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Right, sorry for the delay on judging this one but we've had a bit of a mad Christmas and New Year so it was for your own good. Not quite so many entries for this (to be honest, it was quite a tricky one) and a fair few of you missed the point entirely - the idea was to get people to join the club, not to get them to Gameaday!
Anyway, from the entries we did receive, Dr.Duck wins for his in-depth look at the logistics of the chain e-mail and The Game wins for his 'matey' writing style. Well done both of you! You can both choose a Game or DVD from our database up to the value of £25!
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It's time we got up to some mischief.
What we need is a Chain e-mail letter. One of those things which arrives at your address and then you forward it to thirty six of your mates and two weeks later a freebie arrives through your letterbox.
Imagine that for each new member who joins Special Reserve we have a couple of quid to pay for rewards.
THE ORIGINATOR send the e-mail to 10 friends.
The ten friends can either JOIN or PASS.
To PASS they must send the e-mail on to another 10 friends, but just as favour to the ORIGINATOR.
If they JOIN then they can become an ORIGINATOR and send off their own e-mail to 10 friends.
With luck one originator will get their message across to quite a lot of people - especially if the message is interesting or humorous enough for people to pass on.
For each person who joins, we send the originator a £2 voucher towards games and stuff.
(the above is just a simple first stab at this to suggest the possibilities)
This contest is two-fold.
You can win one EXTRA GAMEADAY if you can specify exactly the right way to go about this. Something very similar to the above, but well thought out. An idea which will work.
You can win one EXTRA GAMEADAY if you can write the e-mail for the scheme you outline, or for the scheme outlined above. The important things are to make people join and to be interesting enough to pass the e-mail on.
Competition closes in Mid December.
It's a bit complex to write out your answers and ideas in this thread quite carefully and we'll see who comes up with the best concepts and approaches to this.
Quite a challenge - I wonder if anybody will enter?
Anyway, from the entries we did receive, Dr.Duck wins for his in-depth look at the logistics of the chain e-mail and The Game wins for his 'matey' writing style. Well done both of you! You can both choose a Game or DVD from our database up to the value of £25!
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It's time we got up to some mischief.
What we need is a Chain e-mail letter. One of those things which arrives at your address and then you forward it to thirty six of your mates and two weeks later a freebie arrives through your letterbox.
Imagine that for each new member who joins Special Reserve we have a couple of quid to pay for rewards.
THE ORIGINATOR send the e-mail to 10 friends.
The ten friends can either JOIN or PASS.
To PASS they must send the e-mail on to another 10 friends, but just as favour to the ORIGINATOR.
If they JOIN then they can become an ORIGINATOR and send off their own e-mail to 10 friends.
With luck one originator will get their message across to quite a lot of people - especially if the message is interesting or humorous enough for people to pass on.
For each person who joins, we send the originator a £2 voucher towards games and stuff.
(the above is just a simple first stab at this to suggest the possibilities)
This contest is two-fold.
You can win one EXTRA GAMEADAY if you can specify exactly the right way to go about this. Something very similar to the above, but well thought out. An idea which will work.
You can win one EXTRA GAMEADAY if you can write the e-mail for the scheme you outline, or for the scheme outlined above. The important things are to make people join and to be interesting enough to pass the e-mail on.
Competition closes in Mid December.
It's a bit complex to write out your answers and ideas in this thread quite carefully and we'll see who comes up with the best concepts and approaches to this.
Quite a challenge - I wonder if anybody will enter?
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you could have waited at least a week to go and win FM
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This will be going out around Christmas time, so a simple subject heading of 'Merry Christmas!' might suffice enough to encourage them to at least open the e-mail.
If webby could wangle it the email could have a Christmas theme as a background (maybe a Christmas tree, tinsel, baubles, that kind of thing, with maybe three or four consoles and a PC lying underneath it so that the correct audience is then targetted).
The link in the e-mail leading to the SR membership form webpage could have a suffix code denoting the originator, and there could be an extra page on the SR website for members who wish to become originators just by applying for their own personalised link. They could also have an option to edit certain parts of the text (for sending to Sony/PC/Nintendo/XBox fans as required).
A sample message from me to my personal circle of 300+ gaming addicts would go something like:
"Hi,
Seasons Greetings! Hope you're looking forward to a great Christmas and some great games to go along with it. Here's a quick tip, grab a free game or peripheral for your PS2 from Special Reserve just for becoming a member!
Choose from Tomb Raider, TOCA Touring Cars, Ridge Racer Revolution, WWF Warzone, or perhaps you'd go for that DVD remote control or vertical stand that you've been promising yourself!
Once you're a member you of course get all the attention
and discounts that other members get, but ALSO you can then send this e-mail out to your circle of friends and benefit from [a free Reddie/£2 off your next purchase/night out with Ali/insert incentive here] for each one that also becomes a member!
Just think, you only need [x] number of mates to sign up and you've got yourself another FREE game for your PS2 collection!
Here's the link:
http://special.reserve.co.uk/common/membership/join.phpID=FM
Here's wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Gaming Year :)
FM"
Because all the e-mails would originate from the SR Website (you'd type the e-mails of whom you wish the letter to be sent out to on the origination page) it couldn't be considered a chain e-mail, more of a 'greetings card' system, which would be much less offensive to most people.
If you can't get it going before Christmas (and methinks it's a lot of programming, even for Webby considering he's got to get the Christmas lights up still), then the wording can be changed appropriately, with 'specials' being produced for different times of year (Valentine's Day, Easter, Lent, Ramadan, Summer Holidays, Yom Kippur, Birthdays, etc.).
If webby could wangle it the email could have a Christmas theme as a background (maybe a Christmas tree, tinsel, baubles, that kind of thing, with maybe three or four consoles and a PC lying underneath it so that the correct audience is then targetted).
The link in the e-mail leading to the SR membership form webpage could have a suffix code denoting the originator, and there could be an extra page on the SR website for members who wish to become originators just by applying for their own personalised link. They could also have an option to edit certain parts of the text (for sending to Sony/PC/Nintendo/XBox fans as required).
A sample message from me to my personal circle of 300+ gaming addicts would go something like:
"Hi,
Seasons Greetings! Hope you're looking forward to a great Christmas and some great games to go along with it. Here's a quick tip, grab a free game or peripheral for your PS2 from Special Reserve just for becoming a member!
Choose from Tomb Raider, TOCA Touring Cars, Ridge Racer Revolution, WWF Warzone, or perhaps you'd go for that DVD remote control or vertical stand that you've been promising yourself!
Once you're a member you of course get all the attention
and discounts that other members get, but ALSO you can then send this e-mail out to your circle of friends and benefit from [a free Reddie/£2 off your next purchase/night out with Ali/insert incentive here] for each one that also becomes a member!
Just think, you only need [x] number of mates to sign up and you've got yourself another FREE game for your PS2 collection!
Here's the link:
http://special.reserve.co.uk/common/membership/join.phpID=FM
Here's wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Gaming Year :)
FM"
Because all the e-mails would originate from the SR Website (you'd type the e-mails of whom you wish the letter to be sent out to on the origination page) it couldn't be considered a chain e-mail, more of a 'greetings card' system, which would be much less offensive to most people.
If you can't get it going before Christmas (and methinks it's a lot of programming, even for Webby considering he's got to get the Christmas lights up still), then the wording can be changed appropriately, with 'specials' being produced for different times of year (Valentine's Day, Easter, Lent, Ramadan, Summer Holidays, Yom Kippur, Birthdays, etc.).
The Game wrote:
> JaCeeUK copied my ''Delete the 'Fwd:'' thing...
PLAYGARIST!
Game: GAD
> Total 10! :D
Of course I didn't, it just obvious to put that!
> JaCeeUK copied my ''Delete the 'Fwd:'' thing...
PLAYGARIST!
Game: GAD
> Total 10! :D
Of course I didn't, it just obvious to put that!
JaCeeUK copied my ''Delete the 'Fwd:'' thing...
PLAYGARIST!
Game: GAD Total 10! :D
PLAYGARIST!
Game: GAD Total 10! :D
http://www.geocities.com/quicklink_fog
As mine contains a few pictures I've made a link for what my SR email would say, it's Subject would be called:
Whatever you do, Do not Read This...
(reverse psychology is a brilliant thing :)
Not the SR colours, and note that I sway the readers mind from the money side of things with a few tricks.
Also note how I write the email as a 13 year old boy not a business man...
As mine contains a few pictures I've made a link for what my SR email would say, it's Subject would be called:
Whatever you do, Do not Read This...
(reverse psychology is a brilliant thing :)
Not the SR colours, and note that I sway the readers mind from the money side of things with a few tricks.
Also note how I write the email as a 13 year old boy not a business man...
Subject: I Want to give you a free game or DVD, today!
message:
You have been recommended my a friend to be in with a chance of claiming the game or dvd of your choice, every day of the year.
Once a member, just come down to Gameaday.co.uk,then visit one of the many chat forums, or review a product for your chance to win.
Your friend must think your a talented writer, or a big gamer, if they desided to send you this welcome message, so dont let them down, come to gameaday.
To take advantage of this once in a lifetime offer, simply send this email to 15 of your friends. Once they have received the email, and become members themselfs, you will be able to join the special reserve online community. you will also get a £2 discount voucher, as a little extra christmas present from us, just to let you know how nice we are.
Gameaday.co.uk, part of the special reserve discount network - Will see you soon!
________________________________________________________
If you are intrested, you may consider visiting one of our many other sites:
ukgames.com
ukdvd.com
freeola.com
ukchatforums.com
ukcheats.com
ukreviews.com
message:
You have been recommended my a friend to be in with a chance of claiming the game or dvd of your choice, every day of the year.
Once a member, just come down to Gameaday.co.uk,then visit one of the many chat forums, or review a product for your chance to win.
Your friend must think your a talented writer, or a big gamer, if they desided to send you this welcome message, so dont let them down, come to gameaday.
To take advantage of this once in a lifetime offer, simply send this email to 15 of your friends. Once they have received the email, and become members themselfs, you will be able to join the special reserve online community. you will also get a £2 discount voucher, as a little extra christmas present from us, just to let you know how nice we are.
Gameaday.co.uk, part of the special reserve discount network - Will see you soon!
________________________________________________________
If you are intrested, you may consider visiting one of our many other sites:
ukgames.com
ukdvd.com
freeola.com
ukchatforums.com
ukcheats.com
ukreviews.com
Subject: I Want to give you a free game or DVD, today!
message:
You have been recommended my a friend to be in with a chance of claiming the game or dvd of your choice, every day of the year.
Just come down to Gameaday.co.uk, sign up and become a member for free, then visit one of the many chat forums, or review a product for your chance to win.
Your friend must think your a talented writer, or a big gamer, if they desided to send you this welcome message, so dont let them down, come to gameaday.
Gameaday.co.uk, part of the special reserve discount network - Will see you soon!
________________________________________________________
If you are intrested, you may consider visiting one of our many other sites:
ukgames.com
ukdvd.com
freeola.com
ukchatforums.com
ukcheats.com
ukreviews.com
message:
You have been recommended my a friend to be in with a chance of claiming the game or dvd of your choice, every day of the year.
Just come down to Gameaday.co.uk, sign up and become a member for free, then visit one of the many chat forums, or review a product for your chance to win.
Your friend must think your a talented writer, or a big gamer, if they desided to send you this welcome message, so dont let them down, come to gameaday.
Gameaday.co.uk, part of the special reserve discount network - Will see you soon!
________________________________________________________
If you are intrested, you may consider visiting one of our many other sites:
ukgames.com
ukdvd.com
freeola.com
ukchatforums.com
ukcheats.com
ukreviews.com
Do we have to start off the chain mail now? I will if we can...
Subject: Why aren't you a member?
Special Reserve, the BEST value on the net for games and DVDs. You join, and you get big discounts on all the latest releases in the gaming and film world. All it costs is £7 a year. You'll make it back in no time, whether your interest is films or games! As well as this, Special Reserve offers the best forums on the net! Win, win, win! Yes, that's right, 2 Games and 1 DVD are given away every single day - It's all part of the Special Reserve service. Check out:
www.ukgames.com
www.ukdvd.com
www.ukchatforums.com
If you want to join this, write your own e-mail about Special Reserve and send it to 10 other people, and SR will send you a £2 discount on your next purchase. Why not, eh? If not, that's fine, but do us a favour. Forward this onto 10 other people. Cheers.
Et,voila. My first attempt.
Special Reserve, the BEST value on the net for games and DVDs. You join, and you get big discounts on all the latest releases in the gaming and film world. All it costs is £7 a year. You'll make it back in no time, whether your interest is films or games! As well as this, Special Reserve offers the best forums on the net! Win, win, win! Yes, that's right, 2 Games and 1 DVD are given away every single day - It's all part of the Special Reserve service. Check out:
www.ukgames.com
www.ukdvd.com
www.ukchatforums.com
If you want to join this, write your own e-mail about Special Reserve and send it to 10 other people, and SR will send you a £2 discount on your next purchase. Why not, eh? If not, that's fine, but do us a favour. Forward this onto 10 other people. Cheers.
Et,voila. My first attempt.
I have the love bug sitting in my inbox, is this wise??
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