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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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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
> 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
Great. My counters got stuck on 127 the other day and it's taken me until now to realise...
Now it's fixed. May the numbers increment once again!
Now it's fixed. May the numbers increment once again!
How about:
1)you could make pencils or stickers saying Gameaday.com or special reserve or something and give one away with every in shop purchase (maybe over a certain price, I dont know you decide.)
2)Print leaflets and get some kid to deliver them into houses (pay him well, at least 3p a leaflet) and you never know the deliverer might join. You might have to have a way of checking that he is actually delivering them though.
3)Advertise on the web and in the local news paper.
4)You know the game channel on sky. Get them to do a feature about Gameaday and Special Reserves really low prices and cheats and stuff.
5)Set up and mobile phone internet site. You could put cheats on it and give info about the proper site.
6) Set up a teletext channel with reviews and cheats and that.
7)Open shop in North England or Scotland. I found the site by chance on google. But if people see the shop and how low the prices are surely they would go to the site.
8)Obviously make prices as low as possible.
9)Set up a system where if you bring a friend to the site, they join the platanum club and they give all your details you get a reward like a reddy or something.
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.
1)you could make pencils or stickers saying Gameaday.com or special reserve or something and give one away with every in shop purchase (maybe over a certain price, I dont know you decide.)
2)Print leaflets and get some kid to deliver them into houses (pay him well, at least 3p a leaflet) and you never know the deliverer might join. You might have to have a way of checking that he is actually delivering them though.
3)Advertise on the web and in the local news paper.
4)You know the game channel on sky. Get them to do a feature about Gameaday and Special Reserves really low prices and cheats and stuff.
5)Set up and mobile phone internet site. You could put cheats on it and give info about the proper site.
6) Set up a teletext channel with reviews and cheats and that.
7)Open shop in North England or Scotland. I found the site by chance on google. But if people see the shop and how low the prices are surely they would go to the site.
8)Obviously make prices as low as possible.
9)Set up a system where if you bring a friend to the site, they join the platanum club and they give all your details you get a reward like a reddy or something.
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.
In your magazine give out Special Reserve scratch cards where members can win lots of gaming prizes. If you match up three controller pictures you can win any accessory of your choice, Marios head you can select a game of your choice and if you get three stars you select a console of your choice.
You are winnah!
I think SR should sell R/C hovercrafts. They're really cool, but just too pricy in other shops.
Ff DD means DiscoDexy then thanks! ;)
I love you DD
I don't know why i said Six...
But i belive the idea would work, everybody likes stickers !!!
:)
But i belive the idea would work, everybody likes stickers !!!
:)
DiscoDexy wrote:
> With every order, special reserve should give us 6 Special reserve
> stickers on a sheet. Make these stickers look attractive and straight
> to the point with the web address on the sticker.
Why six stickers. They should give us a whole A4 sheet of them. We could stick them on our exercise books at school or even on a lampost. Like us doing the Advertising for SR.
> With every order, special reserve should give us 6 Special reserve
> stickers on a sheet. Make these stickers look attractive and straight
> to the point with the web address on the sticker.
Why six stickers. They should give us a whole A4 sheet of them. We could stick them on our exercise books at school or even on a lampost. Like us doing the Advertising for SR.
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