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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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What aboot advertising on Radio?
I think that's a good idea. I'll also add to it this:
We could have a competition to find the best placing of an SR sticker. Like the one a while back where you asked for pictures of the SR mag in an unusual place, but with stickers - a lot more versatile, and not as biased towards people who know a celebrity.
We could have a competition to find the best placing of an SR sticker. Like the one a while back where you asked for pictures of the SR mag in an unusual place, but with stickers - a lot more versatile, and not as biased towards people who know a celebrity.
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.
>
> Who knows where the stickers could end up? On a subway wall? Slapped
> aside a postbox? Stuck on a game case in GAME stores? On half pipes?
> Scattered around the school yard? On somebody’s shoe....?
>
> The possibilities for this are endless, and if someone sees a
> sticker, they will be curious to see what the website is and where it
> goes- if they don’t already know. Curiosity killed the cat you
> know...
>
> A simple cheap way of advertising that might just work with a little
> SR magic. . .
Adding to what I’ve just said:
We could have future GAD sticker designing competitions too, although you can’t really beat the SR splat.
You know it makes sense!
> 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.
>
> Who knows where the stickers could end up? On a subway wall? Slapped
> aside a postbox? Stuck on a game case in GAME stores? On half pipes?
> Scattered around the school yard? On somebody’s shoe....?
>
> The possibilities for this are endless, and if someone sees a
> sticker, they will be curious to see what the website is and where it
> goes- if they don’t already know. Curiosity killed the cat you
> know...
>
> A simple cheap way of advertising that might just work with a little
> SR magic. . .
Adding to what I’ve just said:
We could have future GAD sticker designing competitions too, although you can’t really beat the SR splat.
You know it makes sense!
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.
Who knows where the stickers could end up? On a subway wall? Slapped aside a postbox? Stuck on a game case in GAME stores? On half pipes? Scattered around the school yard? On somebody’s shoe....?
The possibilities for this are endless, and if someone sees a sticker, they will be curious to see what the website is and where it goes- if they don’t already know. Curiosity killed the cat you know...
A simple cheap way of advertising that might just work with a little SR magic. . .
Who knows where the stickers could end up? On a subway wall? Slapped aside a postbox? Stuck on a game case in GAME stores? On half pipes? Scattered around the school yard? On somebody’s shoe....?
The possibilities for this are endless, and if someone sees a sticker, they will be curious to see what the website is and where it goes- if they don’t already know. Curiosity killed the cat you know...
A simple cheap way of advertising that might just work with a little SR magic. . .
I like these forums, better than most. OK, there's a few annoying bits such as non-clickable links but that's really about it. A PM thing just takes chat away from the forums although it would be nice, it won't be needed and I can survive.
The lack of images though is great, I hate boards with signatures and stuff, makes them look all spread out and stupid, plus people's signatures sometimes are longer than their posts!
The lack of images though is great, I hate boards with signatures and stuff, makes them look all spread out and stupid, plus people's signatures sometimes are longer than their posts!
Blank wrote:
> This idea is a complete slive of G.
Of course I meant slice.
> This idea is a complete slive of G.
Of course I meant slice.
But you need to find out about the website first.
*yawn*
Sorry for the... pessimistic posting :) but I think a tidier site design would do wonders for the site. At the moment it looks rather garish and cluttered, and the forum style is getting rather old. A big revamp in all of this might make the site look a bit nicer and maybe bring in more customers (maybe).
Sorry for the... pessimistic posting :) but I think a tidier site design would do wonders for the site. At the moment it looks rather garish and cluttered, and the forum style is getting rather old. A big revamp in all of this might make the site look a bit nicer and maybe bring in more customers (maybe).
2 words.
A-tom B-omb.
A-tom B-omb.
This idea is a complete slive of G.
You know the religious festival of Ramadan? Well get this: Gam-a-dan. An EGAD lasting the length of the festival, open only to those of an ethnic minority.
Face it guys, you need to go for the minorities if you're gonna make it big.
You know the religious festival of Ramadan? Well get this: Gam-a-dan. An EGAD lasting the length of the festival, open only to those of an ethnic minority.
Face it guys, you need to go for the minorities if you're gonna make it big.
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