How to use Pokemon Go for local business

In order to make good money, you should work intensively. But in order to make a million, you should create a brand new idea, needless to say of Pokemon Go. This game was released on July 2016 and within a short time it has been installed nearly on every smart phone. Nintendo’s value has doubled from 20 up to 40 billion USA since its release and it is not going to stop.

The game was initially released only in limited number of countries, however in all other countries people are playing it as well by registering accounts with fake location in USA, Australia and New Zealand. Some analysts have already claimed that Pokemon Go popularity overpassed Twitter and Facebook social networks.

Even heads of states give their comments about this game, and the Russian Government has already proclaimed that it was created to collect secret data and banned visitors from catching pokemons in many places, for example in Lenin’s Mausoleum.

Let’s think if it’s possible to make money with Pokemon Go? The easiest way is to promote an account and to sell it. Some people have already done it by posting it on Ebay. And though it contradicts the game rules nobody can prevent it. Prices are over $2000 is a good reason to promote a new account.



The game is free of charge; at least the paid version is yet to be available. However any free traffic is conditionally free, for example, organic traffic from Google as in order to get the desired positions, you need to spend some funds to promote your site -by means of on-page SEO and offpage SEO tools. The same principle is applied to social networks and other types of advertisements.

Many marketing specialists are trying to explore the ways of making money with Pokemon Go. The luckier are those who have businesses with good customer traffic (for example, shops, beauty salons etc.) which are pointed out on Pokemon Go maps. Sidewalk signs and banners for game players have been installed near such places.

So, let’s think of any possible ways of getting profit from this game.

Step by step:

Download and install the game. Sign in. Investigate thoroughly where pokemons inhabit. Many SEO- and advertising specialists have clients who possess local businesses. If your place happened to be the area where pokemons hang out, place the banners and suggest some services for game players.

One of the options is battery chargers sale or charging service as the consumption charge for this app is very high.
By the way,Yelp has already suggested a new filter named PokeStop showing places near sites with pokemons, where game players can have a bite.



This game has its own currency – Pokecoins which are bought with real money. 100 pokecoins or $0,99 allow to purchase 1 bait, with 680 pokecoins you may purchase a 8-bait pack. Each bait works for 30 minutes, however if you sacrifice 99$ you will be able to acquire a package working for 72,5 hours.

The ability of switching the baits off could extend their work for 9 days. There’s an opinion that by their next step Nintendo & Niantic will allow businessmen to allocate their own funds to areas with pokemons. One could argue whether this is a right thing or not if you are directed only those places where you are supposed to buy something. Time will tell if these concerns are relevant or not.

Unfortunately the game doesn’t allow estimating ROI level in order to understand how many clients you’ve had thanks to the purchased baits. Probably this feature will be set up later on the model of Google AdWords to show the number of baits that worked and how many goods were sold.

Nowadays you may rely roughly on the number of ordinary customers and on the number of pokemon catchers that visited your place.
If you have any other interesting ideas on how to use this game for monetization of profit, please share them in the comments.