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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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Cool dude dave. There is already web hosting. From freeola....
a good idea would be to have you own magazine to buy from a shop like the guy below me said but a great idea would be to have either an advert on tv or your own show like GamesVille on sky one ut in order to reach more people it would be on bbc or itv or any other terestrial channel.
another idea would be to be a web hosting site whenever some one wants a site they pay you a set amount and they have to have a banner on the top of there web sites telling them about your web site.
yet another idea would be to ask a PC magazine if you could put an advert on their cd telling us about your shops and web site
(c) copyright to me or i get nasty
another idea would be to be a web hosting site whenever some one wants a site they pay you a set amount and they have to have a banner on the top of there web sites telling them about your web site.
yet another idea would be to ask a PC magazine if you could put an advert on their cd telling us about your shops and web site
(c) copyright to me or i get nasty
I think SR is doing excellent at the moment. But, I think you should introduce new product to the site. I like BB guns, you only sell a few of them! or gadgets and that sort of things.
Selling DVD's and CD's is a very good thing as well. There are many music and film lovers out there. Selling DVD's would be a great succes; as long as you sell lots of them, like the games.
And another thing is, you could incorage more people to join by adding more things to the free prize list.
More competitions like this, would incorage people to join and contribute to the site. As well as having lost of members.
You could also advertise newly released games, or preorders on your webpages. Thats how must people see it and like it, an true exaple, till last week I thought sims bustin out would NOT be good. I saw the ad, I really liked it, and bought it in 2 days.
You could also send out more advertising magazines, to keep members up to date on your prices and items.
To make the site popular, you could do ads in papers, other websites, or even if possibly on TV.
I hope I were help full
Selling DVD's and CD's is a very good thing as well. There are many music and film lovers out there. Selling DVD's would be a great succes; as long as you sell lots of them, like the games.
And another thing is, you could incorage more people to join by adding more things to the free prize list.
More competitions like this, would incorage people to join and contribute to the site. As well as having lost of members.
You could also advertise newly released games, or preorders on your webpages. Thats how must people see it and like it, an true exaple, till last week I thought sims bustin out would NOT be good. I saw the ad, I really liked it, and bought it in 2 days.
You could also send out more advertising magazines, to keep members up to date on your prices and items.
To make the site popular, you could do ads in papers, other websites, or even if possibly on TV.
I hope I were help full
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.
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.
Another idea - have a football match composed of people in suits of famous videogame players...
A Nintendo XI versus a Playstation All-Stars?
A Nintendo XI versus a Playstation All-Stars?
monkey_man wrote:
> "Thank you giant red splat mascot, you have saved our village
> from the bandits."
We're not making a B-movie here, sheesh.
> "Thank you giant red splat mascot, you have saved our village
> from the bandits."
We're not making a B-movie here, sheesh.
Probably mentioned a million times in this thread already, but if you guys want to promote yourselves more, simply subscribe to price comparison sites, most notably http://www.kelkoo.co.uk
People are increasingly looking for something that can find their product for them, which is far more efficient than using a search engine.
People are increasingly looking for something that can find their product for them, which is far more efficient than using a search engine.
"Thank you giant red splat mascot, you have saved our village from the bandits."
Hire goons to attempt to carbomb the president of a country, lets say Italy, but seconds before the carbomb goes off you can get Tony (Or a giant SR mascot) to save the president, and stop him being a red splat on the pavement.
This would make him a "red splat saver" and the event a "red splat saving"
He shoots. He scores.
This would make him a "red splat saver" and the event a "red splat saving"
He shoots. He scores.
I did a real LOLROLFPIMP just then - who the hell did that, it's so crappy! All it needs is a red splat on it's tummy and you're sorted!
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