10 Ways To Make People Want To Buy You (and keep you!)

This is not bragging, as I have nothing to compare it to. I’m not better than you; I might execute better, though. I’m still fairly new here at EAv, but I can already see trends and people that look to be long-term playersonly to fizzle out after a short spike.

I’ll share with you some of my stats and I’ll tell you why some of them are important, how to spot others who are great buys and best of all, how to Make People Want To Buy You (and keep you)!

Date started: 3/26/2012
Days past: 17
Current share price: 124.44
Avg. Dividend Paid: 1.18
Shares Outstanding: 74,973 (97.21%)
Suckas who sold me: 27 people sold 3,534 shares
Avg. Share Price Gain per Day: 6.73

I think that I would think of myself as a pretty solid stock. Granted I’m not an amazing stock, but for the time I’ve been here I show great growth. I wrote up a post a couple of days in and went over what I saw in the game from day one and tried to write up a simple guide for people who didn’t want to read hundreds and hundreds of pages of posts that they wouldn’t comprehend anyway.

So, here’s a follow up sharing my long, extensive and over-analyzed decisions that have led me to where I am (a little over 11m in net wealth). I’ll make it easy and do it in 10 easy-to-understand steps. If you follow these, you’ll grow: to what extent, that’s up to you.

1. Don’t reciprocate buys as a hard rule.

– I say this lightly, as I mean keep people that have a chance of improving and/or that you don’t really make much if you do sell them. If I have 200 shares in someone and selling them will only bring 4-10k, what’s the point? You can argue that the new players’ low share price will earn a lot in the long-run: true, but it won’t really mean that much if they start at 10, shoot up to 35 and then lose interest and drop back down to 25. You’ll have too many people to manage (easily) very soon, so don’t be too harsh on this. Keep some; dump some; you’re money-makers will always be the ones that constantly grow.

2. For the love of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, connect/create blogs!

– If you don’t have a blog, guess what? They are free. Oh, you don’t feel like writing content and maintaining a blog? RSS is your savior. Feeding a blog with worthless and auto-spun content will not innately increase your dividends, but you’re not going to do it for those reason – you’re doing it to show activity and generate Make People Want To Buy You (and keep you). I am more prone to buy/keep someone if I see that they have 11 blogs. It will take 5 minutes if you’re savvy. It will take 30 if you aren’t. If you really can’t figure it out, I’ll do it for you in about 3 minutes. You’re welcome.

3. When you buy stock in someone, do it the right way – don’t just hit invest and done.

– When you buy stock, you really should spend the extra 60 seconds and make them notice that you bought them (and gain some actions while you’re at it). Here’s what I do when I buy someone (unless I’m mass buying newbies in the morning):

Buy stock
Start at the right side of connections
Endorse all blogs
Subscribe on YouTube
Like one video
Follow on Twitter
Like Fan Page
Circle on G+
+1 a couple posts
Friend on Foursquare
Friend on FB (and put into a special list)
Try and find them on Instagram (not easy sometimes)
Favorite a photo or two on Flickr
Thumbs up a handful of posts on profile
Recommend them (if they’re worth it)
High-five myself for being awesome

4. Be social – after all, this IS a Social Network.

– Be friendly. Ask questions. Offer advice. Do things that aren’t required of you and expect nothing. It might not ever give you anything in return, but darn-in, it’s the right thing to do.

5. Set up cross-posting to those networks that you don’t really want to use socially, but want to increase the Make People Want To Buy You (and keep you).

– Cross-posting, apparently, is something that most people have never heard of. I don’t mean auto-publishing (from WordPress to Twitter), I mean syncing all of it up so when you make a post on Facebook, everything gets updated (FB->Twitter->LinkedIn->WordPress->Blogger->Tumblr->Flickr->etc.). It’s much easier than you think and I’ll start you off with Facebook to Google+, since that’s the trickiest one at the moment – ahem, here.

6. Look less at share price and more at dividends.

– The stats – you’ll look at and wonder how to make sense of them. There are lots of ways to do your buying/selling, but truthfully this is the part of EAv that is the least enjoyable to me. I like the community, the engagement, the content, the exposure and the social footprint you’re stamping into the beach that is here. Here are three sites that will give you the tools to choose who/when/how much to buy:

7. Get Auto Check In for Foursquare.

– The free version lets you set 3 places that will automatically be checked in on Foursquare. The paid has unlimited for $.99 on Android. It’s easy, simple and actually kind of cool. There are alternatives, like Radii, which look to be good. I haven’t fully tested this one yet. Do you have a favorite?

8. Google Docs is your friend.

– I have about 10 pages of content (read: copypasta) that I constantly refer to when I’m sending out a frequent mission, a message to a new player, a shareholder message or when I’m leaving shoutouts on buys. Make something up and have things like this ready to copy/paste when you’re doing mass-actions (note: you can’t say the same thing more than a couple times, so be prepared to add something at the end like an exclamation point, two exclamation points or 37 exclamation points):

Welcome to EAv message with a friendly tip
Thanks for investing in me lets connect on blah blah blah site
I saw you follow me on Twitter and I wanted to invest in you
Here is part of mine that you can use/expand upon

9. Pick your 5 connections and focus on them.

– Don’t try and raise all your connections at once. Unless you’re at 80 or above on everything, it’s worthless. Pick your 5 (or connect everything and see which rise the fastest) and focus on those…forget the rest for now. Once you’re stable, have fun raising others. Don’t neglect them, just don’t focus on them.

Easiest 5 to start with (IMO):

Facebook
Twitter
EAv
Google+
Fan Page or Instagram

10. Use URL Shorteners

– URL shorteners are very common these days (thanks to Twitter). One of the best things about URL shorteners is — if you use one that doesn’t re-use them — you have the ability to track the results of the clicks, the shares and where you’re getting traffic from. If you run a mission that sends people to a website, wouldn’t it be nice to see how many people clicked it, how many shared it and what part of the world is interacting with you? I set up a mission yesterday hoping for Google+ circles (made an EAv circle to share) and it is neat to see the results. Check them out here.

There’s many other tips that we’ve all found and have taken for granted – I’d love to have a list of them so that we can have a quick reference guide to give our friends and new players a guide.