This document discusses the importance of understanding target audiences in game design. It begins by explaining how the author struggled as a game designer because they did not understand that the target audience is the most important part of a game design document (GDD). The document then differentiates between expressive works created for personal expression versus merchandise created to sell to others, noting that merchandise requires understanding who it will be sold to. It provides examples of target audiences for games like Dragon's Crown to illustrate how understanding the target ensures the game is designed to suit those most likely to buy it. The author argues against adding unnecessary features that do not appeal to the target in order to avoid wasted time and money. The key lesson is to focus design on the target
Location Based Marketing for Small BusinessesBrandon Eley
This document discusses using location-based mobile marketing apps like Foursquare to promote small businesses. It explains how businesses can create special promotions for mayors and frequent customers on Foursquare to encourage customer loyalty and engagement. Businesses can also make deals and offers through Facebook Places. The document stresses claiming business listings on multiple directories and using QR codes to drive customers to mobile apps and content.
Do you want to learn how to attract the right people into your community - and get input from the RIGHT hot-core Superfans? This talk will teach you how.
How to Raise Your HR Game By Thinking Like a Money Hungry VP of SalesKris Dunn
The document discusses how HR professionals can improve their skills by adopting strategies used by successful sales VPs. It identifies four common problems HR faces, such as having unreasonable expectations, and provides advice on how a sales pro would handle each situation, such as making the first offer to set the baseline for negotiations. Contact information is given for the two presenters discussing these sales techniques for HR.
Building Your Game Changing Personal BrandSalma Shah
7 steps to building a game changing personal brand. Everyone needs a personal brand, whether they are in a job, freelancing or starting their own business.
The document analyzes and compares 4 different crowdfunding campaigns with varying rewards. It discusses a campaign by Ze Frank that offered to wear a backer's shoes for a mile in exchange for $999, raising over its $50,000 goal. It also examines a farm's campaign that allowed backers to name a baby goat for $150. Finally, it critiques campaigns for an app allowing messages in bottles and a 3D iPhone game, finding their rewards unrealistic and campaigns not very credible.
The 3 most common mistakes smart entrepreneurs make building their MVPAmy Jo Kim
In this information-packed webinar you'll discover the most common and costly MVP mistakes that cripple promising startups. You’ll also learn how to avoid these mistakes, and super-charge your path to product/market fit with Game Thinking. Taught by Amy Jo Kim, CEO of Shufflebrain, this training session covers:
- How coaching 50+ design teams worldwide revealed huge, costly blunfers in common MVP practices
- How leading startups like Slack use game thinking – NOT gamification – to avoid these mistakes and build products that people love
- How our Getting2Alpha system has helped dozens of entrepreneurs build the right MVP and find product/market fit
- Why the CEO of fast-growing startup Pley called Getting2Alpha ‘an invaluable investment’ after using it to go from idea to MVP in 5 weeks
This document discusses how to create a personal brand through quiet dedication to principles like time, honesty, and integrity over the long term. It notes that a brand is defined by its reputation and story, not just products or logos, and advises putting yourself out there to shape how others define your brand rather than leaving it to others. The document emphasizes that every brand tells a story and few do so well, stressing the importance of crafting your brand's narrative.
This document discusses the importance of understanding target audiences in game design. It begins by explaining how the author struggled as a game designer because they did not understand that the target audience is the most important part of a game design document (GDD). The document then differentiates between expressive works created for personal expression versus merchandise created to sell to others, noting that merchandise requires understanding who it will be sold to. It provides examples of target audiences for games like Dragon's Crown to illustrate how understanding the target ensures the game is designed to suit those most likely to buy it. The author argues against adding unnecessary features that do not appeal to the target in order to avoid wasted time and money. The key lesson is to focus design on the target
Location Based Marketing for Small BusinessesBrandon Eley
This document discusses using location-based mobile marketing apps like Foursquare to promote small businesses. It explains how businesses can create special promotions for mayors and frequent customers on Foursquare to encourage customer loyalty and engagement. Businesses can also make deals and offers through Facebook Places. The document stresses claiming business listings on multiple directories and using QR codes to drive customers to mobile apps and content.
Do you want to learn how to attract the right people into your community - and get input from the RIGHT hot-core Superfans? This talk will teach you how.
How to Raise Your HR Game By Thinking Like a Money Hungry VP of SalesKris Dunn
The document discusses how HR professionals can improve their skills by adopting strategies used by successful sales VPs. It identifies four common problems HR faces, such as having unreasonable expectations, and provides advice on how a sales pro would handle each situation, such as making the first offer to set the baseline for negotiations. Contact information is given for the two presenters discussing these sales techniques for HR.
Building Your Game Changing Personal BrandSalma Shah
7 steps to building a game changing personal brand. Everyone needs a personal brand, whether they are in a job, freelancing or starting their own business.
The document analyzes and compares 4 different crowdfunding campaigns with varying rewards. It discusses a campaign by Ze Frank that offered to wear a backer's shoes for a mile in exchange for $999, raising over its $50,000 goal. It also examines a farm's campaign that allowed backers to name a baby goat for $150. Finally, it critiques campaigns for an app allowing messages in bottles and a 3D iPhone game, finding their rewards unrealistic and campaigns not very credible.
The 3 most common mistakes smart entrepreneurs make building their MVPAmy Jo Kim
In this information-packed webinar you'll discover the most common and costly MVP mistakes that cripple promising startups. You’ll also learn how to avoid these mistakes, and super-charge your path to product/market fit with Game Thinking. Taught by Amy Jo Kim, CEO of Shufflebrain, this training session covers:
- How coaching 50+ design teams worldwide revealed huge, costly blunfers in common MVP practices
- How leading startups like Slack use game thinking – NOT gamification – to avoid these mistakes and build products that people love
- How our Getting2Alpha system has helped dozens of entrepreneurs build the right MVP and find product/market fit
- Why the CEO of fast-growing startup Pley called Getting2Alpha ‘an invaluable investment’ after using it to go from idea to MVP in 5 weeks
This document discusses how to create a personal brand through quiet dedication to principles like time, honesty, and integrity over the long term. It notes that a brand is defined by its reputation and story, not just products or logos, and advises putting yourself out there to shape how others define your brand rather than leaving it to others. The document emphasizes that every brand tells a story and few do so well, stressing the importance of crafting your brand's narrative.
This document discusses the importance of leaders recognizing contributions by showing appreciation for individual excellence. It provides an example of a resident, Aidan, who expressed wanting to come out of their shell more and get to know other residents better. At a community gathering, the leader notices Aidan interacting with more residents than usual. The document asks how the leader can recognize Aidan for stepping outside their comfort zone and making an effort to socialize more. It provides tips for effective recognition and asks readers to consider how they prefer to receive and provide recognition to others.
The document provides advice on creating an effective elevator pitch. It emphasizes that an elevator pitch should be 30 seconds and leave the target intrigued and eager to learn more. It recommends preparing by understanding who the target is and why they should care. An effective elevator pitch creates attention, generates interest, builds trust, and communicates the value proposition to close the deal. Visualizing success and speaking slowly and clearly are also advised.
How Slack, Kickstarter & Duolingo used Game Thinking to create a breakout hitAmy Jo Kim
This document discusses using game thinking principles to build customer engagement. It argues that traditional approaches like manipulation are no longer effective given customer choices. Instead, companies should focus on empowering customers by making their products more compelling and skill-building over time. The key principles discussed are identifying high-need superfans, creating a compelling mastery path for customers to improve skills, and developing a pleasurable learning loop that provides feedback and rewards progress. Examples are given of how companies like Slack and Kickstarter applied these principles to achieve success.
The document summarizes the agenda and announcements for a photography club's December meeting. It discusses past events in November, upcoming December activities like outings to wildlife centers and roller derby events, and a January photography tutorial. It also announces the winners of the December photo assignment contest on the theme of "Giving," with the first place photo receiving a Flickr Pro account as a prize.
1) The document is a presentation by Amy Jo Kim, CEO of Shufflebrain, about using game thinking techniques to accelerate early product design.
2) She provides 4 strategies for better, faster product design: design for evolution over time; find the fun in the core loop; connect with superfans; build a roadmap with game thinking.
3) The presentation includes examples and case studies of how these techniques helped companies create successful MVPs in less time by engaging the right early customers.
Turbo-charge your product with Game Thinking - Lean Startup Conference 2015Amy Jo Kim
It’s easier than ever to create a new, innovative product, game, app or service. But most innovative projects never take off and reach their intended audience. What differentiates the ones that DO? What do teams who create genre-defining hits do differently? In this talk, you’ll learn 5 early design hacks that will help you find and delight your aspirational audience – illustrated with front-line stories from eBay, Ultima Online, The Sims, Rock Band, Covet Fashion, Happify and Pley. You’ll come away with a smarter approach to early product design – and 5 practical, actionable hacks that will increase your odds of success.
The document discusses seven triggers that can capture and maintain attention: sensory clue, framing, disruption, rewards, reputation, mystery, and acknowledgement. It provides examples and descriptions of each trigger. For sensory clue, it discusses using specific colors, sounds, and symbols. Framing is adapting perspectives to focus attention. Disruption violates expectations. Rewards leverage intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Mystery creates uncertainty until resolved. Acknowledgement fosters deeper connections through validation and understanding. The document also includes potential action items to apply each trigger concept.
Improve your product design with Game Thinking (UIE Webinar)Amy Jo Kim
The document provides an overview of how to improve product design using game thinking. It discusses finding super fans to provide early feedback by asking them 5 discovery questions about their existing habits. This helps identify their customer's journey from discovery to mastery. The document also presents a case study of how game thinking was used to create a successful fashion game by finding fashionista super fans to understand what they wanted in a mobile game.
Three massive mistakes that smart entrepreneurs makeAmy Jo Kim
Wanna find out the common and costly mistakes that cause smart innovators to stumble? Learn about the TAM myth, the siren song of seductive mockups, and the rush to build EXACTLY the wrong MVP - and find out what to do instead.
Grill Up a Mouth-Watering Marketing Campaign sept. 12Cole Information
The document provides an overview of key considerations for developing an effective marketing campaign, including understanding past and present tools, defining objectives and goals, identifying target audiences, crafting relevant messages, executing tactics, and evaluating results. Some highlights include how directories have evolved from print to online lead generation, the importance of having a clear vision and planning research, tailoring communications to individuals, demonstrating value and differentiators, and following up on campaigns to improve future performance.
The document discusses the need for a virtual phone system company to differentiate itself from competitors offering similar products. It suggests that the company create value for its customers beyond just the product by getting to know customers better and giving them things to share with others, such as handwritten notes, gifts, and experiences. This will help the company compete against larger rivals while engaging customers and promoting the business through word-of-mouth.
This document discusses using game design techniques to improve innovation outcomes. It introduces game thinking as a 5-step process to help startups and companies articulate their product strategy and prioritize assumptions through experimentation. The steps include hypothesizing and planning experiments, empathizing with core customers, designing the customer journey, and playtesting the learning loop with early customers. The goal is to build deep engagement and help teams cross the chasm to success by focusing on skills, habits and the needs of the most passionate users.
The document discusses the stereotypical audience of the puzzle game Braid. It describes this audience as a nerdy, male gamer who spends much of his time on computers and would be intelligent enough to enjoy puzzle games over shoot 'em up games. The game had low-budget graphics and little advertising, so the audience would have needed the right online contacts to find the game. Overall, the audience is portrayed as insular, anti-social but highly intelligent males in their 20s from America or other English-speaking countries who have little social life outside of gaming.
This document provides tips for loan originators to improve themselves and be the best in their field. It recommends building personal relationships with clients through follow up, branding oneself to stand out from competitors, continuously educating oneself on industry changes to be an expert, having a positive attitude and setting goals to take action.
I started Verve Search in 2009, with a laptop, in 2017 we were 35 people and sold to Omnicom Media Group. Today, we are 50 people. This is my presentation from Unboxed conference in Oxford, sharing my experience in building and developing teams.
This presentation was given in February 2015 to a group of entrepreneurs in the Midwest. It covers five steps for rising above the noise and making your brand more meaningful.
This document provides an outline for pitching a new magazine concept, including developing a moodboard, researching similar existing magazines and feedback, generating masthead and story ideas tailored to the target audience, defining the magazine's concept and unique selling point, and planning its marketing, publishing, models, locations, and initial sketches. The pitch will cover these essential elements for bringing the new magazine to market on Thursday, March 8th, 2012.
This document provides tips for effectively selling yourself to others. It recommends telling a powerful, engaging, and believable story about yourself to build credibility. It also suggests thinking from the other person's perspective so your story resonates with them and makes clear why they should buy what you are selling. The document advises building relationships through genuine engagement and cultivating supporters who can help amplify your message. With practice, adding charm and thinking creatively can help take your pitch to the next level.
The document reports on a survey of over 2000 mothers about their quality of life. It finds that the overall national MomIndex score declined slightly to 75, driven by decreases in scores for self, money, and world categories. It also finds that 1 in 4 mothers believe their children are not leading a healthy lifestyle, and relationships and personal time scores declined over the summer. The report explores trends in these areas and identifies connections, control, and self-expression as key paths to improving mother's quality of life. It provides companies with insights on how to best support mothers.
This document discusses the importance of leaders recognizing contributions by showing appreciation for individual excellence. It provides an example of a resident, Aidan, who expressed wanting to come out of their shell more and get to know other residents better. At a community gathering, the leader notices Aidan interacting with more residents than usual. The document asks how the leader can recognize Aidan for stepping outside their comfort zone and making an effort to socialize more. It provides tips for effective recognition and asks readers to consider how they prefer to receive and provide recognition to others.
The document provides advice on creating an effective elevator pitch. It emphasizes that an elevator pitch should be 30 seconds and leave the target intrigued and eager to learn more. It recommends preparing by understanding who the target is and why they should care. An effective elevator pitch creates attention, generates interest, builds trust, and communicates the value proposition to close the deal. Visualizing success and speaking slowly and clearly are also advised.
How Slack, Kickstarter & Duolingo used Game Thinking to create a breakout hitAmy Jo Kim
This document discusses using game thinking principles to build customer engagement. It argues that traditional approaches like manipulation are no longer effective given customer choices. Instead, companies should focus on empowering customers by making their products more compelling and skill-building over time. The key principles discussed are identifying high-need superfans, creating a compelling mastery path for customers to improve skills, and developing a pleasurable learning loop that provides feedback and rewards progress. Examples are given of how companies like Slack and Kickstarter applied these principles to achieve success.
The document summarizes the agenda and announcements for a photography club's December meeting. It discusses past events in November, upcoming December activities like outings to wildlife centers and roller derby events, and a January photography tutorial. It also announces the winners of the December photo assignment contest on the theme of "Giving," with the first place photo receiving a Flickr Pro account as a prize.
1) The document is a presentation by Amy Jo Kim, CEO of Shufflebrain, about using game thinking techniques to accelerate early product design.
2) She provides 4 strategies for better, faster product design: design for evolution over time; find the fun in the core loop; connect with superfans; build a roadmap with game thinking.
3) The presentation includes examples and case studies of how these techniques helped companies create successful MVPs in less time by engaging the right early customers.
Turbo-charge your product with Game Thinking - Lean Startup Conference 2015Amy Jo Kim
It’s easier than ever to create a new, innovative product, game, app or service. But most innovative projects never take off and reach their intended audience. What differentiates the ones that DO? What do teams who create genre-defining hits do differently? In this talk, you’ll learn 5 early design hacks that will help you find and delight your aspirational audience – illustrated with front-line stories from eBay, Ultima Online, The Sims, Rock Band, Covet Fashion, Happify and Pley. You’ll come away with a smarter approach to early product design – and 5 practical, actionable hacks that will increase your odds of success.
The document discusses seven triggers that can capture and maintain attention: sensory clue, framing, disruption, rewards, reputation, mystery, and acknowledgement. It provides examples and descriptions of each trigger. For sensory clue, it discusses using specific colors, sounds, and symbols. Framing is adapting perspectives to focus attention. Disruption violates expectations. Rewards leverage intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Mystery creates uncertainty until resolved. Acknowledgement fosters deeper connections through validation and understanding. The document also includes potential action items to apply each trigger concept.
Improve your product design with Game Thinking (UIE Webinar)Amy Jo Kim
The document provides an overview of how to improve product design using game thinking. It discusses finding super fans to provide early feedback by asking them 5 discovery questions about their existing habits. This helps identify their customer's journey from discovery to mastery. The document also presents a case study of how game thinking was used to create a successful fashion game by finding fashionista super fans to understand what they wanted in a mobile game.
Three massive mistakes that smart entrepreneurs makeAmy Jo Kim
Wanna find out the common and costly mistakes that cause smart innovators to stumble? Learn about the TAM myth, the siren song of seductive mockups, and the rush to build EXACTLY the wrong MVP - and find out what to do instead.
Grill Up a Mouth-Watering Marketing Campaign sept. 12Cole Information
The document provides an overview of key considerations for developing an effective marketing campaign, including understanding past and present tools, defining objectives and goals, identifying target audiences, crafting relevant messages, executing tactics, and evaluating results. Some highlights include how directories have evolved from print to online lead generation, the importance of having a clear vision and planning research, tailoring communications to individuals, demonstrating value and differentiators, and following up on campaigns to improve future performance.
The document discusses the need for a virtual phone system company to differentiate itself from competitors offering similar products. It suggests that the company create value for its customers beyond just the product by getting to know customers better and giving them things to share with others, such as handwritten notes, gifts, and experiences. This will help the company compete against larger rivals while engaging customers and promoting the business through word-of-mouth.
This document discusses using game design techniques to improve innovation outcomes. It introduces game thinking as a 5-step process to help startups and companies articulate their product strategy and prioritize assumptions through experimentation. The steps include hypothesizing and planning experiments, empathizing with core customers, designing the customer journey, and playtesting the learning loop with early customers. The goal is to build deep engagement and help teams cross the chasm to success by focusing on skills, habits and the needs of the most passionate users.
The document discusses the stereotypical audience of the puzzle game Braid. It describes this audience as a nerdy, male gamer who spends much of his time on computers and would be intelligent enough to enjoy puzzle games over shoot 'em up games. The game had low-budget graphics and little advertising, so the audience would have needed the right online contacts to find the game. Overall, the audience is portrayed as insular, anti-social but highly intelligent males in their 20s from America or other English-speaking countries who have little social life outside of gaming.
This document provides tips for loan originators to improve themselves and be the best in their field. It recommends building personal relationships with clients through follow up, branding oneself to stand out from competitors, continuously educating oneself on industry changes to be an expert, having a positive attitude and setting goals to take action.
I started Verve Search in 2009, with a laptop, in 2017 we were 35 people and sold to Omnicom Media Group. Today, we are 50 people. This is my presentation from Unboxed conference in Oxford, sharing my experience in building and developing teams.
This presentation was given in February 2015 to a group of entrepreneurs in the Midwest. It covers five steps for rising above the noise and making your brand more meaningful.
This document provides an outline for pitching a new magazine concept, including developing a moodboard, researching similar existing magazines and feedback, generating masthead and story ideas tailored to the target audience, defining the magazine's concept and unique selling point, and planning its marketing, publishing, models, locations, and initial sketches. The pitch will cover these essential elements for bringing the new magazine to market on Thursday, March 8th, 2012.
This document provides tips for effectively selling yourself to others. It recommends telling a powerful, engaging, and believable story about yourself to build credibility. It also suggests thinking from the other person's perspective so your story resonates with them and makes clear why they should buy what you are selling. The document advises building relationships through genuine engagement and cultivating supporters who can help amplify your message. With practice, adding charm and thinking creatively can help take your pitch to the next level.
The document reports on a survey of over 2000 mothers about their quality of life. It finds that the overall national MomIndex score declined slightly to 75, driven by decreases in scores for self, money, and world categories. It also finds that 1 in 4 mothers believe their children are not leading a healthy lifestyle, and relationships and personal time scores declined over the summer. The report explores trends in these areas and identifies connections, control, and self-expression as key paths to improving mother's quality of life. It provides companies with insights on how to best support mothers.
4 m approach=making moms the marketing mediumJeff Pontes
Includes 5 Global Trends Driving Female Consumers, female psychology, mom's digital behaviour and an award winning case study on how moms were effectively leveraged for a Halloween sampling program.
1. The document discusses the importance of inclusion and engagement for all talent within an organization.
2. It recommends that when talent comes to work they should understand their basic responsibilities, goals, values, performance reviews, and communication from leadership.
3. People want to work at companies that offer professional development, stretch assignments, mentorship, career management, and a fair and inclusive work environment.
Digital mom report finds that:
1) Digital moms are active users of emerging technologies beyond just email and search, with a majority using social networks, text messaging, gaming, and instant messaging.
2) Both the mom's age and her child's age impact digital technology usage, with moms under 35 more likely to use newer channels like social networks and SMS, while moms over 45 favor informational tools.
3) Digital channels are influential across the entire purchase funnel, from initial awareness to research to purchase, competing with and sometimes surpassing traditional media sources. Social influence continues to be important.
Kickstarter Canada, Is Crowdfunding Taxable IncomeSam Elahee
Is crowdfunding taxable income? Kickstarter, indiegogo will not answer your question but we will. Crowdfunding, you are exchanging funds for a delivery of service or product in future. It is not a donation. Its an exchange of product or service for money. Income Tax act defines these kind of transactions for businesses.
Crowdfunding allows indie game developers to obtain funding for their projects through collecting small contributions from many backers. Some benefits include obtaining funding to complete development, validating the game idea, and maintaining creative control and ownership. However, there are also risks like not reaching the funding goal and having to cancel the project. Successful crowdfunding requires a good prototype, realistic budget, attractive rewards for backers, and an effective marketing campaign to promote the project.
The document summarizes highlights from the 2010 Game Developers Conference (GDC). The GDC is the largest annual gathering of the video game industry, with over 18,000 attendees in 2010. Key highlights included big announcements from game studios, the Independent Games Festival winner LIMBO, and valuable insights from lectures on emerging trends. These trends included the rise of social and mobile games for women, the importance of community features, and using game mechanics and rewards to create engaging long-term experiences. The document emphasizes that GDC provides invaluable opportunities for networking, learning, and identifying the latest developments in the game industry.
LAFS Marketing and Monetization Lecture 2: Game PublishingDavid Mullich
The document discusses various paths for monetizing an inheritance, including saving it, investing it, or starting a business. It then focuses on starting a game business, covering topics like traditional vs. self-publishing, working with publishers, contract negotiations, and self-publishing considerations. The overall document provides guidance on strategically planning and executing different approaches to bringing a video game to market.
7 Years of Independent Publishing | Dieter SchoellerJessica Tams
Delivered at Casual Connect Europe 2016
This talk will briefly summarize the lessons learned over the last seven years when it comes to publishing independent games, collaborating with young studios and successfully bringing their games to market. Having built up all pillars of distribution, from dinosaur retail business to Steam to mobile to digital console, we will share an insight into best practices and the biggest failures encountered along this path through concrete case studies and subjective insights.
The document discusses how gamification is transforming customer loyalty by motivating behaviors and actions. It defines gamification as using game design elements to encourage non-game activities. Key tools for gamification include points, leaderboards, virtual currencies, levels/progression, badges, social media integration, and ensuring the experience is fun. Several real-world examples are provided, and it concludes by outlining next steps for developing a gamification strategy plan.
RAISE THE STAKES FROM THE STANDS
Bettor:UP Sports makes live sporting events more exciting! We developed the first patented, real-time social sports betting application that allows sports fans to feel the rush of the game by making live sports betting legal and fun. Wager virtual cash against family and friends on what your favorite player will do as they step to the plate or line of scrimmage, Talk trash on sports knowledge, become your own odds maker and dictate the outcome of the game as the live event unfolds.
Games Invest: Pitch your company, not your productGAMESbrief
Investors are falling over themselves to invest in games, but UK games companies are failing to get their money. The reason? Too many companies pitch products, not companies.
In this talk, I explain the different stages of a compy, what investors look for and the biggest mistakes that I have seen startups making when talking to investors.
The Moneyball Effect: Win the Size War with Effective Online MarketingMojenta
This document summarizes a presentation about using data-driven online marketing strategies to achieve success with a small budget, similar to the 2002 Oakland A's baseball team. The presentation outlines challenges small businesses face from larger competitors and offers tips to assemble a winning marketing team by understanding prospects, crafting the right message and image, optimizing a website, creating relevant content, targeting keywords, and building social media relationships. Attendees are encouraged to complete worksheets to analyze their prospects and marketing strategies.
FGS 2011: Keeping Yourself Honest in Game Design (SteamBirds)mochimedia
Game developers often fail to hold a critical eye to their own work, and struggle to see why they aren't finding success. Join Andy Moore, Captain of Radial Games, as he explores all the painful ways his previous works failed, and his adventure to correct them all in the production of his multi-award-winning game, SteamBirds - and the mobile editions and sequels that followed.
Here are the key points about Chinesegamers' WALKFUN mobile game platform strategy:
- Targets mobile game players in China
- China has a huge and growing mobile games market
- By building a platform, Chinesegamers can aggregate players and games in one place
- This allows them to monetize the platform through things like in-game payments, ads, etc.
- The strategy is to attract both game developers to publish games on the platform for exposure to players
- And to attract players by offering a wide selection of games in one centralized location
So in summary, the key players in their strategy are mobile game developers and players in China. By building a platform, they aim to be the
This document discusses various buzzwords related to games, including transmedia, gamification, advergaming, and others. It provides definitions and examples for each term. For transmedia, it gives examples like a novel set in a game world or an alternate reality game to promote a movie. For gamification, the author provides their definition as "using game-like mechanics to improve a business process, or customer experience, or profits." The document also discusses rules and best practices for successfully applying gamification.
This document provides an overview of key economic and business concepts related to the video game industry, including:
- It defines common economic terms like costs, revenue, and profit.
- It explains concepts like man-hours, goods and services, markets, and value.
- It discusses different types of capital (financial and personal), discretionary income, and how businesses re-invest profits.
- It covers risks associated with different investments and industries like video games, as well as the golden rule of risk.
- Finally, it examines relationships between laborers/owners, challenges video game developers face, and Sturgeon's Law which states that 90% of creative works are not very good.
Getting2Alpha: Turbo-charge your product with Game Thinking by Amy Jo KimNaresh Jain
Do you want to harness the deeper power of games – the power to drive long-term engagement? Are you ready to look beyond the silver bullets & Skinner boxes – and learn to think like a game designer? In this talk, you’ll learn the foundations of Game Thinking - brought to life with front-line stories from eBay, Ultima Online, The Sims, Rock Band, Covet Fashion, Happify, Lumosity and Slack. You’ll come away with a smarter approach to innovative product design - and practical, actionable design tips you can use right away to turbo-charge your path towards product/market fit.
More details: https://confengine.com/agile-india-2016/proposal/1961/getting2alpha-turbo-charge-your-product-with-game-thinking
Legend of Hart's Hollow Kickstarter Marketing PlanNina Park
This document outlines Nina Park's planning for a Kickstarter campaign to fund the video game Legend of Hart's Hollow. It discusses researching successful Kickstarters, defining goals and audiences, and a marketing plan with tactics like social media promotion, contacting gaming sites and podcasts, and community engagement during and after the campaign. The plan is to prepare two months in advance and maintain momentum with cross-promotions, forums, and staff pick pitches leading up to and during the launch.
The marketing campaign focuses on promoting the mobile game "CHAD" through social media influencers and viral videos. CHAD is a skateboarding rhythm game set in the 1980s featuring the character "Chad". The game will be priced at £0.69 to target casual gamers aged 16-30. The campaign will use Chad's Twitter account and promotional videos to drive traffic and build an audience. Key influencers on YouTube and gaming sites will be contacted to promote CHAD and help it go viral. The goal is to gain 200 Twitter followers and 80 downloads in the first 3 weeks to test audience response.
The document discusses various reasons why web games are recommended for websites and outlines questions to consider when designing web games for business purposes. The key reasons discussed are: 1) to attract attention, 2) draw repeat visits, 3) retain visitors, 4) provide distraction during downloads, 5) teach concepts, 6) brand marketing, 7) product marketing, and 8) enable viral marketing. It also outlines 9 questions to ask clients regarding goals, means, technology, staffing, budget, and whether a game is even needed. Examples are provided for each reason type.
This document discusses gamification and its use in unlocking engagement, generating virality, and motivating behavior. Some key points made include:
- Gamification utilizes game mechanics like points, achievements, levels, and leaderboards to motivate specific behaviors.
- It taps into fundamental human motivations of competence, autonomy, and relatedness.
- Examples of successful gamification include fitness apps that motivate exercise and location-based games that encourage exploration.
- Gamification is a powerful motivator that can drive engagement and virality at low cost for businesses.
Your Game is None of Your Business | Randall RobbinsJessica Tams
Delivered at Casual Connect USA 2016. How can you validate if your game is worth playing before you write a single line of code? How can you get people to sign up to play your game before a demo is even ready? How many units do you need to ship in order to pay for the initial development of your next game? How many signups do you need this month? The purpose of this talk is to take a step back and view the “Business” as being your product, not the game.
Why enter VR? Earnings and learnings from Into The Radius VR and new products...DevGAMM Conference
Two presenters from CM Games share narratives, insights, numbers, fails and plans on creating and nurturing premium live games for virtual reality, with Into The Radius VR and new products as the basis
Mastering Local SEO for Service Businesses in the AI Era is tailored specifically for local service providers like plumbers, dentists, and others seeking to dominate their local search landscape. This session delves into leveraging AI advancements to enhance your online visibility and search rankings through the Content Factory model, designed for creating high-impact, SEO-driven content. Discover the Dollar-a-Day advertising strategy, a cost-effective approach to boost your local SEO efforts and attract more customers with minimal investment. Gain practical insights on optimizing your online presence to meet the specific needs of local service seekers, ensuring your business not only appears but stands out in local searches. This concise, action-oriented workshop is your roadmap to navigating the complexities of digital marketing in the AI age, driving more leads, conversions, and ultimately, success for your local service business.
Key Takeaways:
Embrace AI for Local SEO: Learn to harness the power of AI technologies to optimize your website and content for local search. Understand the pivotal role AI plays in analyzing search trends and consumer behavior, enabling you to tailor your SEO strategies to meet the specific demands of your target local audience. Leverage the Content Factory Model: Discover the step-by-step process of creating SEO-optimized content at scale. This approach ensures a steady stream of high-quality content that engages local customers and boosts your search rankings. Get an action guide on implementing this model, complete with templates and scheduling strategies to maintain a consistent online presence. Maximize ROI with Dollar-a-Day Advertising: Dive into the cost-effective Dollar-a-Day advertising strategy that amplifies your visibility in local searches without breaking the bank. Learn how to strategically allocate your budget across platforms to target potential local customers effectively. The session includes an action guide on setting up, monitoring, and optimizing your ad campaigns to ensure maximum impact with minimal investment.
This session will aim to comprehensively review the current state of artificial intelligence techniques for emotional recognition and their potential applications in optimizing digital advertising strategies. Key studies developing AI models for multimodal emotion recognition from videos, images, and neurophysiological signals were analyzed to build content for this session. The session delves deeper into the current challenges, opportunities to help realize the full benefits of emotion AI for personalized digital marketing.
As 2023 proved, the next few years may be shaped by market volatility and artificial intelligence services such as OpenAI's ChatGPT and Perplexity.ai. Your brand will increasingly compete for attention with Google, Apple, OpenAI, and Amazon, and customers will expect a hyper-relevant and individualized experience from every business at any moment. New state-legislated data privacy laws and several FTC rules may challenge marketers to deliver contextually relevant customer experiences, much less reach unknown prospective buyers. Are you ready?Let's discuss the critical need for data governance and applied AI for your business rather than relying on public AI models. As AI permeates society and all industries, learn how to be future-ready, compliant, and confidentlyscaling growth.
Key Takeaways:
Primary Learning Objective
1: Grasp when artificial general intelligence (""AGI"") will arrive, and how your brand can navigate the consequences. Primary Learning Objective
2: Gain an accurate analysis of the continuously developing customer journey and business intelligence. Primary Learning Objective
3: Grow revenue at lower costs with more efficient marketing and business operations.
In this dynamic session titled "Future-Proof Like Beyoncé: Syncing Email and Social Media for Iconic Brand Longevity," Carlos Gil, U.S. Brand Evangelist for GetResponse, unveils how to safeguard and elevate your digital marketing strategy. Explore how integrating email marketing with social media can not only increase your brand's reach but also secure its future in the ever-changing digital landscape. Carlos will share invaluable insights on developing a robust email list, leveraging data integration for targeted campaigns, and implementing AI tools to enhance cross-platform engagement. Attendees will learn how to maintain a consistent brand voice across all channels and adapt to platform changes proactively. This session is essential for marketers aiming to diversify their online presence and minimize dependence on any single platform. Join Carlos to discover how to turn social media followers into loyal email subscribers and ultimately, drive sustainable growth and revenue for your brand. By harnessing the best practices and innovative strategies discussed, you will be equipped to navigate the challenges of the digital age, ensuring your brand remains relevant and resonant with your audience, no matter the platform. Don’t miss this opportunity to transform your approach and achieve iconic brand longevity akin to Beyoncé's enduring influence in the entertainment industry.
Key Takeaways:
Integration of Email and Social Media: Understanding how to seamlessly integrate email marketing with social media efforts to expand reach and reinforce brand presence. Building a Robust Email List: Strategies for developing a strong email list that provides a direct line of communication to your audience, independent of social media algorithms. Data Integration for Targeted Campaigns: Leveraging combined data from email and social media to create personalized, targeted marketing campaigns that resonate with the audience. Utilization of AI Tools: Implementing AI and automation tools to enhance efficiency and effectiveness across marketing channels. Consistent Brand Voice Across Platforms: Maintaining a unified brand voice and message across all digital platforms to strengthen brand identity and user trust. Proactive Adaptation to Platform Changes: Staying ahead of social media platform changes and algorithm updates to keep engagement high and interactions meaningful. Conversion of Social Followers to Email Subscribers: Techniques to encourage social media followers to subscribe to email, ensuring a direct and consistent connection. Sustainable Growth and Minimized Platform Dependence: Strategies to diversify digital presence and reduce reliance on any single social media platform, thereby mitigating risks associated with platform volatility.
The digital marketing industry is changing faster than ever and those who don’t adapt with the times are losing market share. Where should marketers be focusing their efforts? What strategies are the experts seeing get the best results? Get up-to-speed with the latest industry insights, trends and predictions for the future in this panel discussion with some leading digital marketing experts.
Capstone Project: Luxury Handloom Saree Brand
As part of my college project, I applied my learning in brand strategy to create a comprehensive project for a luxury handloom saree brand. Key aspects of this project included:
- *Competitor Analysis:* Conducted in-depth competitor analysis to identify market position and differentiation opportunities.
- *Target Audience:* Defined and segmented the target audience to tailor brand messages effectively.
- *Brand Strategy:* Developed a detailed brand strategy to enhance market presence and appeal.
- *Brand Perception:* Analyzed and shaped the brand perception to align with luxury and heritage values.
- *Brand Ladder:* Created a brand ladder to outline the brand's core values, benefits, and attributes.
- *Brand Architecture:* Established a cohesive brand architecture to ensure consistency across all brand touchpoints.
This project helped me gain practical experience in brand strategy, from research and analysis to strategic planning and implementation.
Are you struggling to differentiate yourself in a saturated market? Do you find it challenging to attract and retain buyers? Learn how to effectively communicate your expertise using a Free Book Funnel designed to address these challenges and attract premium clients. This session will explore how a well-crafted book can be your most effective marketing tool, enhancing your credibility while significantly increasing your leads and sales while decreasing overall lead cost. Unpacking practical steps to create a magnetic book funnel that not only draws in your ideal customers, but also keeps them engaged. Break through the noise in the marketing world and leave with a blueprint that will transform your sales strategy.
In the face of the news of Google beginning to remove cookies from Chrome (30m users at the time of writing), there’s no longer time for marketers to throw their hands up and say “I didn’t know” or “They won’t go through with it”. Reality check - it has already begun - the time to take action is now. The good news is that there are solutions available and ready for adoption… but for many the race to catch up to the modern internet risks being a messy, confusing scramble to get back to "normal"
Google Ads Vs Social Media Ads-A comparative analysisakashrawdot
Explore the differences, advantages, and strategies of using Google Ads vs Social Media Ads for online advertising. This presentation will provide insights into how each platform operates, their unique features, and how they can be leveraged to achieve marketing goals.
Breaking Silos To Break Bank: Shattering The Divide Between Search And SocialNavah Hopkins
At Mozcon 2024 I shared this deck on bridging the divide between search and social. We began by acknowledging that search-first marketers are used to different rules of engagement than social marketers. We also looked at how both channels treat creative, audiences, bidding/budgeting, and AI. We finished by going through how they can win together including UTM audits, harvesting comments from both to inform creative, and allowing for non-login forums to be part of your marketing strategy.
I themed this deck using Baldur's Gate 3 characters: Gale as Search and Astarion as Social
Did you know that while 50% of content on the internet is in English, English only makes up 26% of the world’s spoken language? And yet 87% of customers won’t buy from an English only website.
Uncover the immense potential of communicating with customers in their own language and learn how translation holds the key to unlocking global growth. Join Smartling CEO, Bryan Murphy, as he reveals how translation software can streamline the translation process and seamlessly integrate into your martech stack for optimal efficiency. And that's not all – he’ll also share some inspiring success stories and practical tips that will turbocharge your multilingual marketing efforts!
Key takeaways:
1. The growth potential of reaching customers in their native language
2. Tips to streamline translation with software and integrations to your tech stack
3. Success stories from companies that have increased lead generation, doubled revenue, and more with translation
The advent of AI offers marketers unprecedented opportunities to craft personalized and engaging customer experiences, evolving customer engagements from one-sided conversations to interactive dialogues. By leveraging AI, companies can now engage in meaningful dialogues with customers, gaining deep insights into their preferences and delivering customized solutions.
Susan will present case studies illustrating AI's application in enhancing customer interactions across diverse sectors. She'll cover a range of AI tools, including chatbots, voice assistants, predictive analytics, and conversational marketing, demonstrating how these technologies can be woven into marketing strategies to foster personalized customer connections.
Participants will learn about the advantages and hurdles of integrating AI in marketing initiatives, along with actionable advice on starting this transformation. They will understand how AI can automate mundane tasks, refine customer data analysis, and offer personalized experiences on a large scale.
Attendees will come away with an understanding of AI's potential to redefine marketing, equipped with the knowledge and tactics to leverage AI in staying competitive. The talk aims to motivate professionals to adopt AI in enhancing their CX, driving greater customer engagement, loyalty, and business success.
Dive deep into the cutting-edge strategies we're employing to revolutionize our web presence in the age of AI-driven search. As Gen Z reshapes the digital realm, discover how we can bridge the generational divide. Unlock the synergistic power of PPC, social media, and SEO, driving unparalleled revenues for our projects.
Everyone knows the power of stories, but when asked to come up with them, we struggle. Either we second guess ourselves as to the story's relevance, or we just come up blank and can't think of any. Unlocking Everyday Narratives: The Power of Storytelling in Marketing will teach you how to recognize stories in the moment and to recall forgotten moments that your audience needs to hear.
Key Takeaways:
Understand Why Personal Stories Connect Better
How To Remember Forgotten Stories
How To Use Customer Experiences As Stories For Your Brand
Yes, It's Your Fault Book Launch WebinarDemandbase
From Blame to Gain: Achieving Sales and Marketing Alignment to Drive B2B Growth.
Tired of the perpetual tug-of-war between your sales and marketing teams? Come hear Demandbase Chief Marketing Officer, Kelly Hopping and Chief Sales Officer, John Eitel discuss key insights from their new book, “Yes, It’s Your Fault! From Blame to Gain: Achieving Sales and Marketing Alignment to Drive B2B Growth.”
They’ll share their no-nonsense approach to bridging the sales and marketing divide to drive true collaboration — once and for all.
In this webinar, you’ll discover:
The underlying dynamics fueling sales and marketing misalignment
How to implement practical solutions without disrupting day-to-day operations
How to cultivate a culture of collaboration and unity for long-term success
How to align on metrics that matter
Why it’s essential to break down technology and data silos
How ABM can be a powerful unifier
Build marketing products across the customer journey to grow your business and build a relationship with your customer. For example you can build graders, calculators, quizzes, recommendations, chatbots or AR apps. Things like Hubspot's free marketing grader, Moz's site analyzer, VenturePact's mobile app cost calculator, new york times's dialect quiz, Ikea's AR app, L'Oreal's AR app and Nike's fitness apps. All of these examples are free tools that help drive engagement with your brand, build an audience and generate leads for your core business by adding value to a customer during a micro-moment.
Key Takeaways:
Learn how to use specific GPTs to help you Learn how to build your own marketing tools
Generate marketing ideas for your business How to think through and use AI in marketing
How AI changes the marketing game
Mastering Local SEO for Service Businesses in the AI Era"" is tailored specifically for local service providers like plumbers, dentists, and others seeking to dominate their local search landscape. This session delves into leveraging AI advancements to enhance your online visibility and search rankings through the Content Factory model, designed for creating high-impact, SEO-driven content. Discover the Dollar-a-Day advertising strategy, a cost-effective approach to boost your local SEO efforts and attract more customers with minimal investment. Gain practical insights on optimizing your online presence to meet the specific needs of local service seekers, ensuring your business not only appears but stands out in local searches. This concise, action-oriented workshop is your roadmap to navigating the complexities of digital marketing in the AI age, driving more leads, conversions, and ultimately, success for your local service business.
Key Takeaways:
Embrace AI for Local SEO: Learn to harness the power of AI technologies to optimize your website and content for local search. Understand the pivotal role AI plays in analyzing search trends and consumer behavior, enabling you to tailor your SEO strategies to meet the specific demands of your target local audience. Leverage the Content Factory Model: Discover the step-by-step process of creating SEO-optimized content at scale. This approach ensures a steady stream of high-quality content that engages local customers and boosts your search rankings. Get an action guide on implementing this model, complete with templates and scheduling strategies to maintain a consistent online presence. Maximize ROI with Dollar-a-Day Advertising: Dive into the cost-effective Dollar-a-Day advertising strategy that amplifies your visibility in local searches without breaking the bank. Learn how to strategically allocate your budget across platforms to target potential local customers effectively. The session includes an action guide on setting up, monitoring, and optimizing your ad campaigns to ensure maximum impact with minimal investment.
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Digital Marketing Services | Techvolt Software :
Digital Marketing is a latest method of Marketing techniques widely used across the Globe. Digital Marketing is an online marketing technique and methods used for all products and services through Search Engine and Social media advertisements. Previously the marketing techniques were used without using the internet via direct and indirect marketing strategies such as advertising through Telemarketing,Newspapers,Televisions,Posters etc.
List of Services offered in Digital Marketing |Techvolt Software :
Techvolt Software offers best Digital Marketing services for promoting your products and services through online platform on the below methods of Digital marketing
1. Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
2. Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
3. Social Media Optimization (SMO)
4. Social Media Marketing (SMM)
5. Campaigns
Importance | Need of Digital Marketing (Online Promotions) :
1. Quick Promotions through Online
2. Generation of More leads and Business Enquiries via Search Engine and Social Media Platform
3. Latest Technology development vs Business promotions
4. Creation of Social Branding
5. Promotion with less investment
Benefits Digital Marketing Services at Techvolt software :
1. Services offered with Affordable cost
2. Free Content writing
3. Free Dynamic Website design*
4. Best combo offers on website Hosting,design along with digital marketing services
5. Assured Lead Generation through Search Engine and Social Media
6. Online Maintenance Support
Free Website + Digital Marketing Services
Techvolt Software offers Free website design for all customer and clients who is availing the digital marketing services for a minimum period of 6 months.
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Coimbatore
6. Marketing
Know your audience, and your fans!
How do they hear about projects?
Give people a story!
Think outside the box
Investment or Patronage?
8. First thing they see
Catchy “title” image
Professionally produced?
▪ Audio andVideo
9. Short and sweet!
Boring!?
Show gameplay or other teaser
Be honest, put yourself out there – if you can
Do they really watch it?
Sometimes.
10. “A succinct and persuasive sales pitch.”
Limited # of characters
Focus on:
WHAT the project is
WHO is making it
PLATFORMS it is for
CREDIBILITY
▪ “New turn-based RPG from the creators ofCthulhu
Saves the World. Inspired by ChronoTrigger, Phantasy
Star & Suikoden. PC/Mac/PS4/Vita.”
11. Affects your project scope
Affects your likelihood of funding
Crucial FIRST 48 hours
Crucial FINAL 48 hours
Account for ALL:
Development
Contractors
Physical rewards
SHIPPING
Kickstarter, Amazon Fees
Tax issues
12. CATCH their attention!
Make it pretty, polished, animated
Give them what they’re looking for FIRST
13. Unique aspects of project
CREDIBILITY is big!
Fun additional game info
ACCOUNTABILITY section
Reward section
Risks & Challenges
14. What do they typically want?
Game
OST
Art books, early access, credits,T-shirts, etc.
Unique offerings that don’t kill your funding
Fan involvement
Rewards != Sales
15. Digital or Physical Rewards?
Smooth tier variance
Increase value for modest increase in funding
16. Required section by Kickstarter.com
Be honest
Few game projects ever go exactly as planned
Focus on your credibility
Give yourself wiggle room – especially on
release dates / rewards
17. Pros
Keep up momentum
Increase funding
Bigger game scope
Cons
Changes scope of project
May overburden dev team
Easy to underestimate
18. Plan for your rewards
Support your new community
Regular updates
Social media, website
19. Pros:
Don’t need a publisher!
Direct fan support
Possibly more creative freedom
Set a budget tailored to your needs
Marketing & visibility
Build a community
20. Cons
Easy to underestimate costs
Easy to underestimate time
Backers’ expectations?
Answerable to hundreds, thousands
Pressure!
Reward fulfillment
Campaigning = a full time job