Promoting Pool Tournaments?

[JoeyA]

R S S Feeds in Microsoft Outlook

Cheese,
There is another old, tried and tested but under utilized method for publishers, bloggers and yes, pool promoters to use a system that is available for free using Microsoft's Outlook email program and the folder called RSS:

Outlook Syndicated Content (RSS) Directory
News, blogs and more delivered right in your inbox...
RSS Feeds in Microsoft Outlook
Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a way for content publishers to make news, blogs, and other content available to subscribers. You can add your favorite RSS Feeds as subscriptions in Microsoft Outlook.

Get started
Using Outlook to subscribe to an RSS Feed is quick and easy and does not involve a registration process or fee. After you subscribe to an RSS Feed, headlines will appear in your RSS folders. RSS items appear similar to mail messages. When you see a headline that interests you, just click or open the item. To learn more about RSS read Subscribe to an RSS Feed

For the unitiated, you may have to suggest to them how this EASY feature works and how it can benefit them and you.

JoeyA

 

[JoeW]

One way would be to put up a web site that listed tournaments. Ask readers if they would like to be included on a list of people to be contacted by email when a new tournament is available.

The subscriber could list in different categories such as local, regional, state or national. They could also list how they would like to be contacted

The let word of mouth take over.

I think that a free admission to some tournament for the first x subscribers would get the word out even faster. Once you have a list of subscribers they would probably pass along any future announcements to their buddies especially if the announcement were easily printed from your web site.

There are too many web sites that try to be all things to all people a site dedicated o tournaments only might be attractive.

Most pool halls and leagues have at least one person who is on the net often. That person (or persons) becomes your communicator.

 

[Don Akerlow]

Cheese,
There is another old, tried and tested but under utilized method for publishers, bloggers and yes, pool promoters to use a system that is available for free using Microsoft's Outlook email program and the folder called RSS:

Outlook Syndicated Content (RSS) Directory
News, blogs and more delivered right in your inbox...
RSS Feeds in Microsoft Outlook
Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a way for content publishers to make news, blogs, and other content available to subscribers. You can add your favorite RSS Feeds as subscriptions in Microsoft Outlook.

Get started
Using Outlook to subscribe to an RSS Feed is quick and easy and does not involve a registration process or fee. After you subscribe to an RSS Feed, headlines will appear in your RSS folders. RSS items appear similar to mail messages. When you see a headline that interests you, just click or open the item. To learn more about RSS read Subscribe to an RSS Feed

For the unitiated, you may have to suggest to them how this EASY feature works and how it can benefit them and you.

JoeyA

JoeyA thank you. I had never really known what the RSS stood for and like a decrepid, senile old guy, like in the movie "UP" I never thought to google it. I guess I'm gonna have to do more research on more things. But as one great poet once said, "It matters not when you learn something, it just matters that you do." Appreciate the info. If you have any more I will gladly again look senile if that's what it takes LOL

 

[JoeyA]

JoeyA thank you. I had never really known what the RSS stood for and like a decrepid, senile old guy, like in the movie "UP" I never thought to google it. I guess I'm gonna have to do more research on more things. But as one great poet once said, "It matters not when you learn something, it just matters that you do." Appreciate the info. If you have any more I will gladly again look senile if that's what it takes LOL

RSS is probably one of the most underutilized tools available to the Internet crowd. You're not alone in the information age, there's lots of us who are learning too, Don. It's a fascinating world we live in.

 

[JesPiddlin]

I have been contacted about a tournament by:

Phone
Text message

Email

Facebook

And for the life of me, I don't see how promoters haven't gone hog wild over text messaging and emailing.

They have. Just get on their mailing list and you'll see. We get a LOT of e-mail notices every week. We have limited texting and anything extra costs us $$ so we don't text all that often and receive texts even less. We get enough notices via e-mail.

We mostly rely on e-mail notices and our monthly Stroke, Rackem and The Break magazines for notices on upcoming tournaments and other events and results on past ones. (Yes, we get all 3.)

 

[JoeyA]

They have. Just get on their mailing list and you'll see. We get a LOT of e-mail notices every week. We have limited texting and anything extra costs us $$ so we don't text all that often and receive texts even less. We get enough notices via e-mail.

We mostly rely on e-mail notices and our monthly Stroke, Rackem and The Break magazines for notices on upcoming tournaments and other events and results on past ones. (Yes, we get all 3.)

Yeah,
I guess it makes sense that if you text that you have the plan that covers unlimited texting... I like the texting because it comes on the cell phone and you don't have to interact with it if you choose not to.