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Winner of a game of his choice - mickey, for his suggestion of a 'Gameaday Receipt' idea, of which many of you suggested, but mickey got their first. Well done, mickey.
Runners up prize of a DVD of his choice goes to Aliboy, for his 'Santa' idea. It's well put and a nice festive idea, so it's definitely worthy of a prize. Congrats.
Thanks to everyone for all your entries, we read them all and found them to be very useful. Peace out, and complaints to the usual address. Cheers
Ali
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Extra GAD prize here for those with a creative brain to help us with our marketing and promotions.
1. Don't suggest any alterations to the site design. Don't suggest expensive campaigns.
2. Suggest how we can attract more visitors to the site from within the pages of our Club Magazine and our adverts in the specialist press such as PC Gamer.
3. Remember space is very limited. But you can enter this with something as simple as a change to the wording which we already use.
Below is an example of the type of thing we are looking for:
Headline
So, what do you say boys?
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Chat me up and WIN! Visit Gameaday.co.uk now. Just click on me and type in your favourite chat up line. That's all it takes to win ANY game of your choice in our EXTRA chat up line competition. There's one prize for the best and one for the worst chat up lines.
Picture
Virtual girl in suggestive pose
Explanation
This would be an extra Gameaday prize running in conjunction with the promotional campaign. Designed specifically to draw in new visitors.
The winner will be the person who makes the suggestion MOST LIKELY to draw in extra visitors. The deadline for entries is the end of October.
Tricky eh?
Picture
Santa and a little boy in the boys house beside the christmas tree.
Text
Boy- Sorry Santa I have already got all them games, you'll need to do better than that.
Santa- But nobody bought you them, I have checked.
Boy- I won them at gameaday.co.uk, it was real easy.
Santa- Gameaday you say.
Then shows a picture of Santa using a computer looking at the gameaday webpage and trying to win games for next year.
OR
Picture of santa and his elves.
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ELF- It is too hard to make them santa, they will not be ready.
Santa Then log on to special reserve and get next day delivery. We can still do it.
Elf Ok.
Shows another picture of the elves waiting as the delivery man pulls up with loads of special reserve packages.
Slogan at the bottom. Special reserve, There when you need them most.
in big red writing on one page
FREE DVDS!!!!
in big red writing on another page
EVERY DAY!!!!!
in big red writing on another page
UKGAMES.COM
in big red writing on the next page
want a free game? got a brain? is it creative?
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design a mascot and WIN! Visit Gameaday.co.uk now. Just click on extra game-a-day and design away. That's all it takes to win ANY game of your choice in our EXTRA create a specail reserve Mascot competition.
So get creative!
Picture
a dotted line box with an arrow pointing to it.
next to the arrow it says insert mascot here.
Explanation
This would be an extra Gameaday prize running in conjunction with the promotional campaign. Designed specifically to draw in new visitors.
like to play hard?
picture
Virtual girl in leathers with a whip in hand in a strict and suggestive pose
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then come to ukgames.com where you can Achieve your gaming fantasies (and maybe win a game or two along the way!)
Magazine ad:
Picture of girl/manga chick in VERY suggestive pose.
Alright now we've got your attention, why don't you go to UKchatforums.com? You can win 2 games and 1 dvd everyday, just by wrting stuff. And stop drooling, the magazines getting wet!
OR
general ad:
Giant picture of pacman
Chatterbox? Why dont you go to Ukchatforums.com and earn something for your trouble?
2 games and 1 dvd won EVERY DAY!
whats the difference between free games and gameaday.com?
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at gameaday.com you can also win free dvds everyday as well as games!
how do you spell free games?
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