Teen Internet Marketer

I know this is overstressed, but here, I’ll stress this again. Expect the Unexpected. How?

I honestly cannot tell you how to expect the unexpected. If I knew, I’d be somewhere near the status of God (hehe!). But, what I CAN do is tell you a story.

Six months or so ago, I played some arcade games at my school, just for fun. Guess what: one person next to me asked me where I was playing. I gave them my website’s URL. He registered, and then started playing games. After that, around 5 people started playing games on my website over the next few days. People asked me: why do you have to register to play the arcade? (IBProArcade required the users to register to play in the arcade, because the developers were convinced that guests couldn’t log scores without doing so). After being asked the question, I thought about it, and I asked myself: Why didn’t they? That’s the stupidest thing ever: requiring users to register to play in an arcade? So, I quickly coded a messy hack to let guests play in the Arcade.

After a few months, I noticed something never before: I was being ranked in Google for some of my games, and then that was driving some traffic to my games. Soon, many people started to play games on my website, and Krazy Letter evolved, and soon more people started to talk about games than other things. Currently, my arcade’s traffic has surpassed my forum’s traffic, even though the arcade was meant to be a side-thing.

Now, I’m faced with the trouble of getting people in the Arcade to post in the forums. Ironic, isn’t it?

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