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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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Tell everyone that Sniper will be attending. Tie him to a post or something, and charge a pound for three rocks.
Have theme days at your stores where you have days like PC day, playstation day, nintendo day. On these days and only on these days in the shop all nintendo or pc products(depending on the day) has say 10% off (or a percentage you guys are happy with) you could advertise this locally and on the web.
Also offer free products when a customer spends so much money in the store, not like the reddies though, special free gifts that are exclusive to the shops.
Also offer free products when a customer spends so much money in the store, not like the reddies though, special free gifts that are exclusive to the shops.
You could have a free SR e-mail acount.A new website belonging to SR were you could sign up and get a free email acount.(SR could pay for the email by advetising like a bannor at the top of each page)Then you could have could have an adress like: wezal@special_reseve.com
Then say if you emailed your mate at: [email protected] ; bob would see the special_reserve ending and would wonder what it was.
And at the bottom of the page of each email you send it could say:
Special Reserve discount games shop.
Goto our webpage at http:// specialreserve.net /sitemap
to order the cheapest games in the uk or check if theres a discount shop near you!
Then say if you emailed your mate at: [email protected] ; bob would see the special_reserve ending and would wonder what it was.
And at the bottom of the page of each email you send it could say:
Special Reserve discount games shop.
Goto our webpage at http:// specialreserve.net /sitemap
to order the cheapest games in the uk or check if theres a discount shop near you!
it says the competition ends on the 27th
I wonder when they will anounce the results.
Right this will definetely attract people to your shops.
Hire two Page 3-ish models and cover them in body paint which flashes the SR logs a couple of times.
Start them off in the town centre and have them stroll towards the SR shop. I can guarantee there will be a line of drooling men dragging along behind. This is when you get the ladies to hold a PS2 and GT3 in a seductive pose.
Sales will rocket.
Trust me,
Dodgy Dave
:D
Hire two Page 3-ish models and cover them in body paint which flashes the SR logs a couple of times.
Start them off in the town centre and have them stroll towards the SR shop. I can guarantee there will be a line of drooling men dragging along behind. This is when you get the ladies to hold a PS2 and GT3 in a seductive pose.
Sales will rocket.
Trust me,
Dodgy Dave
:D
We could tie some string around a realy fat kids foot,paint SR on his belly and fill him with helium!High in the air he would look like a blimp!
wezal wrote:
> you could put the SR logo on the side of a blimp.
That would cost far too much, it would cost 1000's just to get a blimp.
> you could put the SR logo on the side of a blimp.
That would cost far too much, it would cost 1000's just to get a blimp.
you could put the SR logo on the side of a blimp
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