Online Strategy Game Business For Sale

10:10 AM
July 22 2015

Dear Entrepreneurs:

Ive enclosed a new strategy game business for sale.

As usual....the asking price is a little high based on comparable portfolios. But its not ridiculous.

2.3 million active players!


2) Online Strategy Game with 2.3 Million Players:
http://www.appbusinessbrokers.com/properties/493564/

For sale is an established free-2-play browser MMO Game
with over 2,300,000 registered players. The game has
twice been nominated for Browser Game of The Year
(for Story and for Strategy Game) and was originally
released in 2010.

Highlights & Key Assets:
o Established community of active players and buyers
o Original and extremely high quality graphics and art
o Optimized conversion rates Active-to-Buyer and Player
lifetime retention rates
o Fully localized in 19 languages
o Very easily customizable, adjustable or upgradeable
o Viral players acquisition
o A lot of room for monetization improvements or
cross platform publishing

Revenue = 231,481
Profit = 91,765
Asking = 200,000



Marc Charles

Shutterstocks Strategy Boosting Sales For New Stocks

Have you ever wonder why your newly uploaded stocks at Shutterstock gets more downloads compared to other agencies? That is because Shutterstock has a strategy that keeps new stocks get better visibility.

Lets compare the search filtering choices we have.

Shutterstock
1. Most Popular
2. Newest
3. Oldest
4. Random

IStockPhoto
1. Best Match
2. Age
3. Downloads
4. Contributor
5. Rating
6. Size
7. Title

Fotolia
1. Best Match
2. Date
3. Price
4. Downloads
5. Popularity

Dreamstime
1. Relevency - Descending
2. Relevency - Ascending
3. Download - Descending
4. Download - Ascending

5. Upload- Descending

6. Upload- Ascending

7. Resolution- Descending

8. Resolution- Ascending

Shutterstock only has 4 choices (Most Popular, Newest, Oldest, and Random) on the search filter. Lets understanding them better. Oldest filter is pretty much useless because I dont think buyers want to look for old stuff. Random is also useless because it dont return you with good results at all. So, Shutterstock literary forces its buyer to search for Newest and Most Popular. I dont know the actual algorithm behind the Most Popular filter, but from my experience, it is able to give chances for new stocks to appear on it pretty quickly. If your stocks has a few downloads each day after the first few days of upload, it can then be quickly shoot to the top of Most Popular. I believe Most Popular has something to do with number of views, downloads, and age.

Because Shutterstocks search dont have other choices like Number of Downloads and Rating, older stocks dont have the advantage of being grandfathered, thus new stocks have chance.

I believe Number of Downloads or Rating basically kill off new stocks. Simply take a look at other agencies, 3 years old stock will always be on the top of Downloads due to obvious reason. Rating is prone to abuse and I believe that it favors older stocks in some ways as well.

The more search choices an agency has (that does favors new stocks), the less visibility we have for new stocks.

So, if you are a grandfather in stock agency, then you will feel that IStockPhoto, Fotolia, and Dreamstime love you in a constant way. And you may not feel the same for Shutterstock because it doesnt favor your 10000 stocks which is 3 years old now.

Uploading Timing Strategy

One thing often comes to every contributor mind is that whether you should upload now, or later?

There are many factors that affects your sales. Below is a list that you may want to consider with some explanations of what you can do about it.

• Approved on weekend - If your works happened to be approved on weekend, then you will definitely misses a good chance for good downloads. Without good downloads, your new vectors will be "buried" by other new vectors that approved on weekdays. Although it is good to be approved on Monday, but I realize that you have no control over this, especially agency like Shutterstock could approved your vector between few hours or 2 weeks later. However, some agencies like DepositPhotos does have some consistency in approving your stuff. So, plan it right ;)

• Summer holiday - Summer holiday are often referred to months from June to August. Contributors consider these as slow months. While, it is good to take a break in these 3 months because there are less downloads - it also means that your competitors are taking a break too. So, visibility of your vectors got higher too.

• Good downloads months - March, April, May, October and November are good months. You should not miss these five months. Work hard before and during them.

• Trends - Should I follow trends? Now, everybody is talking about flat icons. And Christmas is coming too. The answer is yes, you should follow trends and never go against it. 

• Should I draw more vectors first, and upload all at once? No, you should upload as often as possible. It is tiring and daunting to think of good keywords. Uploading 30 vectors at once could take you 2-3 days. Also, uploading a lot of vectors at one time could potentially increase your rejection rate.

As a conclusion, I do believe timing is something not to be ignored if you want to maximize your profit. Good luck.