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Mr Dogfather is starting to get worried. For you see ladies, gentleman and people of all ages, he is starting to wonder where everyone has gone. Now I do realise that it is some stupid time in the morning and yes I am still writing this, but I don't mean now I mean in general. What has happened to the site I love to love? In the summer holidays it was booming and was a great place to come as every decent post was followed by good replies and everyone got along, well apart from a few, and everything was merry.
But then came that thing that ruined it all and has sent this site below the 2000 mark for posts within the last 24 hours, yes ladies and gentleman, it is the school holidays ended. And this wasn't a very good thing as at least 75% of the people on this site either go to school or college so hence this has created a problem for Tony and his crew.
So even though I am just that too tired to even think right now and my hands are about to drop off, well they feel like it anyway, I think I have found a way around this dilema. First you need a walrus, an egg and a match. No skip that idea that was stupid, I think the real way to attract people would be to advertise more.
The web is full of adverts. First time companies will start their money making profits from having big companies such as yourself advertising on their site. But as they are independant and are highly likely not to succeed and progress into anything massive then you are proberly better off taking your chances with the big players.
When I first discovered the great Special Reserve team and site it was I have to admit by a complete fluke. Through looking at www.totalgames.net I saw a poster saying about winning a film of your choice everyday. Now to start with I just took no notice of the stupid thing flashing at me but then curiousty (the curse of the human mind) set in and fate took part.
Thinking like every other site on the web that this place was going to be some sort of con, either that the peoples names on the winners list were all just made up or to start with that there was some ridciulous catch and it mean't ringing up a 1.50 a minute phone line. Then 5 days later I look at the winners list to see my name on it, well I know that all first winners will know what I am on about and the feeling was great, and I have been here ever since posting away until the early hours of the morning everyday that I possibly can.
Now I am one of them few people who have done what I have, came to the site and become a regular regular, if you understand what I am getting at? Basically people like pb, er-no, Sniper, FantasyMesiter, TurboNutter, Your Honour and ofcourse the rest of the lovely people on this site, who have posted more then I can count to and spend atleast 50 times the ammount of time I have on here.
Those are the people that keep this sight running as successful as it is, as without them this place is nothing, oh and ofcouse not forgetting Tony and Mr.Snuggly who like to contribute their much needed humour to the topics. So Tony my message to you even though I have now went completely off my original task is to tell you, that this place although I am fully satisfied with it, you were asking in the other thread what could be done about it, so I'm here to tell you.
You need something apart from just advertisment, even though if you were going to do more advertisment then I would suggest somewhere like www.cheatplanet.com, or an actual provider of the net such as AOL or freeserve. Now I can understand the cost of this and what really do you get out of it and that is a question that I can't answer. Personally I can't understand why you would want to give away 2 games a 1 DVD every single day. It just seems crazy to me, but if I ever win then I'll try and stop complaining.
Is there any actual profit for yourself in this competition? Do you get anything out of it? As I doubt you really do, and the people here maybe don't appreciate that as much as they should do. Now where was I? Oh yes, the improvements, something extra is needed somehow to make people want to come here and I think the main attraction for a first time user is obviously the free game, so that will needed to be mentioned, please don't think I'm patrozing you, then the cheats, prices of stock and thing along those lines need to be mentioned.
Maybe done in a flashing poster drawing you into the site, first the offer of a free game, then the possibility of 12,000 cheats, then the cheap prices. Want a free game of your choice? Stuck on a game, require assisstance? Want thousands of low priced games? Then come to Special Reserve the place where we reserve the right to make your stay enjoyable. Well something along those lines.
Thanks for reading this and any ideas that you might consider using them I'm glad I was off an assistance
The Dogfather
But then came that thing that ruined it all and has sent this site below the 2000 mark for posts within the last 24 hours, yes ladies and gentleman, it is the school holidays ended. And this wasn't a very good thing as at least 75% of the people on this site either go to school or college so hence this has created a problem for Tony and his crew.
So even though I am just that too tired to even think right now and my hands are about to drop off, well they feel like it anyway, I think I have found a way around this dilema. First you need a walrus, an egg and a match. No skip that idea that was stupid, I think the real way to attract people would be to advertise more.
The web is full of adverts. First time companies will start their money making profits from having big companies such as yourself advertising on their site. But as they are independant and are highly likely not to succeed and progress into anything massive then you are proberly better off taking your chances with the big players.
When I first discovered the great Special Reserve team and site it was I have to admit by a complete fluke. Through looking at www.totalgames.net I saw a poster saying about winning a film of your choice everyday. Now to start with I just took no notice of the stupid thing flashing at me but then curiousty (the curse of the human mind) set in and fate took part.
Thinking like every other site on the web that this place was going to be some sort of con, either that the peoples names on the winners list were all just made up or to start with that there was some ridciulous catch and it mean't ringing up a 1.50 a minute phone line. Then 5 days later I look at the winners list to see my name on it, well I know that all first winners will know what I am on about and the feeling was great, and I have been here ever since posting away until the early hours of the morning everyday that I possibly can.
Now I am one of them few people who have done what I have, came to the site and become a regular regular, if you understand what I am getting at? Basically people like pb, er-no, Sniper, FantasyMesiter, TurboNutter, Your Honour and ofcourse the rest of the lovely people on this site, who have posted more then I can count to and spend atleast 50 times the ammount of time I have on here.
Those are the people that keep this sight running as successful as it is, as without them this place is nothing, oh and ofcouse not forgetting Tony and Mr.Snuggly who like to contribute their much needed humour to the topics. So Tony my message to you even though I have now went completely off my original task is to tell you, that this place although I am fully satisfied with it, you were asking in the other thread what could be done about it, so I'm here to tell you.
You need something apart from just advertisment, even though if you were going to do more advertisment then I would suggest somewhere like www.cheatplanet.com, or an actual provider of the net such as AOL or freeserve. Now I can understand the cost of this and what really do you get out of it and that is a question that I can't answer. Personally I can't understand why you would want to give away 2 games a 1 DVD every single day. It just seems crazy to me, but if I ever win then I'll try and stop complaining.
Is there any actual profit for yourself in this competition? Do you get anything out of it? As I doubt you really do, and the people here maybe don't appreciate that as much as they should do. Now where was I? Oh yes, the improvements, something extra is needed somehow to make people want to come here and I think the main attraction for a first time user is obviously the free game, so that will needed to be mentioned, please don't think I'm patrozing you, then the cheats, prices of stock and thing along those lines need to be mentioned.
Maybe done in a flashing poster drawing you into the site, first the offer of a free game, then the possibility of 12,000 cheats, then the cheap prices. Want a free game of your choice? Stuck on a game, require assisstance? Want thousands of low priced games? Then come to Special Reserve the place where we reserve the right to make your stay enjoyable. Well something along those lines.
Thanks for reading this and any ideas that you might consider using them I'm glad I was off an assistance
The Dogfather
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Thanks Fogmaster, I never really even knew that people knew about me to start with. But there we are, we all learn something new everyday. Well as I do spend that little bit to much time on this thing I read nearly ever new post, so I have come to reading a lot of yours a just like me we share ver much the same opinions.
The only reason why I actually knew that this site wasn't a fake, wasn't beause of the good web design but because of the site was made by SR, that 'shop' that always advertises in the back of 'PLAY' magazine and to me I think being able to afford that proved to me it wasn't all that bad.
Maybe I have become just that slightly too addicted to this site as my posts and word count along with reviews seems to be that just too high, for only being here 24 days and I was away for 5 of those. Oooppps.
But anyway thanks for reading my topic and don't worry I'm here for a very long time, when you've all gone off to university here I will be typing away until somehow I have beaten Grix and Ant.
*Wakes Up*
The only reason why I actually knew that this site wasn't a fake, wasn't beause of the good web design but because of the site was made by SR, that 'shop' that always advertises in the back of 'PLAY' magazine and to me I think being able to afford that proved to me it wasn't all that bad.
Maybe I have become just that slightly too addicted to this site as my posts and word count along with reviews seems to be that just too high, for only being here 24 days and I was away for 5 of those. Oooppps.
But anyway thanks for reading my topic and don't worry I'm here for a very long time, when you've all gone off to university here I will be typing away until somehow I have beaten Grix and Ant.
*Wakes Up*
Nice post, it is true people are starting to go back to school and college, but the forums will stay strong, they have survived many 'end of holidays' and will keep on going, I remeber my first day, I came here because my mate's dad was a member so I checked it out because I remeber the prices being quite good in their magazine + I was bored.
The idea of winning a game for talking to people seemed too good to be true, but I played along, they're wern't many people when I first came but there were still loads of forums!
But anyway, SR advertise a lot as it is (like you said) they don't need much else, they have 7 very successful game shops, one just won an award! They have great competitions as you'll agree! (Gad/Fad and Goty!) theres more than enough to draw the crowds in + I don't think that most of the people here will stop coming back for more, it will just be a little quieter until 3:30pm.
I don't go back to college until next Monday, i'm actually looking forward to it :)? but it will give the regular's something to talk about, it will refresh their heads after 1 1/2 months of talking non-stop on this site, they might find that a little sunshine and talking to people in the flesh might awaken their posting senses then the forums will be alive and flowing freely again!
I'm glad to see your a regular now Dogfather, it didn't take very long :D + I hope you'll stay on SR for a long time to come.
The idea of winning a game for talking to people seemed too good to be true, but I played along, they're wern't many people when I first came but there were still loads of forums!
But anyway, SR advertise a lot as it is (like you said) they don't need much else, they have 7 very successful game shops, one just won an award! They have great competitions as you'll agree! (Gad/Fad and Goty!) theres more than enough to draw the crowds in + I don't think that most of the people here will stop coming back for more, it will just be a little quieter until 3:30pm.
I don't go back to college until next Monday, i'm actually looking forward to it :)? but it will give the regular's something to talk about, it will refresh their heads after 1 1/2 months of talking non-stop on this site, they might find that a little sunshine and talking to people in the flesh might awaken their posting senses then the forums will be alive and flowing freely again!
I'm glad to see your a regular now Dogfather, it didn't take very long :D + I hope you'll stay on SR for a long time to come.
Mr Dogfather is starting to get worried. For you see ladies, gentleman and people of all ages, he is starting to wonder where everyone has gone. Now I do realise that it is some stupid time in the morning and yes I am still writing this, but I don't mean now I mean in general. What has happened to the site I love to love? In the summer holidays it was booming and was a great place to come as every decent post was followed by good replies and everyone got along, well apart from a few, and everything was merry.
But then came that thing that ruined it all and has sent this site below the 2000 mark for posts within the last 24 hours, yes ladies and gentleman, it is the school holidays ended. And this wasn't a very good thing as at least 75% of the people on this site either go to school or college so hence this has created a problem for Tony and his crew.
So even though I am just that too tired to even think right now and my hands are about to drop off, well they feel like it anyway, I think I have found a way around this dilema. First you need a walrus, an egg and a match. No skip that idea that was stupid, I think the real way to attract people would be to advertise more.
The web is full of adverts. First time companies will start their money making profits from having big companies such as yourself advertising on their site. But as they are independant and are highly likely not to succeed and progress into anything massive then you are proberly better off taking your chances with the big players.
When I first discovered the great Special Reserve team and site it was I have to admit by a complete fluke. Through looking at www.totalgames.net I saw a poster saying about winning a film of your choice everyday. Now to start with I just took no notice of the stupid thing flashing at me but then curiousty (the curse of the human mind) set in and fate took part.
Thinking like every other site on the web that this place was going to be some sort of con, either that the peoples names on the winners list were all just made up or to start with that there was some ridciulous catch and it mean't ringing up a 1.50 a minute phone line. Then 5 days later I look at the winners list to see my name on it, well I know that all first winners will know what I am on about and the feeling was great, and I have been here ever since posting away until the early hours of the morning everyday that I possibly can.
Now I am one of them few people who have done what I have, came to the site and become a regular regular, if you understand what I am getting at? Basically people like pb, er-no, Sniper, FantasyMesiter, TurboNutter, Your Honour and ofcourse the rest of the lovely people on this site, who have posted more then I can count to and spend atleast 50 times the ammount of time I have on here.
Those are the people that keep this sight running as successful as it is, as without them this place is nothing, oh and ofcouse not forgetting Tony and Mr.Snuggly who like to contribute their much needed humour to the topics. So Tony my message to you even though I have now went completely off my original task is to tell you, that this place although I am fully satisfied with it, you were asking in the other thread what could be done about it, so I'm here to tell you.
You need something apart from just advertisment, even though if you were going to do more advertisment then I would suggest somewhere like www.cheatplanet.com, or an actual provider of the net such as AOL or freeserve. Now I can understand the cost of this and what really do you get out of it and that is a question that I can't answer. Personally I can't understand why you would want to give away 2 games a 1 DVD every single day. It just seems crazy to me, but if I ever win then I'll try and stop complaining.
Is there any actual profit for yourself in this competition? Do you get anything out of it? As I doubt you really do, and the people here maybe don't appreciate that as much as they should do. Now where was I? Oh yes, the improvements, something extra is needed somehow to make people want to come here and I think the main attraction for a first time user is obviously the free game, so that will needed to be mentioned, please don't think I'm patrozing you, then the cheats, prices of stock and thing along those lines need to be mentioned.
Maybe done in a flashing poster drawing you into the site, first the offer of a free game, then the possibility of 12,000 cheats, then the cheap prices. Want a free game of your choice? Stuck on a game, require assisstance? Want thousands of low priced games? Then come to Special Reserve the place where we reserve the right to make your stay enjoyable. Well something along those lines.
Thanks for reading this and any ideas that you might consider using them I'm glad I was off an assistance
The Dogfather
But then came that thing that ruined it all and has sent this site below the 2000 mark for posts within the last 24 hours, yes ladies and gentleman, it is the school holidays ended. And this wasn't a very good thing as at least 75% of the people on this site either go to school or college so hence this has created a problem for Tony and his crew.
So even though I am just that too tired to even think right now and my hands are about to drop off, well they feel like it anyway, I think I have found a way around this dilema. First you need a walrus, an egg and a match. No skip that idea that was stupid, I think the real way to attract people would be to advertise more.
The web is full of adverts. First time companies will start their money making profits from having big companies such as yourself advertising on their site. But as they are independant and are highly likely not to succeed and progress into anything massive then you are proberly better off taking your chances with the big players.
When I first discovered the great Special Reserve team and site it was I have to admit by a complete fluke. Through looking at www.totalgames.net I saw a poster saying about winning a film of your choice everyday. Now to start with I just took no notice of the stupid thing flashing at me but then curiousty (the curse of the human mind) set in and fate took part.
Thinking like every other site on the web that this place was going to be some sort of con, either that the peoples names on the winners list were all just made up or to start with that there was some ridciulous catch and it mean't ringing up a 1.50 a minute phone line. Then 5 days later I look at the winners list to see my name on it, well I know that all first winners will know what I am on about and the feeling was great, and I have been here ever since posting away until the early hours of the morning everyday that I possibly can.
Now I am one of them few people who have done what I have, came to the site and become a regular regular, if you understand what I am getting at? Basically people like pb, er-no, Sniper, FantasyMesiter, TurboNutter, Your Honour and ofcourse the rest of the lovely people on this site, who have posted more then I can count to and spend atleast 50 times the ammount of time I have on here.
Those are the people that keep this sight running as successful as it is, as without them this place is nothing, oh and ofcouse not forgetting Tony and Mr.Snuggly who like to contribute their much needed humour to the topics. So Tony my message to you even though I have now went completely off my original task is to tell you, that this place although I am fully satisfied with it, you were asking in the other thread what could be done about it, so I'm here to tell you.
You need something apart from just advertisment, even though if you were going to do more advertisment then I would suggest somewhere like www.cheatplanet.com, or an actual provider of the net such as AOL or freeserve. Now I can understand the cost of this and what really do you get out of it and that is a question that I can't answer. Personally I can't understand why you would want to give away 2 games a 1 DVD every single day. It just seems crazy to me, but if I ever win then I'll try and stop complaining.
Is there any actual profit for yourself in this competition? Do you get anything out of it? As I doubt you really do, and the people here maybe don't appreciate that as much as they should do. Now where was I? Oh yes, the improvements, something extra is needed somehow to make people want to come here and I think the main attraction for a first time user is obviously the free game, so that will needed to be mentioned, please don't think I'm patrozing you, then the cheats, prices of stock and thing along those lines need to be mentioned.
Maybe done in a flashing poster drawing you into the site, first the offer of a free game, then the possibility of 12,000 cheats, then the cheap prices. Want a free game of your choice? Stuck on a game, require assisstance? Want thousands of low priced games? Then come to Special Reserve the place where we reserve the right to make your stay enjoyable. Well something along those lines.
Thanks for reading this and any ideas that you might consider using them I'm glad I was off an assistance
The Dogfather
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