Why This Might Be Good Fit

Why This Might Be Good Fit

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jPickem is ideally suited for those who want to offer a pickem pool to a large number of users. You don't have to be a webmaster with great technical skills, however because this is a Joomla! component, having said skills would be a plus.

Before we list the benefits, let's first consider where jPickem is most likely to succeed:

  1. Generate More Leads/Goodwill
  2. Football Enthusiasts - Just 'Cause You Love It
  3. Non-Profits - Another Reason To Make Contact

Almost all organizations and businesses want a way to reach into their communities.   Running your own pickem pool on your own domain is a way to do that AND retain/build the traffic year after year.

The Six Benefits

Branding Identity -  It's your domain, so you're in full control.   Your news, your events, your logo...

Create Annual Energy -  If you're running an NFL group, that gives you about 20 weeks of "buzz" that your site wouldn't normally have.    (You can stretch this to about 24 weeks as the season really begins a good month before the first game.)

You Own the Traffic - Yes, Yahoo and CBS Sports offer some very excellent pickem applications and they work very well, but wouldn't you rather own all that traffic?    When you host your own, it's your site that gets the extra page rank boost from all those visitors.

Keep Your Content In Front - Similar and related to owning the traffic, when you host your own pickem pool you decide what else they see.   Just as you're reading this message, you can promote whatever you want to promote to your visitors.  And if you don't already know it, publishing news items is quite simple.

Advertising - Running your own pool means you can surround the picks and standings with banner ads to support your business or your community.

You Decide Which Games  - If you want to run NFL games, that's fine.   NCAA instead?  Sure.   How about NFL and two teams from your area?    eg.,  Michigan and Michigan State.   Easily done.  When you run your own pool, you decide what games to use.

Remember, jPickem is not fantasy football.    It's simple pickem, which means ANYONE can play as long as they can remember their ID, password, and have at least one favorite team.

Got more time on your hands?  Read our 2 page PDF about this same topic.