Fostering strong relationships with local businesses can significantly enhance your store’s visibility, community engagement, and overall success. By coll...
If you are thinking about buying the Game Retailer Guide, you might be concerned about the publication date. The industry has changed since that book’s release ...
At the average American reading speed of about 250 words per minute, you can read the Game Retailer Guide in about 6 hours. Within six hours of research, you ha...
Retailers sometimes have difficulties managing cash. It could be for any number of reasons—another store could have opened too nearby, the owner could have heal...
We talk often about the mechanics of operating a game store—things like opening procedures, POS tips, and event management. All these things are intended to hel...
I assess my company’s value on the local community: how much of my revenue is spent locally, and can I do anything to improve it? Labor Obviously, all our emplo...
Playing music where customers can hear it provides three main benefits for stores. First, it can support your brand. You can choose a tone that’s peppy, moody, ...
In the last week, I’ve encountered 4 game stores who failed to optimize their inventory dollars. I want to keep this article short, because the message is simpl...
The single most critical launching station with my game stores was leaving the register full time and moving to a position where my full-time job was “improving...
Occasionally on discussion fora, somebody asks existing store owners “What mistakes did you make when you started”, or “What would you have done differently”? T...