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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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If you adverised on popular web sites your advert could do this.....
Lot's of red splats appear on the screen then a giant one fills the whole screen wich says 'click here to win games'
Lot's of red splats appear on the screen then a giant one fills the whole screen wich says 'click here to win games'
You know you have the reviews in your mag.
How about a box with "Want a second opinion? ukreviews.com" in it or something.
How about sticking a few cheats on one page in the mag, then "For more cheats come to ukcheats.com" or something.
How about a box with "Want a second opinion? ukreviews.com" in it or something.
How about sticking a few cheats on one page in the mag, then "For more cheats come to ukcheats.com" or something.
Natbuc wrote:
> You could have an advert at the end of the reviews section with a red splat on a
> whole page, then on the next page another which says "Go on, turn
> over" and on the next page another which shows pictures of winners and on
> the next page another which says"You just read those reviews. You just seen
> winners of gamaday, now let us see if you can do any better. Visit
> www.gameaday.co.uk and you can post your reviews cheats and interesting comments
> on games and if their good enough you win the game of your choice! Only at
> gameaday.com
I would advise you put this in magazines.
> You could have an advert at the end of the reviews section with a red splat on a
> whole page, then on the next page another which says "Go on, turn
> over" and on the next page another which shows pictures of winners and on
> the next page another which says"You just read those reviews. You just seen
> winners of gamaday, now let us see if you can do any better. Visit
> www.gameaday.co.uk and you can post your reviews cheats and interesting comments
> on games and if their good enough you win the game of your choice! Only at
> gameaday.com
I would advise you put this in magazines.
You could have an advert at the end of the reviews section with a red splat on a whole page, then on the next page another which says "Go on, turn over" and on the next page another which shows pictures of winners and on the next page another which says"You just read those reviews. You just seen winners of gamaday, now let us see if you can do any better. Visit www.gameaday.co.uk and you can post your reviews cheats and interesting comments on games and if their good enough you win the game of your choice! Only at gameaday.com
Dr. Duck wrote:
> Yesterday, for the first time since befroe a site redesign, i think, i bought
> some stuff from SR on the web site.
Not exactly difficult, but it could have
> been a little easier in a couple of respects. In this fickle world maybe that's
> pretty important.
1. After putting something in the basket, then going back
> to look for something else, it took a little searching for the link to get back
> to the basket. Maybe if there was something slightly more obvious, eg, just
> under the advert. It'd only need to be one line of normal text deep, in a
> reasonably bold colour.
2. The joining procedure (i was re-joining with the
> order). It was a little unclear as to what actually had to be done. When i was
> picking a gift, i added membership to the basket with it, that seemed like the
> way to join (it'd been a while since the last time i did it). Then later on, i
> was asked to chose a membership package with my order, so i was kind of
> concerned as to whether i'd have 2 memberships charged, and if i'd get another
> full look at the basket to be able to check before the order was finalised.
> Maybe if i'd read all the stuff, the procedure would have been obvious, but i
> didn't, maybe i'm not the only one?
Also, it'd make sense to have a clearer
> link for joining SR like with the basket thing, maybe a line of text under the
> banner ad, split into 2 bright boxes, one for joining info, the other a link to
> the basket......
My family don't order too much over the internet as my Mum (holds credit card:-D) has been ordering over Amazon long before I found SR. And when I said try this site if you are going to buy me games etc.
The first time we bought anything on it was I think when Pokemon Stadium had been out a couple of weeks or it could of been later. But like Dr. Duck said we were joining for the first time with the order and it tooks us a good 45 minutes before we could work out what we were actually doing since we had gone back and forward trying to sort things out so much we had kinda disorientated ourselves :-D
I know that it has been changed slightly since then but obviously as Dr. Duck pointed out it could still be improved quite a bit.
> Yesterday, for the first time since befroe a site redesign, i think, i bought
> some stuff from SR on the web site.
Not exactly difficult, but it could have
> been a little easier in a couple of respects. In this fickle world maybe that's
> pretty important.
1. After putting something in the basket, then going back
> to look for something else, it took a little searching for the link to get back
> to the basket. Maybe if there was something slightly more obvious, eg, just
> under the advert. It'd only need to be one line of normal text deep, in a
> reasonably bold colour.
2. The joining procedure (i was re-joining with the
> order). It was a little unclear as to what actually had to be done. When i was
> picking a gift, i added membership to the basket with it, that seemed like the
> way to join (it'd been a while since the last time i did it). Then later on, i
> was asked to chose a membership package with my order, so i was kind of
> concerned as to whether i'd have 2 memberships charged, and if i'd get another
> full look at the basket to be able to check before the order was finalised.
> Maybe if i'd read all the stuff, the procedure would have been obvious, but i
> didn't, maybe i'm not the only one?
Also, it'd make sense to have a clearer
> link for joining SR like with the basket thing, maybe a line of text under the
> banner ad, split into 2 bright boxes, one for joining info, the other a link to
> the basket......
My family don't order too much over the internet as my Mum (holds credit card:-D) has been ordering over Amazon long before I found SR. And when I said try this site if you are going to buy me games etc.
The first time we bought anything on it was I think when Pokemon Stadium had been out a couple of weeks or it could of been later. But like Dr. Duck said we were joining for the first time with the order and it tooks us a good 45 minutes before we could work out what we were actually doing since we had gone back and forward trying to sort things out so much we had kinda disorientated ourselves :-D
I know that it has been changed slightly since then but obviously as Dr. Duck pointed out it could still be improved quite a bit.
I have another Einstein Idea:-D
....Which has just popped out of my head goddamit!!! :-( Umm.... ah jees what was it!! Oh yeah!! :-D
TITLE:
WARNING, WARNING, GAMES SUPPLY DANGEROUSLY LOW!
PICTURE:
A Very small stack of Games/DVDs. Red Warning lights flashing about etc.
TEXT:
Your Games supply is still dangerously low! Come to UKGames.com for great prices, or meet new people and win free Games. Hurry Before your games supply runs out!! :-D
EXPLANATION:
Well bit stupid yeah! But the idea is quite good just re-word the text a bit 'till it works well.
....Which has just popped out of my head goddamit!!! :-( Umm.... ah jees what was it!! Oh yeah!! :-D
TITLE:
WARNING, WARNING, GAMES SUPPLY DANGEROUSLY LOW!
PICTURE:
A Very small stack of Games/DVDs. Red Warning lights flashing about etc.
TEXT:
Your Games supply is still dangerously low! Come to UKGames.com for great prices, or meet new people and win free Games. Hurry Before your games supply runs out!! :-D
EXPLANATION:
Well bit stupid yeah! But the idea is quite good just re-word the text a bit 'till it works well.
AliBoy wrote:
> The Game wrote
The 'Inter@ction' levels are
off the scale. You could
even get a worthy member of the forums to write a
column for the mag-page
plugging the site... Anyone decent writer from Aliboy to
Zelda Pro....."
Whaddya mean from Aliboy TO Me!! :-(
> The Game wrote
The 'Inter@ction' levels are
off the scale. You could
even get a worthy member of the forums to write a
column for the mag-page
plugging the site... Anyone decent writer from Aliboy to
Zelda Pro....."
Whaddya mean from Aliboy TO Me!! :-(
The Game wrote
The 'Inter@ction' levels are
> off the scale. You could even get a worthy member of the forums to write a
> column for the mag-page plugging the site... Anyone decent writer from Aliboy to
> Zelda Pro could write their opinions of the site, the Future of Gaming itself
> and the games and/or DVD's they've won! You could even split the column into
> three parts and have 3 columns a week.
Its a great idea but I seem to think decent writer and AliBoy don't seem to go together. : )
The 'Inter@ction' levels are
> off the scale. You could even get a worthy member of the forums to write a
> column for the mag-page plugging the site... Anyone decent writer from Aliboy to
> Zelda Pro could write their opinions of the site, the Future of Gaming itself
> and the games and/or DVD's they've won! You could even split the column into
> three parts and have 3 columns a week.
Its a great idea but I seem to think decent writer and AliBoy don't seem to go together. : )
Why do I get the feeling that some people aren't reading the competition details.... ;-)
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