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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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Here's another one which I think would help new visitors to the site take the customer reviews more seriously; Don't let people review stuff that has not been released!
Final Fantasy X-2 has 4 pages of reviews already, going back at least in January! Some could be import reviews but last time I checked SR sold PAL games.
Final Fantasy X-2 has 4 pages of reviews already, going back at least in January! Some could be import reviews but last time I checked SR sold PAL games.
not only should you sent SR magasines to members, but to their 2 neighbours either side , so they can indulge in the SR magic!
or, im sure lots of balloons and raffle tickets always amuses me!
or, im sure lots of balloons and raffle tickets always amuses me!
you could give money off to people who send 20 emails to there friends beforehand. (stupid idea i know but i cant think of anything)
Skinzone Webmaster wrote:
> great idea, perhaps they could have a red splat and a web adress on
> the side of the buses too.
Yeah why not, although it depends how much SR is willing to spend..
> great idea, perhaps they could have a red splat and a web adress on
> the side of the buses too.
Yeah why not, although it depends how much SR is willing to spend..
Comission tens of thousands of ballons with the SR logo on, gather them all under a massive net, unleash on a windy day. The balloons will litter the nation and the company name will be in the press!
great idea, perhaps they could have a red splat and a web adress on the side of the buses too.
I was sat on the bus, behind a old lady, getting gassed with her perfume (if you can call it perfume!) when I looked down at my half torn bus ticket... The words read "advertise on this ticket."
Yes I thought! Genius idea- Cheaper than TV or Radio, and loads of people will see it, young & old. Just the good old SR splat and a web-address will make a great impact. People who go to school on the bus will see it, old ladies wanting to buy there grandson a game will see it, who knows who else will see it. Your audience will be massive!
Yes I thought! Genius idea- Cheaper than TV or Radio, and loads of people will see it, young & old. Just the good old SR splat and a web-address will make a great impact. People who go to school on the bus will see it, old ladies wanting to buy there grandson a game will see it, who knows who else will see it. Your audience will be massive!
Yep, ditch the BB guns - as it is Blunkett has said that if gun crime does not decrese this year he's going to get all replica weapons banned and ownable only with a licence. BB guns are also a crap thing to sell if you want people with families to shop in the stores/site - in fact given the public attitude to guns they're a pretty crap idea all round and, considering the price you're selling them at, barely worth the risk to be honest.
Belldandy wrote:
> So does GAME, and Play, but at least Gaming Network says more clearly
> what the company is about, well over 90% of their range IS gaming,
> and stuff like remote controlled cars comes under gaming as well...
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> Special Reserve, fine name if you know what it is, but if not, well
> it could be anything, sounds a tad dodgy like one of these tv buying
> channels.
Excellent, let's all suggest new names for SR!
> So does GAME, and Play, but at least Gaming Network says more clearly
> what the company is about, well over 90% of their range IS gaming,
> and stuff like remote controlled cars comes under gaming as well...
>
> Special Reserve, fine name if you know what it is, but if not, well
> it could be anything, sounds a tad dodgy like one of these tv buying
> channels.
Excellent, let's all suggest new names for SR!
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