Marketing

You can create the greatest game in the world, but if no one knows it exists, you’ve just wasted your time. Marketing is the process of getting your game into buyers’ hands. And honestly, marketing is actually harder than designing games. Here you’ll find lots of concepts and strategies on how to get customers to your website, build relationships with them, and get them excited to buy.

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Promoting Your Game

The 3 Secrets to Marketing

5 Things Don Draper Can Teach Us about Crowdfunding

 

Marketing Automation Video Course

17 Common Problems with Landing Pages

12 Essential Strategies to Build Your List

The 20 Places To Collect Emails On Your Website (Ranked): A Sumo-Sized Guide

45+ Ways to Attract Massive Social Shares: A Sumo-Sized Guide

Why Traffic Doesn’t Always Matter (and what to focus on instead)

57 Best WordPress Plugins For 2016: A Sumo-Sized Guide

20 Instagram Strategies and My Recommendations

A Crash Course in Board Game Marketing

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Traffic

Getting Traffic to Your Kickstarter

Places to Market Your Game and Kickstarter

How 35 Top Influencers Grew Traffic from 0-10K Visitors (in 30 Days or Less)

Growing a Site from 0 to 10k Visitors in a Month: Noah Kagan Edition

How 6 Pro Marketers Would Spend $10/day Buying Website Traffic

Want More Social Media Traffic? Follow this 6-Step Blog Content Distribution Plan

How GetMaineLobster.com Got 610% ROI from a “Failed” Paid Traffic Campaign

 

Post-Release Buzz (Video)

10 Ways to Market Your Board Game

The Ultimate Guide to Scaling Paid Traffic Campaigns

Leveraging Reddit

Paid Advertising and How Backers Find Your Project

My Thoughts on Campaign Boosting Services

How to Go Viral in Two Easy Steps


List Building

How To Send Your First Automated Email In 7 Major Email Service Providers

 A Beginner’s Guide to Choosing the Perfect Opt-in Form Type

How To Build An Automated Email Marketing Machine (In 1 Hour)

60 Ways to Build Your Email List: A Sumo-Sized Guide

3 Types of Welcome Emails The Pros Use (& You Can Too!)

Stop Making This List Building Mistake: What We Learned Analyzing 400 Million Opt-Ins

9 Reasons Why Your Calls to Action Aren’t Performing (& How to Fix Them)

13 Little-Known Call to Action Hacks (And Where to Use Them)

80 Best Email Subject Lines (With Formulas and Examples)

11 “Sneaky” Tricks To DOUBLE Your Email Conversions

One Problem, Two Mistakes and One Big, Fat LIE About Email Marketing

19 Types Of Marketing Emails To Send To Your Email List

How to get 2,239 Email Subscribers in 117 Days


Social Media

7 Must-Have Instagram Marketing Tools For Rapid Growth

Facebook Call To Action Examples (That Actually Get Clicked)

The Social Sharing Best Practices: What We Learned Analyzing 200 Million Shares

How To Design Facebook Ad Images Like a Pro (…When You’re Really an Amateur)

How to Build and Manage a Private Facebook Group

The Quest For The Perfect Facebook Ad

Are You Making These 6 Facebook Ad Campaign Mistakes? (Audio)


Blogging

Top 10 Ways to Be a Likable Content Creator

30 Highly-Effective Writing Tips For Bloggers

The 3 Irrefutable Cornerstones Behind Writing Content That Matters

How to Build a High-Traffic Blog Without Killing Yourself

Is Your Blog Designed Wrong: 10 Things We Learned Analyzing The Best Blog Templates Around

51 Headline Formulas to Skyrocket Conversions (And Where to Use Them)

How To Republish Your Content To Get More Traffic

How To Publish Like A Huge Content Creation Team (When It’s Really Just You)

Sub Articles: How To Make One Article Work 5x Harder For You

Stuck on what to write? Try these 13 types of content

How to Write Blog Posts That Go Viral (Without Selling Out)

6 Tips on How to Publish on Medium

The Top 5 Uncommon Timesavers for Bloggers/Writers 

58+ Headline Formulas: The Ultimate Non-Copywriter’s Guide To Writing Headlines That Get The Clicks

How to Get a High Search Engine Ranking

Press Releases

The 10 Point Blog Post Audit


Copywriting

Why Do We Buy? Because Of These 5 Secret Psychological Triggers in Copywriting

These 5 “Copy Cosmetic” Mistakes Are Costing You Conversions

5 Easy Copywriting Tactics to Steal from Fundraising Pros


Community

Building Community Through Youtube

How to Get Your First 1,000 Blog Subscribers (… and more)

Create a Mission Statement


Free Stock Photos

Pixabay

Pexels

Public Domain Photos

Stock Snap

Unsplash

Gratisography

Negative Space

Splitshire

Little Visuals

Death to Stock Photo

Q&A: Chad Krizan from BGG

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