A few months ago I came across a social media based website called Empire Avenue. I wanted to write a fair Empire Avenue Review and share with you how I’ve used Empire Avenue to help share my content online.
When you first sign up and join Empire Avenue you may find the overall layout to be a bit confusing, I had a few Facebook friends get confused about how the system works.
Just think of Empire Avenue as a social media game with virtual money.
What exactly will Empire Avenue do for me?
The main purpose of this system is to encourage sharing content.
Think of the system as a way to ask others to do tasks such as share a blog post, visit a page, like a YouTube video, Like a Facebook Fan page etc. You will then use this system to do the same for others to benefit them.
Empire Avenue regulates all of the shared content through a virtual currency called Eaves. It also uses a stock style trading system.
Essentially Empire Avenue allows you to connect all of your social media sites to their platform and score you based on your activity & friends among other things that may boost your social scores with each connected site.
I’m going to go through some basics and explain all of this in more detail below.
Getting started with Empire Avenue
You are going to start with a stock eaves rate around 12-15e. As a new member you will find other members ‘investing’ their eaves stock into you.
The more social sites you connect and the more active you are the higher your chances of your stock being more valuable to your investors (other people).
As you invest in others you can earn a daily dividend stock rate from their social activity as well. You will start out with 100,000 Eaves just to get you going.
Browse the expand category and you will see new members among current members, everyone will have a share price for the amount of Eaves needed to purchase a share. For example, my current share price is around 70e. You can see that on my profile here.
You can invest a maximum of 200 shares per person until you purchase upgrades later on, new users have a cap of 200 shares regardless until a certain time frame has passed.
So what are the eaves for?
Eaves are going to allow you to share your social content like I mentioned earlier. The big advantage to eaves is the ability to create what Empire Avenue calls missions.
A mission can be pretty much any type of social media based interaction with other members. I can take my eaves and reward them to others for sharing my content, they will then be able to use those eaves to create their own missions for people to share their content, make sense?
In order to create your first mission you will need to have reached a stock eaves rate of 30e, this is not hard to accomplish within a day if you spend some time on the site connecting all of your social media networks and doing some missions for others to get exposure in the system.
If I create a new mission I can choose to allow a set number of users, 10, 20 or more to go say Tweet my blog post, I will set a specific eaves rate such as 1000e and Empire Avenue will withdraw from my eaves account based on the number of users I’ve requested complete my mission and they will in return earn the specific set amount of eaves I specified, in this case 1000e.
You will see people setting up missions with rewards from 500e as high up as 10,000e or maybe even more. Empire Avenue users will request various tasks such as:
- Like A YouTube Video
- Subscribe to YouTube Channel
- Follow On Twitter
- Re-tweet a Tweet
- Favorite a Tweet
- Like a Facebook fan page
- Friend Request on Facebook
- Visit a Website or Blog
- Request Google +1 shares
These are just a few of the examples most users will request on Empire Avenue.
How I use Empire Avenue
I have personally used this to get my blog posts shared over the various social networks and I’ve made multiple Facebook friends as well as gained new fans for my page just by creating a few missions.
As for my Empire Avenue Review, overall I find the site to take some time to get used to. Once you have the hang of the basics it’s not very difficult to start helping others with their missions and creating your own.
As I stated above the eaves system allows Empire Avenue to play like a game and get your content exposure while you do the same for others. The more you participate the more eaves you will receive over time, as with most social media sites like this the more consistent you are the better.
I was able to crank out an hour lunch break just doing missions and earned over 250,000 eaves allowing me to purchase a share upgrade. The site can be addictive and I personally suggest spending 15-20 minutes a day doing a few missions, investing in others and setting up your own missions to help yourself out.
It’s a win-win system and there are absolutely no disadvantages to getting involved with Empire Avenue!
If you are ready to sign up, head over to the site here.
As a bonus for those of you reading this I am going to include a video from my 5 Day Free Internet Marketing Boot Camp, this is what I send my subscribers on Day 3. It’s a video where I go over the whole system and take about 10 minutes showing you how I use Empire Avenue.
7 Ways Freelance Writers Can Use Social Media to Attract Clients
Social Media Marketing Opportunities You’re Missing Out On
Are Blogs Different Than Social Media?
Do You Really Have to Be a Social Media Queen to be Successful Online?
4 Social Networks You Should Have a Profile on to Promote Your Blog
Empire Ave seems like a pretty cool site. Interesting idea. I think this is something I’m definitely going to at least try out and see how it works. But it kind of sounds like you’re just swapping likes and such, which I’m not sure how beneficial that is to you in the long run besides having higher numbers which basically just makes you look more popular, but I guess it won’t hurt to try it out. I’ll report back here with how it goes for me 🙂
~Lisha
Hi Lisha,
That is a big part of it, yes. It’s almost more of a social media game with the eaves currency. It’s a great way to help give your content a boost with social media.
cool. I’m excited to see if it gives my site a boost 🙂
I must be honest but before John wrote this post I had never heard of Empire Avenue before. It sounds an interesting idea to me too. I expect your report Lisha here, like you promised 😉
This is a play by play of my first experience with Empire Avenue:
I joined using my twitter account.
Started with share price of 10.20e. This is what people have to pay in order to have a share in my acct, not sure what the point of shares is, but I’m sure there’s a reason.
It said my net wealth was 103,500e. I figured out that this is how much eaves “money” I can spend in the game.
I then took a browse around the site:
You can use your virtual currency to expand your social media audience.
You can drive traffic and engagement to your online content and social profiles.
You can gauge the effectiveness and progress of your social media efforts.
You can create and complete missions to drive engagement and earn eaves. In order to create a mission, you have to have a share value of 30e. Since mine is only 10.20e, I can only complete other people’s missions, not create my own, or I can pay a $5 fee to be able to start creating missions for others to complete now.
You can join and engage with others in the empire avenue communities.
You can connect with the leading engagers in social media.
You can purchase upgrades and expand your portfolio (my available bonuses included Dessert and More Dessert which I could either buy with money or eaves). Still not sure what Dessert is…
You can put your profile in vacation mode for 7 days, 14 days, 21 days, or 28 days so your share price won’t drop due to inactivity on your social media profiles.
You can buy $eaves with your real-life dollars: 6,000e for $2.50, up to 625,000e for $125.00
There are a lot of people and there’s a lot of activity on the site, which I’m surprised by since I had never heard of Empire Ave.
Overall, this seems mostly like a social online game that you could spend a lot of time on (and even money), so if you have an office job and you finish your work quickly, you can spend some time in between tasks working on your empire avenue game.
I can see how spending a lot of time on empire avenue can help you get more engagement to your content from the people on empire avenue, and it can help you get more likes to your facebook page, and things like that, but I also feel that if you actually spent that time on your other social media accounts (like twitter and facebook) you could just be getting more engagement from there. It does seem that people on empire avenue are more apt to help you out and pay attention to your needs if there is something in it for them. For instance, you can create a mission for people to like your facebook page and then they get $1,000 eaves (which you would obviously have to give them from your eaves balance). And obviously since you don’t HAVE to spend any money to get eaves (you can get eaves quickly by completing missions, or slowly by just having an account) and you can create missions to get basically free Likes on facebook, retweets on twitter, or youtube views and comments, etc.
After browsing around for 10 minutes on the site, my share went up to 13.66e.
After I uploaded 5 other social media profiles to my empire ave account, it went up to 14.34e
And after being on Empire Avenue for just 20 minutes, I had already gained 13 achievements.
I rechecked my wealth and it had increased to 135,249.63e (I don’t know how this increased, but for some reason I got about 32,000 more $eaves since I first started about 25 minutes ago.
Since there are things on the site that people can buy in order to not have to wait patiently to be able to deserve them with their $eaves, I’m sure the owners of this site are making quite a good chunk of change from people who lack patience and carry around an “I want it now” mindset.
My final thought is that I only wish I was the one who came up with the idea and that it became as successful and popular as Empire Ave has.
And now as I finish up, one last check: My share price is now 14.53e and my wealth is $139,067.38e
Once my share price is 30e, I can then create missions and maybe get some engagement on my social media accounts paying people with my eaves I got for free 🙂
Wow Lisha, I’m impressed by your detailed report. It’ll certainly help others to get insight what this is all about.
Thanks for sharing your experience, I appreciate it.
Great overview! Once you hit 30e you can start setting up your own missions. I’m at about 75e last I checked. You will see it go up fast due to people investing shares in your eaves stock, that is most likely why you earned more without doing anything extra.
I’m now at 42e! yay! I’m going to post my first mission and see if people do it 🙂
Hey John! Great post! I had never heard of empire avenue, but it seems like a really cool way to get more of my content out there and very interesting. Thanks for sharing! 🙂
Problem with EmpireAvenue is their mission system, which can be very exhausting. Some people offer great pay for a little work, and others demand a lot of work for little pay.. Everyone wants a little work and gets paid a lot.
Finding good missions require a lot of time. Separation of weed from seeds can be tiring, boring, and we do not have time to read the silly requirements….
Because I were tired of separation and analysis, I decided that I would become very evil and wrote a program that will do it automatically.
http://myphpheaven.com/empire-avenue-do-you-want-to-be-evil/
thanks, will create mission later on just like you do.
just joined this network 🙂 but the use is tough for me 🙁
Is this still relevant today? I’ve noticed a few other plugins offering shares for cash or sharebacks… Think I’ll stick with being genuine. -Maybe though?!