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"EXTRA EXTRA GAMEADAY PRIZE (October 2001 Magnetism)"

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?

IMAGE:
Any game related picture

TEXT:
The person who made this advert we gave a game.
The creator was a visitor to our site.
We give 2 games and 1 film EVERY single day.
I know it seems farfetched...
I know it seems like there is a catch.
You are in for a shock when you visit our site..
WWW.GAMEADAY.CO.UK

EXPLANATION:
encourages people to check out the site through the promises. Also adds a bit of reality by presenting something someone has won for.

TEXT:
Looking at this advert you may think we are not to be trusted.
You've never probably heard of us.
You have no idea of the fun you are missing
Visiting UKGAMES.COM could be the most important decision of your life.
You could be paying considerably less for games then the RRP price.
You could be winning games.
You could be chatting about games.
Sadly words cannot express what SPECIAL RESERVE is like.
The truth is you have to experience it for yourself

PICTURE:
UKGAMES.COM BANNER. Complete advert is black with white text. Accompany with Darkus' version of SR towers (The PS2)

EXPLANATION:
This advert strives on people's curiosity. It may not seem much but the advert is so mysterious that people skimming through the pages see the picture which looks unsual and interesting. They then read the text. They then go to the site because they are interested in what it is.

People are weak. Use it against them!

Oh, I mucked it didn't I? EEGAD's aren't my thing :(

> Headline
What are you missing??

Picture
Quite a few female models (could be a computer images if you wish) with very little on : ) but covering the all important areas (no not their eyes) ie censored signs over the private areas.

Text
Come to www.gameaday.co.uk (or other webpage) to see what you are missing.

Explanation
As we all know sex sells. The majority of sr customers will be male so this will stand out and be noticed.

Do you want games for free?

Text
All it takes to win 2 games or a DVD of your choice every day at gameaday.co.uk is to write reviews. With 3 wins a day, hundreds of members and over £20,000 worth of games and DVD's given away, you can't go wrong. Visit www.gameaday.co.uk now!

Picture
Virtual girl in suggestive pose

Explanation
Aside from our 3 prizes each day, we regularly run competitions for prizes. For instance, we've already had a Singing Competition and a "Create Your Own User" Competition, both of which were very successful. Gameaday gives the opportunity to yourself in new ways.

Headline
Max Games

Picture
Max Payne in a cool pose diving with guns ablazing

Text
Max Payne knows a good games retailer when I sees one. Only *insertcurrentpricehere* for a copy of the best game of the year?! And you don't even have to live near our shops to buy from us. Check out ukgames.com.

Explanation
People see Max Payne associate you with being cool. A little info. A great price. Visit site in curiosity.

Joe_Poly wrote:
> LoL at AliBoy's idea!

What's so funny about it?

Headline
We can make you famous!

Text
It's easy! Just go to our website ukgames.com and review one of the many games we sell. The best ones will be published in our club magazine complete with your name!

Picture
Lots of famous people including Britney Spears, Eminem, Tom Cruise etc...

Explanation
This would draw in new good writers to the website. Good writers will come to review products in the hope they can get their work printed in the magazine. Maybe you could replace your product reviews in the back of your magazine with peoples reviews. People can trust them to be less biased so you can make money as well. Go on..

Wildlight wrote:
> can we post as many entrys as we want and you add them all up at the end or do
> we do the lot in one big post?

well??????

LoL at AliBoy's idea!