Name of my book

[terin]

Ok there is now a contest for a free copy of the upcoming book on my Blog by thinking of a GREAT name for it.

http://vgsmart.blogspot.com

You could post the suggestions here as well, since I am bound to check it.

-Joe

[soniCron]

Ok there is now a contest for a free copy of the upcoming book on my Blog by thinking of a GREAT name for it.

Isn't that your job as the great marketting guru?

[ErikH2000]

Uh, here's mine:

No, I Am Not That Joseph Lieberman

Captain Joe's Glamour Guide to the Indie Game Scene

When I Grow Up, I Want to Be an Independant Game Developer

Philomathian Dreams: A Transcendental Journey

Liebermania!

Liebermania: Catch the Fever

Liebermania I: The Prequel

You Can Make More Money Selling Anything Other Than Games, Including Your Own Spit: The Title of this Book is the Last Warning I Will Give You

-Erik

[digriz]

davidrm wrote 'Indie Game Development Survival Guide'; do you think you could get away with 'Indie Game Marketing Survival Guide'?

I know it was put out by Charles River Media...Maybe they would be interested in publishing your book. It's quite a unique subject for this particular genre.

or

shareware marketing tricks
shareware marketing techniques
shareware marketing secrets
shareware marketing bible
shareware marketing - the definitive guide

Surely the information in your book could be applied to any kind of kind of small developer software marketing.

in fact, what about small developer software marketing.

[edit]
Actually, i like Erik's last title....LOL

I checked out your blog and saw the title 'Joseph Lieberman's Guide to Independent Game Marketing', it seemed a little formal so i ran it through the snoop dog translator, it came out as 'Josizzle Lizzle Guizzle to Indizzle Gizzle Mizzle'...might make it appeal to the younger market...fo sho.

[PoV]

VG SMARKETING!!

Ok, no. However...

The Game Marketing Guide (to the galaxy)
(notes brackets are optional)

A Senator's Guide to Game Marketing

Game Marketing Exposed
(naked photos of games inside)

Marketing Games

Selling your game
Buy this book, sell your game
Buy this book!

Sold!

Marketing Underground
Game Marketing Underground
Underground Game Marketing

BOOK!

Selling illegal goods legally

Buy or Die

To the people: A guide to game marketing

Consumer Whore

Feeding Gamers

I'm having too much fun with this .

[digriz]

Consumer Whore

Hmmmm...Now if he can just get that foreword from Jack Thompson.

[Robert Cummings]

From Bedroom to Boardroom
Lieberman's Guide to Making it in the game industry

[Tom Gilleland]

Making Games for Fun and Profit

Steal this Game Marketing Book

An Idiots Guide to Indie Game Marketing

Got Game? A guide to Indie Game Marketing

Indie Software Marketing Toolkit

And then Came a Game...

The Name of the Game - Indie Game Marketing Workbook

Not the Same Game! An Indie Guide to Marketing Game Clones

Clone Wars, How to Market your Game for Total World Domination

A Day at the Game Grocery - Or how to Market an Indie Game
(get it, market - grocery )


Okay, they're getting too weird. Just go with the first one.

Tom

[Nikster]

"from developer to consumer - a video game marketing guide"

video game marketing in 24 hours
teach youself game marketing
planes, trains and game marketing
one flew over the game marketing nest

capturing the video game market - a book by terin, who's reyt gud

the video game demographic maze

cake - the incoherent cheese slice of sales toobin.

DMC - the journey from developer to consumer.

no free book for me then.. how about a free badge ?

[PoV]

Got Game? A guide to Indie Game Marketing

I'm not sure why, but this one gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.

Of course, that, and I couldn't resist more. Bringing marketing book titles to a whole new level! Sorry.

--

From outer space to shelf space: A guide to game marketing
(whoa)

Selling Your Soul: A Guide to Indie Game Marketing

Marketing to Criminals

This book does not contain porn
(Not much porn)

Dial 7 for Game Marketing

Don't touch that dial, Video Game Marketing!

More fun than Poker, Dynomite!

Game marketing for fun and profit
Profit for fun and Game Marketing

SmartClub

Marketeering

Marketing Fun: A Guide to Marketing Video Games

GAME$

I was born a sock puppet, I will die a sock puppet

SKU You

Your game here
(oohh, deep... if you bought it from a bookstore that is)

The game marketing coloring book

[GameStudioD]

Downloadable Marketting

This Book Does Not Have A Free Trial

[Alex Hanson-White]

Game Marketing Made Easy
Game Marketing Played Easy
Game Marketing's Easy Mode
Game Marketing on Easy Mode (or medium or hard mode?)
Winning at Game Marketing
Blasting the Competition with Game Marketing Played Easy
etc..

[Sirrus]

So you think you can market?
A comphrensive guide to bringing your independent game to the masses

[terin]

I had no idea this post would get so much traffic, lol. Either the free book idea is appealing or you just like making fun of me and my grand ambitions (most likely the latter)

Keep em comming, even the funny ones.

And who said my book won't have a free trial!? It won't, but I want to know who's spilling the beans. Heheh.

Seriously, there are a lot of good names already in the hat from this thread alone. I think I am going to regret making a public request... from no ideas to too many!

-Joe

[Escapee]

Independent game marketing for dumbass/dummie
Independent game marketing in a nutshell
Joe's guide to independent game marketing
How to sell your indie game to women?
Market your game with this guide or perish in isolation.

[Pluvious]

I'm going to throw some out...hopefully I don't copy anyone.

Indie Game Development
-a marketing perspective

Indie Game Development
-Marketing your game

The Indie Developer's Guide to Marketing

Marketing your Indie Game

How to Market your Indie Game

[Andy]

Isn't that your job as the great marketting guru?

Common Daniel! You should study this part yet.
This is pretty smart way to announce that the books is ready... - check for the length of thread.

[mahlzeit]

Something like this:

1. Make game   2. ???   3. Profit!
                   ^
                   |
               this book

[TheMysteriousStranger]

When Good Games Go Bad: The Zen of Game Marketing

Selling Shareware : The guide to indie game marketing for the rest of us

Selling Shareware : Marketing for developers

Why you can't sell games for S***!

[Ricardo C]

Indie Game Marketing for Fun and Profit (Well, Fun Anyway)

[digriz]

What about

Harry Potter and the indie game marketing plan

Chapter 1. How to get sued in 1 easy step.

or

The Game Marketing Manual : Ideas don't sell themselves!

[PoV]

Clearly, I'm determined to make this as difficult as possible. That is assuming 1 of my suggestions made it in to the hat.

--

Little Game, Big Market

Win Big with Game Marketing

Uncle Joe's Grand Book of Game Marketing Wisdom

The Game Plan and Marketing

I'm not only the president, I'm also a consumer

Developing a marketable game

Marketing Games: From concept to completion

The solution to all your problems, and marketing video games

The good book (about marketing games)
(text in brackets would be small)

Video games don't sell

Hot coffee your way to success

Scandals, Lies, and what really happened in Roswell

If I was a consumer in your position, I'd buy this book

Portals, Publishers, and Products, and it's not even lunch yet

Cheat codes for successful game marketing

Game over, you lose, without marketing advice

What you did wrong (with your game)

The rules of Acquisition (and other lame geek references)

GameMarketingBook.com, the Book

325 pages of what they neglected to mention in game development
(Number pages should reflect book)

I'm on a mission to take out the competition

Knowing is half the battle

[Sharkbait]

Zen, and the art of marketing indie games?

[illume]

A VGSmart game marketing book.

OR

1.0 VGSmart game marketing book.

OR

1.0 VGSmart game marketing.


-- why not publicise your name to even those only reading the title?
-- starts with an A or 1.0 for better alphabetical sorting goodness.
-- implies there is another book coming. Why not get some marketing started for your sequel book? When your other book comes out, the old title will sell the second book.
-- the 1.0 version of the title has a clever tie in with the 1.0 of a games release. Ok, so marketing should begin before making the game, but most people only think of it when finishing.


Here are some bylines:

* Increase game sales by 200% within three months or money back.
-- So people know you believe in your words, and it may force you to give value to those buying it.

* Start marketing your game before you finish, for much better sales.
-- there is a much larger audience of people who have not finished a game.



How about make it something lots of people will talk about? Include some of the top indiegamer thread subjects in the title or bylines.

Here are some of the top viewed threads that are possibly relevant...
- Who's the BIGGEST Portal
- Do any of you make a decent living?
- How I increased newsletter signups.
- Xbox 360 Live Arcade - 6 Weeks On
- Tracking CR on download.com: special build?
- Out of interest...[Did you make your website by yourself]
- Google Analytics
- Go to first new post Demo vs. Sales


If you don't already cover those topics, then I think you should.


Congratulations on finishing your book!

[Trick]

(The) Marketing Game

Indie Business

Fun & Profit: Marketing Indie Games

Evil Marketing Ploys Made Easy!

[DFG]

How to Make More Money Selling Shareware Than You Ever Thought Possible

[electronicStar]

Mark Etinggs the Advertisement Armadillo.
Hi kids, let's go for a walk with Mark the purple armadillo, he will show you the way to a succesful indie business. Remember kids, marketing first.

[mahlzeit]

Eeew! Marketing. :-(

[jetro]

"Marketerin" :-)

[terin]

I'm trying not to comment on names, as I like the creativity and I can't pick a winner yet.

But someone asked if the following topics were covered:

- Who's the BIGGEST Portal
*Not exactly; I talk a good deal about portals and I give contact / company information for all the major portals who wished to have their information displayed. I don't believe "Bigger" is neccessarily "better" so I tried to get the companies to list what really did the best with them. Of course, no portals really want to say that, but I digress.

- Do any of you make a decent living?
*I could cover this in chapter 1 in theory, but does it really relate to marketing? That's a stretch

- How I increased newsletter signups.
*This is covered

- Xbox 360 Live Arcade - 6 Weeks On
*This is too new to write into a book. I don't want my book being outdated in three weeks. I expect to get a full four, maybe five weeks, before it is outdated.

- Tracking CR on download.com: special build?
*I point out that tracking is critical when discussing a variety of things, but I don't go into specifics on how to achieve tracking. That is outside my expertise.

- Out of interest...[Did you make your website by yourself]
Are you asking me? Yes, I did. Are you asking if we cover web design? Yes we do

- Google Analytics
I haven't been able to use GA yet, as they shut it off to new people before any of my major clients could get it. So, not covered but could be added in the future if it is worthy.

- Go to first new post Demo vs. Sales
Is that english?

-Joe