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Irrational Thinking. How we tripled our revenue in one year.

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Irrational Thinking. How we tripled our revenue in one year.

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Headquarters: Infinity Tower 69 Bulgaria blvd, floor 14- 16 Sofia, Bulgaria

Trade office: 207 Regent Street W1B 3HH London, United Kingdom

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WHO WE ARE

Self-sustaining from day one.

Never took investments.

Independent.

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WHO WE ARE

185 Employees 70% of them are developers

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COMPANY TIMELINE

Windows Desktop Ludo Blitz! Apple TV Imperia Online live on

11 New Games Live at Yahoo Games Imperia Mobile LTD Imperia Online live on

Deloitte Reward 30 Million players New Office in Sofia New Office in London Live on Facebook and Pro7 Exhibitors at Gamescom

IT Talents Training Camp Live on Mail.Ru Group Top 3 Advertiser on Facebook Exhibitors at Gamescom & Dubai Game Expo

20 Million players New Office in Sofia IO Russian and Mena version Exhibitors at Tallinn

Online Artillery №1 Advertiser on Google in BG

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Deloitte. Technology Fast 50 Central Europe 2014 Rising Stars award 4th place revenue growth of 498% 2015 14th place revenue growth of 592%

AWARDS

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SPIN OFF #1

Academy for Developers 200+ graduated developers per year Easily scalable model 5 Top technologies

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SPIN OFF #2

IT Outsourcing Services Niche IT areas Project based model Multicultural experience

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GAME PORTFOLIO

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ALL-STAR GAME

Imperia Online: The Great People Cross platform medieval MMO strategy game

30+ million registered users 30+ social platforms integrations

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SPEAKS LANGUAGES

We love diversity..

Special Russian Edition Vision for Arabic speaking countries Our games are translated in 30 languages

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THINK GLOBAL

Steam™ love our games, cause we love diversity

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ACT LOCAL

Local events Local holidays Local promos

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WHAT WE DID

Think global, act local.

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WHAT WE DO

Think Irrationally.

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THE BOOK

Dan Ariely

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions February 2008

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Optical illusions

THE METAPHOR

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What colors are the cubic centers?

OPTICAL ILLUSION

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What colors are the cubic centers?

OPTICAL ILLUSION

Top – brown Right – brown

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What colors are the cubic centers?

OPTICAL ILLUSION

Top – brown Right – brown

Front – orange yellow, not brown

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OPTICAL ILLUSION

What colors are the cubic centers?

They are identical #9C6201

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What colors are the cubic centers?

OPTICAL ILLUSION

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OPTICAL ILLUSION

What colors are the two blocks?

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OPTICAL ILLUSION

What colors are the two blocks?

They are identical #787878

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Why we were fooled?

OPTICAL ILLUSION

#decoy

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Cognitive illusions

WHO IS IN CONTROL

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Weekend in Rome All-Inclusive

50 % Weekend in Paris

All-Inclusive

50 %

HARD DECISION

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HARD DECISION

Weekend in Rome All-Inclusive

Weekend in Paris All-Inclusive

Third option?

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EVEN HARDER ?

Weekend in Rome All-Inclusive

Weekend in Paris All-Inclusive

Weekend in Rome without breakfast!

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PREDICTIVE DECISION

Weekend in Rome All-Inclusive

Weekend in Paris All-Inclusive

Weekend in Rome without breakfast!

75% - 85% 15% - 25% 0 %

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THE CONCLUSION

Weekend in Rome All-Inclusive

Weekend in Paris All-Inclusive

#decoy

75% - 85% 15% - 25% 0 %

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One-year subscription to Ecomonist.com Only WEB access

One-year subscription to the print edition Only PRINT

One-year subscription to web site & print edition WEB access + PRINT copy

$ 59.00

$ 125.00

$ 125.00

SUBSCRIPTION

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SUBSCRIPTION

One-year subscription to Ecomonist.com Only WEB access

One-year subscription to the print edition Only PRINT

One-year subscription to web site & print edition WEB access + PRINT copy

$ 59.00

$ 125.00

$ 125.00

16 %

0 %

84 %

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THE EXPERIMENT

One-year subscription to Ecomonist.com Only WEB access

One-year subscription to web site & print edition WEB access + PRINT copy

$ 59.00

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THE RESULT

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One-year subscription to web site & print edition WEB access + PRINT copy

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68 %

32 %

16 %

84 %

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THE CONCLUSION

One-year subscription to the print edition Only PRINT $ 125.00

#decoy

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+ 43% Revenue increase

THE DECOY EFFECT

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WHAT WE DID

Basic screen.

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PAYMENT SCREEN 1

First Touch: Labels

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+ 11% Revenue Increase vs. base

WITH LABELS

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PAYMENT SCREEN 2

Irrational Offer #1

#decoy

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+ 355% Revenue Increase vs. base

FIRST RESULT

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PAYMENT SCREEN 2

399.95 payment ?

#decoy

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PAYMENT SCREEN 3

Irrational Offer #2

#decoy

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+ 275% Revenue Increase vs. base

NOT SO HAPPY

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Inflation of the hard currency

IT’S NOT WORKING

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PAYMENT SCREEN 4

We fixed it

#decoy

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+ 310% Revenue Increase vs. base Almost No side effects :)

FINAL RESULT

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PAYMENT SCREEN

Whales

#decoy

DYNAMIC

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PAYMENT SCREEN

Player, who paid up to 19.95

#decoy

DYNAMIC

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+ 390% Revenue Increase vs. base

No side effects :)

FINAL RESULT #2

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CRAZY IDEA

Promoting the payment screen

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+ 425% Revenue Increase vs. base

No side effects :)

FINAL RESULT #3

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HOW WE CHOOSE ?

2 € 10 € 35 €

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HOW WE CHOOSE ?

2 € 10 € 35 €

80% will choose

the middle one

too cheap too expensive

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THE CLEVER MOVE

2 € 10 € 35 €

* A price update will increase the revenue + 34%

15 €

80% will choose

the middle one

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Why we use 40 instead of 50 ?!

IMPROVEMENTS

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Questions?

Thank you!

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