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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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Ask the forum mebers who have their own website, to po put up a banner advertising special reserve. To promote this to forum members, Give them a free game or threaten to ban them if they don't. Your Choice *ahem*
Current click totals:
http://www.gameaday.co.uk - 5
http://www.ukgames.co.uk - 7
This proves that my theory is crap, and that nobody clicks banner ads anymore.
I suppose because it's the weekend I've lost a few hits...
Saying that though, one person out of every 125 or so has clicked a banner, that's about right...
http://www.gameaday.co.uk - 5
http://www.ukgames.co.uk - 7
This proves that my theory is crap, and that nobody clicks banner ads anymore.
I suppose because it's the weekend I've lost a few hits...
Saying that though, one person out of every 125 or so has clicked a banner, that's about right...
a bikini contest on the net man!!!
Would you really wear that?
When someone buys a year's membership or two years membership, give them a FREE Special Reserve T-Shirt, they can walk about advertising your website (And in some cases shops) without you having to do anything!
You know those banner things that you see in streets, usually trying to sell cars or whatever, why not make a Special Reserve one telling people about the website?
Another Idea
Maybe selling music CDs, like albums and stuff and show the top ten on the internet would get more people on the site.
Another Idea
Maybe selling music CDs, like albums and stuff and show the top ten on the internet would get more people on the site.
Urika! (If thats how you spell it) What about making up a song about Special Reserve?? Hmm... umm... you could get Mr Snuggly to sing, and that, and sell a CD... on second thoughts, maybe I SHOULD take a long lie down...
I dunno if you CAN do this and it's probably been suggested before but what about advertising on the tely? Or is it too expensive? I dunno!
Or what about selling products with the Special Reserve logo on it, then people will see the logo and wonder what it is, and pop in :) (You probably already do that, I'm not very good at this am I?)
OK, I'll be back with some GOOD Ideas next time, after a long lie down...
Or what about selling products with the Special Reserve logo on it, then people will see the logo and wonder what it is, and pop in :) (You probably already do that, I'm not very good at this am I?)
OK, I'll be back with some GOOD Ideas next time, after a long lie down...
Mr. Snuggly should run for Priminister. Then when he finnaly gets voted in, (because everyone hates tony) he can wear a t-shirt saying SR to all the meetings he goes to.
Even when he goes to war and things (which he will do, to advertise SR)
That'll be sure to get the money rolling in.
Even when he goes to war and things (which he will do, to advertise SR)
That'll be sure to get the money rolling in.
Sell on e-bay
Just a few product
Because that doesnt cost much
Ive found loads of cheap, good companys like this one that way
Just a few product
Because that doesnt cost much
Ive found loads of cheap, good companys like this one that way
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