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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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What's wrong with these people, surely you'd click on a free game banner rather than a PS2 one, wouldn't you?
The PS2 one is running away in the lead with a whopping 19 clicks to Gameadays 16.
I still have faith in Gameaday though, it will win, I know it will!
The PS2 one is running away in the lead with a whopping 19 clicks to Gameadays 16.
I still have faith in Gameaday though, it will win, I know it will!
There are a lot of ways that you could increase the number of visitors to the website. Making the advertisment that you have in magazines better would spread the word. You could run a competition where if a member introduces a new person to the site, they get a point. The person with the most points at the end of the week/fortnight could win a prize. When you choose a winner for the banner competition, you should put it in magazines, on other websites or you could get people to put it on their websites- I'd be happy to put it on my site. You could put member reviews in the magazine, which some people reckon is a good idea. You could have a best review of the week, chain e-mails promoting the site, smaller competitions to win reddies and you could have a 'games designer' section where you post ideas for new games and the best one wins a prize each week or so. At certain holidays, you could give people a reddy for each person they add to the site. There are limitless things that you could do, many described in this post.
Keep up the good work!
Keep up the good work!
How about targetting specific groups.
I notice that many people who already frequent the forums are soon to become students. Todays students are finding new financial freedom as greedy bank managers offer them all sorts of incentives to get into bigger and bigger debts through loans and credit cards. How about raising awareness of all students by say, sponsering university sports teams. I just happen to be fairly involved with one such team (British Collegiate American Football), who already have two corporate sponsors in J2O and scream pubs. In return we sport large logos on all of our kit and merchendise. This kit then travels with us to other universities and more teams of students admire our nice jerseys as we pound them into the ground ; ).
You could either sponsor the team as a whole, or a single game (the Special Reserve Bowl) or an extra event (the Special Reserve Madden Tournament). Either way your profile is raised amoung footloose and fancy free students who aren't intimidated by the mountain of debt the incur buying new PC's, consoles and games.
What do you think?
P.S. If you should be interested in sponsoring the team with which I am affiliated please don't hesitate to let me know. Helmets and Shoulder Pads just keep getting more and more expensive ; )
I notice that many people who already frequent the forums are soon to become students. Todays students are finding new financial freedom as greedy bank managers offer them all sorts of incentives to get into bigger and bigger debts through loans and credit cards. How about raising awareness of all students by say, sponsering university sports teams. I just happen to be fairly involved with one such team (British Collegiate American Football), who already have two corporate sponsors in J2O and scream pubs. In return we sport large logos on all of our kit and merchendise. This kit then travels with us to other universities and more teams of students admire our nice jerseys as we pound them into the ground ; ).
You could either sponsor the team as a whole, or a single game (the Special Reserve Bowl) or an extra event (the Special Reserve Madden Tournament). Either way your profile is raised amoung footloose and fancy free students who aren't intimidated by the mountain of debt the incur buying new PC's, consoles and games.
What do you think?
P.S. If you should be interested in sponsoring the team with which I am affiliated please don't hesitate to let me know. Helmets and Shoulder Pads just keep getting more and more expensive ; )
i guess the sticker idea is a good one eh??
Morius wrote:
> Just a little thing here, Try putting the Special Reserve Logo on
> stickers and stick em on the DVD's and/or games that you sell.
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You mean like on the price stickers they use that take up nearly half a game case?
> Just a little thing here, Try putting the Special Reserve Logo on
> stickers and stick em on the DVD's and/or games that you sell.
*****
You mean like on the price stickers they use that take up nearly half a game case?
or heres an idea, come up with a slogan! I'm not going to try to give you one because Im crap, but there's my idea!
Just a little thing here, Try putting the Special Reserve Logo on stickers and stick em on the DVD's and/or games that you sell.
DiG wrote:
> cheap, good companys
DiG wrote:
> like this one
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> cheap, good companys
DiG wrote:
> like this one
Hahahahahfhahfahhfhabhsfbavfahf
No just stand on top of the big ben and shout for ***** sake buy stuf from sr, were about to go out of buisness. Not that you are (are you?)but it might work
Make games girl do the shouting then with any luck she will fall
Make games girl do the shouting then with any luck she will fall
Put the cataglogue and a couple of demos onto a CD and then have them given out with the local papers that you already advertise in. If you want to go nuts you could just have like a bjillion made and have them given out in newsagents like all over the world!
MWUAHAHHAHA!
MWUAHAHHAHA!
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