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COMPETITION ANNOUNCEMENT:
THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED. A big thank you to those that took time to enter. A winner will be announced soon. Watch this space...
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STILL WATCHING? THE WINNER IS Meka_Dragon with his ukanniversary.co.uk suggestion. Congratulations! The prize will be on its way to you.
Once again thanks to all who took part and look out for more competitions!
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We'll run this one over the next two weeks. Somebody might need to prod me in two weeks time to choose the winner.
I would like you to go to http://Topaddress.com.
There's a link in the left side strip if you need to go back and forth.
There you will find our lovely selection of domain names.
Pick a domain or some domains which you think would be good for a nice profitable enterprise, and describe what you would do with them if you were an entrepreneur.
The single best entry will win an Extra Gameaday prize.
You can enter as many times as you like.
IMPORTANT
1. Try to get Unique Selling Points into your plan!
2. Work out why you think it would make money.
3 .State clearly how long it would take and what the difficulties would be.
I've no idea how this will go, but good luck.
And NO, we are not likely to use the winning entry, this is just the stuff of financial fantasy.
THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED. A big thank you to those that took time to enter. A winner will be announced soon. Watch this space...
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STILL WATCHING? THE WINNER IS Meka_Dragon with his ukanniversary.co.uk suggestion. Congratulations! The prize will be on its way to you.
Once again thanks to all who took part and look out for more competitions!
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We'll run this one over the next two weeks. Somebody might need to prod me in two weeks time to choose the winner.
I would like you to go to http://Topaddress.com.
There's a link in the left side strip if you need to go back and forth.
There you will find our lovely selection of domain names.
Pick a domain or some domains which you think would be good for a nice profitable enterprise, and describe what you would do with them if you were an entrepreneur.
The single best entry will win an Extra Gameaday prize.
You can enter as many times as you like.
IMPORTANT
1. Try to get Unique Selling Points into your plan!
2. Work out why you think it would make money.
3 .State clearly how long it would take and what the difficulties would be.
I've no idea how this will go, but good luck.
And NO, we are not likely to use the winning entry, this is just the stuff of financial fantasy.
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Meka_Dragon wrote:
> filmbuffs.co.uk
Film stars in the buff.
Best yet
;-D
> filmbuffs.co.uk
Film stars in the buff.
Best yet
;-D
doilookstupid.co.uk
I'd take that one.
Then I'd have a bunch of pictures and photographs on the site that people can then have themselves put into.
For instance you have a shot of a bodybuilder, and you stick your own head on.
Maybe a picture of an animal, with a human head, or something. You'd just have to encourage people to scan in a picture of their face, then they could look at various pictures and ask "Do I look stupid?".
An added feature would allow you to email these to friends and the like.
You could then make money on it by selling people the doctored pictures, framed and with a certificate.
Basically it would be a bit like those things you get at coastal towns, usually on piers and the like, with the comical picture that you stick your head into.
I suppose you'd need a large collection of pictures though, so as to appeal to as many people as possible, then put them in different catergories to make them easy to find.
You'd want some classical historical moments too, maybe you could be shaking a world leaders hand, or become Neil Armstrong. Maybe you could win the Grand National, as either the horse, or the jockey!
In order to generate interest in this you could alter the forums a little so that you could have your doilookstupid.co.uk picture just underneath your name on the forums.
I'd take that one.
Then I'd have a bunch of pictures and photographs on the site that people can then have themselves put into.
For instance you have a shot of a bodybuilder, and you stick your own head on.
Maybe a picture of an animal, with a human head, or something. You'd just have to encourage people to scan in a picture of their face, then they could look at various pictures and ask "Do I look stupid?".
An added feature would allow you to email these to friends and the like.
You could then make money on it by selling people the doctored pictures, framed and with a certificate.
Basically it would be a bit like those things you get at coastal towns, usually on piers and the like, with the comical picture that you stick your head into.
I suppose you'd need a large collection of pictures though, so as to appeal to as many people as possible, then put them in different catergories to make them easy to find.
You'd want some classical historical moments too, maybe you could be shaking a world leaders hand, or become Neil Armstrong. Maybe you could win the Grand National, as either the horse, or the jockey!
In order to generate interest in this you could alter the forums a little so that you could have your doilookstupid.co.uk picture just underneath your name on the forums.
filmbuffs.co.uk
Film stars in the buff.
Film stars in the buff.
Another idea, which may cross over part of the games discussions groups and the cheats section, under 'ukadvisers.co.uk'.
Basically a question and answer site for people stuck on particular games. Not much of a moneymaker I know, but if it was only open for SR members, or if there was a limited membership fee for the site, it would make some. Not that many people really want to pay 50/60p a minute for helplines, or wait 6 weeks after writing into magazines.
All Q & As could be stored under game titles, so that a library of info would be built up over time. All it would need is someone to regularly update the archive.
What it offers over the cheats site is that it will only help people on the part of the game they are stuck on, rather than offering codes for infinite whatevers to finish the game with - and it won't be full of cheats that people have copied from magazines (sorry to any true hackers on this site).
Basically a question and answer site for people stuck on particular games. Not much of a moneymaker I know, but if it was only open for SR members, or if there was a limited membership fee for the site, it would make some. Not that many people really want to pay 50/60p a minute for helplines, or wait 6 weeks after writing into magazines.
All Q & As could be stored under game titles, so that a library of info would be built up over time. All it would need is someone to regularly update the archive.
What it offers over the cheats site is that it will only help people on the part of the game they are stuck on, rather than offering codes for infinite whatevers to finish the game with - and it won't be full of cheats that people have copied from magazines (sorry to any true hackers on this site).
Under the site 'brilliantfashions.com', as a link to SR you could set up printing SR or game related stuff on a variety of items.
How many discussion.com users would like to see their user name or tagline on a t-shirt colour of their choice.
If discussions aren't your thing, what about your favourite line of SSX or Quake 3 (or other) commentary.
Of course, it doesn't have to be limited to t-shirts. You could have game pads, memory cards inscribed. The possibilities are endless - headed paper, lighters, pens, pencils - virtually any item could be used.
They wouldn't have to be items sold by SR, people could send in their own posessions for printing.
SR wouldn't need to set up their own printing machinery, they could go into partnership with an existing printing and engraving firm.
Costs for printing and engraving aren't excessive. Costs for people sending their own stuff in would be met by themselves. People would basically be designing their own order - which could be sent by e-mail with attachments in any form.
The only other problem would be potential copyright - but I don't think this could apply to quotes from within a game - only the title itself.
It would be an opportunity for SR to expand into a neverending market - as new games come out and as new members join discussions (or as people change their taglines), there will always be new possibilities.
How many discussion.com users would like to see their user name or tagline on a t-shirt colour of their choice.
If discussions aren't your thing, what about your favourite line of SSX or Quake 3 (or other) commentary.
Of course, it doesn't have to be limited to t-shirts. You could have game pads, memory cards inscribed. The possibilities are endless - headed paper, lighters, pens, pencils - virtually any item could be used.
They wouldn't have to be items sold by SR, people could send in their own posessions for printing.
SR wouldn't need to set up their own printing machinery, they could go into partnership with an existing printing and engraving firm.
Costs for printing and engraving aren't excessive. Costs for people sending their own stuff in would be met by themselves. People would basically be designing their own order - which could be sent by e-mail with attachments in any form.
The only other problem would be potential copyright - but I don't think this could apply to quotes from within a game - only the title itself.
It would be an opportunity for SR to expand into a neverending market - as new games come out and as new members join discussions (or as people change their taglines), there will always be new possibilities.
Tony: I need a loada money to set up loads of websites
Bank Manager: Uh huh, what websites?
Tony: Just loads of ones that I'm going to rip off from the people on... err, just some ones that I managed to come up with
BM: Hmmm, I see your past record with this bank is... spotty. I'm not sure if we can risk you again.
Tony:But but but!
BM: There was one that was AMAZINGLY unsuccessful
Tony: Hmmm... which one was that?
BM: A mail order company called 'Special Reserve'
Tony: Ah, yeah well Grix overpowered me and FORCED me to sell nothing but PS2 games.
BM: Nope I'm sorry Mr.Rainbird, your past has caught you out. We cannot AFFORD to give you a loan
Tony: D'oh
:-)
Bank Manager: Uh huh, what websites?
Tony: Just loads of ones that I'm going to rip off from the people on... err, just some ones that I managed to come up with
BM: Hmmm, I see your past record with this bank is... spotty. I'm not sure if we can risk you again.
Tony:But but but!
BM: There was one that was AMAZINGLY unsuccessful
Tony: Hmmm... which one was that?
BM: A mail order company called 'Special Reserve'
Tony: Ah, yeah well Grix overpowered me and FORCED me to sell nothing but PS2 games.
BM: Nope I'm sorry Mr.Rainbird, your past has caught you out. We cannot AFFORD to give you a loan
Tony: D'oh
:-)
www.buyuk.com
Ok, I'd price up every buisness in the United Kingdom.
Add it all up, add 10% and offer to sell it.
Anyone wishing to buy the British Isles?
Perhaps if a Several Financial Giants teamed up...
Ofcourse I could sell it in segments. Bill Gates might be abnle to afford Ireland. Some Japanese buisness might prefer Wales.
I'm not sure if anyone will want Scotland though...
(Don't worry, I'm Joking :-D )
Ok, I'd price up every buisness in the United Kingdom.
Add it all up, add 10% and offer to sell it.
Anyone wishing to buy the British Isles?
Perhaps if a Several Financial Giants teamed up...
Ofcourse I could sell it in segments. Bill Gates might be abnle to afford Ireland. Some Japanese buisness might prefer Wales.
I'm not sure if anyone will want Scotland though...
(Don't worry, I'm Joking :-D )
Tony wrote:
(Jogs off to bank manager with a bag of ideas)
lol
(Jogs off to bank manager with a bag of ideas)
lol
There's some interesting ideas here.
Keep up the good work.
(Jogs off to bank manager with a bag of ideas)
Keep up the good work.
(Jogs off to bank manager with a bag of ideas)
Tony wrote:
> An idea of mine is at http://belowtradeprice.com.
Lmao!
"Cds from 40p"
Heh!
> An idea of mine is at http://belowtradeprice.com.
Lmao!
"Cds from 40p"
Heh!
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