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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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I know it's a bit late, but you can have these suggestions for free.
Because I love you. :^p
I just ordered stuff and found 2 things:
i) After putting the stuff I wanted in my 'trolley', I went to look at some other stuff (which I didn't buy). So then I needed to use the 'my trolley' link to get back to a screen from which I could proceed to buy stuff.
I couldn't find the link anywhere.
I now know there's that one in yellow next to 'your free account', and another burried deep in the list on the left, but I strongly suggest you consider making the link more obvious.
Maybe a picture would be a good idea, or maybe a seperate link in the very top-right of the screen, in bold text. It really needs to be more obvious and/or in a more intuitive place to look for the link.
Putting barriers between customers and completing the sale is never a good idea, and this particular one could be remedied quite easily.
ii) While checking out, on the 'membership options' bit where you either give your membership number, sign up, take a trial membership or proceed as a non-member, there's a big membership advert between the first 2 and last 2 check-boxes. This means that if you've not scrolled past the big advert you don't see any option except to sign up for a full price membership. When I saw the adviert it immediately seemed like it must mark the end of the available options.
It must put non-members off, and could be very easily remedied by putting the advert below all of the options. I'd suggest below the 'next' button link too.
People should still see it, if they're interested, but it won't cause any misunderstanding of the available options.
Small things, could be easily fixed. I suggest you have a go.
Because I love you. :^p
I just ordered stuff and found 2 things:
i) After putting the stuff I wanted in my 'trolley', I went to look at some other stuff (which I didn't buy). So then I needed to use the 'my trolley' link to get back to a screen from which I could proceed to buy stuff.
I couldn't find the link anywhere.
I now know there's that one in yellow next to 'your free account', and another burried deep in the list on the left, but I strongly suggest you consider making the link more obvious.
Maybe a picture would be a good idea, or maybe a seperate link in the very top-right of the screen, in bold text. It really needs to be more obvious and/or in a more intuitive place to look for the link.
Putting barriers between customers and completing the sale is never a good idea, and this particular one could be remedied quite easily.
ii) While checking out, on the 'membership options' bit where you either give your membership number, sign up, take a trial membership or proceed as a non-member, there's a big membership advert between the first 2 and last 2 check-boxes. This means that if you've not scrolled past the big advert you don't see any option except to sign up for a full price membership. When I saw the adviert it immediately seemed like it must mark the end of the available options.
It must put non-members off, and could be very easily remedied by putting the advert below all of the options. I'd suggest below the 'next' button link too.
People should still see it, if they're interested, but it won't cause any misunderstanding of the available options.
Small things, could be easily fixed. I suggest you have a go.
You loser, the dead line has passed.
get pop up windows on popular websites or advertize on radio or billboards.
i hope you take these comments into consideration.
thank you for this oppertunity.
i hope you take these comments into consideration.
thank you for this oppertunity.
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> stop it the comp finished ages ago kapeesh.
Who is Kapeesh?
Hahaha.... *cough*, sorry.
> stop it the comp finished ages ago kapeesh.
Who is Kapeesh?
Hahaha.... *cough*, sorry.
You should sell MJOLNIR Armour. Then, if we ever meet, we can have a real Red Vs Blue,.. Regulars Vs Notables!
Shotgun the Sniper Rifle...
Hahaha, wierd. It's one of those Double Negative, no, Ironic, no, errrr. What's it called. You know... Reverse Sense, errr... thingy...
Whatever.
Shotgun the Sniper Rifle...
Hahaha, wierd. It's one of those Double Negative, no, Ironic, no, errrr. What's it called. You know... Reverse Sense, errr... thingy...
Whatever.
stop it the comp finished ages ago kapeesh.
have the 118 guys running around towns saying "specialreserve.com chep for all things good with a speaker phone
Right...
u should have bonsai trees
I don't know why any of you bothered. My "fat men" idea is clearly the best.
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