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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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CGJ wrote:
> Advertise in papers. (The Havering Herald Please!)(Or YA)
I used to deliver those, I used to read a different section of their front cover adverts everything I picked a paper up to deliver it. I managed to read all the deals!
That was the most boring job ever, especially when it was raining.
> Advertise in papers. (The Havering Herald Please!)(Or YA)
I used to deliver those, I used to read a different section of their front cover adverts everything I picked a paper up to deliver it. I managed to read all the deals!
That was the most boring job ever, especially when it was raining.
They already advertise on local newspapers and magazines.
Ways of advertising? Have you tried the pay-per-click stuff with Google yet? People use the Google banners and display them on their sites, plus your adverts will appear when people search for stuff such as 'cheap games.'
Do one of those 'buy something before Thursday and have the chance to win a new computer' promotions. People would then rush to buy stuff...
Not really many ways of advertising on the internet apart from banners which aren't really effective, unless you try to advertise on Freeserve, NTL or someone, people use Freeserve and NTL as their homepage a lot of the time.
Google Adwords would be a good idea though, not only do you get priority on searches you'll have your name appear on mini Google banners all over the web.
Try placing an advert in a national newspaper, don't tell people prices of products as they won't really know if they're good or not. Tell them how you can offer games cheaper than other companies. How buying online is cheaper than buying from Game etc. Once people get the idea that you're cheaper they'll come and investigate themselves.
THat's all I can think about for now...
Ways of advertising? Have you tried the pay-per-click stuff with Google yet? People use the Google banners and display them on their sites, plus your adverts will appear when people search for stuff such as 'cheap games.'
Do one of those 'buy something before Thursday and have the chance to win a new computer' promotions. People would then rush to buy stuff...
Not really many ways of advertising on the internet apart from banners which aren't really effective, unless you try to advertise on Freeserve, NTL or someone, people use Freeserve and NTL as their homepage a lot of the time.
Google Adwords would be a good idea though, not only do you get priority on searches you'll have your name appear on mini Google banners all over the web.
Try placing an advert in a national newspaper, don't tell people prices of products as they won't really know if they're good or not. Tell them how you can offer games cheaper than other companies. How buying online is cheaper than buying from Game etc. Once people get the idea that you're cheaper they'll come and investigate themselves.
THat's all I can think about for now...
some how find a way to copy GC discs and make millions!
That's a good idea.
You'd only have to print it, of course, as you'd get thousands of reviews and stuff from us lot. The change to be immortalised in print will get you free labour.
Cheap gyts.
You'd only have to print it, of course, as you'd get thousands of reviews and stuff from us lot. The change to be immortalised in print will get you free labour.
Cheap gyts.
Give a copy of the winning SR game with your magasine.
Not really an idea to help the company, it would just be cool.
Not really an idea to help the company, it would just be cool.
H²O wrote:
> I think what would be good, is if you made your magasine bigger and
> sell it in shops like WHSmiths. Kind of like NOM and PS2 magasine.
>
> People would buy it, then go on the site to buy things.
>
> I think it would promote the SR quite well. With all the competitions
> you run it would attract alot more people.
and add more reveiws and funny things, walkthroughs u know
> I think what would be good, is if you made your magasine bigger and
> sell it in shops like WHSmiths. Kind of like NOM and PS2 magasine.
>
> People would buy it, then go on the site to buy things.
>
> I think it would promote the SR quite well. With all the competitions
> you run it would attract alot more people.
and add more reveiws and funny things, walkthroughs u know
OH!
Change your name to:
1) Ninja Special Reserve.
2) Pirate Special Reserve
3) Cowboy Special Reserve.
4) Special Badger Reserve
5) Special Reserve : Slender Loris edition.
6) Special Reserve : We Am Bear
7) Extra Special Super Mega-Reserve.
And the money will come rolling in.
It's truth.
Who wouldn't want to shop at SR: We Am Bear?
Change your name to:
1) Ninja Special Reserve.
2) Pirate Special Reserve
3) Cowboy Special Reserve.
4) Special Badger Reserve
5) Special Reserve : Slender Loris edition.
6) Special Reserve : We Am Bear
7) Extra Special Super Mega-Reserve.
And the money will come rolling in.
It's truth.
Who wouldn't want to shop at SR: We Am Bear?
ßora† SagdiyeV wrote:
> you volunteering, Lindgren?
Umm, will I get a GAD for it? :P
> you volunteering, Lindgren?
Umm, will I get a GAD for it? :P
And, just to make the site more interesting, add a weekly feature to the old upwire - articles, if you will, just to spice things up. I'd be interested to hear of Snugglys thoughts on retro gaming versus modern gaming, or what tony thinks of the French...
Something to do with cowboys.
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