Airdrops is a great way to build your community and add an element of interactivity to your fundraising campaign. Try assigning real-world tasks (perhaps related to your game's theme) that people can complete to get tokens. Create contests that grab your audience's attention and reward participants for feedback on your game.
General recommendations on marketing strategy
Don't give up on using a content management system (CMS) such as WordPress. Many people make the mistake of thinking that such platforms are too limited from a technical point of view, but they are not.
From the first stages of the IDO to the launch of the game, your website will serve as the main "front office" for the project. In our experience, it is preferable to develop a website that can be easily and inexpensively modified and added to. The project needs to be ready for changes.
To avoid confusing your target audience, who may actually browse dozens of project sites a day, try not to innovate too much in the structure and content of your site. On your homepage, prioritize the things that set your project apart from others, and put a link to your white paper and tokenization documents at the top of the page. Don't forget to also include information about your team (with real photos) and partners.
Place links to your MVP in a prominent place, but refrain from any complicated technological integrations that can negatively affect web page load time. Slow sites sink to the bottom of the search engines. You don't want that to happen to your project, do you?
Develop an informative website
Another way to strengthen the legitimacy of your project is through partnerships. Start looking for partners early on; these can be companies in both the cryptocurrency and gaming industries. Each new partner represents a whole world of new opportunities for your project.
To build a sense of trust in your project, audit your smart contract as soon as it is developed. If you hesitate to do so, your entire project risks being labeled a scam.
Make regular social media announcements about new collaborations, successful check-ins, and positive brand feedback. Make a schedule for issuing press releases about each project achievement. You can publish these releases in a special section on your website and place them in popular media outlets.
Public Relations and Audit
2. This lengthy document may seem like an unnecessary distraction from the technical development of your platform, but the effort and time spent explaining key project concepts will be appreciated in the long run. Not only will it give investors a better idea of what you are trying to build, but it will also help set your entire team on the same page. Furthermore, reading the document will allow your sales and marketing staff to accurately understand the message you need to deliver to your target market
1. The cryptocurrency and blockchain industry in relative terms is still in its infancy. Nevertheless, the movement, which began in 2009 with the release of the official Bitcoin document, is adhering to certain traditions. To this day, new crypto projects are expected to release an initial manifesto outlining the goals of the project. When you are preparing for an IDO, one of your very first steps should be to release an official document.
3. Developing this document is not as difficult as it may seem at first glance. Spend some time reading the white papers of successful GameFi projects and try to replicate their structure. At a minimum, your white paper should include an overview of your game's features, an explanation of what makes it unique, and a description of Play-to-Earn functionality. You should also provide a detailed overview of the internal economics of the project and the tokenomics role of your game.
Don't forget to think carefully about the roadmap for developing your project. IDO members want to see that your team has taken on the challenge of creating a game quickly and efficiently.
4. You may also want to consider creating short, easily digestible documents for more time-constrained readers. Many successful projects publish what are called "light documents," which are 10-15 page documents that provide a basic description without all the technical details.
Creating a technical document
If you look at any successful companies in the crypto industry, you will see that their websites are optimized for search engines. Cryptocurrency exchanges, for example, understand that a huge percentage of their users come through organic search. For this reason, they invest significant resources in producing educational content.
New companies tend to underestimate the power of search engine optimization (SEO). If you have long-term plans for your IDO Play-to-Earn, you need to make sure that you have properly optimized your website from the beginning.
SEO experts say that publishing 8 to 12 quality materials per month will help your content be at the top of the regular search results.
Of course, this is time-consuming for busy project teams.
Search Engine Optimization
Many projects seek mentions only from the most popular media in their industry. While a few such publications are certainly noteworthy, new brands' access to such media is usually expensive and is almost always labeled "sponsored.
Mentions of your site and project on external resources are critical to increasing SEO and brand awareness. An integral part of an IDO marketing strategy should be to increase the quantity and quality of these mentions in the form of backlinks. These links to your website are necessary for search engine indexing algorithms to understand what your project does and that it has legitimacy in its industry.
Brand mentions and backlinks
In addition, advertising in popular Telegram groups and channels has historically been an effective source of traffic for crypto projects, including IDO Play-to-Earn. To advertise on Telegram, use the analytics platforms Telemetr and Tgstat. Key metrics on these sites include audience quality, engagement levels and ROMI.
Influencer marketing can help generate traffic for your Play-to-Earn project. Collaborating with leading crypto and gaming influencers will not only expand your community in the short term, but also increase brand awareness for years to come.
At a minimum, new projects should be presented on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Discord, and Telegram. For Play-to-Earn projects, the social network of paramount importance today is Twitter. Involvement, activity, and interest in GameFi among Twitter's audience is much higher than on other platforms.
The days when social media managers and marketing managers could simply share company news and brand mentions across channels are a thing of the past. The key goal for content marketers and SMM marketers now is community building and quality social sharing across communication channels. Community managers involved in IDO must excel at combining elements of entertainment with the constant flow of informational content they provide to audiences.
YouTube is useful as a means for posting and distributing gameplay videos. Twitch is not a social network per se, but it is an extremely popular platform among gamers, and you can also experiment with different ways to promote your project there.
As for community management, recently the focus has shifted from the traditionally crypto-friendly Slack and Telegram to Discord. This requires having a community manager on duty who can answer questions, initiate discussion and draw attention to important project events. The same goes for popular crypto forums like Bitcointalk.
Post information about your project in the form of blogs on various blog sites, social networks and other places where you can find a huge target audience.
Social networks, forums and community management
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