We have received great feedback on the Strava integration. Races love the fact they can extend the meaning of their race from just race day into the training part of the race - thus extending the race brand and meaning. Races also appreciate that Strava is providing sponsor dollars when new users sign up for... Continue Reading →
As part of our partnership with Strava, we have added an integration with Strava Clubs. This means that your race can create a Strava Club, and then designate that club in RunSignUp. Once the connection is made, then existing Strava members will be redirected to your Strava Club page when they click on one of... Continue Reading →
Sponsors are a key part of many races. They help provide funding, expand promotion for the race, and can help build the brand of your race. RunSignUp has started a National Sponsor Program that extends our regular Sponsor Program that we hope will bring sponsors and races together that may never had been available to... Continue Reading →
Our technology partner eventbaxx recently released and shared with us an eBook on How To Find, Contact, and Keep Sponsors, prompting us to take stock of some of the resources we have to help races with one of their biggest challenges (sponsors!). You can download their free eBook here: https://www.eventbaxx.com/ebook-find-contact-and-keep-sponsors-endurance For more ideas to supercharge your Sponsor Program... Continue Reading →
Sponsor Recognition Opportunities in RaceJoy Race organizers can easily share all the value sponsors receive when they sponsor RaceJoy’s tracking and cheer sending with RaceJoy’s new sponsor video. Many events have sponsors wanting more value for their dollars or events may want to offer RaceJoy’s live tracking and cheer sending, but may not have the... Continue Reading →
19,000 users | 218,000 Progress Alerts | 24,000 Cheers The 2017 AACR Philadelphia Marathon’s participants and supporting friends and family fully embraced RaceJoy’s race day technology and broke all RaceJoy’s usage records with 19,000 participants and spectators making use of the app to track and send cheers to runners. These 19,000 sent the most... Continue Reading →
Darren joined us our User Experience team on Monday, and he released an improvement on Thursday! While it was a simple change, he got thru the gauntlet of setting up his development environment, Github access, understanding how we do branches and merges, our page structure, our CSS structures, how we do code reviews and process... Continue Reading →
We've been busy editing and collating the videos from this year's RunSignUp Symposium...and while the collection is not yet complete, we wanted to share the ones that are ready! You can find links for all completed presentation videos here: http://resources.runsignup.com/2017symposiumpresentations/ Links for individual presentations are below. Customer/Industry Presentations Supercharging your Sponsor Program, with Peter Abraham Driving... Continue Reading →
We have added the capability to view the sponsor report by year. This is useful to separate each year of data for your race. Simply select a year in the upper right corner. We have also added a Sponsor Views column: Note the difference in views for the first sponsor, Lacas Coffee of 62,736 Views... Continue Reading →
