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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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Widge wrote:
> I think you need to start up a new competition ... how about Console A
> Day? You get TWO opportunities to win a console EVERY DAY.
>
> I can see the benefits for us as users. It'd solve my rent problems,
> I could build a house out of Xboxes if I got enough reviews in...
now that I would love to see, but perhaps it'd be too expensive for sr every day, but maybe every week
> I think you need to start up a new competition ... how about Console A
> Day? You get TWO opportunities to win a console EVERY DAY.
>
> I can see the benefits for us as users. It'd solve my rent problems,
> I could build a house out of Xboxes if I got enough reviews in...
now that I would love to see, but perhaps it'd be too expensive for sr every day, but maybe every week
Oooh! Oooh! (disregard the oooh's if someone has come up with this before) ... surely you need some form of SR sponsored gaming event? You know, local, regional then nation finals type thing ... where everyone gets together to pit their skills against the rest of the nation. Prizes start off as, say, a membership to HERE (encouraging people to test it out and use it), right up to winning a nice tasty bit of hardware, or to go off and visit a respectable software firm or something.
You could have a SR mascot wandering around ... EVERYONE has a mascot, I'm sure there is an animal out there which hasn't been used in a game yet. Like an ocelot ... no ... hedgehog ... no ... oh god I don't know.
You could have a SR mascot wandering around ... EVERYONE has a mascot, I'm sure there is an animal out there which hasn't been used in a game yet. Like an ocelot ... no ... hedgehog ... no ... oh god I don't know.
I think you need to start up a new competition ... how about Console A Day? You get TWO opportunities to win a console EVERY DAY.
I can see the benefits for us as users. It'd solve my rent problems, I could build a house out of Xboxes if I got enough reviews in...
I can see the benefits for us as users. It'd solve my rent problems, I could build a house out of Xboxes if I got enough reviews in...
Advertise in local papers such as the romford recorder.
Put the games up that where entered into the last gameaday.
So it would be a games site aswell, which would advertise to teenagers, who would ask their parents to go to the store.
Put the games up that where entered into the last gameaday.
So it would be a games site aswell, which would advertise to teenagers, who would ask their parents to go to the store.
H²O wrote:
> A serious idea this time.
>
> Make your own series of PC's, take single parts, piece them together
> and sell them.
>
> You can build a pc for around 500, (decent), and sell them for the
> average £799 or something.
> This would get you a fair wod of money.
nice idea, but what's in it for sr? perhaps a percentage of the profit
> A serious idea this time.
>
> Make your own series of PC's, take single parts, piece them together
> and sell them.
>
> You can build a pc for around 500, (decent), and sell them for the
> average £799 or something.
> This would get you a fair wod of money.
nice idea, but what's in it for sr? perhaps a percentage of the profit
How about a PM system for the sr forums, most forums have one, in-fact this is the only one I know without one. I know you would say that users would pm admins/staff asking about GAD stuff but you could always configure it so that users are not allowed to pm admins/staff
Quite clearly, an SR tour Bus is the answer.
People are always complaining about the lack of an SR shop near them so this is the most obvious and ingenious solution.
The idea is insanely simple - Get a bus (preferably a single decker - they look better), kit it out inside so it looks like a small SR shop with the racks of games and such, get the SR logo and web address splashed on the side, fill the bus with the best offers you currently have, the top 10 chart games on all formats as well as general freebies for the poorer folk and tour up and down England visiting social hotspots (what, exactly, a "social hotspot" is, I have no idea) thus raising general awareness and business for SR.
People are always complaining about the lack of an SR shop near them so this is the most obvious and ingenious solution.
The idea is insanely simple - Get a bus (preferably a single decker - they look better), kit it out inside so it looks like a small SR shop with the racks of games and such, get the SR logo and web address splashed on the side, fill the bus with the best offers you currently have, the top 10 chart games on all formats as well as general freebies for the poorer folk and tour up and down England visiting social hotspots (what, exactly, a "social hotspot" is, I have no idea) thus raising general awareness and business for SR.
I take it your talking about the MAXX PCs SR sell....
A serious idea this time.
Make your own series of PC's, take single parts, piece them together and sell them.
You can build a pc for around 500, (decent), and sell them for the average £799 or something.
This would get you a fair wod of money.
Make your own series of PC's, take single parts, piece them together and sell them.
You can build a pc for around 500, (decent), and sell them for the average £799 or something.
This would get you a fair wod of money.
And another thing! I wouldn't advertise as somewhere where there's a great big SALE until your more well-known. Instead, just show the great prices you have "without" it being a sale. If famous, like, for example, HMV, you can say you're having a massive sale and people will think "I know that place, it's really cheap and wil now be even cheaper!"
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