It’s one thing to create a wonderful board game. It’s another thing entirely to promote your board game.
To many an artistic spirit, marketing and promotion feels really unusual. Indeed, it feels sleazy and amoral. It feels like you’re annoying people with messages they don’t care about.
Let me tell you – it’s crucial to promote your board game if you want to succeed financially. But marketing doesn’t have to be based on bothering people. In fact, it works better if you don’t!
Lucky for you, in addition to making board games, I run the Pangea Marketing Agency. I am more than happy to share the tricks of the trade to make marketing enjoyable and easy 🙂
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