistical aspects. Things like routes, events offered, and promotion tactics. However, one area we don’t tend to touch on as much is budget. Money is a very important…
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RunSignup University Independent Study: New and Overlooked Features
We recently held our inaugural RunSignup University. The two day event gave attendees an opportunity to deepen their product knowledge and get the most out of RunSignup. Being there in person was certainly the best way to learn the most, but seats…
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The Latest Marketing Updates
Harpoon 5-Miler: Pushing the Envelope with Marketing 365 Days a Year
Continuous Improvement for a Sellout Race The Harpoon 5-Miler has sold out many times in it’s 24 year history, but that doesn’t mean the race is simply riding on its coattails. After facing challenges reigniting enthusiasm post-COVID, the race has exploded in…
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When to Open (Renew) Next Year’s Race?
Your race is coming up this Saturday. In the back of your mind you are wondering “When should I open next year’s race?” The answer, of course is when you are ready! This blog discusses some of the options, tradeoffs and various…
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Greater Philadelphia YMCA Gobble Wobble
It’s no secret that Thanksgiving day is the biggest running day of the year. And in the Philadelphia area, the Greater Philadelphia YMCA has traditionally hosted a local Gobble Wobble across several locations. In 2024, they’re continuing to refine their events, with…
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Getting Merchandise for Your Race
Endurance events tend to hold a special place for people. Whether it was a bucket-list item like running a marathon, or having a fun day with friends and family at a 5k, holding on to those memories is important for a lot…
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Social Media Links for Websites V2
Social media links for Race Websites V2 make it easy to promote your event or organization’s social media pages. Feature icons that link directly to your Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, LinkedIn, X (Twitter), and custom links. Social Media Links is a website component…
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RunSignup University Independent Study: Updating Your Marketing
We recently held our inaugural RunSignup University. The two day event gave attendees an opportunity to deepen their product knowledge and get the most out of RunSignup. Being there in person was certainly the best way to learn the most, but seats…
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How to Set Up a GA4 Account and Integrate with RunSignup
This blog is part of our Marketing Analytics series. It explains how to create a Google Analytics 4 account and integrate with your RunSignup events. It’s easy and free to set up GA4. To get started, all you need is a Google…
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Marketing Analytics for Events
This week we did a series of 3 webinars on Marketing Analytics for events. Analytics help your event(s) make informed marketing decisions. There are two analytics tools that we covered in our webinar series: RaceInsights and Google Analytics 4. RaceInsights RaceInsights is…
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Marketing Analytics: RaceInsights Reporting
Thanks to everyone who joined us for Part 1 of our Marketing Analytics Webinar Series focused on RaceInsights reporting. If you missed the webinar live, it’s not too late to catch up with the on-demand version. You can also find links to…
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Reaching New Runners Through Referral Rewards
Referral rewards have been a favorite marketing tool for RunSignup customers since their introduction in 2016. Referrals work like this: How Well do Referral Rewards Work? We know referral rewards work: we’ve seen individual races get as much as 20% of their…
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Engaging Younger Runners
Making inroads with younger generations – like Gen Zers – is becoming increasingly important. As previous generations age out, they’re becoming a larger part of the potential pool of participants for endurance events. Currently runners 18-29 make up just under 16% of…
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5 Tips for Small Races to Get the Most Out of RunSignup
Putting on a race of any size is a big task. And in some cases, smaller races require even more of organizers since they tend to have fewer resources and staff on hand to help out. In order to keep things running…
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All the Latest RaceDay Updates
July 4th, 2025: More Holiday Running Records!
The numbers from 4th of July runs are in! While 4th of July races don’t quite compete with Turkey Trots in terms of holiday traditions, it’s become firmly established as a popular race day. And, compared to 2024, we’ve seen 4th of…
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Timer Dashboard – New Intuitive View and Real-Time Readiness
RunSignup’s RaceDay development team is continuously working to enhance RunSignup’s Timer Dashboard to provide more value to timers. Now available is a new table layout with improved organization, featuring easy-to-navigate tabs for Ongoing, Upcoming, and Past races. This update makes it more…
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RaceJoy’s Premieres Predictive Pace!
RaceJoy raises the bar once again for RaceDay technology with its new Predictive Pace feature! This advancement expands real-time participant tracking on the course map to everyone. In the past, only participants who enabled RaceJoy’s GPS phone tracking appeared in the map…
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RaceDay Scoring: Handling 2.5 Million Reads
RaceDay Scoring Version 5 launched in 2024 with the ambitious goal of providing a platform capable of timing any size or type of event. This spring we had a customer test our limits. The bad news is RaceDay Scoring was a bit…
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More RunSignup AI RaceDay Apps – Result Receipts
RunSignup’s RaceDay products offer timers and races a complete set of tools from corral and bib assignments, to scoring, results, notifications, realtime tracking, integrated photos – all for free. RunSignup AI is bringing even more capabilities by giving customers an easy way…
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Arnold Pump and Run 5K Uses RaceDay Technology
A Unique Challenge: The Pump and Run 5K For more than two decades the Arnold Sports Festival Pump and Run 5K, held in Columbus Ohio, offers participants a one-of-a-kind competition that blends strength and endurance. Runners can shave 30 seconds off their…
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RaceDay Real-Time International Use
The RaceDay Real-Time product suite has become the most powerful set of tools available for timers. RunSignup has invested a huge amount of development talent and money to build out this technology because of the importance of timers to the endurance market. …
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NEW RELEASE: RaceDay Scoring Version 5
We are very pleased to announce the new release of RaceDay Scoring, Version 5. This major upgrade features a complete backend rewrite, delivering significantly increased performance and scalability. RaceDay Scoring is comprehensive race timing and scoring software that is revolutionizing the endurance…
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Remote Location Timing at Yonah Mountain Vertical Challenge
Jonathan Newton of Summit Run Co. recently implemented remote location timing at the Yonah Mountain Vertical Challenge. This was Jonathan’s first RunSignup RaceDay Scoring event and he combined this with the RaceDay Mobile Timing app in Backup mode. With just an iPad…
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NEW Mobile Timing App Photo Capture Integration
We are very excited to announce the new RaceDay Mobile Timing App Version 5 with Photo Capture integration. This significant update enables race timers with the ability to capture and auto-tag participant photos directly from the app. Images are instantly linked to…
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Inside the Timer Education Summit
The 2025 Timer Education Summit, held on January 28-29 at the University of South Florida Health CAMLS facility in Tampa, brought 120 timers from across the nation together for two days of education, innovation, and connection. With diverse education tracks tailored for…
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Medical Tent Check-Ins and Outs
For mid-size and large events, RunSignup’s RaceDay CheckIn app streamlines the medical care process on race day. It offers an efficient, centralized solution for tracking medical tent activity, accessing participant data, and retrieving emergency contact information. Efficient Medical Tent Management The RaceDay…
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All the Latest on Memberships
Membership Renewal Popup
We have added a popup if a current or past member is signing up for a new membership. This prevents people from signing up for a membership multiple times, as well as makes it simpler for members to renew their membership more…
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Memberships: Running Clubs and MORE
When we first created RunSignup Clubs in 2013 it was specifically to fill a technology gap for a segment of the endurance community: running clubs. The upgraded RunSignup Memberships, released 11 years later, provides a significant upgrade for those running clubs. However,…
Read MoreMigration of Remaining Clubs to New Membership Product
Over the next couple of months we will be migrating all remaining Clubs on our old Club product to our new Membership product. The new Membership product was released a year ago, and we will be winding down support for the old…
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New Orleans Track Club
The New Orleans Track Club (NOTC) is a membership organization composed of and administered by runners and walkers. With 2,000 annual members, the NOTC was founded in 1963 to promote running in the New Orleans Area. There are a number of perks…
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Membership Apple Wallet & QR Code Support in RaceDay CheckIn
We’re excited to announce a new enhancement to our RaceDay CheckIn App: the ability to look up participants by scanning their Apple Wallet Membership QR code. This integration makes the check-in process faster and more accurate, providing a quick alternative for participants…
Read MoreMembership October 2024 Updates
We continue to make steady progress on our Membership product, like we do across our entire product line with a steady pace of improvements. We are seeing great adoption of the Membership product as outlined in this blog earlier in October. Member…
Read MoreMembership Organization Product Adoption
We released the new Membership Organization product earlier in 2024, and in about 6 months we have seen hundreds of organizations either migrate from our old Club product or onboard as brand new customers. The migration and onboarding have been exceptionally smooth…
Read MoreMembership Self Serve Portal
We have released our full Membership Self Serve Portal. This enables membership organizations to allow members to manage their own memberships – and decide what they want to allow to manage. This is what members will see if all options are enabled….
Read MoreMembership September, 2024 Updates
We are making so many improvements to our Membership product, we want to keep everyone up to date. Here is the latest. Add Question Response Summary We have added a simple way to display member information you collect with the Question Response…
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Membership Question Response Report
We have added a nice, quick Membership Question Response Report to our Membership product. This report shows answers to questions from current members: We continue to quickly iterate and improve the features of our Membership product.
Read MoreMembership Product August 2024 Updates
We continue to invest heavily in our Membership product with our continuous improvement process. For August, 2024, we released the following key features: Organization Support – Our Membership product now supports Organization member types in addition to individuals. This is very useful for certain…
Read MoreCalculated Store Items Available in Membership Product
We have added an innovative capability to store items in our Membership product (it will soon be available in our TicketSignup product as well) – Calculated Store Items. The use case for this was driven by RRCA, which has a need to…
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