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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 that the special reserve site could be more easy to navigate through. For example the home page could have links to a few clear sections like Software, hardware and other. They could then perhaps have sub sections like, games utils, etc. Also, although the name special reserve is very popular, I think it would be even more popular with a different name. "Special reserve" doesn't tell an average person who comes across it what it sells. You could say that special reserve sells all kinds of things, but then maybe there should be different sites all together. Also I think there should be a section dedicated to all the latest news on games. This could be the first choice for gamers looking for all the latest news on delayed games or distant rumours. Special reserve could pride itself in being the most accurate and true source of news perhaps.
A differance of 2 isnt much of a conclusion.
My theory was correct!
http://www.gameaday.co.uk - 97
http://www.ukgames.co.uk - 95
Wohoo! People love Gameaday more! Go Gameaday!
http://www.gameaday.co.uk - 97
http://www.ukgames.co.uk - 95
Wohoo! People love Gameaday more! Go Gameaday!
you do realise mr.snuggly is a moderator and can have you banned for swearing and slating his thread. ut-oh
Post e-mails to everyone up and down the country and tell them some details about some of your deals.
I thought it would make someone truffle.
H²O wrote:
> like Intelegant discussion
This made me snort my trifle.
> like Intelegant discussion
This made me snort my trifle.
Run a chat forum. For anyone to talk about anything.
This will be sure to attract loads.
You could even split the forum into things like Intelegant discussion, Future of gaming, General Chat. Etc.
Give or take a few annoying newbies, it would be good, you could even elect people every 3 months to become a notable or something.
Then again... Nah, worst idea yet.
This will be sure to attract loads.
You could even split the forum into things like Intelegant discussion, Future of gaming, General Chat. Etc.
Give or take a few annoying newbies, it would be good, you could even elect people every 3 months to become a notable or something.
Then again... Nah, worst idea yet.
Something to do with mad circus elephants, melted cheese, a bucket of horse, a gateaux and some homing pigeons in little tuxedos.
I'm still working on it.
I'm still working on it.
Sell the company to someone with loads of ideas.
That'll get you a few bob in the pocket.
That'll get you a few bob in the pocket.
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