easter extravaganza?

[Samantha]

It's a bit harsh on Sam to focus so much on the advertising thing, no AGM has ever really gone full out advertising an event. I don't recall any event anyway, there may have been a few one offs which were advertised well in advance but usually all the details and advertising was done a couple of hours before it started. Perhaps "back in the day", the numbers that Habbox had helped spread that hype/word about the event as soon as it started so there is now an argument for advertising well before. If there is going to be more advertising done beforehand, I'd like to offer the suggestion to reintroduce images to the forum notices at the top. Yes people complained they were annoying but at least they stood out and got more attention than just a standard notice so I'd say the benefits outweigh the negatives.

Hype isn't really built up by advertising anyway. Hype is built up via creativity and being original. Draw my Thing wasn't advertised and it had something like a 6 page thread - never actually checked lol might be more might be less - before it even started (and that was only by a permissions accident) and it'd have had a 6 page thread as soon as it started precisely because it was so different to other events. That to me is the more disappointing thing in that HxEE, despite the months of planning, is still just the same as every other HxEE (and another fansite event maze, really! whenever someone said they were gonna do a maze when I was AGM I'd always think arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh). Come on Sam you were comps staff for years, I know you have it in you to put your own stamp on things. As I always said when I was comps management, much better to take the risk and fail than stick to the safety net and you were always the one who listened to this.

The planning on HabbCrazy began with me suggesting we had a 1v1 game, the same on both sides which could focus on having gates and such whereby the questions would be operated by keywords from Habbox/HabbCrazy questions to gain more traffic on our sites and then the winner each time would win the badge. Then, we got talking about other things we could do and so it developed into a room specific for HabbCrazy and a room specific for Habbox to get the word out about us even more. Does that make sense? So originally, I didn't suggest a maze don't worry , although the event we're doing now is a lot more thought out than just a general maze!

[Smurfed-]

I guess it's not to late to get someone in news to write a short news story announcement thing about it and someone in graphics to wave up a habbox today banner. So that when people visit the main site that's potentially the first thing they see.

[Martin]

I guess it's not to late to get someone in news to write a short news story announcement thing about it and someone in graphics to wave up a habbox today banner. So that when people visit the main site that's potentially the first thing they see.

Wait, this thing starts tomorrow and there's no mention of it on the Habbox main site at all? Oh dear

Yeah it's definitely not too late to get a pretty news article up mainly for the benefit of it actually looking like we are doing something for easter for anyone who decides to view the site, and also to bump down the latest news article that was posted on the 7th april (almost a week ago woo) and has the styling and layout of a deceased fish, (although the content is pretty good so its a shame the overall look lets it down).

Mike is right in that in the olden days there used to be more "hype" about events like this because it spread mainly via word of mouth and would be prominent on the main site, and the dates would be long confirmed/known etc but I guess so long as the planning has been done right then we should be in for lots of exciting things over the next coming week which will bring hundreds of new members to the forum, site, radio and give Habbox a much needed boost to showcase what it does best!

[Jurv]

i think you were deffo late with getting the announcements up

advertisement is quite an important aspect when hosting an event too so it shouldn't have been forgotten about, especially when it's supposed to be large scale event anyway. it doesn't really matter if particular types of advertisement have or haven't been used in the past by other management, ideally we should be trying different techniques to get people to take part. like someone mentioned, it would have been nice to have staff/management change their avatars and signatures with stuff from the graphics department. one of those forum announcement things could have been created too (i presume one's gonna be made anyway but would have been nice to do it early). a lotttt should have been changed on the actual habbox.com site so it's easy for newcomers to understand what the event is. tbh if habbox.com was done up a couple of giveaways could have been beneficial too, asking people to check out the site whilst in queue or maybe putting the code for the giveraway on there. hxl could've done an opening show too, getting loads of new people to listen in and find out whats going on over the two weeks its going on for

[Reality]

Can't wait for HxEE hope it will be as good as ever, advertisement hasn't been great!

[Empired]

Can't wait for HxEE hope it will be as good as ever, advertisement hasn't been great!

From what I can tell, there is actually a lot planned and things but it just hasn't been advertised. So there should be lots and lots to do and things!!

[Reality]

Yeah I posted in the HxEE forum, the preparations and planning that has been put into some of these rooms is amazing, big hand to everyone who made one, or is helping out over the duration!

From what I can tell, there is actually a lot planned and things but it just hasn't been advertised. So there should be lots and lots to do and things!!

[Yawn]

no1 knows its happening but theres only the core habbox ppl who will attend regardless so its not like advertising is going to make a world of difference

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which will bring hundreds of new members to the forum, site, radio and give Habbox a much needed boost to showcase what it does best!

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[Drew]

I agree, advertising isn't going to make a world of difference, but some difference is better than none. The advertisement for "Draw My Thing" only kicked off once the event has started, and I personally don't think it would have made any difference if we advertised earlier. I have been using every means of advertisement available to us though, including forum avatars, signatures, and Habbox Todays. I have spoken to other department managers as well to get HabboxLive DJs and event organisers to advertise the competition. The Content department has also helped out by making a page and a notification for Draw My Thing on the website. At the end of the day, it all comes down to team effort. With Draw My Thing, we have only managed to get 2 or 3 new members to play, but with a large scale event like HxEE in which every department is heavily involved, I'm sure advertisement will work very well in attracting new members to the forum.

OT, a Habbox Today has been made for HxEE

[Kardan]

So do normal events hosted by regular events staff give points for each win?