Nov 7 2007

Our 1st Video Newsletter & How You Can Win £1000

Posted by jason in Loquax News, Videos
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How would you like to win £1000 from Loquax? Of course you would! But how can you get your hands on this prize? Well watch our first ever competitions video newsletter and all be revealed! What’s that? A video newsletter! How does that work? Well watch and see - basically it’s a video (complete with Jason’s voice over) featuring a couple of competitions and features on Loquax. Our aim is to see if by using video we can perhaps get over to users some of the more interesting things in the comping and Loquax world better than perhaps our newsletter can!

As it’s an experiment, we’ve stuck with some familiar websites and other than our forthcoming £1000 competition there’s perhaps not too many revelations that a well informed Loquax user wouldn’t know about. Anyway.. take a look:

Sites Featured In The Video
Win an Apple Ipod Touch
Win a Remote Controlled Helicopter (I Want One of Those)
Win 1 of 1 Million Prizes (Baileys Million)
Torque of the North (Cancer Research Sponsorship)
Jackpotjoy (Win £1000, PS3)
Loquax Daily Scratchcard (Free Jackpotjoy Prize Points)
Loquax Forums
The Winners Post
The £1000 Loquax Competition - Coming Soon!
Xmastime (Christmas Gift Ideas & Discount Codes)

Thank You To..
Bubbles17 for sending in a prize winning photo
Apollo Brummies for music!

We’d like to do more video newsletters in the future (e.g. monthly, bimonthly) as we think we can definitely improve a few things, and also have more user involvement too (photos, video etc). This is a unique step for a competition site and we hope you enjoyed it. Please feel free to leave (constructive and kind) comments and/or suggestions!

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moomimmel said:

read those PM’s yet? quite interesting

November 7th, 2007 at 2:01 pm
justme1 said:

Great idea! Thoroughly enjoyed watching it!

November 7th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
SweetiPie said:

It was informative and intersting,well done.

November 7th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
JackieJ said:

Very good.! Something in a similar format may be useful for new users to teach them to use the tracker.

One thing I learned about was the free draws at Jackpot Joy. I’ve always avoid JJ in case I got in to spending money

November 7th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
libra100 said:

Thanks for the video newsletter Jason. Very interesting information, looking forward to the new Loquax competition

November 7th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
ully said:

Very good I thought. I have a friend who is 68 and I was thinking this would be very useful to her because she wants to join, but finds it a bit confusing to use the site as she is a beginner. Distance doesnt permit me to show her very clearly. This would help her a lot and a great way to get people such as her and others involved.

November 7th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
jason said:

Thanks for the comments

Using video to explain the tracker and other features on Loquax is definitely something we would like to do.

Jason

November 7th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
ElvyFury said:

I really liked the video, it even got my daughter to shut up for 5 minutes.

Its a good idea, and I’d watch another one.

*thumbs up*

Wendyx

November 7th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
foady said:

I like it , it’s very good idea and i’d watch another one. That’s what i like about loquax ,more than others it’s always evolving and always informative.
Big thumbs up from me

November 7th, 2007 at 6:56 pm
leesac said:

Loved it ! Very good idea and nice voice over Jason!!

November 7th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
hellywelly said:

Straightforward and simple-a nice approach to an old favourite…very useful for newbies I would guess.

November 7th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
car01e said:

gets the thumbs up from me. made a change as sometimes you tend to just skim over the newletter and miss stuff.

well done, i would definately watch another.

car01exx

November 7th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
julie-j said:

Great idea - something a bit different.

November 7th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
Jammycow said:

Thumbs up from me too.
looking forward to the next one.

Amanda xx

November 7th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
obelist said:

Looks good to me. What were those photos that kept popping up on the bottom of the film?

November 7th, 2007 at 10:18 pm
jason said:

The photos are just YouTube stuff

November 7th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
Janetf said:

Enjoyed it very much. It is a good idea.

November 8th, 2007 at 2:05 am
dpfoib said:

Enjoyed it - a little bit different!

Will look forward to seeing the next one.

November 8th, 2007 at 11:44 am
HARRY100 said:

sorry takes too long information is easily obtainable on site

November 8th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
maggie1234 said:

Nice voice over, Jason, Look forward to more competitions and video newsletters

November 8th, 2007 at 4:45 pm
rachh2001 said:

Really enjoyed that! The forum is all I use on Loquax (don’t shout at me!) so it would be great to have your guidance looking around!

November 8th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
silverbird said:

I’ve got to say I really enjoyed it. It was great to get some guidance on parts of Loquax I haven’t ventured into. I liked listening to your voice too, Jason - very calm and soothing!

November 8th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
DarthPenguin said:

Great idea - shame it took so long to download and that’s on 10meg broadband so heaven knows how people without such a fast connection actually managed to watch it - left it downloading - came back and it was back at the start again and it wasn’t “downloaded” at all - tried direct on YouTube but no luck….. 3rd time it crashed my browser so I’ve given up.

You Tube is getting terrible lately for download speeds, how big is the file?

November 8th, 2007 at 11:00 pm
kirstralia said:

Thanks for the video newsletter Jason. I thought it was great and will be a very useful tool for newbies and loquax regulars. Keep up the good work.

November 9th, 2007 at 8:40 am
leigh-ann said:

i really enjoyed watching the video newsletter and wish to thank jason for all his yime spent producing it.
Thanks Jason

November 9th, 2007 at 9:36 am
jason said:

you should be able to watch ok as is - been no problem viewing

November 9th, 2007 at 11:36 am
bikerjoe said:

Really enjoyed it Jason. After spending hours researching answers, checking T&Cs its really nice to be able to just sit back and watch, as i too only skim over a lot of the newsletter, i assume because i spend a lot of time on the forums, the newsletter wont have much new to tell me, just goes to show i was wrong!

November 9th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
taryn70 said:

Thanks Jason
This video newsletter is a great idea. I agree with the other posters it would be very good for new users and technophobes, it is an ideal way for them to learn the basics, and to guide them around your site.
Well done, lets see this as a regular feature.

November 9th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
lilac-hippo said:

Excellent! Made it very interesting. Well done.

November 10th, 2007 at 12:19 am
janb02 said:

Good idea, makes you aware of different things.

November 10th, 2007 at 11:49 am
sandra63 said:

I enjoyed watching that - didn’t know you could enter jackpotjoy comps without forking out first so will definitely go and have a look there now. Looking forward to the Loquax comp. Thanks for yet another great idea.

November 10th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
sherieann said:

Very good idea, well done. I think it is very helpful, I wish I had this type of news-letter when I first started comping with Loquax.

November 11th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
teddybear2 said:

I enjoyed it too - very informative!

November 13th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
carol gardner said:

Well done, looks good, I’m sure it will be encouraging loads more people to join us.

November 13th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
bluey said:

Brill idea, works well

November 13th, 2007 at 7:36 pm
Polarbear said:

Very good, i hadn’t even realised it existed till i read the newsletter but yes i quite enjoyed it- what a great idea- and you “sound different” to what i imagined lol- ok i’m not sure what i thought you would sound like, lol- but that was done very well and you could get a job as a tv presenter /voice over/newsreader with such a smooth clear voice.

To be honest i never spotted the link to the vide news letter because its tied up on the front page in the “link” to a holiday to St. Lucia and as i don’t really enter holiday comps, i just ’skim read’ the Holiday & St. Lucia part so i think it might be more noticable if the news letter link was seperated from the St. Lucia (or any future) other links if you see what i mean? (and i only spotted it now as i was double checking to see if it was shown on the loquax front page before i made a suggestion that it was and then i saw it already is. IYSWIM)

November 16th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
united12345 said:

new and inovative enjoyed it

November 16th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
splatky said:

Great… I love to see a video for the tracker too, that would be really handy Thanks!

November 16th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
ifif68 said:

It would be nice to know - before clicking - how much time (and megabytes) we are about to devote…

Very informative, though.

November 17th, 2007 at 1:26 am
jason said:

“It would be nice to know - before clicking - how much time (and megabytes) we are about to devote”

Are you not just able to click “play” and watch the video streamed straight in or are you having to download the whole thing?

November 17th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
djbrammer said:

Jason, I just clicked on the play arrow and watched it fine without downloading it. I think it is a great idea and really enjoyed it. As others have mentioned one on how to use the tracker system would be great.

November 23rd, 2007 at 5:53 pm
labazs said:

brillaint i hope you carry on with this

November 29th, 2007 at 4:58 pm