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List of forums -> Main forum of the online business game "Virtonomics" -> Competition: Best Blog about VirtonomicsDiscussions on our virtual business game, your ideas and game mechanics
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 Virtonomics presents a new contest - best blog about Virtonomics with very valuable prize fund of 190 points! Blogging skills will come handy in many ways, so it can be the time for you to try yourself in writing. Participants Support our writers! Read their blogs, leave comments, click "like" and + G_Money33 Marloan_Morris TyStuFF paulotec Stages Stage 1 - duration 1 month Stage 2 - duration 1 month Stage 2 - duration 2 months Total duration - 4 months 1st stage will end Feb 5th, 2nd stage - Mar 5th, 3rd - May 5th Prize fund 1st place - 100 points 2nd place - 60 points 3rd place - 30 points Prizes for each stage 1 - 50% (50/30/15 points) 2 - 25% (25/15/8 points) 3 - 25% (25/15/7 points) Example: If your blog take 2nd place in 1st stage, 1st place in 2nd stage and 3rd place in 3rd stage, you will receive (30 + 25 + 7) 62 points. Even if you not going to make it into TOP 3 in 1st - 2nd stage you always have a chance to do better and take higher place in the next stage! Additional rewards Combo award. If a participant takes 1st place in all 3 stages he will get additional good prize of his choice. More information about combo award you can find in this topic at the end of January. Participation award. All participants who take 4-5 places in any stage will get award with small bonus to qualification. Blog Requirements - Minimum of 2 messages per week with screenshots from the game (uploaded to a place where they will be stored forever, like google pics or something). - Using key words in every blog's post such as: Virtonomics, online game, browser game, games for learning economics/economy, economic simulation game, Tycoon game, turn-based online browser strategy, etc. - Using links to Virtonomics main page, forum and pages in the game. Some links may (and better be) referral - Good language, connection to real economy and recent news, connecting between Virtonomics and real economy theories, etc. - Valuable and interesting information. You blog should be interesting to read. People should learn new things from your posts and discover game deeper. You can talk about new things in game, post news, political events, goals and achievements. Recommended blog platforms: WordPress Blogger Tumblr Medium Quora All from this list: What should i write? The ideal blog would be about starting a new company and starting playing from the You should teach player about game's rules, mechanic, principals and tricks. You should encourage them to play in team. You can even make new corporation of bloggers and start playing together, this would be awesome  ). Give people links to forum guides and tutorials, show examples, etc. All these is not obligatory (but what i previously said is preferable to get good marks for you blog). You can also make your blog about your current and developed company but in this case it would be nice if you going to set up specific goals to achieve for limited time (1-4 months). Make 5-10 goals, 5 long term (3-4 month) and 5 short term (1-2 month). Also you can come up with some totally different new idea about you blog and ask me here, if this is a good one. For example the great blog would be - Virtonomics Newspaper, where you will write about what is happening in the game, make reports and predictions, collect and analyze game's data, etc. Example: You can do something like this: How to start? 1. Choose what your blog will be about. If you not sure yet, ask in this topic. 2. Choose a blog platform from the list above. 3. Start writing  4. Leave the link to your blog in this topic so other people can see it, read and comment your messages. Determining winners - Number of messages is a key factor. Minimum is just 2 posts per week but you can do 5-7 and more, as long as quality of each message stays good. - Following basic Blog Requirements - Size of you posts. Long post are preferable if they have good quality - Connection with social network (twitter/ Facebook/Google +) is an advantage. So you made new post in your blog, share it (or give link to it) in your social pages. If you doing that, don't forget to let us know you social page address. - Number of visitors and traffic. It is very hard to make your blog popular for 4 month but you should deferentially try. Give links to your blog in different places, tell your friends (and people in Virtonomcis) about it. If you can make your blog a bit popular with natural traffic after 4 month - this is a major factor which going to determine a winner on 3rd stage. You should provide a screenshot with statistic to prove your success. - Comments. It is good if you blog will have valuable comments. That is why we reccoment to play this competition together, so all people who doing blogs will help each other and leave comments - On the first stage of competitions the main advantage have people who follow the basic Blog Requirements. For the second stage the most important factor us length and number of posts (with following the basic Blog Requirements and with good quality of posts). For the last stage all factors are taking into account. 100 friends Virtonomics has very nice referral reward program called "100 friends". Each player has his personal link and if someone register in the game by clicking on this link, player may get additional income. It can be hard to attract a person who will bring a lot of income to you but it is possible. This competitions fits perfectly with 100 friends complain. When you leave links to Virtonomics in your blog, make sure to make them referral links. For example my link is You can find you special ID for invitation in: Office => Invite friends All successful blogs which going to be started might be additionally awarded with later in case you not going to stop blogging after the competition ends. Good luck to everyone! |
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i'm tempted to do one but i don 't think a competition is the appropriate way for recruiting blog writers; the thought of potentially reducing the reward for G_Money33's great work, or Tystuff's upcoming one, makes me pass on this.You never thought the same way with tenders and contests. No offence, but this is probably the most silly comment you have ever made, your reason for not starting a blog makes no sense at all. Or are you afraid yours would be the worst? 
We want you to make a blog I guess  |
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| I just started a blog! Hopefully I can get in some kind of "flow" to make decent posts on a regular basis!
Feel free to comment
(Also I'm busy with fixing some issues on my current realms... kinda neglected the game lately) |
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| Honestly, I wouldn't even bother making a blog post for just 1 point, and a 5 points maximum per month. It already takes quite some efforts to make a decent enough blog post.
I think this competition is a great start, and I actually hope people make use of this opportunity. The more people who are willing to participate, the greater the chance there is that bloggers will be rewarded in the future as well. Also I don't think a standard reward for a blog post would work out great, then everyone will start low quality blogs just to get some points, even for one silly point, and decent bloggers would back off. With the competition as it's formed now, you are motivated to make a decent blog, and you will rewarded for a decent blog. And if someone just participates for "fun" to grab some points, they won't come far anyway. Actually at this stage I would recommend anyone with a twitter account, to just make 2 silly comments about Virtonomics every week, and then the chance of getting a fun and small qualification bonus anyway It really surprises me how little interest there is in writing some blog posts. Nevertheless, I have made another update on my blog: Feel free to give me some feedback, and thanks for reading |
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| ^I did that post on my phone but yea i would expect a minimal quality for points to be gotten. While i wouldn't still do it for a point a post someone like Rogue_Cat who is active in game would prob do so as if they can type 60 words a minute and the minimum word count of decent is 500, its 10 minutes or 6 points a hour.
But yea it was just a idea to keep this idea going. |
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we do it purly out of fun and inspirationBut still hiding refferal link behind "normal" address...  |
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| Marloan_Morris - you blog is officially added to the competition I like your idea.
This reminds me of 2 things: 1 - There was a guy in Russian forum who wrote 54 page fictional story based off Virtonomics. The plot there was like: my uncle made me a manager to look after cow farm in Siberia so i went there and did my best to make this cow farm profitable. There were many details like foreign equipment, tax optimization, animal feed, distribution and such things. It was fun to read. 2 - 7 years ago another guy wrote the whole book and published it. This book was also based off/on Virtonomics 
ps paulotec joined the competition with his blog But still hiding refferal link behind "normal" address... AgainThis is allowed. Not only this is allowed, but i did say that making your links referral is a great way to earn some additional points from attracting new players. This competitions goes very good with 100 friends program |
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| Our BLOG is now also available under the domain:
I work with Google Adsense Compliance. Meening, no fowl language and no hidden referral links or other deceiptful links in the text. The links in the Text are even pointed out with brackets - according to the sites referred to in virtonomics Certainly you have to be logged in to a virtonomics account to see the links proplery. This leaves a maximum chance of getting no refferal from this, but as I said before ... thats not why we do it. And I do get the hint... I am at lettersized page 12 now with the story and writing... thats why its going to be limited and yes sometimes it might even be a bit shallow in explaination thats why I added a ASK me section to the BLOG. As I already mentioned in other comments. Its not only a fictional story, or a helper for newbees, or a huge spoiler, or some ethical education, or a satire, or a philosophical point of view, its also a manifesto and might drop some jaws, in the later developement (reminder of who is involved here.)... so be exited... Abso ----listen to me---- lootly!!!
In the beginning we are releasing on daily basis to get some progress into the story. Comments are not required for the blog, but can be left here: |
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New blog posts are up. Come check it out!!  |
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New blog posts are up. Come check it out!!I almost fear you might grab the first prize away from me Your blog is really good, and I enjoy reading it!
(I've made a small update post again today, koalafications are way too exciting  ) |
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| We have posted last week on a daily basis.... so there is A LOT to read already.
For your convenience some navigation has been added, also a new domain so its easy to read on any device. 
Additionally for your convenience... and if you use Facebook a lot, we have also added a facebook fanpage, where you can follow and be notified about new entries....
hurry up check it out and be sure to not miss anything... introduction has been made... strategies layed out.... next week comes the first boommmm......... keep reading... PS: And a big thank you , to those who already return on a daily basis to dive deeper into this exiting story. |
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Small advertising/gift for our bloggers  (Links to your blogs on Virtonomics official social pages)
You doing great job guys! Keep it up Don't forget to like and support Virtonomics Facebook page and to follow our twitter 
ps TyStuFF - "Koalifications" |
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