No, we aren’t going anywhere, but we do have a new email newsletter policy which will result in fewer emails sent from MyOfficePool.ca (MOP). Let me explain…
The MOP mailing list was built from people who at some time in the past six years registered a free member account at either www.myofficepool.ca or www.draftbuddy.com. I created a website feature at MOP which allowed all members to specify what topics they were interested in, whether it be our football pools, March Madness Survivor pool, fantasy baseball or what have you.
Working together, the feature allowed me to segment the mailing list and send newsletters to users about topics they wanted to read or be reminded about.
This worked pretty well, but with the great turnout in the recent World Cup Pool, I jumped into a new higher cost service bracket for the mailing list program. Kind of like jumping into a new tax bracket, which everyone tries to avoid like the plague.
While it is a cost of doing business, just looking around most people can sort of tell I’m not making much money on this website/hobby (click an ad people, click an ad please). As a result of this unexpected extra cost, plus the new pool features to allow people to create their own pool groups, which should result in more communications between the group admin and their friends in the group, I got to thinking, “why not just can the email newsletters?” Who likes email anyway?
So, I’ve decided to do away with the large mailing list and in the future will only email the following people:
- Pool group admins, otherwise known as members who create their own groups to invite their friends to play in their own private pools
- Members who join the official MOP $20 Poolies group, otherwise known as our low stakes degenerate gamblers like myself
Of course, exisiting and new members still need a valid email address to receive pick confirmations from the pools, but most of you can expect fewer emails from MOP in the future as a result of this change. Less writing for me; less clutter in your inbox. Sounds like a win-win idea… just don’t go forgetting us now, ya hear?