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"EGAD - SR Brainstorm - Winner Announced!"

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Tue 20/01/04 at 15:08
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"TheShiznit.co.uk"
Posts: 6,592
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.
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Thu 26/02/04 at 19:02
Regular
"+34 Intellect"
Posts: 21,334
DiscoDexy wrote:
> Another good idea would be a real time chat room.

We had one, it worked out rubbish.
Thu 26/02/04 at 18:51
Regular
Posts: 3
I have an idea of what this site should have! It should have a section where you sell old consoles that are not sold anymore with some games for cheap prices. Everyone loves the classic consoles like the Dreamcast, N64 and Sega! People will pay good money for them!
Thu 26/02/04 at 15:57
Regular
Posts: 18,775
CGJ wrote:
> Put on the GameADay website when it was last updated.
*****
Isn't the date next to the last name on the list enough?
;)
Thu 26/02/04 at 14:48
"Majestic"
Posts: 1,625
Belldandy wrote:
> Maybe make the real time chat room for Platinum members only ?

Yeah, I agree. But non platinum members can view the rooms, but they can't talk. Then they will want to register, when they see the nice rooms.
Thu 26/02/04 at 14:31
Regular
"Gundammmmm!"
Posts: 2,339
Maybe make the real time chat room for Platinum members only ? This way you can get around having it moderated whereas if anyone could use it you'd really need mods on it (hence extra cost).

I really think the Platinum membership should offer some kinf of bonus/incentive online apart from GAD.
Thu 26/02/04 at 12:51
"Majestic"
Posts: 1,625
DiscoDexy wrote:
> Another good idea would be a real time chat room. The forums are
> great, don't get me wrong, but it would be nice to have a chat room
> where everybody can talk, without the satellite delay. But I don’t
> really see how this would affect advertising, but it wouldn’t be a
> bad idea ;)

I said this a week ago, now that I’ve thought about it I have come to the conclusion that it would actually advertise for you.

Everybody is looking for half decent chat rooms now-a-days. If you could provide a nice friendly chat room, then it should bring lots of people in.
While they are on the chat room, have pop up’s, and adverts spread around, and of course - the blue column on the left hand side. People will chat and see what a wide range of goods you are selling - and might just be tempted to buy things.
One SR site would lead to another, and they will discover memberships, gameaday’s and so on…
Thu 26/02/04 at 11:45
Regular
"+34 Intellect"
Posts: 21,334
You should rename your top end gaming PC to Maxx Pain.
Wed 25/02/04 at 20:20
Regular
"+34 Intellect"
Posts: 21,334
Release the sPeCiAlReSeRvE virus which redirects all webpages to the special reserve discount network and can only be removed by buying something.
Wed 25/02/04 at 20:05
Regular
"Plate of glue"
Posts: 5,183
Put on the GameADay website when it was last updated.
Wed 25/02/04 at 20:01
"Majestic"
Posts: 1,625
1 & 3 has been said ;0
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