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advertisemyrp ([info]advertisemyrp) wrote in [info]rp_tutorials,
@ 2009-04-14 23:53:00

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Entry tags:resources: ads

Subtle advertising
AKA sneaky ways of getting the word out about your game.


So you do your standard advertising in nearly every ad community known to man. You also talk to your friends online who RP, and spread the word however you can. But maybe that's not enough. How can you let random people know about your games without actively pushing them at strangers? Easy. Try mini-banners! Put them in your CDJ user info, in your personal journal profile. Manage an ad community? Link them there in the profile. Run an icon community? Stick it in your profile! Asks for affiliate games and use them there.

What do I mean by mini banners? Check the profile here for instance. Come for icons, see where the maintainers play. Maybe the banners pique the interest. Just be sure to make them catchy and colorful, like ad banners, without making them glaring.

I use to use these for website banners, and found that they do well for RP games as well. Try it and see what works for you!

  • [info]charingmods use them here.


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    [info]mhari
    2009-04-15 01:11 pm UTC (link)
    Excellent advice! I'm going to have to do that.

    (I think you left a div open somewhere, though, because this post is making my friends page go wonky. I checked to make sure it was this one!)

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    [info]advertisemyrp
    2009-04-15 01:19 pm UTC (link)
    Did that fix it? I found an unclosed div tag!

    And you're welcome!

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    [info]mhari
    2009-04-15 01:20 pm UTC (link)
    Yay! Thank you again. :D

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    [info]advertisemyrp
    2009-04-15 01:22 pm UTC (link)
    No problem!

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    [info]blackforestmod
    2009-04-16 12:48 am UTC (link)
    Awesome idea! :D I will now go con some people into doing just that, lol.

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    [info]advertisemyrp
    2009-04-16 03:52 pm UTC (link)
    Thanks! Good luck drumming up more interest in your game too!

    PS I added you to my affiliates page, and PMed you about it but I don't know if you got it.

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    [info]blackforestmod
    2009-04-16 06:17 pm UTC (link)
    I did get the PM, yes!

    I'm not graphically blessed, no matter how well I fake it, btw. So I hope you don't mind that I snagged your banner thing for Pentamerone to put with a blurb about the game.

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    [info]advertisemyrp
    2009-04-16 07:06 pm UTC (link)
    Oh that's perfectly fine! No worries at all. =D

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    [info]splott
    2009-04-17 10:36 am UTC (link)
    That is TOTALLY awesome advice. I took it for one game (see here) and I'm totally going to do it for my others too!!

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    [info]advertisemyrp
    2009-04-18 12:42 pm UTC (link)
    Awesome! I hope it garners your game more interest!

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    [info]shadowpiranha
    2010-04-11 05:07 am UTC (link)
    Great idea, I have one on this journal and one on my LJ for the game I mod.

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