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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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They do, don't they?
Very good idea that. Though if you do, don't put up Halo figurines and sell them for under £30.
Dunno if anyone’s mentioned it or not, but I think you should sell figurines! You know, little Zelda action figures, or Final Fantasy characters etc etc.
It’d be great if you sold them... at an affordable price!
Would bring in the consumers!
:)
It’d be great if you sold them... at an affordable price!
Would bring in the consumers!
:)
you see, mojojojo understands the quality of toddler murder. (I don't endorse it).
I'm gonna try this link clicking thingy to see how many clicks the banners get on my site. Unfortunatly I can't do it yet because I've got no way of counting the clicks, the database thingy doesn't want to work...
"Why do you think Hat killed all those babies?"
"Er... because it's easy?"
"Yes... it is."
"Er... because it's easy?"
"Yes... it is."
If you want people to visit you have to offer fabulous prizes, if you don't offer fabulous prizes no one will show up to your crappy show. Here let me show you . . . (runs off with board pen and writes 'FREE HAT' under the Special Reserve Discount Network sign)
cool dude dave wrote:
> (c) copyright to me or i get nasty
You didn't think the fact that your post is published with a date and time on a public forum was copyright enough?
> (c) copyright to me or i get nasty
You didn't think the fact that your post is published with a date and time on a public forum was copyright enough?
Also, I think maybe you could consider selling some "popular, no-European-release" import games - just like Animal Crossing for the GameCube.
You sell FreeLoaders, GameBoy Advances are multi-region and there's a lot of money to be made in importing... Why not give it a go - if, only, on a very small "trial"-scale, to start with...?
I know you have sold imported copies of games before (Mario Kart on the GBA) due to low-stock of PAL versions, so, I don't think it would be that-far out of your reach, would it?
You sell FreeLoaders, GameBoy Advances are multi-region and there's a lot of money to be made in importing... Why not give it a go - if, only, on a very small "trial"-scale, to start with...?
I know you have sold imported copies of games before (Mario Kart on the GBA) due to low-stock of PAL versions, so, I don't think it would be that-far out of your reach, would it?
One of my ideas would've been to improve your DVD database, and to bring them back on-line... However, it seems you were always one-step ahead of me! Plus, all you do have are going for a great price.
...Perhaps, within time, you could stock EVEN MORE, though?
You're definitley back on the right-track, though, and I'm actually interested in ditching CD-WOW! (for a little while...) to buy DVDs from you, instead, for once! :o ;)
Generally, your pricing of games isn't too bad (it definitley beats the likes of Gamestation though, that's for sure!). However, I think you could do more in the way of "Sales". For instance, why not do, like they have, and make greater reductions on bigger games, for a limited time-period?
Sort of like your "Offer of the Week", really. Only, on a larger scale.
You see, it is at this time of the year when we are all VERY tempted to go "elsewhere" for bargains - which, I know, you do not like us mentioning (...sorry!). But, to be honest, you're not helping yourselves too much...
Just think about it.
...Perhaps, within time, you could stock EVEN MORE, though?
You're definitley back on the right-track, though, and I'm actually interested in ditching CD-WOW! (for a little while...) to buy DVDs from you, instead, for once! :o ;)
Generally, your pricing of games isn't too bad (it definitley beats the likes of Gamestation though, that's for sure!). However, I think you could do more in the way of "Sales". For instance, why not do, like they have, and make greater reductions on bigger games, for a limited time-period?
Sort of like your "Offer of the Week", really. Only, on a larger scale.
You see, it is at this time of the year when we are all VERY tempted to go "elsewhere" for bargains - which, I know, you do not like us mentioning (...sorry!). But, to be honest, you're not helping yourselves too much...
Just think about it.
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