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Okay, an absolute torrent of entries for this one, it too ka good couple of hours to read them all, and I had to kill several trees for the paper to print them all out, so no moaning about the winners.
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?
Text
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?
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?
Text
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?
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I know what your thinking, theres nothing better than monkeys and cheese, well your wrong.theres nothing better than monkeys,cheese and special reserve.come to special reserve, home of the gameaday competition,everyday we give away 2 games and a DVD. But thats not all, we also sell a huge list of current and backlist games for all consoles at some of the lowest prices around.If thats still not enough we also have chat forums, ringtones and logos for your mobile phone,pc's and pc bits, a membership club and a lot more, lot more.
picture: a monkey eating cheese.
picture: a monkey eating cheese.
Wanna make christmas a special reserve one?
(Flow chart sort of thing)
Q1: Do you like good customer service?
Y: (Arrow to Q2)
N: Go to your normal game retailer.
Q2: Do you like saving up to £10 on games?
Y: (Arrow to Q3)
N: Go to your normal game retailer.
etc....
Last Question. Do you have no money?
YES: Head over to our sites and preorder to beat the Christmas rush and save yourself some money.
NO: Head over to Gameaday.co.uk and get a chance to win two games and a film every day.
You'd have to be a fool to miss out on Special Reserve's christmas savings.
Special Reserve, the top retailer in the world
(Flow chart sort of thing)
Q1: Do you like good customer service?
Y: (Arrow to Q2)
N: Go to your normal game retailer.
Q2: Do you like saving up to £10 on games?
Y: (Arrow to Q3)
N: Go to your normal game retailer.
etc....
Last Question. Do you have no money?
YES: Head over to our sites and preorder to beat the Christmas rush and save yourself some money.
NO: Head over to Gameaday.co.uk and get a chance to win two games and a film every day.
You'd have to be a fool to miss out on Special Reserve's christmas savings.
Special Reserve, the top retailer in the world
GOVERNMENT HEALTH WARNING
An epidemic is sweeping across Britain.
Every day we have to prescribe treatments to people who have been ripped off for buying games.
This is a highly infectious disease with no current cure.
Most shops won't refund the money.
Make sure you check out ukgames.com first.
Thankyou
(signature of government official)
Explanation:
People might actually read it if they think it's from the government etc.. and then not wanting to get ripped off go to your site.
I don't know...
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THIS SITE NEEDS YOU!
You know the classic picture of maybe Uncle Sam or that guy from World War 1 pointing at you. However make it more game like with a controller in his hand and games in another
RECRUITMENT BEGINS NOW
UKGAMES.COM
brought to you by the leading games retailer in the world.
Explanation:
Something like that. Makes low lifers feel wanted etc..
An epidemic is sweeping across Britain.
Every day we have to prescribe treatments to people who have been ripped off for buying games.
This is a highly infectious disease with no current cure.
Most shops won't refund the money.
Make sure you check out ukgames.com first.
Thankyou
(signature of government official)
Explanation:
People might actually read it if they think it's from the government etc.. and then not wanting to get ripped off go to your site.
I don't know...
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THIS SITE NEEDS YOU!
You know the classic picture of maybe Uncle Sam or that guy from World War 1 pointing at you. However make it more game like with a controller in his hand and games in another
RECRUITMENT BEGINS NOW
UKGAMES.COM
brought to you by the leading games retailer in the world.
Explanation:
Something like that. Makes low lifers feel wanted etc..
"www.ukgames.com. The prices are so unreal that you have to wonder whether your playing a game"
This may be a little different, but what I would like to see is a "fan-art" section of this web site/magazine, i personally love drawing video game characters and I know plenty of other people do to.
You could expand this by perhaps having a monthly prize, best picture wins?.
People could either come into the store and hand in there pictures or e-mail them to you?
You could expand this by perhaps having a monthly prize, best picture wins?.
People could either come into the store and hand in there pictures or e-mail them to you?
You have a puzzle thats something like this....
"Solve the clues to find out the mystery word. To make the mystery word you must take the letter out the solved words that is the same as the question number e.g. 5) Clue- The name of the game currently at no.one answer-This is Football 2002 Letter-I because it is question 5 so the fith letter is taken out".
example______________________________________________
1)What animal is Donkey Kong?
answer- >G
answer- G>a
answer- Ha>m<... letter-m
4)The new Nintendo hand held
answer- Gam>e
____________________________________________________________
Eventually enough clues will be given and then the letters from the answers will make up the mysteryword which will be 'GAMEADAY' (from the clues above u already have the start of it....GAME). It says turn page to find answer. On the next page in big letters it will say gameaday. Underneath that it will say "www.gameaday.com" always the answer when it comes to games"
"Solve the clues to find out the mystery word. To make the mystery word you must take the letter out the solved words that is the same as the question number e.g. 5) Clue- The name of the game currently at no.one answer-This is Football 2002 Letter-I because it is question 5 so the fith letter is taken out".
example______________________________________________
1)What animal is Donkey Kong?
answer- >G
answer- G>a
answer- Ha>m<... letter-m
4)The new Nintendo hand held
answer- Gam>e
____________________________________________________________
Eventually enough clues will be given and then the letters from the answers will make up the mysteryword which will be 'GAMEADAY' (from the clues above u already have the start of it....GAME). It says turn page to find answer. On the next page in big letters it will say gameaday. Underneath that it will say "www.gameaday.com" always the answer when it comes to games"
U have a picture of a hedgehog starring into car headlights
caption "If the driver had purchsed his game from Special Reserve this hedgehog would still be alive. www.ukgames.com-the best online games store and no need to take that trip into town"
In other words what it is trying to say is that if the driver got the game from SR then he wouldn't have neede to drive and the hedgehog wouldn't of got run over.
caption "If the driver had purchsed his game from Special Reserve this hedgehog would still be alive. www.ukgames.com-the best online games store and no need to take that trip into town"
In other words what it is trying to say is that if the driver got the game from SR then he wouldn't have neede to drive and the hedgehog wouldn't of got run over.
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don't get all steamed up about game prices
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kettle at boiling point
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at specail reserve we have the lowest prises in the uk, also with our internet forum http://ukchatforums.reserve.co.uk we give away over 100 worth of dvds and game everyday just for chating!
so theres no need anymore to get hot under the collar!
don't get all steamed up about game prices
picture
kettle at boiling point
text
at specail reserve we have the lowest prises in the uk, also with our internet forum http://ukchatforums.reserve.co.uk we give away over 100 worth of dvds and game everyday just for chating!
so theres no need anymore to get hot under the collar!
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place your bets now!
picture
a game cube on the left and a x-box on the right with a 'Vs' sign in the middle of them both.
text
who will win?
get the latest gossip on the battle, chat with mates and win free games at the same time. only at http://ukchatforums.reserve.co.uk.
special reserve, the uk's no.1 game store!
explanation
refering to the open forums and gameaday which are the most used parts of the SR site.
place your bets now!
picture
a game cube on the left and a x-box on the right with a 'Vs' sign in the middle of them both.
text
who will win?
get the latest gossip on the battle, chat with mates and win free games at the same time. only at http://ukchatforums.reserve.co.uk.
special reserve, the uk's no.1 game store!
explanation
refering to the open forums and gameaday which are the most used parts of the SR site.
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