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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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I think leaflets are the best idea. They are distributed to everybodies house so everyone will see them.
Oh and have a store in Romford. My nearest one is near Roomes in Upminster and Romford is now under cover and more developed so you would have lots of customers.
Oh and have a store in Romford. My nearest one is near Roomes in Upminster and Romford is now under cover and more developed so you would have lots of customers.
How about,
Users reffer people to become an SR member, if they get so many users to become platinum member then the referrer would get a free gift.
You could also ad number of referalls bit to their user stats page.
Users reffer people to become an SR member, if they get so many users to become platinum member then the referrer would get a free gift.
You could also ad number of referalls bit to their user stats page.
Have leaflets posted through peoples letter boxes to attact more gamers.
Oh yes.
Like Christina?
Some of your links are dirrty.
Now with a little bit of persuasive text. (Probably spelt that wrong!)
Gameaday hits should skyrocket...
*sits and waits*
Gameaday hits should skyrocket...
*sits and waits*
http://www.gameaday.co.uk - 114
http://www.ukgames.co.uk - 106
I've referred 220 people to this site now. Meaning that at least 219 of them must have bought something or signed up to the forums.
Now calculating me referral fees I see that you owe me, gimme a min...
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Hmmm, £17,795. You can pay me via paypal if you want!
http://www.ukgames.co.uk - 106
I've referred 220 people to this site now. Meaning that at least 219 of them must have bought something or signed up to the forums.
Now calculating me referral fees I see that you owe me, gimme a min...
....
Hmmm, £17,795. You can pay me via paypal if you want!
Classic.
Try this one:
Stage a murder/rape/mini-holocaust outside one of your stores, string up the victim(s) against the shop, and when the papers arrive BINGO. You can do this at all of your stores so that you soon develop a high profile and people say "oh yeah, we'll check this out, as many people have been killed/raped around these parts". Although there may be a temporary lack of custom, a year or so later you will have customers swarming to check out the murder scenes after seeing it in the papers and on the news. You never know, you may sell a few memeberships
"I've got a membership to Special Reserve, you know, that rape/murder factory?"
"Wow man, can we touch? Where can I get one?"
"Special Reserve"
"What's that?"
"You know the place with the mur.."
"Oh yeah, I don't think I'll bother actually".
Stage a murder/rape/mini-holocaust outside one of your stores, string up the victim(s) against the shop, and when the papers arrive BINGO. You can do this at all of your stores so that you soon develop a high profile and people say "oh yeah, we'll check this out, as many people have been killed/raped around these parts". Although there may be a temporary lack of custom, a year or so later you will have customers swarming to check out the murder scenes after seeing it in the papers and on the news. You never know, you may sell a few memeberships
"I've got a membership to Special Reserve, you know, that rape/murder factory?"
"Wow man, can we touch? Where can I get one?"
"Special Reserve"
"What's that?"
"You know the place with the mur.."
"Oh yeah, I don't think I'll bother actually".
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