Since December 2016, I have been posting news about "Tradewars - Homeworld" (TWHW) on Facebook (FB). I was told to "build up a following of fans". But have read advice that even if you have a "bunch of fans" don't expect them to all become instantaneous "backers" of your crowdfunding efforts.
In the month of May, I plan to post up a LINK to a "Game Survey" about TWHW on FB. Now I have about 200+ likes and about 60+ FB friends of game. This is still small, but when I look at the POTENTIAL reach, it's 65,000 people!
That's a TON of people. Not everyone is interested in buying the game either. But still it says POTENTIALLY I have sufficient reach to make this game a reality (one that says success).
So the SURVEY link will be posted on my FB page and in June I will be contacting ALL the friends who did NOT fill out the survey. An open and honest appeal to ask them if A> The can take the survey, B> If they can share our FB page with 2 Friends.
If you get my strategy, it's like the PYRAMID effect: Start with one person and ask them to involve two (2) people. And then ask those two (2) people to each involved two more people... etc.
My success or failure will be in convincing people to "talk" about the game. We all have friends or family that have people who would be interested in the game... The problem is getting "in touch" with those people.
The survey is also a way to generate an e-mail database of people I can communicate that the game will be on SALE (when it does...)! Nothing worst than relying on FB to communicate that the game is now ready to be purchased and is on SALE!!!
Even if we can REACH 1% of 65,000 people, that's 650 people!!! ENOUGH to make the CROWDSALE a smashing SUCCESS! Our goal is 500+ Game Sets sold, obviously if we get less we still will produce as many game sets as purchased, this is NOT an all-or-nothing scenario (like Kickstarter).
I will be finalizing the SURVEY over the weekend - fine-tuning it so that it can REACH as many people AS POSSIBLE.
Keep you all posted!
