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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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just to annoy english bloke- a whole section devoted to revies!
This has almost certainly be mentioned before, but what about member-only discounts? While the promise of a free gift and the ability to win free games is great, it doesn't seem like incentive enough to spend £7.50.
Knocking off £3 here and there on certain items would give people much more reason to join, or even adding a couple of quid onto to certain items but keeping the original price for members.
Knocking off £3 here and there on certain items would give people much more reason to join, or even adding a couple of quid onto to certain items but keeping the original price for members.
yes i must agree. but come to think of it, you do have to pay to join special reserve.
I still think the best idea is publishing your magasine into shops like NOM and Ps2 magasine do.
But making it bigger. Hire a couple of people to get the info and write reviews and things.
But making it bigger. Hire a couple of people to get the info and write reviews and things.
Because radio advertising can be up to 2x more effective than TV advertising...
As the advert says...
As the advert says...
Broadcast some deals and details about Special Reserve on the radio. Should get a bit more publicity.
Put an advert on TV
About that monthly draw of a random-picking of a member's number...
I think giving away a full "up to the price of £50" game is a bit too-much for a monthly-draw, given that there's already a GAD competition on this site, and numorous Extra GAD's throughout the year.
But, what about "the free gift of your choice from our current range"?
Just look at the number of people on this site - there's your proof that anyone will do anything-they-can to get their hands on something "free". Who says it has to cost £34.99? SR offer a good-range of free gifts, and there're always at least one-or-two things you'll want from the list, whether there's much-else there that interests you or not.
They don't really care what it is, so long as it's `FREE“. :)
I think giving away a full "up to the price of £50" game is a bit too-much for a monthly-draw, given that there's already a GAD competition on this site, and numorous Extra GAD's throughout the year.
But, what about "the free gift of your choice from our current range"?
Just look at the number of people on this site - there's your proof that anyone will do anything-they-can to get their hands on something "free". Who says it has to cost £34.99? SR offer a good-range of free gifts, and there're always at least one-or-two things you'll want from the list, whether there's much-else there that interests you or not.
They don't really care what it is, so long as it's `FREE“. :)
Nooooo! Massive cliche plus you alienate half your market (i.e. females) which are hard enough to attract anyway to this sort of stuff. I can't really see working sex appeal to BOTH sexes working either.
And no, free virtual make-up simulators won't work either.
Sex sells, draw your own plan of action from that.
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