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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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How about:
Designing a SR mascot, get someone to dress up as him/her/it, and get the mascot to dance around a town center slapping SR stickers on peoples jackets whilst staing what's on the badge?
Anyone care for some Trooper beating?
Designing a SR mascot, get someone to dress up as him/her/it, and get the mascot to dance around a town center slapping SR stickers on peoples jackets whilst staing what's on the badge?
Anyone care for some Trooper beating?
New Jimmy wrote:
> Take out 0.5 second adds flashing SRDN.com on Television.
£2300 please...
> Take out 0.5 second adds flashing SRDN.com on Television.
£2300 please...
I think that you should give a T-Shirt to everyone who wins a game or films at least for a trial period, or at least give a T-shirt to the notables.
Make it Black with a SRDN.com logo on the front.
On the back of the shirt you could put some info like where the club shops are.
I'ld ware the T-shirt and it would be good advertising for you.
Make it Black with a SRDN.com logo on the front.
On the back of the shirt you could put some info like where the club shops are.
I'ld ware the T-shirt and it would be good advertising for you.
Get random people to stand in the middle of the motorway with a sign saying 'SRDN'.....
....see what happens!
....see what happens!
12. Get a guy (a current employee) to walk along the streets shouting 'SRND.com (or other webaddress)its the best ever'. Intrigued yet interested, people will visit that site to see what this guy was going on about. This idea is similar to the megaphone idea I guess, except this way it wont be a deliberate looking promotion thing (because no megaphone), and people will be more baffled and interested.
Reissuing my idea from the other extra GAD topic, why not add webcams to the front of the till counter, with a note telling customers that it will go off every 10 minutes. After this display the results on a monitor, showing whoever was in front of the camera at the time.
Then these could go on the Club Shop pages, perhaps even with live updating. Once a week, one picture could be picked for the website, and if the person recognised themselves in the picture then they could come back into the store for a prize (game or otherwise)
This could be held for each shop or on a rotating basis, but it would mean that you could advertise online and get people into your shops, plus you would advertise this site in the shops at the same time.
Then these could go on the Club Shop pages, perhaps even with live updating. Once a week, one picture could be picked for the website, and if the person recognised themselves in the picture then they could come back into the store for a prize (game or otherwise)
This could be held for each shop or on a rotating basis, but it would mean that you could advertise online and get people into your shops, plus you would advertise this site in the shops at the same time.
How about giving free samples of cheese...
Sorry I am fed up doing these things!
Sorry I am fed up doing these things!
Before the launch of the GameCube, offer the people on the street a go on the import machine in the store, this would be great....and also would probably increase sales..
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