The Marketing Olympics

As part of DTAlpha, Stephen and the team are putting together a stable of flash gameshow style games to test your knowledge of Internet Marketing. At the moment, it seems like the games are just a bit of fun, but hopefully they will be used in the future as a bit of a learning tool.

After reading in the forums that the new My Marketing IQ Game was released, I jumped in head first.

My Marketing IQ Game is pretty much the same as Jeopardy on TV, just with Internet Marketing categories instead of general knowledge (duh!).

So after waiting a little while for the game to load (it's just under 4MBs, so not too long unless you're on dial up), I chose the number of players that I wanted to play (3 - Me, Myself, and I) and chose some suitable super hero characters to represent each of the Schoonzie's, and set off into the questions.

There are three categories to choose from, People Online, Internet Marketing History, and Out Of Place. Being bold, I decided to take People Online for 500.

Bad Move!

Damn, these questions were harder than I thought. I only know who two out of the 5 people were, and I didn't even know the website that the question was talking about. The other Schoonzie's didn't do much better, and we were all going down fast.

By the end of the game two of the Schoonzie's were on negative points, and the other was only scraping through on 100, which I decided to gamble on the final do or die question. Luckily, I guessed correctly and ended up with a pretty respectable 200 points in total.

All in all, The Marketing IQ Game along with the Internet Millionaire Game Show (the other IM game that is currently available) are pretty good fun. And, if you're like me, you'll have discovered that you can just change the score of any player in the game by clicking on their score card. So, if you can't beat them fairly, just cheat!

 How well did you score on The Marketing IQ Game? Leave a comment and let me know.