Promoting the simExchange

The simExchange becomes more entertaining with more people trading and more informative with a more diverse pool of people sharing criticism and analysis on games. The stock prices will also become more accurate forecasters as more people bring more knowledge to the market. This recruitment has become an issue of discussion as of late as members have been looking for ways to get more people onto the site.

As many members have discussed, one effective means of promoting the simExchange is to add the context of simExchange stock prices to video game sales discussions on other forums. Many members have tried to do this at other forums and have brought more people to the simExchange market. There are many people out there who like to predict the potential of upcoming video games, they just don’t know where they can do it.

Similarly, if you write a blog, you can use the simExchange data as a resource to back your analysis about games. You can also add the closing price quote for any stock to your blog post or news article using the Tools for Bloggers.

Another way to help build awareness is to add the simExchange to your del.icio.us bookmarks. A number of members have done this already but it would be more effective to commonly classify the simExchange in the predictionmarkets and videogames sections. To do this simply add “predictionmarkets” and “videogames” as tags with your bookmark. Feel free to add any of the other tags that have been popular. If you’ve already added the simExchange as a del.icio.us bookmark, you can edit it on your “my del.icio.us” page.

If you are a Technorati member, the simExchange Official Blog has been listed here and you can add it to your favorites.

Some members have added the simExchange to new sites like Stumbleupon. If you know of other cool ways online to promote the simExchange please comment about them on this blog post. Thanks!