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Greetings once more - your favourite supplemental GAD fest is back again, taunting you with prizes you probably won't win like a carrot in front of a donkey. If you didn't love it, you wouldn't keep coming back.
Something a little different this time, in that this competition actually requires you to think a little rather than splatter your 'artistic' daubings on a banner :) What we'd like you to do is come up with some ways in which Special Reserve could promote themselves effectively. Bear in mind we haven't exactly got the backing of the Sultan of Brunei, we'd like you to drop us a few ideas on how best to get across the fact that Special Reserve are cheap, reliable and have a wide product range.
This could be improvements to ways we currently run things, new product ranges you think would appeal to our customers (bear in mind we currently sell rather a lot of stuff - see left sidestrip), new exciting ways to advertise our existing offers or just any ideas that have been floating round your head. Is there some range of products you just can't get hold of that would be perfect for us to sell? Let us know!
Post your ideas in this thread and we'll announce a winner at around the end of February, let's say the 27th. The best suggestions will win whatever prizes we give them, most probably yer standard £25/£50 GAD prize.
(And before anyone brings it up, yes we do think about this stuff ourselves, but we wanted to see what you lot think as well. So button it!)
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And the winner is..... phi11ip, for the following suggestion:
"Here's an idea, and if carried out correctly could be very beneficial. I've got a nice example too just to prove to you just how beneficial it is. www.staghosting.com was a free hosting service set up last year with the intention of boosting the ratings of a a few sites belonging to a company, one of these sites was www.actiondays.co.uk. Basically, unlike your free hosting, this hosting only offered hosting to domain names, you get 200MB disk space and 4 Gig bandwidth a month, you can upload from any connection unlike Freeola. So basically the company which has nothing to do with hosting has just set up a hosting site, sounds stupid doesn't it? What the requirements of this free hosting are though is that you must display a couple of small text links on your site, on mine you can see them on the links section on the side of the page. Google counts each link as a 'vote' and increases the pagerank of the site in question meaning that it shows up higher in searches, I see you've got 'cheap games' pretty much sorted but you don't show up anywhere when 'PS2 games' is typed in. If people were to display these text links on their sites it would soon make you appear high up on the search results. www.actiondays.co.uk was absolutely nowhere when it started, it had a low pagerank and didn't appear on searches. Have a look now though and you'll see that searching for 'corporate event' on Google.com returns the site as number 2 out of 6,500,000. Think about it. You've already got the hosting capabilities, all it would require is a server and someone to monitor the sites every now and then to make sure the links are there."
Congratulations and well done to everyone who entered.
Something a little different this time, in that this competition actually requires you to think a little rather than splatter your 'artistic' daubings on a banner :) What we'd like you to do is come up with some ways in which Special Reserve could promote themselves effectively. Bear in mind we haven't exactly got the backing of the Sultan of Brunei, we'd like you to drop us a few ideas on how best to get across the fact that Special Reserve are cheap, reliable and have a wide product range.
This could be improvements to ways we currently run things, new product ranges you think would appeal to our customers (bear in mind we currently sell rather a lot of stuff - see left sidestrip), new exciting ways to advertise our existing offers or just any ideas that have been floating round your head. Is there some range of products you just can't get hold of that would be perfect for us to sell? Let us know!
Post your ideas in this thread and we'll announce a winner at around the end of February, let's say the 27th. The best suggestions will win whatever prizes we give them, most probably yer standard £25/£50 GAD prize.
(And before anyone brings it up, yes we do think about this stuff ourselves, but we wanted to see what you lot think as well. So button it!)
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And the winner is..... phi11ip, for the following suggestion:
"Here's an idea, and if carried out correctly could be very beneficial. I've got a nice example too just to prove to you just how beneficial it is. www.staghosting.com was a free hosting service set up last year with the intention of boosting the ratings of a a few sites belonging to a company, one of these sites was www.actiondays.co.uk. Basically, unlike your free hosting, this hosting only offered hosting to domain names, you get 200MB disk space and 4 Gig bandwidth a month, you can upload from any connection unlike Freeola. So basically the company which has nothing to do with hosting has just set up a hosting site, sounds stupid doesn't it? What the requirements of this free hosting are though is that you must display a couple of small text links on your site, on mine you can see them on the links section on the side of the page. Google counts each link as a 'vote' and increases the pagerank of the site in question meaning that it shows up higher in searches, I see you've got 'cheap games' pretty much sorted but you don't show up anywhere when 'PS2 games' is typed in. If people were to display these text links on their sites it would soon make you appear high up on the search results. www.actiondays.co.uk was absolutely nowhere when it started, it had a low pagerank and didn't appear on searches. Have a look now though and you'll see that searching for 'corporate event' on Google.com returns the site as number 2 out of 6,500,000. Think about it. You've already got the hosting capabilities, all it would require is a server and someone to monitor the sites every now and then to make sure the links are there."
Congratulations and well done to everyone who entered.
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ÂLŠ†ÂÎR wrote:
> If she can't afford a PS2 how will she be able to afford a party AND a
> PS2?
They rent the PS2?
I think the parties are a really cruel idea. I mean first the kid finds out he's not getting a PS2/Xbox whatever, then he gets to play one for a few hours before having it all snatched away....
> If she can't afford a PS2 how will she be able to afford a party AND a
> PS2?
They rent the PS2?
I think the parties are a really cruel idea. I mean first the kid finds out he's not getting a PS2/Xbox whatever, then he gets to play one for a few hours before having it all snatched away....
Last night, while drooling over various PC parts (with a view to building one) I had an idea I can only describe as 'Bo-Shank'.
A while ago I was drooling over customised pool cues. One company has a web site where you can specify what you want from the cue, right down to the types of wood, splices, veneers and tips. And it gives you a picture of what it'd look like.
Then at the end it tells you what it costs.
http://www.cuewizard.com/Wizard.html
Why not have a custom PC builder on the web-site?
You go through a series of steps for each part of the pc required - monitor, case, motherboard, processor, all the rest.
There are a number of choices available, each affects the price as appropriate, and at the end you have a custom pc package to order.
Obviously you would have to restrict the options available for each part of the finished package, as there is so much available, but you could still offer an effective service. Cutting down the options would probably even be appreciated by the less knowledgable market!
An example could be like this:
-Select PC case:
Standard option: [Model Name], £ Price ----- [Check box]
Budget option: [Model Name], £ Price ----- [Check box]
Mini Case option 1: [Model Name], £ Price ----- [Check box]
Mini Caes option 2: [Model Name], £ Price ----- [Check box]
Better/expensive option 1: [Model Name], £ Price ----- [Check box]
Better/expensive option 2: [Model Name], £ Price ----- [Check box]
[OKAY]
(Click okay, goes to new page for next option, shows picture of selected items)
-Select motherboard
.....
[OKAY]
(skip for case with built in motherboard, of course)
(click okay, goes to next page, shows updated picture)
Repeat as necessary for stuff like:
Processor
Ammount of RAM
CD drive
HDD
Monitor (big screen and flat screen options in various sizes)
Software (operating system, MS office or equivalent)
Keyboard, mouse
Sound card, graphics card, modem
Extras (various available extra bits and pieces)
Probably a bit of a job to make one, but it would be a unique service and I imagine well worth the effort.
I have some more clear ideas about it, so if you wanted to give it a go I'd be glad to try to help.
Bo Shank indeed.
A while ago I was drooling over customised pool cues. One company has a web site where you can specify what you want from the cue, right down to the types of wood, splices, veneers and tips. And it gives you a picture of what it'd look like.
Then at the end it tells you what it costs.
http://www.cuewizard.com/Wizard.html
Why not have a custom PC builder on the web-site?
You go through a series of steps for each part of the pc required - monitor, case, motherboard, processor, all the rest.
There are a number of choices available, each affects the price as appropriate, and at the end you have a custom pc package to order.
Obviously you would have to restrict the options available for each part of the finished package, as there is so much available, but you could still offer an effective service. Cutting down the options would probably even be appreciated by the less knowledgable market!
An example could be like this:
-Select PC case:
Standard option: [Model Name], £ Price ----- [Check box]
Budget option: [Model Name], £ Price ----- [Check box]
Mini Case option 1: [Model Name], £ Price ----- [Check box]
Mini Caes option 2: [Model Name], £ Price ----- [Check box]
Better/expensive option 1: [Model Name], £ Price ----- [Check box]
Better/expensive option 2: [Model Name], £ Price ----- [Check box]
[OKAY]
(Click okay, goes to new page for next option, shows picture of selected items)
-Select motherboard
.....
[OKAY]
(skip for case with built in motherboard, of course)
(click okay, goes to next page, shows updated picture)
Repeat as necessary for stuff like:
Processor
Ammount of RAM
CD drive
HDD
Monitor (big screen and flat screen options in various sizes)
Software (operating system, MS office or equivalent)
Keyboard, mouse
Sound card, graphics card, modem
Extras (various available extra bits and pieces)
Probably a bit of a job to make one, but it would be a unique service and I imagine well worth the effort.
I have some more clear ideas about it, so if you wanted to give it a go I'd be glad to try to help.
Bo Shank indeed.
If she can't afford a PS2 how will she be able to afford a party AND a PS2?
cookie monster wrote:
> Everyone. Back then the platinum membership spin wasnt even invented
> yet.
If its Plats only, then it might just work, you won't get idiots spamming then...
> Everyone. Back then the platinum membership spin wasnt even invented
> yet.
If its Plats only, then it might just work, you won't get idiots spamming then...
I honestly believe a section to download PC game demos would help and by doing so you would have to sign up to your mail system and nominate a friend to be signed up as well. That way you are getting hits on the downloads, more people signing up and ultimately more people will slowly pass on the information to others. You could use a Gamespy style queueing system for those who have a basic membership and if you went along with a platinum membership you vould offer a larger bandwidth to those who paid the extra cash to join Special Reserve. That way everyone all round would benefit.
I've thunk about this long and hard, and I think a good business idea would be to slam dunk the funk.
DiscoDexy wrote:
> cookie monster wrote:
> We had one, it worked out rubbish.
>
> Was it for everyone, or just Plats?
Everyone. Back then the platinum membership spin wasnt even invented yet.
> cookie monster wrote:
> We had one, it worked out rubbish.
>
> Was it for everyone, or just Plats?
Everyone. Back then the platinum membership spin wasnt even invented yet.
Mystique wrote:
> Isn't the date next to the last name on the list enough?
No. Thats the last person to win. Sometimes it can be 5-7 days after the last person won yet no one actually knows when they updated it. It would be nice to know when they actually plan to update it each week as well and then that way they wouldn't get people moaning all the time about it.
> Isn't the date next to the last name on the list enough?
No. Thats the last person to win. Sometimes it can be 5-7 days after the last person won yet no one actually knows when they updated it. It would be nice to know when they actually plan to update it each week as well and then that way they wouldn't get people moaning all the time about it.
Hire/find 3 women that look like and would dress up as Yuna, Rikku and Paine.
cookie monster wrote:
> We had one, it worked out rubbish.
Was it for everyone, or just Plats?
> We had one, it worked out rubbish.
Was it for everyone, or just Plats?
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