Timers utilizing RunSignup Results Notification settings can now customize the text message results notification going to participants. The customization of the Email Notification is in Beta and requires Timers to email info@runsignup.com to customize this. Users can select different fields they would…
The Space Coast Marathon opened up registration this morning on RunSignUp. This is a sell out race, and what was interesting is the way they handled registration. Like the Spring Lake 5, they wanted to give a first chance to last year’s participants….
This has been an amazing year for the RunSignup community, and we wanted to take some time to reflect on the progress we have made in 2013 across several dimensions: Strategy and GoalsIn September we had a company meeting, and we shared…
We have extended the ability to ask Custom Questions during registration to ask for specific types of information: This assures that when a runner is answering a question, they fill in the right type of information. The Date Function is nice because…
Several races have asked us recently for help in marketing their races. We offer a number of ways for races to help promote themselves (like giving you free email marketing, providing natural search, Facebook and Twitter integration, the best Mobile reach, integration with Google…
As a follow on to the post on Importing Club Members, we wanted to give some tips and tricks we have learned as more and more clubs are moving to RunSignup. Small Chunks – Import small chunks – maybe 100 at a time. There…
We provide several ways to help Running Clubs get renewals. 1. Automated Email Notifications. You can set up to 5 emails to be sent to each individual that has an expiring membership. You can modify the email that is sent out to have…
As any race director knows, the key to increasing your participation is by encouraging people to refer their friends. The other key is having other organizations like the local running store, or running club or Cross Fit Gym list you on their website or…
We did a deployment this afternoon at around 2:15 PM Eastern that updated some of our infrastructure (a new version of SQS, which is the queuing service from Amazon that we use). We had done testing on it in our test servers,…
We had a couple of races open up this past Saturday that sold out quickly. These are established races who have sold out in the past and they both did some interesting things that others can learn from. Murfreesboro Half Marathon in Tennessee…