Tuesday 13 April 2010

Social Games Using Social Networks For Good Business

Throughout history games have been used for social networking. The Internet has made games very popular with a multitude of games now available to all. Take the fact that the online games sector is growing at four times the rate of overall internet growth together with the increasing numbers online and it is easy to see why entrepreneurorial websites are looking to get involved.

Social networking is a term that was used prior to its use on the Internet. It enables a gathering of like minded people to develop greater awareness and knowledge of their mutual business, hobby and personal interests. Community sites have become amazingly popular. Likewise, social games, essentially games created to be playable within existing community websites, are revolutionary in the games industry akin to the one first kindled by downloadable casual games. These games that use social connections have multiplied like wildfire on social networking sites.

For example massively multiplayer online game (MMOG or simply MMO) is a video game genre capable of supporting hundreds or even thousands of players at the same time. By their very nature it is a must that they be played on the internet.and feature at least one common playing field. Newer game consoles, including the play station, play station 3, Xbox360, Nintendo DS and Wii can be used to play MMO games. These multiplayer social games allow players to interact with other people around the world.

Social networking games represent a viable business opportunity for game developers and venture capitalists agree, investing approximately $98 million in social game companies in 2006. It's no surprise that mobile game developers, casual game developers, and web programmers are moving forward with social games. The big players in the social game space are Playfish, Zynga, and SGN. All of Playfish's games have been in Facebook's Top 25 whereas Zynga has dominated the MySpace charts.

Social networking is very low cost. The benefit of this has attracted many entrepreneurs and small business owners including Internet marketers. These business users of social networking are constantly seeking to increase their customer base and find this concept a very good way of doing this. Therefore they have become for many a customer relationship management (CRM) tool.

One of the great advantages of community gaming for business people is that it enables a means of free advertising with the use of banners and text ads. Because the World Wide Web is just that it enables worldwide or international connections so that businesses are not only restricted to the local market but also can reach people globally.

The use of social networking sites for social games is only limited by a person's imagination.

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Wednesday 7 April 2010

Facebook Revolution - Top 10 Facebook Games Guide

10. Farm Town

Being developed by Slashkey at the beginning of 2009, FarmTown is the Slashkey's alternative for the highly popular Farmville. The game's concept is the same as FarmVille's where you build a farm and do your best to be better than your neighbor. The ebook provides you with ingenious tricks that allow you to reach level 16 in the first 5 days of playing the game, while giving you a complete tutorial to ensure that you have 100% success in your mission. The author, T. Dub, is already well-known by the online community for his innovative and quick ways to advance from a beginner to a highly-proficient player in just a few weeks. He has written successful tutorials for almost all the Facebook games.

9. Restaurant City

If you aren't already familiar with this game, all you have to do is to build your own restaurant, to decorate it, choose the ingredients for your menus and try to bring in customers. You can expand your business by earning money from them. Last week, I found the official guide for playing RestaurantCity on Playfish website. Beside that, I also found two ebooks, one titled Restaurant City Mastery wrote by Shawn Woods and the other one called Restaurant City Secrets by T Dub. As both authors admit, the ebooks were created by carefully studying the best players in the world of Restaurant City. After months of hard work, they managed to create their own step-by-step guides for success. They both vouch for their own version as being the best by allowing you to quickly build your own restaurant, to attract huge numbers of clients and how to manage your business as a PRO. Common features: - Price: $29 - 60 days money-back guarantee if you aren't satisfied by the ebook - Easy-to-follow step-by-step tutorial - Guarantee reaching FAST 50 popularity and 5 stars - 100% LEGAL method - PDF format - Its method is unknown to 99% of the players - It shows you how to reach Level 19 in just 3

8. YoVille

YoVille by Zynga is a game that resembles in many ways to the popular game for PC, The Sims. All begins in your virtual apartment. Your mission is to develop your character and to earn as much money as you can to advance to the next level. What this e-book guarantees you is that are able to get to level 50 in 3 weeks, 100% legal. The author, T Dub, studied all the successful players of the application to see why they earn money and evolve very rapidly. After having spent months in which he applied various methods to improve his character, he created an extremely profitable technique that helped him make more money than all its competitors. At first the author interviewed all the successful players and found that the most effective methods are simple. It took 6 months to develop and implement the perfect way to make money, and he says that he came through. He discovered why 93% of the players are choosing the wrong method, found the way to get to level 20 in 3 days and thereby made a step by step manual that shows you how to become a YoVille master.

7. Pet Society

Pet Society is a Tamagotchi version of the game created in 2009 after more than 13 years. The basic idea remained the same, you choose a pet, you create it, you make him look the way you want and then take care of him. The difference between Pet Society and the well known game Tamagotchi is that you have many more possibilities to have fun with your pet. If you take better care of it, you get more points and you evolve faster. The T Dub's book teaches you how to invest as little time and earn as many points for your pet.

6. Mafia Wars

For this game, I found 5 books Dominate Mafia Wars written by Jenson Fuller, Mafia Wars Wizard by Vincent Cicinelli, Mafia Sniper by Chris Jones and Mafia Wars Blueprint by T. Dub and Mafia Sniper, which are designed to teach you how to earn more points and become that 'Godfather' or 'Capo di tutti capi'. Because the game appeared for a long time, many gamers have found ways to succeed, but as the authors say, few of them have applied these recipes along the time.

5. Texas HoldEm Poker

The trivial poker game moved online, besides their creations with farms and fish, those from Zynga developed an application dedicated for gaming enthusiasts, the famous Texas Holdem Poker has become a source of entertainment for many users of Facebook. To develop your skills in this game, I found 2 helpful books Social Hold'em Secrets written by Virgil Tsutsumi and Texas Holdem Secrets by Phillip D. The two writers promise that you will learn how to win 1,000,000 chips in the first day, become a professional player in less than 2 hours, you will learn how to win always chips from the first hand, you will find out what you need to know to keep hackers away and how to become the best bluffer ever.

4. FishVille

Like other applications developed by Zynga, Fishville is not so different, your job is to buy fish, decorate their aquarium, feed them and then sell them. The difference between FishVille and other game type applications for Facebook is that you must take care of fish with regularity. If you don't feed them or you forget to clean the aquarium, they will die. For FishVille I found the FishVille Secrets book, which teaches you how to get the best for the time spent in the game. This method shows you how to raise your experience points and your money. The method takes about 2 weeks, then he says, you get to level 34. It also will show you an interesting tutorial on how to build your aquarium and how to earn money and points quickly, even if you are at the beginning.

3. Happy Aquarium

Developed by the ones from CrowdStar, this application is their replica for FishVile game, built by Zynga. The idea is almost the same, you have to take care of an aquarium with fish. I found a book that teaches you how to be successful in this game, written by the well-known author T. Dub, available in electronic format (. pdf) at a price of $27. The Dub's book was developed by studying some successful players, and after discovering a successful game strategy. He guarantees that you get to Level 15 in 3 days, only by using the revealed secret from this book, so if you are a fish games enthusiast, it worths trying.

2. Cafe World

The World Cafe application is created by Zynga and is similar to Restaurant City application, created by the ones from Playfish. The idea of this two games is similar, you have to make your own coffee shop and your job is to manage well the resources so you can be able to develop in the shortest time. The 3 books that I found for this product are: Cafe World Kings offered by Vincent Cicinelli, the second book is titled Cafe World Secrets written by Troy Mitchell and the third book of the Café World Domination written by T Dub. I found common points in each of these books, the differences between them are, in my opinion, minor. But let's list some of the promises made by the authors of these books: - How to convince a lot of neighbors to join your business in just a few hours; - You can learn how to stop squandering money by buying credits; - How to apply their method no matter what level you are; - Discover how to be effective in managing the money; - Money back in 60 days if you are not satisfied with their product; - All 3 books are in.pdf format and can be accessed immediately after you pay them.

1. FarmVille

The most famous game on Facebook is called Farmville and was developed by ones from Zynga. If you respect the chronology of the Facebook games, Farmville is the second big success for Zynga after Mafia Wars. The idea of the game, for the ones who don't know yet, is very simple, you have to take care of a farm, to grow your harvest, and to produce money with your land. To develop your Farmville's ability, we found several e-books. Indeed, in this game are more in number, 8, probably because it has created a great din of the facebook. Because this game has created such an hysteria on Facebook, we found 8 books: Millionaire Farmer Guide written by Troy Mitchell, Farm Secrets Revealed by Bob, Ultimate Farmville Guide by Eric Moore, Farmville Millionaire Secrets by William Bates, Farm Domination by Rogue Farmer, Farmville Secrets by T Dub, Farmville Wizard by Vincent Cicinelli and FarmVille Expert written by Jason Fitzpatrick. The common topic of these books is how to develop quickly your farm, earn more money and have more neighbors. The Bob's e-book promises that you will learn how to develop your farm investing only 15 minutes per day.

All the books are available on http://www.cutaprice.com

My name is Julia Tyler and I work as a professional game reviewer for ComputerGames. My passions are developing strategies to advance in the fastest way possible at social games, so I am committed to search, test and review until I get them.

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