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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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Have at least 3 different pro reviews for each game giving different perpectives for different sorts of gamers.
So people don't have to go and look at all the different reviews on different sites, under each game have links to all the different reviews.
Im not sure if you already do or not, but if not, sell second hand games, things etc.
cost to much
have a plane flyig past with the address being pulled allong behind it.
sponser a local sports team and have thier kit with your address on it.
when you have an order put some stickers in the packet and encorage people to sick them around different places
sponser a local sports team and have thier kit with your address on it.
when you have an order put some stickers in the packet and encorage people to sick them around different places
i think you should give out free gifts every good season of the year
and maybe an advent calender that has something special on each day of december.
also i think you should give people more oppertunity to win game-a-day
some people are younger than others.
as something personal im 12 years old myself
i think the website is too hard to win anything from,and really
the reason why i joined was because of the game-a-day option
that was a while ago though.
but do you think someone my age,could just go out there
AND WIN GAME-A-DAY
NO!!!!!!!
this is no complaint so dont take it the wrong way
also do you think my dad,who subscribed,
will try game-a-day
NO NO NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and maybe an advent calender that has something special on each day of december.
also i think you should give people more oppertunity to win game-a-day
some people are younger than others.
as something personal im 12 years old myself
i think the website is too hard to win anything from,and really
the reason why i joined was because of the game-a-day option
that was a while ago though.
but do you think someone my age,could just go out there
AND WIN GAME-A-DAY
NO!!!!!!!
this is no complaint so dont take it the wrong way
also do you think my dad,who subscribed,
will try game-a-day
NO NO NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The site should contain loads of news and gossip and pride itself in it being 100% true. Also the site could perhaps be a little bit more user friendly, it could be split into a few sections e.g. softare, hardware and gadgets perhaps. Then there could be sub sections like news, previews, reviews etc. Also the name name should be more suggestive towards games.
i think you should give out free gifts every good season of the year
and maybe an advent calender that has something special on each day of december.
also i think you should give people more oppertunity to win game-a-day
some people are younger than others.
as something personal im 12 years old myself
i think the website is too hard to win anything from,and really
the reason why i joined was because of the game-a-day option
that was a while ago though.
but do you think someone my age,could just go out there
AND WIN GAME-A-DAY
NO!!!!!!!
this is no complaint so dont take it the wrong way
and maybe an advent calender that has something special on each day of december.
also i think you should give people more oppertunity to win game-a-day
some people are younger than others.
as something personal im 12 years old myself
i think the website is too hard to win anything from,and really
the reason why i joined was because of the game-a-day option
that was a while ago though.
but do you think someone my age,could just go out there
AND WIN GAME-A-DAY
NO!!!!!!!
this is no complaint so dont take it the wrong way
why dont you make a virus (not a nasty evil on) that effects all computers to set thier home page to www.specialreserve.com and then everyone will see it.
or make a magazine and put it in local supermarkets ie,asda and then everyone will pic one up with thier shopping,and or imploy a person in each area around the country to hand out leflets in schools,shops ect and pay them in credits for the site i would do it.
make a tv comercial showing how YOU are the best for discounted electrical and computer and a wide range of goods because who dont watch tv.
have some cars in dominent areas around the country plasterd in sr stickers on a saturday romeing around the towns streets with the site address written on it.
why not go one better and get a car with a speaker phone on the top.
have demos in town centers showing what you do and have free give aways like t-shirts key rings, mugs ect....
have a mascote to go round to all the sporting events and have the address on his back special reserve rino ect....
bill boards massive eye catching appealing and easy to create all you need is one big printer.lol
put an add in a well known paper.
when you send packages out put the site address on the package and then the nosy post delivers will go on it and pass the word round to his mates and his mates to thier mates and so on.
if all else fails make your own pop song and look were that go britny spears.
or make a magazine and put it in local supermarkets ie,asda and then everyone will pic one up with thier shopping,and or imploy a person in each area around the country to hand out leflets in schools,shops ect and pay them in credits for the site i would do it.
make a tv comercial showing how YOU are the best for discounted electrical and computer and a wide range of goods because who dont watch tv.
have some cars in dominent areas around the country plasterd in sr stickers on a saturday romeing around the towns streets with the site address written on it.
why not go one better and get a car with a speaker phone on the top.
have demos in town centers showing what you do and have free give aways like t-shirts key rings, mugs ect....
have a mascote to go round to all the sporting events and have the address on his back special reserve rino ect....
bill boards massive eye catching appealing and easy to create all you need is one big printer.lol
put an add in a well known paper.
when you send packages out put the site address on the package and then the nosy post delivers will go on it and pass the word round to his mates and his mates to thier mates and so on.
if all else fails make your own pop song and look were that go britny spears.
Every now and then have an extra big prize!!!
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