[Thread shamelessly inspired by stuff Gregor was talking about elsewhere]

One thing that we, as a community (and I mean the larger gaming community as a whole) are really bad at is talking about something online, then providing easy access to information about that thing. We'll mention a game, then forget to undertake the simple task of putting a hyperlink in place.

So, why should we endeavour to change this habit?

If you use RPGNow to sell PDF versions of you game, what do you use your accumulated promotion points for?

For those who aren't aware PPPs allow you to run banners and promotions, email people with your item on their wishlist and a few other things. You build them up based on how much you've sold and gain a few at the start of each month.

What's worked well for you? Any particular techniques you employed?

-Matt

Just to let people know, if they are interested, that I have opened a Solipsist Mailing list on Yahoo, as a more effective means of getting in touch with people who've bought the game, or have rules questions.

http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/solipsist

Hi guys,

Well now I have the product in my hands, and the minor errors in the process of being corrected, I am getting back to thinking about advertising. I am slowly trapsing the various sites I visit talking to people about the game already but I want to go further than that:

1) Posters for shops: games companies send out posters all the time to shops to advertise their games, I see the same thing happening in HMV. Has anyone done this for a game and had any positive feedback from it?

OK, back at EXPO people mentioned doing promotinal cards.

Now the big thing in the web arena is Moo, which will take any uploaded photo (or grab your stuff from Flickr, LJ or elsewhere) and turn it into a neat ittle sub-business sized card.

The idea of a Collective Endeavour zine has been mooted. I thought I would spin that off into its own thread. Something like this.

Remarkable!

We can use this thread to gather our initial thoughts, volunteers, what the zine could be like, what we would want to see in it, length, frequency, etc.

First off, I'd like to say that I'm not sure we could support something of a greater frequency than every 2 months. I'd be happy to be proved wrong though.

Cheers
Malcolm