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As the adjudicating officer for the retail store extra Gameaday prize(s) I, The Only Tony, hereby declare the official results of this competition.
While the quantity of entries was high the quality was "none too hot" with many "fantasy schemes" often involving females.
I must disallow any general suggestions of games championships as we did these last year and we are running them this year. I would have taken a different view if the ideas for these had been worked up into fully suggestions (with details).
As I am judging this I can hardly award my own "Two Can Play at This" idea the prize - though undoubtedly we will use something similar for an "introduce a friend" incentive.
YH had a good notion about working with schools and Meka came up with "People are Stupid" idea to give safety advice with every game!
Rakuga deserves a mention for persistence and I particularly liked his suggestion of a One Day Sale. IF we decide to do that then he will get a prize. The problem with one day sales is that once people get used to (even) lower prices they are resistant to buying at the normal prices.
Rakuga also suggested giving better directions to the shops.
I liked Namostar's idea of placing addresses of the shops on internet banners. We'll use this so Namostar - you are A WINNER.
The second winner is Fantasy Meister. He made a couple of reasonable suggestions including better promotion of Reddies. But his idea which caught my imagination was to print an 8 digit number on the receipts for people to match with a number on the internet. This gives us the possibility of running Gameaday in the shops. I'm not sure if we will actually use it but it is the best idea (in my view).
A difficult competition which has clearly stretched imaginations to the limit. Thank you for entering.
Congratulations to NAMOSTAR and FANTASY MEISTER and I won't forget Rakuga IF we use the one day sale idea.
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These are the original rules.
The next amazing Special Reserve competition (another one!) is to suggest ideas for attracting people into our Big Club Shops.
The main objective here is to think about the cost effectiveness of your ideas. In order for them to work they need to be, yes you guessed it, low on cost and high on impact.
If you haven't visited all or any of our shops then get yourself down to your local shop and check them out! Visit our Big Club Shops page for further details: http://special.reserve.co.uk/common/shops/shopsindex.php
This competition is open for 1 month and the best ideas that we USE will win a game as part of GAMEADAY. If no ideas are used then I will pick 1 winner that I deem the best.
CLOSING DATE: 27th July 2001 *********MIDNIGHT*********
The challenge has been set. Good luck!
While the quantity of entries was high the quality was "none too hot" with many "fantasy schemes" often involving females.
I must disallow any general suggestions of games championships as we did these last year and we are running them this year. I would have taken a different view if the ideas for these had been worked up into fully suggestions (with details).
As I am judging this I can hardly award my own "Two Can Play at This" idea the prize - though undoubtedly we will use something similar for an "introduce a friend" incentive.
YH had a good notion about working with schools and Meka came up with "People are Stupid" idea to give safety advice with every game!
Rakuga deserves a mention for persistence and I particularly liked his suggestion of a One Day Sale. IF we decide to do that then he will get a prize. The problem with one day sales is that once people get used to (even) lower prices they are resistant to buying at the normal prices.
Rakuga also suggested giving better directions to the shops.
I liked Namostar's idea of placing addresses of the shops on internet banners. We'll use this so Namostar - you are A WINNER.
The second winner is Fantasy Meister. He made a couple of reasonable suggestions including better promotion of Reddies. But his idea which caught my imagination was to print an 8 digit number on the receipts for people to match with a number on the internet. This gives us the possibility of running Gameaday in the shops. I'm not sure if we will actually use it but it is the best idea (in my view).
A difficult competition which has clearly stretched imaginations to the limit. Thank you for entering.
Congratulations to NAMOSTAR and FANTASY MEISTER and I won't forget Rakuga IF we use the one day sale idea.
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These are the original rules.
The next amazing Special Reserve competition (another one!) is to suggest ideas for attracting people into our Big Club Shops.
The main objective here is to think about the cost effectiveness of your ideas. In order for them to work they need to be, yes you guessed it, low on cost and high on impact.
If you haven't visited all or any of our shops then get yourself down to your local shop and check them out! Visit our Big Club Shops page for further details: http://special.reserve.co.uk/common/shops/shopsindex.php
This competition is open for 1 month and the best ideas that we USE will win a game as part of GAMEADAY. If no ideas are used then I will pick 1 winner that I deem the best.
CLOSING DATE: 27th July 2001 *********MIDNIGHT*********
The challenge has been set. Good luck!
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Its hard to attract people to one of your shops as you have a site which allows mail order so more people would find it easier to order on-line unless they live close to one of your shops. You need to offer more to shop goers. Advertise more as not everyone has access to the internet. So advertising in local papers, on the radio, even t.v and also get some bilboard size adverts on main roads near to your shop.
Maybe drop your prices a little so that people would rather go to your shops instead of other shops which sell the same goods. Have a buy 10 get one free offer where each time someone buys a game they get a token, collect 10 tokens and get a free game. Also you could have a day where if you come into the shop you get a membership for half price.
Maybe drop your prices a little so that people would rather go to your shops instead of other shops which sell the same goods. Have a buy 10 get one free offer where each time someone buys a game they get a token, collect 10 tokens and get a free game. Also you could have a day where if you come into the shop you get a membership for half price.
turbonutter wrote:
> Let me guess. Planetarion? I really must consider that game.
trust me don't. I played it and hated it. If you are into text based strategy games buying ships, defence etc then attack other planets for "roids" which provide your planet money you might like it. But I didn't and some people took the game way tooo seriously.
However I got attacked when I had 5000 asteroids and no defence but I got rid of future attackers by messaging people saying I was one of the admins trying to catch newbie bashers in the act and they were newbie basher. No one attacked me after that. Quite funny actually. :)
> Let me guess. Planetarion? I really must consider that game.
trust me don't. I played it and hated it. If you are into text based strategy games buying ships, defence etc then attack other planets for "roids" which provide your planet money you might like it. But I didn't and some people took the game way tooo seriously.
However I got attacked when I had 5000 asteroids and no defence but I got rid of future attackers by messaging people saying I was one of the admins trying to catch newbie bashers in the act and they were newbie basher. No one attacked me after that. Quite funny actually. :)
Idea 26:
Remind members who have not extended their memberships of the great offers at Special Reserve maybe with an A4 flyer with several great deals. And maybe give a great deal for customers who go to the shop to extend their membership such as 10 pounds off a Game Boy Advance if you extend your membership
Remind members who have not extended their memberships of the great offers at Special Reserve maybe with an A4 flyer with several great deals. And maybe give a great deal for customers who go to the shop to extend their membership such as 10 pounds off a Game Boy Advance if you extend your membership
If your area allows it, have loud music blasting out of your shop doorways, that always attracts attention.
Add some retro (or new if you can afford it) arcade machines to your shops, and charge for people to use them.
Put a fake cardboard GameCube and a fake cardboard X-Box in your window display, that'll bring gamers into your shops in droves for more information.
Add some retro (or new if you can afford it) arcade machines to your shops, and charge for people to use them.
Put a fake cardboard GameCube and a fake cardboard X-Box in your window display, that'll bring gamers into your shops in droves for more information.
Well how about opening a shop in Glasgow?
Let me guess. Planetarion? I really must consider that game.
He ho ha.
Sniper sent all his pods at me yesterday, shortly after I launched... you're very welcome to try and nick the rest of them.
Sniper sent all his pods at me yesterday, shortly after I launched... you're very welcome to try and nick the rest of them.
I know you're dying to find out, so here you go Grix:
3 Toutaris Grix Thraves 53 128.783
And thanks for the donation :-)
3 Toutaris Grix Thraves 53 128.783
And thanks for the donation :-)
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