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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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Idea numero 2:
Headline:
Treasure Hunt!
Text:
Come to ukchatforums and take part in our treasure hunt and you could be the winner of any game of your choice! Simply follow the clues, find the right threads, and that game could be yours!
Picture:
A pirate, or a treasure chest. Ideally a pirate standing by a treasure chest, with the treasure chest slightly open, and much gold inside it, with the pirate having a peg-leg and a hook hand and an eye patch, and a pirates hat.
Explanation:
First there's the initial 'Treasure Hunt EEGAD' thread, this tells you to find a line in a thread, posted somewhere in the last 24 hours. When you find that line, you simply have to post something in the same thread - though you wouldn't really want to give it away to everyone, so it would be best to try to keep to the thread content! Each day (maybe every other day, or 2 or 3 a week) a new line must found. This will run for a period of time, so that maybe 10 lines in total would have to be found. This will keep people that spotted the first one coming back to find another, and by the time they've found all 10, they'll be hooked!
Once all 10 lines have been searched out, to enter you have to post a list of the thread titles that the treasure hunt line was found in, in the original thread, and have posted in each of the threads that the line was found in.
Sounds a little complex, but as people would have to keep coming back if they wanted to win, it might be effective!
Headline:
Treasure Hunt!
Text:
Come to ukchatforums and take part in our treasure hunt and you could be the winner of any game of your choice! Simply follow the clues, find the right threads, and that game could be yours!
Picture:
A pirate, or a treasure chest. Ideally a pirate standing by a treasure chest, with the treasure chest slightly open, and much gold inside it, with the pirate having a peg-leg and a hook hand and an eye patch, and a pirates hat.
Explanation:
First there's the initial 'Treasure Hunt EEGAD' thread, this tells you to find a line in a thread, posted somewhere in the last 24 hours. When you find that line, you simply have to post something in the same thread - though you wouldn't really want to give it away to everyone, so it would be best to try to keep to the thread content! Each day (maybe every other day, or 2 or 3 a week) a new line must found. This will run for a period of time, so that maybe 10 lines in total would have to be found. This will keep people that spotted the first one coming back to find another, and by the time they've found all 10, they'll be hooked!
Once all 10 lines have been searched out, to enter you have to post a list of the thread titles that the treasure hunt line was found in, in the original thread, and have posted in each of the threads that the line was found in.
Sounds a little complex, but as people would have to keep coming back if they wanted to win, it might be effective!
Okay, I've got an idea, needs a little work, but it might just work....
Headline:
Be in the right place, at the right time.
Text:
Come to ukchatforums and you may find yourself with an oportunity to get instant deals! If you're amongst the first to post in the instant deal threads that pop up periodically, you'll be offered that deal! You also have the chance to win 2 games and a DVD movie every day of the week in our Gameaday competitions! Come to www.gameaday.co.uk for further details.
Explanation.
During the day, maybe once a day, or less often a thread will appear, started by a staff member entitled Instant Deal! (Or similar) The first person (or number of people) that post in the thread get the opportunity to take up that particular offer.
The offers could vary, such as 10% off ANY software purchase, to ANY GBA game for just £15. Maybe have a hardware special too, Extra 20% off RAM to the first person to post in this thread!
Have terms and conditions that state the 'winner' must take up the offer within a week or something to stop it from becoming too much of an administrative nightmare!
Headline:
Be in the right place, at the right time.
Text:
Come to ukchatforums and you may find yourself with an oportunity to get instant deals! If you're amongst the first to post in the instant deal threads that pop up periodically, you'll be offered that deal! You also have the chance to win 2 games and a DVD movie every day of the week in our Gameaday competitions! Come to www.gameaday.co.uk for further details.
Explanation.
During the day, maybe once a day, or less often a thread will appear, started by a staff member entitled Instant Deal! (Or similar) The first person (or number of people) that post in the thread get the opportunity to take up that particular offer.
The offers could vary, such as 10% off ANY software purchase, to ANY GBA game for just £15. Maybe have a hardware special too, Extra 20% off RAM to the first person to post in this thread!
Have terms and conditions that state the 'winner' must take up the offer within a week or something to stop it from becoming too much of an administrative nightmare!
I would do more advertising outside of the mag also. Most people that have the mag must know about this place and what it has to offer, as there is an ad for the site every few days.
Search the net for peoples game homepages, and email them asking to get on their links page, with a bit saying about the GAD.
Search the net for peoples game homepages, and email them asking to get on their links page, with a bit saying about the GAD.
Offer reddies for recommendations, like tell a friend, and when they post 30 posts you get a reddie...
or a GAD for when they become a regular
Give people more of an incentive to tell their friends. I guess at the moment a reason might be that people dont want to tell people, as it lessens the chances of a gad for them...
or a GAD for when they become a regular
Give people more of an incentive to tell their friends. I guess at the moment a reason might be that people dont want to tell people, as it lessens the chances of a gad for them...
don't think I can top any of these good suggestions, marketing or anything relating to it is not my strong point.
Come join the likes of : (insert some names of regulars and notables here)
and find out what you didn't know about games!
Come join the likes of : (insert some names of regulars and notables here)
and find out what you didn't know about games!
Ok, a mix and match one this.
White background with big black letters, centred.
WIN
{picture of a game}
CHAT
{picture of two people holding a conversation}
BUY
{picture of pc and consoles and games}
VISIT
WWW.UKGAMES.COM
Explanation
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People have limited attention spans and will simply flick through adverts in magazines, so you need something big and bold to get their attention. The word/picture association will catch their eye and as there are less words to read, many people will get the idea. Also, having the website address in bold letters after the word VISIT will hopefully imprint this on their brains.
White background with big black letters, centred.
WIN
{picture of a game}
CHAT
{picture of two people holding a conversation}
BUY
{picture of pc and consoles and games}
VISIT
WWW.UKGAMES.COM
Explanation
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People have limited attention spans and will simply flick through adverts in magazines, so you need something big and bold to get their attention. The word/picture association will catch their eye and as there are less words to read, many people will get the idea. Also, having the website address in bold letters after the word VISIT will hopefully imprint this on their brains.
> > Headline
NERD ALERT!
Picture
A group of nerdish looking men working away at their computers. Or one big nerd.
Text
Not getting called a NERD as much as you would like, then you need a bit more power in your PC. Check out ukpcparts.com and they will supply you with all the RAM and MHz you need to begin the major steps to becoming a Nerd.
NERD ALERT!
Picture
A group of nerdish looking men working away at their computers. Or one big nerd.
Text
Not getting called a NERD as much as you would like, then you need a bit more power in your PC. Check out ukpcparts.com and they will supply you with all the RAM and MHz you need to begin the major steps to becoming a Nerd.
Of course there are parts of the site other than Gameaday, so we could think of ideas to promote them too!
Here is my idea
http://www.geocities.com/stef_sharratt/eegad.gif
Explanation
Straight to the point, will grab the consumers eye and they will say to themselves, "I want a free game as well". I think if you have an advert, place the most emphasis on actually winning a game.
http://www.geocities.com/stef_sharratt/eegad.gif
Explanation
Straight to the point, will grab the consumers eye and they will say to themselves, "I want a free game as well". I think if you have an advert, place the most emphasis on actually winning a game.
Headline: Winning games for chatting and having fun..
Text: SPecial Reserve give away 2 games and 1 DVD to seperate people every day for hot topics and reviews! Some of Britains most intelligent gamers write here.
Picture: Man/ Lady thinking while scratching head because he is surrounded by games to pick. (I will illustrate soon)
Text: SPecial Reserve give away 2 games and 1 DVD to seperate people every day for hot topics and reviews! Some of Britains most intelligent gamers write here.
Picture: Man/ Lady thinking while scratching head because he is surrounded by games to pick. (I will illustrate soon)
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