Failure To Attract

Okay, here’s a cool idea for the new year:

Use something fun and interesting as a way of driving traffic to a product, blog, or other website.

Now, obviously this isn’t a new idea, but ways of implementing this idea continue to sprout up, almost daily, it seems.  This one, MyMiniCity.com, is pretty cool.  You give your town a name, pick the country you want it to be in - I picked Fiji Fiji - and it’ll create this little town, typically starting with just a building or two, and over time growing and adding infrastructure - kind of like the old SimCity games.  The kicker is, each visit to your city (one action per person per day) will increase and grow your population, which allows you to do more.  When you put it out there, and more people visit and it grows more and more, the higher in the rankings it goes.  It gets high enough, and thousands of people - at least - would see it.

There’s also a message board there, where you can put a link to a product or page there, and trade messages with your visitors.  It’s a totally free service, too!

Go check out my city, the Isle de Fuego!

-David