How does Empire Avenue make money?

RA Ravidivakaran asked on 27 June 2020, 21:00
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Empire Avenue (EA) was founded in February 2010 by Duleepa Wijayawardhana (known by Dups), Niall Brown and Michael Mannion.

In September of 2015 it was acquired by PeopleBrowsr which owns Kred.

After the initial acquisition, Empire Avenue became Empire.Kred (EK).

To visit the game go to: Empire.Kred - Grow your Social Audience - Empire.Kred

Building Social Media Connections

From the beginning EK has been an online game for building real world influence and specifically to help connect with others in the Social Media arena such as on Twitter, Facebook, Kred, Flickr and Swarm (FourSquare).

Essence Of The Game

The game in essence involves players buying and selling each other while earning dividends, paid out in eaves (the EK currency), from the stocks they own and invest in.

Winning Points/Eaves

Players also win points and/or eaves for doing missions, participating in special events such as the monthly Full Moon events where Moon Pies are purchased with real money and then “thrown” at shareholders or other EK players.

EK players who received Full Moon pies or other symbolic items (e.g. Green Beer for St. Pat’s Day, Snow cones, Footballs, Beads for Mardi Gras, etc.,)

Note: E.K’s mascot is an adorable Squirrel - Sir Rudiger Esquirel (e)SQRL.

Although I became aware of the game in 2011, I did not join until early 2012, but have played daily for the past 5+ years. I play under the stock ticker of (e)HAIRBOUTIQUE

How EK Makes Money

Empire.Kred makes money in the following ways by selling the following items via PayPal or Credit Card:

  1. Quick Start package to help EK novice players advance much more quickly into the mainstream of the competitive game.
  2. Leaders Package which allows regular EK players to benefit from an array of special game perks including higher dividend payouts, special EK store discounts and mission promotional perks, to name a few of the many advantages to becoming a paid EK Leader.
  3. Eaves packages for purchase. When regular or Leader players purchase eaves they can use the eaves to advance more quickly in their acquisition of the best players who have the highest dividends.

    Since the goal of the game is to advance as quickly as possible up the various leader board and to amass the greatest wealth, owning the top stocks with the best dividends is a key game play for ultimate EK success.
  4. Special event items to give as gifts to shareholders or other EK players. This includes the previously mentioned Full Moon Pies, Mardi Gras beads Snow cones or similar.

    For example, a package of 1,000 Green Beers are currently available (3/17/17) for purchase in the E.K store to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. Each Green Beer thrown provides the recipient with bonus eaves, no strings.

    Purchase of gift items for throwing offers an array of game advancement perks while building strong connections with other EK players.

    Since forming connections with other players is very important, giving out gifts helps with that goal.
  5. Special game accelerator options. EK players can buy special game play perks such as The Dividend Doubler which guarantees their divs pay double for a set number of days.

    They can also buy Mission Promotions which guarantee player missions are featured at the very top of the mission leader boards. It is a form of advertising.

    Or players can purchase the ability to pre-schedule Missions for the optimal times of the day.
  6. Badges for sale. EK players can currently buy many different badges to post on their EK profile pages including, but not limited to, their country of origin, their astrological sign, sports expertise, hobbies or similar.

    There are also whimsical badges just for fun allowing EK players to add a unique flavor to their profile.
  7. Portfolio increases. EK players can also purchase increases in their portfolio options allowing them to hold ever increasing numbers of stocks or increasing the total number of shares they can purchase in any one stock.

    As an example, the maximum number of shares any EK player can hold in another as of 3/17/17 is 10,400 which is only possible if the EK player has purchase the appropriate upgrades to allow for that maximum amount.

    This is also add-on extension increases known as More Pie and Even More Pie which allows the maximum number of shares an EK Player can hold to increase from the current 10,400 to 10,500 or 10,600 shares.

    Why Would EK Players Pay For Portfolio Increases?

    Why do EK players wish to hold the absolute maximum number of shares in other players?

     Those players which pay the highest dividends are highly sought after and owning the absolute maximum number of those shares means the EK player gets the absolute most div eaves possible.

What Empire.Kred Is Not

Unless you are willing to play the game for an extended period of time, you may not understand the full potential of the game.

Before you form any opinions based upon unsupported information, do your own research.

Like everything else on the Internet, there is a lot of misinformation about a myriad of topics.

Empire.Kred is not the following:

  • MultiLevelMarketing - It is not designed or promoted in any way nor does it have any similarities to Pyramid Schemes, Network Marketing or similar types of businesses.

    Anyone who implies or tells you otherwise is seriously misinformed about the goals and purpose of the site.

    It’s a game designed to build relationships with others in the Social Media Universe. After 5 years of playing the game I can promise you I have never been recruited by anyone with an almost missionary zeal to invest in anything.
  • Get Rich Quick Scheme - The game is what you make of it. If you play the game every day, make lots of new connections and promote yourself effectively, you may indirectly help yourself promote your projects (products, services, books, etc.,).

    Empire.Kred has a strict anti-spamming policy. It also will remove any blatant advertising from individual tickers, posts in forums or in EK missions.
  • Online Dating Site - EK does not promote online dating in any way.

    While I have met some of the EK players in the Real World where we’vedeveloped long term non-romantic friendships, EK is not designed, nor does it ever promote dating, hookups or any similar types of connections.

    Just like in any other Social Media channel, if two people meet and form a connection, they may or may not take it to an off-channel connection.

Advantages Of Empire.Kred

While I personally am completely addicted to Empire.Kred and play every single day, I find it has offered me many advantages including making some very powerful Social Media connections with some very prominent influencers.

Empire.Kred is not for everyone. It’s certainly not for anyone unwilling to put energy into it. For those who are willing, it offers great connections.

Plus it can be great fun.

If I had it to do over again, my only regret is that I didn’t join sooner.

Best wishes to all.

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