Helpful Honks

Tips, tricks, and best practices for running even better Experiences

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10 Topics

Erin
Gosling
ErinGosling
posted in Helpful Honks

Goosechase 301: Advanced Chasin'

👋🏻 Hi everyone! It’s time for the next instalment of our event series! Join me next Wednesday, June 14, to get some helpful honks that are sure to make your next Experience even better! Advanced Chasin’ will walk you through how to use automation scripts, understand your analytics dashboard, engage your participants, send messages, and some fun ideas on how to wrap up once all the submissions are in! This event is geared to seasoned creators with a solid foundation and understanding of Experience set up fundaments, however, it can also be a source of inspiration for newer creators to help illustrate the power and possibilities of the platform 🤩 Click below for details and to RSVP: Can’t wait to see you all there!

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Erin
Gosling
3 months ago
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Anonymous
posted in Helpful Honks

Now Available: Community Events!

Are you relatively new in your Goosechase experience creation journey? Or are you more of an experienced vet? Well, regardless of your spot in the pecking order of experience mastery, we’ve got a great new series of event for creators of all shapes, sizes and experience levels! Join us for the first of three events in our Goosechase -01 series, next week where we’ll be joined (on Zoom) by the magnificent @Erin from our team. These events will share helpful tips, tricks and best practices on everything from Experience building basics, to Mission planning and something we’re calling Advanced Chasin’! Tune in to hear some pro tips, or to share your own! As the saying goes, a high wind raises all Geese! Check out the first of the series WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19th! Full details here:  

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Erin
Gosling
3 months ago
Erin
Gosling
ErinGosling
posted in Helpful Honks

9 ways to market your Experience and boost participation!

Are you looking for some fresh and honkilicious ideas for getting the messaging out for your Experience and boosting participation?  Fret not my feathery friends, I’ve got 9 stellar ideas for you! ✨  Email Campaign: Create an email campaign with eye-catching visuals, catchy subject lines, and compelling copy. Send multiple reminders to employees leading up to the event, and make sure to include information about the prizes and how to sign up Internal Communication Channels: Use your company's internal communication channels (eg. Slack, Teams, etc.) to promote the event. You can create a dedicated channel or thread for your Goosechase Experiences, and post regular updates and reminders Create a teaser campaign: Build excitement by creating a teaser campaign that provides a sneak peek of the challenges and prizes that participants can expect. This can help generate interest and encourage employees to sign up Offer incentives: Consider offering incentives to participants to encourag

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Erin
Gosling
4 months ago
Amber
Gosling
AmberGosling
posted in Helpful Honks

Top 3 things to consider when planning your Missions

When starting to build your Experience, it can be a bit daunting staring at the empty Mission list. Many questions may be running through your mind, like:“What kinds of missions should I include?”“How many Missions will I need?”“Should I just have all the Missions available at once?”To make this a bit easier, I’ve broken down the top 3 things to consider before creating your Missions:________________The GoalWhat do you want to achieve with your Missions? Are you wanting to teach your participants something?  Do you want them to display teamwork? This can be a good north star when starting to think of what types of missions to create. From there, you can determine the type of Missions that may be the best fit. For example: Text Missions are great for testing knowledge, or sharing personal stories.  GPS Missions are amazing for facilitating exploration and discovery.  Photo/Video Missions drive the most engagement. They are perfect for displaying creativity and building connections. 

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Amber
Gosling
5 months ago
Erin
Gosling
ErinGosling
published in Helpful Honks

Create "How-to" Missions to Teach Participants how to Participate

 Grab our ‘Helpful Honks’ Experience template here ✨

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MrBentley
Sr Hatchling
6 months ago
Carrie Willis
Sr Hatchling
Carrie WillisSr Hatchling
posted in Helpful Honks

There doesn’t have to be a prize! 🏆

I made the mistake of offering a prize to the winning team when I ran my very first GooseChase challenge. Now the students always expect there to be a prize for every GooseChase. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Lesson learned!

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Craig Cordell
Community Manager
6 months ago
nadantzur
Hatchling
nadantzurHatchling
posted in Helpful Honks

A very powerful selling tool for team building activities.

Hi Everyone,We at Team Dynamics IL. have been working with Goosechase since 2014. Back then, there were only photo missions available.Over the years, we developed a way to use Goosechase to create extra value for our customers.This is our most powerful tip: (at the end of this post you can find an example game that you can try to see how it works). Before every Team Building activity, we create a For-Play game. This game is open 3-5 days before the main event. Initially, we made this experience for large groups. We knew that explaining the technical features and the game instructions was tough before we sent people on their way.The benefit of doing this was so great that we made it a standard procedure: When you meet the players on the event day, most of them know how to play, so they don’t get frustrated if they lose points because of technical issues. At least one team member already has the app installed, but they also know how to install and connect to a game.  The pre-game creates

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7 months ago
JRErickson
Sr Hatchling
JREricksonSr Hatchling
asked in Helpful Honks

Having your Ducks - I mean Geese in a Row!

I have lead some fun and engaging games for conferences and multi-day events!  Sometimes it’s hard to juggle all those goose eggs without dropping one!My tip and trick is to plan the game out using a spreadsheet.   I organize and color code my missions by date to release ( and sometimes sub- categorize by time).  Then I make sure to indicate what type of mission it is, number of points the title and description, any related links and if needed correct answers.  This way I have the missions at my feather tips and I can copy and paste them into the game quicker than a goose in flight.Hope this little tip and trick is found to be a helpful honk!What is your tip and trick?

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Erin
Gosling
7 months ago
Erin
Gosling
ErinGosling
posted in Helpful Honks

My Top 5 Favourite Tips

I have so many helpful honks to share! Here’s a collection of my favourites, in no particular order 🧡Video testimonials: Leverage the power of video Missions to collect testimonials from your participants to help market your future Experiences! Video testimonials are a fantastic way to showcase just how much fun everyone had in your Experience. Be sure to add a custom terms of service, like your photo waiver consent form, so that you can use the content for your marketing purposes.   Share to social: Have an awesome event that you want to spread the word about? Have your participants share to social! This is a great way to organically market your Experience.   Code words: Use accepted answers in text Missions to set a code word. There are SO many fun ways to incorporate code words into your Experience!    Are you linking a survey (eg. Typeform, Google Forms, SurveyMonkey, Paperform, etc) in a Mission to capture your participants’ contact info? If so, you might find that your challenge

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Erin
Gosling
7 months ago
RetChaser
Sr Hatchling
RetChaserSr Hatchling
posted in Helpful Honks

Practice, Practice, Practice

My wife and I have been using GooseChase to create an annual experience for our local PTA for the last few years. Each year we make some adjustments based on our results the previous year and each year we have new families who are going to be having their first GooseChase experience.We try to run a scaled down but representative experience a couple of weeks before the actual one to give our families a chance to become familiar with the app as well as give us a chance to see if our changes actually make sense (like having missions be photo submissions so we can make sure teams aren’t splitting up).We’ve found this kind of practice run to really be worth it in the end. 

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8 months ago
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