Ok, I admit it!
I do partake in the guilty pleasure that is Farmville. I was basically forced to do so by some of my friends and colleagues. “Join, join I need neighbors” they would tell me. “It’s so fun with the little person and the cows and ducks and such”. I must have turned down 25 people before I caved.
I saw the link on my facebook profile and my hand just started to move the mouse over the link and CLICK, I was there. I don’t know if it was peer pressure or plain curiosity but once I started, I could not…would not stop.
Once I did start to play err… work on the farm, I started to notice something that was actually quite interesting.
I noticed that this was a place where everyone WANTED to work together. Where one neighbor was happy to help another neighbor without asking for anything in return.
I began thinking to myself, “If more people followed these simple farmville steps, everyone’s business would do that much better.
Let me give you some examples:
As you can plainly see, if you follow these simple Farmville steps you will be on your way to a big, beautiful, productive farm…I mean business.
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18. December 2009 at 8:47 PM
Jose what an awesome post – I love it! So funny, because I felt the same way, and then peer pressure – I too started playing Farmville – just a little bit every day or so. You are absolutely right on with your comparison, I knew there was a reason I liked Farmville. Cooperation, Teamwork, Hardwork, Sharing – all good practices for growing a business. Thanks – I love it!
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19. December 2009 at 11:25 AM
Very interesting analogy. I’ve had a bunch of friends playing this game but I’m one to pass on all the Facebook games that people get involved in. I just figure…I have better things to do. Had I known there were such insightful lessons to be learned I may have looked at it a little differently. I guess, no matter what extra little things we get involved in we can always find a way they apply to the real world…if we look. Anytime we can find a place that teaches teamwork, cooperation, leadership and life skills it’s worth taking the time to check it out.
Thanks for sharing your insight.
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22. December 2009 at 9:36 PM
Love your post Jose! So creative how you related Farmville to Business. I’ve never checked out Farmville, but now I am curious
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22. December 2009 at 9:46 PM
I love this Jose! I think I shall venture into Farmville Land after all! It never occurred to me so many lessons are all around us even in the relaxing games we play.
Thank you for this
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24. December 2009 at 5:22 PM
What farmville could teach people, if they bothered to learn, is how to otherwise grow a business by paying attention to net profit. I have noticed that most people are trying to earn money and get to the next level, but they never plant the best crops for their money, and they aren’t doing a lot of things strategically. Helping neighbors and buying things for my farm is nice and everything, but it is better if I know how to strategically do so in order to earn those ribbons faster.
Those ribbons give XP, coins and gifts and can help me level up much faster. In the early stages of their farms, people try to make them look pretty, when they should be using every available area to plant crops and grow their wealth so they will be able to expand, level up, and buy better crops and really get the farm going. Farmville might be like the business world, but it doesn’t seem to be very useful in teaching. It just shows who has the business sense already, lol.
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28. December 2009 at 9:17 PM
Thank you all for your comments. You never know where you will find nuggets of information or inspiration.
Bethany, I love your unique approach to this subject. I struggled with this in the beginning also. I would think to myself, “really, what benefit do I get from having a giant candy cane on my farm”?
Now I am way more streamlined for production and feel better about it. Thanks for the insight!
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January 12th, 2010 at 8:19 PM
I know… I think I saved one or two of those, but I tried to sell most of it. I had a goal from the beginning… I wanted a “forest retreat” with a log cabin. Then they came out with snow, ornament trees, and the snow lodge, so I decided to go bigger and get all that stuff and have a “winter mountain retreat”. Took me about a month or so to get all that I wanted.. I have hundreds of fir trees and maple trees, a tiny farm area and a snow lodge with a frozen pond. Now I am back to spending all my time building my web business.
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29. December 2009 at 9:14 PM
That’s hilarious. I noticed a few farmville posts on facebook and I was wondering, but you put in perspective of how farmville relates to real life business.
Thanks for the post…
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2. January 2010 at 10:13 PM
Jose –
I am LOL at this. So true, so true. Fantastic post and great comparisons to our business life. Thanks for sharing.
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26. January 2010 at 10:24 PM
Oh that’s so funny! What a great analogy between a recreational game and a business model. Isn’t it powerful the places we can learn messages from? I love how you connected getting a mentor. Mentors are the difference between a straggly little business and a booming success!
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