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"EGAD - SR Brainstorm - Winner Announced!"

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.

Hey
A good idea that would get alot of stuff promoted is by the usual way of advertisement. You all could do tournaments with big title multiplayer games and use the usual win a game of your choice if you win the tournament but do it like seasonal or every four months so you don't run out you know. The more gaming people do, the more they talk about it and the more other people want to try. When you start rolling in the crowds then you can show off the cheap prices and top gear that you all have, you know.

Well thats one for you all, peace...

Sorry, i just wanted to go along with the name change.

Change your name to 'BIG'

Slogan: 'We're not small'

On the subject of possibly calling yourselves MAXX instead of SR, here's a possible slogan:

MAXX. We're big.

Also, I personally don't think you should be going on major competitions, extra free stuff and membership to advertise yourself; if you think about other big shops they aren't popular because the public were told they were gonna get half-price off every 3rd purchase. You've already got gameaday, reddies and in-store discount prices for members, which is plenty in that field. You're main selling point should be in the advertising of the really cheap prices that you do have.

This might sound stupid, or offensive, so sorry, but one idea might be to change your name. No offense, but "Special Reserve Discount Network" doesn't have much appeal as something like GAME or HMV. Maybe you could just change it to SRDN, or put your name in capitals. Or just try and come up with a better name. Since MAXX are made by you, I don't think it would be a bad company name.

Ah, what do Newbies know?????

(It feels so GOOD to say that! I'm a Regular now!!!)

You should do a deal that when you buy a PC all repairs needed for it are free the rest of the year it was bought. This would be a good idea to advertise this on the TV or on the radio just after christmas so people will buy them cheaper in the janurary sales.

:D lol

DiscoDexy wrote:
> Bishysmurph wrote:
> How about:
> 10)Special reserve needs a sayin or a rhyme associated with Special
> Reserve and it's cheap prices. Something catchy but not to long. I
> would try and give you ideas but I am not creative nor do I have and
> imagination.
>
> Something like :
>
> Special reserve
> We are here to serve! ©
>
> OR
>
> SR prices are hard to miss-
> It doesn’t get much better than this! ©
>
> Try them for size

Thats exactly what I meant. But I am rubbish at that sort of stuff!