Comments on: What Farmville Taught Me About Business

By: Kimberly Castleberry

Kimberly Castleberry — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:24:42 +0000

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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By: Bethany

Bethany — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:19:39 +0000

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.

By: Krista Abbott

Krista Abbott — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 03:13:17 +0000

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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By: Nick Logan

Nick Logan — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:14:01 +0000

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…

By: Caraballo & Associates

Caraballo & Associates — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:17:42 +0000

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!

By: Bethany

Bethany — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 22:22:16 +0000

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.

By: Robin Lynn Brooks

Robin Lynn Brooks — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:46:37 +0000

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

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 02:36:23 +0000

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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