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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.
***********
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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You could have a 'super low security' day where people have the chance to steal a game of their choice...No?
Or have apperances from celebrities, they wont have to be too major, just someone people have heard of, like Keith Cheggeuin.
Also you could have a giant balloon/blimp flying overhead the desired store.
I havent read the whole topic, so if this has been mentioned before im sorry, but all you have to do is hold big console competitions in all of the stores, with the winners for each console winning decent pizes. The prizes must be good or people wont enter but i doubt SR would give away crap prizes.
We should masking-tape the words "Special Reserve" onto the road. Then, stand Chetaguru on aforemention road over the masking tape and drop a bus onto him.
You need a big fluffy mascot (guy dressed up) to wonder about the streets nearby the shops handing out leaflets and sweets.
People nowadays are lazy, why go to the shop when you can order on-line and get it delivered. They need something that will make them go into the shop. Why not with every game purchased you get a games token. Once you have bought say around 15-20 games you get a free game of your choice. Or a free gift of somekind. Also hold special events and attract more people to join ie members take part cheaper than non members to enter competitions to win games by playing games.
People nowadays are lazy, why go to the shop when you can order on-line and get it delivered. They need something that will make them go into the shop. Why not with every game purchased you get a games token. Once you have bought say around 15-20 games you get a free game of your choice. Or a free gift of somekind. Also hold special events and attract more people to join ie members take part cheaper than non members to enter competitions to win games by playing games.
Each of us enter a competition dozens of times everyday. It's called Gameaday.
Win a game of your choice every day in our club shops! Simply enter a competition and by the end of the day the winner will be announced.
any good?
any good?
Ice Blaster wrote:
> Well you have to put a naked women some were in side the shop- it
> will attract many customers- c'mon it will, dont denay it guys!
Ice_Blaster this is totally and utterly MY idea. Go back a page.
> Well you have to put a naked women some were in side the shop- it
> will attract many customers- c'mon it will, dont denay it guys!
Ice_Blaster this is totally and utterly MY idea. Go back a page.
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