Posts Tagged ‘Brian Balfour’

Virtual Goods Market: Behind the scenes of Cafe World; Virtual Goods Summit 2009; US reaches $1 billion in virtual goods revenue; Gambit breaks down the benefits of monetizing younger users

Friday, October 16th, 2009

Here is this week’s recap of interesting news and insight into the Virtual Goods Market.

The making of Zynga’s Cafe World – which has reached 10 million users in one week
Roy Sehgal, general manager of Clubhouse Studio, explains that, “20 percent of the effort was building the game and 80 percent is operating the game as an ongoing service.” Such is often the situation with Virtual Goods use cases – a situation Viximo helps partners with through ongoing management and optimization.

Virtual Goods Summit 2009
Join us at this year’s Virtual Goods Summit (taking place on October 29-30th in San Francisco) and hear a presentation by Viximo’s own Brian Balfour (Founder, VP Product Marketing) titled, “Getting Started with Virtual Goods and Virtual Gifts”

US Virtual Goods Sales reach $1 billion
The United States virtual goods industry continues to grow with estimates for 2009 reaching 1 billion dollars – more than doubling from the previous year.

Gambit offers tips to monetize younger users
Susan Su of Gambit examines how and why you should be monetizing teens and twenty-somethings

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Speaking At Virtual Goods Conference In September

Friday, August 7th, 2009

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Viximo is happy to be part of the upcoming Virtual Goods Conference in San Jose, September 23 and 24.  Ravi Mehta, VP Products and Content, will be giving a presentation on the “State of the Virtual Goods Industry,” and Brian Balfour, Founder and VP Product Marketing, will be on a panel discussing how to take your virtual goods business to the next level.    Let us know if you are going to be there!  You can save $200 by registering with the promo code of “SPEAKERVIP” here.

What:  Virtual Goods Conference [Register Here]

Who:  Brian Balfour, Ravi Mehta and ton of other great speakers

Where:  San Jose Convention Center

When:  September 23rd and 24th, 2009

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