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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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H²O wrote:
> Get lost.
Sorry, it looks like i said that to morius now, but dont worry, it was to a rubbish post that has been deleted.
> Get lost.
Sorry, it looks like i said that to morius now, but dont worry, it was to a rubbish post that has been deleted.
How about compiling the best reviews and walkthroughs written by your customers into a magazine or book and using that to heavily promote the site and selling side of things?
Do a Turok.
Let someone have free PS2, XBOX etc for free if they change their name to Special Reserve: Discount Network for a year.
Let someone have free PS2, XBOX etc for free if they change their name to Special Reserve: Discount Network for a year.
It's also in the wrong place to post and against the rules.
You will probably get banned soon.
You will probably get banned soon.
what? its just a good laugh with a few like minded pals.
Get lost.
What your looking to do here is to spread your fame so that other people know about you and come and buy things from you. And the way to do that is advertising in alot of diffrant forms. For example, Radio, billboards, magazines, or even TV.
The littlest thing can work ("It's the small things in life that say the most") like stickers and stuff. A catchy slogan would work too, and catchy sloagans can be simple too. ("Ahhh, Bisto!")
Also, I think my earlier idea of selling music is a good one. EVERYONE's into music, so selling music CD's would make you a fortune .... well, a bigger one.
Try sponsering a website so they'll put banners up, just one small click of a mouse and BANG people will be on your site!
And the whole name change thing? I think you've got a great name! BUT you SHOULD come up with a slogan, which I'm not going to try becuase I can't! :)
The littlest thing can work ("It's the small things in life that say the most") like stickers and stuff. A catchy slogan would work too, and catchy sloagans can be simple too. ("Ahhh, Bisto!")
Also, I think my earlier idea of selling music is a good one. EVERYONE's into music, so selling music CD's would make you a fortune .... well, a bigger one.
Try sponsering a website so they'll put banners up, just one small click of a mouse and BANG people will be on your site!
And the whole name change thing? I think you've got a great name! BUT you SHOULD come up with a slogan, which I'm not going to try becuase I can't! :)
Sign a contract with Offical Playstation 2 Magazine so they do the reviews and then you lot can give out your prices so lots more people will buy games and other stuff at the right price from you.
Some more -
Maybe contact fan websites of the games you're having played at the tournaments, tell them about it, that way the info gets passed on and they'll plug your sites right there and then if they report it.
Maybe contact fan websites of the games you're having played at the tournaments, tell them about it, that way the info gets passed on and they'll plug your sites right there and then if they report it.
Maybe you should sponsor some gaming tournaments. Counter Strike, Unreal Tournament - all the usual PC games as well as titles like Mario Kart DD. Put up posters/fliers around the town you're staging it in, charge people to enter (say 5-10 quid?) but offer a cash prize (say 50-100 quid?) People will come in, even if it's just to watch, and see what a lovely shop you guys have.
Tell everyone there about SR, GameADay and all the other sites/deals you have.
Tell everyone there about SR, GameADay and all the other sites/deals you have.
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