Game-Based Marketing: Inspire Customer Loyalty Through Rewards, Challenges, and Contests - Tapa dura

Harness the power of games to create extraordinary customer engagement with Game-Based Marketing . Gamification is revolutionizing the web and mobile apps. Innovative startups like Foursquare and Swoopo, growth companies like Gilt and Groupon and established brands like United Airlines and Nike all agree: the most powerful way to create and engage a vibrant community is with game mechanics. By leveraging points, levels, badges, challenges, rewards and leaderboards - these innovators are dramatically lowering their customer acquisition costs, increasing engagement and building sustainable, viral communities. Game-Based Marketing unlocks the design secrets of mega-successful games like Zynga's Farmville, World of Warcraft, Bejeweled and Project Runway to give you the power to create winning game-like experiences on your site/apps. Avoid obvious pitfalls and learn from the masters with key insights, such as: Why good leaderboards shouldn't feature the Top 10 players. Most games are played as an excuse to socialize, not to achieve. Status is worth 10x more than cash to most consumers. Badges are not enough: but they are important. You don't need to offer real-world prizing to run a blockbuster sweepstakes. And learn even more: How to architect a point system that works Designing the funware loop: the basics of points, badges, levels, leaderboards and challenges Maximizing the value and impact of badges Future-proofing your design Challenging users without distraction Based on the groundbreaking work of game expert and successful entrepreneur Gabe Zichermann, Game-Based Marketing brings together the game mechanics expertise of a decade's worth of research. Driven equally by big companies, startups, 40-year-old men and tween girls, the world is becoming increasingly more fun. Are you ready to play?

Praise for Game-Based Marketing

"If you haven't applied games to marketing, advertising, or brand management, you'll want to get and study this book—or it could be game over for you."—Jonathan Epstein, CEO, Double Fusion, and former EVP, IGN/GameSpy

"The power of games to affect consumer behavior is almost limitless, and examples are all around us. Game-Based Marketing is the first comprehensive look at combining the power of games with marketing to create an exciting new user paradigm: Funware. This is clearly the future."—Joel Brodie, CEO and founder, Gamezebo.com

"Games are busting out of their traditional borders. No one knows that better than Gabe Zichermann who hit upon the insight early on that everybody, not just game-makers, should use game-like tricks to enthrall fans."—Dean Takahashi, Editor, VentureBeat

"If you think games have already taken over the living room, wait until you see what they can do to advertising. Authors Zichermann and Linder have put forth cutting-edge concepts about the power of game design in non-gaming contexts. And you get five achievement points if you read this endorsement."—Bing Gordon, Venture Partner, KPCB, and former CCO, Electronic Arts