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1) Flood the search engines with adverts for 'free £30 Amazon voucher' for any search. Even fish.
2) Send people round the streets with big billboards on them saying 'the end of the world is nigh...but you could win £30 of vouchers with Freeola Chat'
3) Put up billboard posters on every bus stop in the country while no-one is looking.
4) Give out T-shirts to current members saying 'CHAT.FREEOLA.COM FREE £30 VOUCHER' in big letters and order them to wear it at least once a week. (those who wear it every day will get a free deodorant spray)
5) Create a furry mascot advertising the site and do a deal with McDonalds to give it away in a Happy Meal.
6) Hire a zepplin and write 'FREEOLA CHAT WIN A £30 VOUCHER' on it, then fly it around the UK.
7) Phone in to Radio 1 and local radio stations to enter every competition, then blurt out the website live on the radio.
8) Hire a streaker to run across various sporting events with the website tattooed on them somewhere on their body.
2) Send people round the streets with big billboards on them saying 'the end of the world is nigh...but you could win £30 of vouchers with Freeola Chat'
3) Put up billboard posters on every bus stop in the country while no-one is looking.
4) Give out T-shirts to current members saying 'CHAT.FREEOLA.COM FREE £30 VOUCHER' in big letters and order them to wear it at least once a week. (those who wear it every day will get a free deodorant spray)
5) Create a furry mascot advertising the site and do a deal with McDonalds to give it away in a Happy Meal.
6) Hire a zepplin and write 'FREEOLA CHAT WIN A £30 VOUCHER' on it, then fly it around the UK.
7) Phone in to Radio 1 and local radio stations to enter every competition, then blurt out the website live on the radio.
8) Hire a streaker to run across various sporting events with the website tattooed on them somewhere on their body.
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True. It needs to be something different and defined...
As long as you dont mind having the reviews spread over 5 forums, you could put mobile phone and mp3 player reviews in the
Sounds confusing though.
[B]Movies and TV[/B] forum. Graphic Cards and DVD Writer reviews in the Web Development forum and Digital Camera reviews in the [B]Creative Writing & Design[/B] forum.Sounds confusing though.
That's what the games forum is for. If we're going to have it in forum form, then we might as well not bother and just use the ones we've got.
I dunno, i prefer the forum idea as that way people can give feedback and their opinions on a game whereas maybe they can't be bothered to do a full review but still want to talk about it
I'd rather we had a section similar to the cheat and walkthrough sections. I don't fancy the idea of a forum for reviews.
Wow, so many replies from a semi-tongue in cheek topic!
I think that there is another way to look at this reviews thing. A few have asked 'what's in it for freeola?' (bar the obvious attracting people to the site and thus to their webhosting etc). Well, perhaps the reviews don't need to go in a forum. Perhaps they need a whole new section.
What I mean is, Freeola would do well to supply games news. Maybe as a weekly opt-in newsletter and a single page on their website. Then they would simply list new games on each format (maybe with the formats split as in the cheats and FAQs sections here) and people could post reviews underneath. It would be similar to the old SR style system but would be based around current news-based gaming sites.
Why? Well, look at the traffic on Gamespot and IGN. These are the two main gaming news sites and get tons of traffic per day. Add more links to paying customer sites and Freeola has some more revenue coming in, plus they get some more customers of their own if the web hosting is plastered around the site.
Ok, it means more staff dedicated to gaming (again), but I can't see where it would go wrong if you used word-of-mouth and had good game reviews.
I think that there is another way to look at this reviews thing. A few have asked 'what's in it for freeola?' (bar the obvious attracting people to the site and thus to their webhosting etc). Well, perhaps the reviews don't need to go in a forum. Perhaps they need a whole new section.
What I mean is, Freeola would do well to supply games news. Maybe as a weekly opt-in newsletter and a single page on their website. Then they would simply list new games on each format (maybe with the formats split as in the cheats and FAQs sections here) and people could post reviews underneath. It would be similar to the old SR style system but would be based around current news-based gaming sites.
Why? Well, look at the traffic on Gamespot and IGN. These are the two main gaming news sites and get tons of traffic per day. Add more links to paying customer sites and Freeola has some more revenue coming in, plus they get some more customers of their own if the web hosting is plastered around the site.
Ok, it means more staff dedicated to gaming (again), but I can't see where it would go wrong if you used word-of-mouth and had good game reviews.
Machie wrote:
> Ah that's good to know ST :) you did many reviews on SR?
Yup I did a fair few, definitely improved as I went and picked up a nice amount GADs. :-)
> Ah that's good to know ST :) you did many reviews on SR?
Yup I did a fair few, definitely improved as I went and picked up a nice amount GADs. :-)
Silent Thunder wrote:
> A review forum sounds like a good idea to me: it'd definitely get
> me, and I'm sure others, contributing more.
Ah that's good to know ST :) you did many reviews on SR? I only ever did 3 but was lucky enough to win 2 GADs. Some real skill involved writing a good review.
> A review forum sounds like a good idea to me: it'd definitely get
> me, and I'm sure others, contributing more.
Ah that's good to know ST :) you did many reviews on SR? I only ever did 3 but was lucky enough to win 2 GADs. Some real skill involved writing a good review.
A review forum sounds like a good idea to me: it'd definitely get me, and I'm sure others, contributing more.
Kawada wrote:
> I only gave Enthusia Racing 6/10 and was pretty harsh on it yet
> still won so i think it was more about the quality of the review
> than the score, or the fact i bribed the staffie with chocolate
> cake at that time
Enthusia Racing was a great game, what are you talking about :P
> I only gave Enthusia Racing 6/10 and was pretty harsh on it yet
> still won so i think it was more about the quality of the review
> than the score, or the fact i bribed the staffie with chocolate
> cake at that time
Enthusia Racing was a great game, what are you talking about :P
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