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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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Give everybody an Xbox, thereby massively increasing the demand for Xbox games. "Give away the razors, sell the razor blades", that's what Mr Gillette says.
ecto-plasm is purple? no one told me.
And purple. Maybe it's ecto-plasm.
Hey cool, its all sticky here.
Its all of I can think of at the moment but an ideal method would be some sort of viral marketing technique. I imagine the company is pretty keyed up Internet wise (I found my way here) but a way of generating interest in the real world would be to offer something that everyone could use and is of some sort of use.
Say for example, a good mobile phone cover for a popular make of phone like (much as I hate to say it) a Nokia. Stamp a small logo on it, give a few away to regulars or people on your mailing list as a freebie, and it *may* cause an increase of interest in the site / shops.
“Oh, that’s pretty useful, where did you get it”
“Off special reserve, look, here is the website address, you can get one it you want one”
Extra punter walks into the trap. Give them a cover if they want it, even if they don’t place an order (one per email address), and voila! More free advertising (well apart from the cover, which will cost pennies)
Probably not work, but I’m bored at work……………….
Say for example, a good mobile phone cover for a popular make of phone like (much as I hate to say it) a Nokia. Stamp a small logo on it, give a few away to regulars or people on your mailing list as a freebie, and it *may* cause an increase of interest in the site / shops.
“Oh, that’s pretty useful, where did you get it”
“Off special reserve, look, here is the website address, you can get one it you want one”
Extra punter walks into the trap. Give them a cover if they want it, even if they don’t place an order (one per email address), and voila! More free advertising (well apart from the cover, which will cost pennies)
Probably not work, but I’m bored at work……………….
OOh, ooh, a big bat-signal device that prints a big red splat in the sky!!!
Yeah, but she doesn't have a McDonalds style SR uniform. Do you have a cap and a name tag? And a badge that says "Ask me about Game A Day"?
like your mum... :)
Pimp out Darkus before he leaves. I'm sure someone, somewhere is sick enough to want him.
monkey_man wrote:
> Why don't you start selling pants and thongs by mail order?
lol! has someone been passing you our mail?!
> Why don't you start selling pants and thongs by mail order?
lol! has someone been passing you our mail?!
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