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

4 Signs Your Marketing Materials Are Too Cluttered

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

The 2017 Guide For Growing Your Email List 1K in 30 Days

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

Want More Effective Content Promotion? Choose From These 15 Tools

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

7 Easy Ways to Attract More Customers


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

How to Boost Your Email Opt-In Rate by 664% in 24 Hours

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)

Pop-ups Aren’t Dead: What We Learned Analyzing 2 Billion Pop-up Examples

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

The BEST Email Subject Lines: 62 Formulas to Get Your emails Read

11 “Sneaky” Tricks To DOUBLE Your Email Conversions

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

The 15 Emails You NEED to Be Sending to Your Email List

What Can Animal Behavior Teach You About List Building? A Lot

How to get 2,239 Email Subscribers from Scratch

13 Email Marketing Trends to Follow in 2017


Social Media

8 Must-Have Instagram Marketing Tools For Rapid Growth

The Anatomy of A Facebook Call to Action (That Actually Gets Clicked)

The New 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

Ultimate Facebook Ad Template Library

The Quest For The Perfect Facebook Ad

Set Up Your Facebook Page and Get Your First 100 Likes

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


Blogging

Top 10 Ways to Be a Likable Content Creator

30 Worries Every Blogger Feels (And The Writing Tips To Fix Them)

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

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

Your Old Articles Aren’t Dead: How To Repurpose Old Content For More Traffic

30 Worries Every Blogger Feels (And The Writing Tips To Fix Them)

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

The Bulletproof Guide to Making 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)

We Stopped Publishing New Blog Posts for One Month. Here’s What Happened.

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 Become Creative: A Guide for Bloggers

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

3 Copywriting Mistakes, and How To Fix Them


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

Yeah Stock Photos

Stock Snap

Unsplash

Gratisography

Negative Space

Splitshire

Little Visuals

Death to Stock Photo

List of Free Stock Libraries

Q&A: Chad Krizan from BGG

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