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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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ßora† SagdiyeV wrote:
> I feel sorry for whoever has to read all this garbage.
>
> Oh well, here's another :
>
> Have a Special Reserve Blimp travelling around the uk, throwing out
> packets of tooty frooties and lion bars.
Not lion bars ... real lions.
That'll be better for publicity.
Seriously, you can hire my amazing talent for very good rates. I think good.
> I feel sorry for whoever has to read all this garbage.
>
> Oh well, here's another :
>
> Have a Special Reserve Blimp travelling around the uk, throwing out
> packets of tooty frooties and lion bars.
Not lion bars ... real lions.
That'll be better for publicity.
Seriously, you can hire my amazing talent for very good rates. I think good.
I think you should lower the price of games with the more you buy, for example buy two 33 quid games and you get them for 60. This may sound very little for two games but on 3 games it could be 80.
As a free gift you could give "buy one get one free" vouchers for games, it may get some members to join and then buy a game, rather than joining for just the free gift and mag.
Giveaway your mag in other magazines like OPS2, Edge or NOM, Just think how many members you would get.
Have an Import section (but aint it illegal now?), anyway you could do GP32, allot of people and I would like to get one, but find it hard to.
Make a radio advert (dunno if its cheap though), in the afternoon on coxy, or in the morning on Chris moyles, you would reach allot of potential customers for example truck drivers and students.
Alternatively put it on local radio stations (allot cheaper).
Give special game offers for people who use freola.
I won’t go into the whole members recommending people, and then them getting things in return, aint that a pyramid scheme? (they are illegal too).
Strike a deal with a sweet company like nestle or mars and give games away inside the rappers, you know what I mean, the “sorry not this time” giveaways, anyway the publicity would be enormous.
Might mean we would get some Fruit Pastels or Smarties through the door with our monthly mag as well : )
As a free gift you could give "buy one get one free" vouchers for games, it may get some members to join and then buy a game, rather than joining for just the free gift and mag.
Giveaway your mag in other magazines like OPS2, Edge or NOM, Just think how many members you would get.
Have an Import section (but aint it illegal now?), anyway you could do GP32, allot of people and I would like to get one, but find it hard to.
Make a radio advert (dunno if its cheap though), in the afternoon on coxy, or in the morning on Chris moyles, you would reach allot of potential customers for example truck drivers and students.
Alternatively put it on local radio stations (allot cheaper).
Give special game offers for people who use freola.
I won’t go into the whole members recommending people, and then them getting things in return, aint that a pyramid scheme? (they are illegal too).
Strike a deal with a sweet company like nestle or mars and give games away inside the rappers, you know what I mean, the “sorry not this time” giveaways, anyway the publicity would be enormous.
Might mean we would get some Fruit Pastels or Smarties through the door with our monthly mag as well : )
I feel sorry for whoever has to read all this garbage.
Oh well, here's another :
Have a Special Reserve Blimp travelling around the uk, throwing out packets of tooty frooties and lion bars.
Oh well, here's another :
Have a Special Reserve Blimp travelling around the uk, throwing out packets of tooty frooties and lion bars.
I have an idea of what this site should have! It should have a section where you sell old consoles that are not sold anymore with some games for cheap prices. Everyone loves the classic consoles like the Dreamcast ans Sega! People will pay good money for them
Do an import section on your site. Gamecube owners would love this.
Something to do with velcro and a baby walrus.
Have posters put up around shopping centre's and near your stores so people know that there's a games shop cheaper than GAME.
mmmm pies
Mail Order Pies?
They advertise on the front covers of the Herald and Yellow advertiser already.
Plus Romford is a lump of poo. Upminster is for people with some self respect, not kids who walk around in their caps, shrunken tracksuit bottoms and generally acting like complete pr*cks.
Plus Romford is a lump of poo. Upminster is for people with some self respect, not kids who walk around in their caps, shrunken tracksuit bottoms and generally acting like complete pr*cks.
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