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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 put a *GIANT* electro-magnet in the shops and then when people walk past with iron objects it would drag them into the shops.
make your own special reserve brand of tinned tomatos
You could get midgits with colourful hat waving SR flags to dance around the city center.(ideas running out as we speak!!!)
You could make a special reserve mouse mat
How about geting a special reserve mascot?!(like a dragon or something with a catchy name like reddie).
Then you could get a member of staff to dress up as him and go out and hand out leaflets.
Then you could get a member of staff to dress up as him and go out and hand out leaflets.
You could get some of your shop staff to dress up as game characters like Link or Mario.
you could get a pregnent mother to have her baby born in one of the shops.
I bet you it will get it into the papers!
I bet you it will get it into the papers!
How about a cute women mud wrestling day?
20p entrence.
And there could be a game stall on site.
*evil grin*
20p entrence.
And there could be a game stall on site.
*evil grin*
Idea 47:
Make some helium baloons with ukgames.com on them. And in 2003 do a 15th year anniversary or something where you lower some prices. Alternatively give the baloons out to little kids on the street for free and the little kids have fun and the parents/siblings might decide to check out the site.
Make some helium baloons with ukgames.com on them. And in 2003 do a 15th year anniversary or something where you lower some prices. Alternatively give the baloons out to little kids on the street for free and the little kids have fun and the parents/siblings might decide to check out the site.
I like the lottery idea.
People could go into 1 of the shops and for 50p could enter a lottery.
They would write down there name/age/sex/address on a form and hand it in with 50p.
They could do this as many times as they like but for each entery they must pay 50p.
Then thier name could be put into the computer(as many times as they've entered) and after 2 weeks the computer would randomly pick a name.( ofcource the more times you've entered the better chance you've got for winning)
Then the prize could be the game of thier choice or 30 pounds.
People could go into 1 of the shops and for 50p could enter a lottery.
They would write down there name/age/sex/address on a form and hand it in with 50p.
They could do this as many times as they like but for each entery they must pay 50p.
Then thier name could be put into the computer(as many times as they've entered) and after 2 weeks the computer would randomly pick a name.( ofcource the more times you've entered the better chance you've got for winning)
Then the prize could be the game of thier choice or 30 pounds.
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