June 4, 2011 18 Comments

Game On by Jon Radoff – Video Book Review

I really admire Jon Radoff, author of Game On: Energize Your Business with Social Media Games (amazon affiliate link) and serial entrepreneur. He is bold. He says exactly who he is: Swashbuckler, adventurer, slayer of dragons, commando, storyteller, Internet entrepreneur; explorer of rabbit holes. When I met him, I thought, “what a nerd.” And when I met him, I thought that because Jon quite successfully is everything I might have been, had I not been afraid to be a nerd outwardly myself. I’m every bit the D&D geek. I share a lot of similar backstory to Jon. Only, he turned his into a huge passion and built many successful companies based on those passions, including GamerDNA, and others.

His book, Game On: Energize Your Business with Social Media Games, is an awesome read. It’s very well written. It gives you business advice, even if you don’t plan to launch a business based around World of Warcraft. It’s just really great solid business advice and it inspires you to look creatively at what you’re doing.

Here’s the video review:

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This one was a real pleasure to read!

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  • http://www.icheapmarketing.com iCheap Marketing & Design

    Chris, thanks for your sharing your thoughts about the book, i was just reading the summary of this book and the first line “A website designer who wants to keep visitors coming back?” catch my attention to to just purchase this book and start reading it.

  • Anonymous

    Very cool. Of course, Game On by The Guild is the only product I’ll ever need ;)

  • http://www.solobizcoach.com SoloBizCoach

    I have a funny story about gaming and work.  When I was at my law firm, we represented an MMO developer.  A lot of us young associates would play MMOs  with the CEO of this company every night, and then we would get to put that time down on our time sheets as client development time.  The partners thought we were rockstars.  They couldn’t believe that their young associates were playing video games with the CEO of an important client.  World of Warcraft became the new golf course.

  • http://www.vitalvocation.com/freevideos Brian Cormack Carr

    So timely! I had added this book to my wishlist but wasn’t sure about it…you’ve piqued my interest, so I’ll be finding out more for sure…

    Love these reviews.

  • Joey Strawn

    It’s funny that you mention this book Chris, for a while there, I honestly thought I was the only one who had read it. I agree totally with your review and wish more people would pick it up. I’ve been studying and talking about gamification for a while and Jon basically wrote the book I wanted to (so now I have to think of something else, bah) but it was a great read and I really think the principles he brings up can and will help businesses in the future if and when they decide to implement some of those game mechanics into their own loyttly programs and social media actions. 

    Great video!

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    Harold stole your thunder.. I am still laughing and I appreciate that you choose to put Veggies on Sale!!! :) 

    I will add this to my reading list! 

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    thanks a lot for sharing your thought about the book,i will review the book shortly.

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  • http://www.fromdreamstolifestyle.com Patrick

    Interested book. I’ll definitely have to read it. I really like the way he uses social gaming as a model for business success.

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