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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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mdb-productions.com wrote:
> may of already come up - would be surprized if it hasnt! second hand
> games? buy and sell? swap service?
Yup, i came up with that only a few hours ago :D
> may of already come up - would be surprized if it hasnt! second hand
> games? buy and sell? swap service?
Yup, i came up with that only a few hours ago :D
ok - just noticed the message below my first message! i guess it has already come up.
may of already come up - would be surprized if it hasnt! second hand games? buy and sell? swap service? you could give people their own accounts and credit their accounts for every game they sell you! that way they can only use the money they recieve for their games in/on your store. You could even give customers a store card to be used either in stores or on your site?
DiscoDexy wrote:
> You could set up an Ebay type service where people could trade games
> online, or bid for other people’s games. When someone Buys a game off
> the other person, the buyer will pay SR the amount agreed, and then
> SR will pay the Seller, less a certain Percentage.
> This will make SR money and allow the buyer and seller to deal with
> money safely...
This has some feasability.
> And as for trading games; if the trade is successful, both parties
> will send the games to SR, and then SR just swaps the games, and
> sends them back. That way both games are sent at the same time...
> As for the Fee, you could charge a little money for postage and a
> little money/or reddies for service.
I doubt SR has the space for such an operation.
> You could set up an Ebay type service where people could trade games
> online, or bid for other people’s games. When someone Buys a game off
> the other person, the buyer will pay SR the amount agreed, and then
> SR will pay the Seller, less a certain Percentage.
> This will make SR money and allow the buyer and seller to deal with
> money safely...
This has some feasability.
> And as for trading games; if the trade is successful, both parties
> will send the games to SR, and then SR just swaps the games, and
> sends them back. That way both games are sent at the same time...
> As for the Fee, you could charge a little money for postage and a
> little money/or reddies for service.
I doubt SR has the space for such an operation.
This might of being said, my apologies if it has:
You could set up an Ebay type service where people could trade games online, or bid for other people’s games. When someone Buys a game off the other person, the buyer will pay SR the amount agreed, and then SR will pay the Seller, less a certain Percentage.
This will make SR money and allow the buyer and seller to deal with money safely...
That way, you'd be taking buyers and sellers from ebay, which sell games, to
“SR Swap- shop”.. And word will get round.
And as for trading games; if the trade is successful, both parties will send the games to SR, and then SR just swaps the games, and sends them back. That way both games are sent at the same time...
As for the Fee, you could charge a little money for postage and a little money/or reddies for service.
The above would build a big trading, buying and selling community, and then customers from the “SR-swap shop”, will go buy new items form your website, and earn reddies to trade games. This also finds a good use for the reddie! Win Win Win situation....
You could set up an Ebay type service where people could trade games online, or bid for other people’s games. When someone Buys a game off the other person, the buyer will pay SR the amount agreed, and then SR will pay the Seller, less a certain Percentage.
This will make SR money and allow the buyer and seller to deal with money safely...
That way, you'd be taking buyers and sellers from ebay, which sell games, to
“SR Swap- shop”.. And word will get round.
And as for trading games; if the trade is successful, both parties will send the games to SR, and then SR just swaps the games, and sends them back. That way both games are sent at the same time...
As for the Fee, you could charge a little money for postage and a little money/or reddies for service.
The above would build a big trading, buying and selling community, and then customers from the “SR-swap shop”, will go buy new items form your website, and earn reddies to trade games. This also finds a good use for the reddie! Win Win Win situation....
Internet only- Deals of the day lure 1000's of people in. Only have a limited stock number, when it’s gone its gone basis, like a current rival is doing now.
New items SR could sell:
1. Game soundtracks
Why? Because games now often contain an excellent range of tunes and themes to go along with their gameplya. Whether it be the chilling music of Resident Evil: Code Veronica, or the fast-paced tune of Sonic Heroes, some games actually have good music.
2. Random Figurine Stuff
Why? In stores and magazines you see random figurines of Soul Calibur 2 and Final Fantasy characters which seem to sell surprisingly well. They're cool looking, they stand there and quite often they have little weapons to go with them. Who wouldn't want them?!
Ways to advertise:
1. Tournaments
Have regular gaming competitions where people pay money to enter tournaments of certain games like Mario Kart or Smackdown in a Royal Rumble. At the same time you can premote your gear.
1. Game soundtracks
Why? Because games now often contain an excellent range of tunes and themes to go along with their gameplya. Whether it be the chilling music of Resident Evil: Code Veronica, or the fast-paced tune of Sonic Heroes, some games actually have good music.
2. Random Figurine Stuff
Why? In stores and magazines you see random figurines of Soul Calibur 2 and Final Fantasy characters which seem to sell surprisingly well. They're cool looking, they stand there and quite often they have little weapons to go with them. Who wouldn't want them?!
Ways to advertise:
1. Tournaments
Have regular gaming competitions where people pay money to enter tournaments of certain games like Mario Kart or Smackdown in a Royal Rumble. At the same time you can premote your gear.
Rickoss wrote:
> Ever thought of selling the occasional import game?
Thats a good idea. everybody wants improt games, but don't know where to get them!
Word of mouth would advertise that you sell import games, and attract loads of people to this site, that will buy Import games, and who knows what else?
> Ever thought of selling the occasional import game?
Thats a good idea. everybody wants improt games, but don't know where to get them!
Word of mouth would advertise that you sell import games, and attract loads of people to this site, that will buy Import games, and who knows what else?
I think that we should produce a game disk a bit like demo disks with adverts for all the things that being a member of SR allow you do get and maybe include a voucher for a few reddies that can be redeemed only when you join SR.
Some sort of joke things would be good, such as PROPER ones, not the 99p junk you find in seaside towns in the smutty "XXX" shops were the proprietor is a fat greasy man. You want proper practical joke kits, things that would go down great at parties and are preferably reusable.
Research would go down well, when people visit all the SR sites, you should have the question "Where did you hear about us?" and a drop down box with "Friend, Magazine, Leaflet, Internet" etc. That way you can find out which methods of advertising are the best and invest more money in them, then see if the results pay off.
Some sort of books might be a good idea, such as computer maintenace/software guides, the sort of "Internet for Dummies" or "How to use Microsoft Works". That sort of thing.
Research would go down well, when people visit all the SR sites, you should have the question "Where did you hear about us?" and a drop down box with "Friend, Magazine, Leaflet, Internet" etc. That way you can find out which methods of advertising are the best and invest more money in them, then see if the results pay off.
Some sort of books might be a good idea, such as computer maintenace/software guides, the sort of "Internet for Dummies" or "How to use Microsoft Works". That sort of thing.
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