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Published:
October 6, 2020

Gamification Marketing For Dummies

Overview

Grow your customer base with games!

Gamification is the practice of adding elements of gameplay into marketing materials to better engage customers. In Gamification Marketing For Dummies, you’ll learn to use this proven strategy to capture the attention of your target markets and boost your results using valuable gamification data.

Games are fun! That’s why gamification is so successful—customers will jump at the chance to play and win your custom-developed marketing game. You’ll connect with your customers and create lasting memories. Whether or not you are digitally savvy, this

book will teach you the basics of gamification, from choosing the right game to capturing the user behavior data that the game generates.

  • Use games to increase customer engagement and marketing results
  • Learn how to choose or commission the right games for your market
  • Plan and execute a successful gamification strategy
  • Learn from data generated inside your game for valuable market insights

From simple strategies like customer loyalty programs to complex, branded, social game apps, this book will point in the direction of gamification that works for you.

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About The Author

Zarrar Chishti is a software and games development consultant who has developed and marketed more than 500 games for companies all across the globe. As CEO of Tentacle Solutions, he consults with teams around the world to develop gamification options.

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CHEAT SHEET

Gamification marketing can significantly change your marketing for the better—you just have to know how to harness it. The thing is, not all gamification marketing campaigns are created equal, so you need to know why campaigns succeed (and why they don’t). Remember that protecting your campaign from hackers is a critical part of its success.

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For good reason, marketers everywhere are looking for new and innovative ways to reach their target audiences. In fact, this goal has become even more challenging as consumers are turning away more than ever from traditional online advertising. In a recent survey, respondents stated that online ads have little or no influence on their behavior.
This list highlights 10 of the best gamification marketing campaigns ever produced. Find out why the company produced the campaign, how they developed and promoted the campaign, and how successful the campaign was.These companies have been quite open with their success metrics. Plus, their campaigns were easy to track online, but you don’t need to be a huge multinational corporation to put them to work for you!
Gamification marketing campaigns can be extremely rewarding for both your audience and your company. However, that also means there is a lot of room to get things wrong. When they do go wrong, your campaign can completely fail to engage.Every campaign makes mistakes. As with any mistake, it’s important to learn from your errors and prevent them from happening again.
When you are designing a gamification marketing campaign, you need to build loyalty rewards into the gameplay. After you’ve designed on the perfect game for your audience, you’ll need to keep them coming back and playing the game. You certainly want them to play your game more than once, and not just leave the campaign at the start of their gaming journey.
Gamification marketing can significantly change your marketing for the better—you just have to know how to harness it. The thing is, not all gamification marketing campaigns are created equal, so you need to know why campaigns succeed (and why they don’t). Remember that protecting your campaign from hackers is a critical part of its success.
With user content being posted on all social media networks faster than ever, using a hashtag to raise awareness is not as easy as adding # to your company name. Your gamification marketing campaign will need to create its own unique hashtag and get people to use it. By successfully creating a unique hashtag, your team will be able to track and control the flow of the discussion generated on social media channels.
One of the main advantages of using gamification marketing is the real-time audience engagement. Your audience gets real-time feedback and statistics that are influenced by their engagement on your campaign. Rewards and achievements will motivate your audience to keep coming back to your campaign so that they can complete or proceed with a challenge or task.
The success of your gamification marketing campaign will depend on whether the gamification model you’ve selected appeals to your core audience. Not every gamification model will be suitable to your audience. In fact, you may find that only one or two really resonate with them. Before deciding which model is right for you, you need understand how gamification models perform with various audiences.
Your gamification marketing campaign may not appeal to your audience year-round. Consider having a rebranded version of your campaign with a seasonal theme, such as for the holiday period. Holiday marketing is an exciting experience, but it’s also incredibly competitive. As other marketing teams around the world are scrambling to think of how they’re going to celebrate the festive season, you’ll have a campaign locked and loaded and ready to go.
In addition to working out what your gamification campaign will include, you need to decide how your campaign will run. This includes thinking about the demographics, duration, and frequency of your campaigns. This information will help you shape the final shape of your campaign and create a consistent message both for your team and your audience.
Using gaming elements in your marketing campaign may sound strange at first. But gamification is a highly effective marketing strategy, no matter which industry a brand is in. When you gamify your campaign, your audience will have fun interacting with your brand, which means your company will increase its overall engagement.
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