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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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Something to do with nightlights
Sorry, I keep going on here. Personally, I don't think selling yourself thorugh Gameaday is wise. I think that most people look at that sort of tagline and think it's nonsense, or can't be bothered to make a proper effort to win, rather than just answer an easy quesion and hope for the best. Also, I just you randomly give away vouchers like Cd-wow, and advertise those as incentive to buy and hope for a voucher.
Another thing is market research, even though you guys ain't so rich (even if you can afford the Gameaday thing). Once again, this could be to do with different groups - get ordinary teenagers for videogames, adults who have a computer in what they look into for one. I also suggest you advertise yourselves on other famous websites, considering you might want to advertise yourselves as an internet company.
You need to change your advertising methods. Right now, the banner above me is advertising a "Ronin P807 Dolby 5.1 Multi-Region Dvd Player". To the large market you could sell to, even me, that's jibberish. If you were to advertise to a gaming crowd, you'd need to be selling not to total gaming addicts but average people who might just like games.
Maybe you could get your name as one of the shops on the bottom of a telly advert for a new game as a place that sells it. This would mean the main selling point would be cheap games. You could introduce the membership thing once they've bought in-store, like in GAME. From there, you could do an introduce a friend and get a free gift thing.
If you wanted to sell yourselves to a market that understands what a "Ronin P807 Dolby 5.1 Multi-Region Dvd Player" player is, you'd go in the Currys or Dixons direction, as an electronics or hardware store. One of the problems is that shops are few rather than these companies. This would mean you would have to advertise the internet site outside of those areas. I've recently noticed posters for www.play.com on the street and in magazines. It all depends on what you're trying to sell yourself as, since it's hard to go for all of it one. Also, maybe you should sell PCs other than "MAX". No one's heard of them.
Maybe you could get your name as one of the shops on the bottom of a telly advert for a new game as a place that sells it. This would mean the main selling point would be cheap games. You could introduce the membership thing once they've bought in-store, like in GAME. From there, you could do an introduce a friend and get a free gift thing.
If you wanted to sell yourselves to a market that understands what a "Ronin P807 Dolby 5.1 Multi-Region Dvd Player" player is, you'd go in the Currys or Dixons direction, as an electronics or hardware store. One of the problems is that shops are few rather than these companies. This would mean you would have to advertise the internet site outside of those areas. I've recently noticed posters for www.play.com on the street and in magazines. It all depends on what you're trying to sell yourself as, since it's hard to go for all of it one. Also, maybe you should sell PCs other than "MAX". No one's heard of them.
Gameaday is catching up with 23 clicks to PS2s 24 clicks...
I never realised how people never click banners...
I'm gonna have to make a counter to see how many times the pages are loaded.
I never realised how people never click banners...
I'm gonna have to make a counter to see how many times the pages are loaded.
béSSánt wrote:
> how do you know how many people have clicked on something and what
> banner are we on about??
Everytime they click a banner it adds one to the total for that banner click.
Easy.
> how do you know how many people have clicked on something and what
> banner are we on about??
Everytime they click a banner it adds one to the total for that banner click.
Easy.
Something to do with double glazing.
yes course
Put advertising of your competitions on the side of food packaging to draw more people to sign up and enter. You'll surly be able to get some cash out of that :)
how do you know how many people have clicked on something and what banner are we on about??
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