Shameless Game Promotion Facebook Group

broke 700 members
https://www.facebook.com/groups/shamelessgamepromotion/

 

about to break the 950 member mark...
https://www.facebook.com/groups/shamelessgamepromotion/

 

Jamie is alive!!!
Cool that you still keep managing this site. I probably have to subscribe as well...

But in all honesty, members are not everything. What you need is a site with active members. Actually, looking at the wall it's quit depressing. 5 posts of different games per day (which is cool) but nobody really cares. It rather seems to represent how we all are going to get lost with our games in the vast sea of publishing. We all want attention but nobody gets heard.

Hmmmm... lets do a test. I will subscribe and post my Trump game. And let's bet: I say, I won't get any downloads at all. Even worse, I won't get a like for the post nor anybody will comment.

So my question is: what are your strategies to make the site useful for the developers/members? Can anything be done at all?

 

I am alive! I'm working on a branded game series. I work full time, and I am a PhD student, so I am at a tortoise's pace at building out games that fit what I want to do with my branded game series... I should have something later this fall...
Be careful with how you determine the value of groups or certain kinds of exposure. It is not always about a direct connection between that person and them being an active user of your game. There's a world of possibilities in between. For example, if you start a facebook page for your company, and then you post your video trailer there, and then you share it from there to groups, you might increase chances of how that video gets seen outside of facebook groups (in facebook news feeds) by first getting it seen inside facebook groups to get the number of views up. I am not sure how recent changes or future changes to Facebook algorithms change this, but it is worth trying.
No harm in building out a large group on Facebook from scratch. It has been roughly 8 months and averaged 100 new members each month, and is now surpassing that avg this month. All those 10,000 or 50,000 member groups on Facebook had to have a start. This is this particular group's start and progress so far...

 

might cross the 1,000 member mark in the next few days before the end of the month
https://www.facebook.com/groups/shamelessgamepromotion/

 

We broke the 1,000 member mark !!!

 

Which raises the question: Does it work? Do you see increased number of downloads?

PS: I have joined but still not clear to me if this is only a Facebook page or there is a cross promotion members voluntarily place in their apps?

 

RE: Does it work - depends on what your intentions are. Are # of downloads the only relevant standard? See the thread above, such as in the conversation with Christoph.
It's a facebook group. That's it.

 

About to cross the 1100 member mark. Now that the group broke 1000 members, it seems it may now gain members at faster rates (just gained roughly 100 new members in a week or so) ...
https://www.facebook.com/groups/shamelessgamepromotion/