Top 5 Mistakes Retailers Make When Writing A Business Plan
Since I’ve been writing plans for others who want to open a store, I’ve read a few business plans that clients have assembled themselves, and I’ve noticed...
Author: lloydbrown
Safety First: Protect Your Investment With Iron-clad Liability Policies
Liability can kill a thriving, successful business. It’s a menace to businesses struggling to pay their bills. I don’t normally cover topics universally appropr...
Empower Your Team: Techniques and Store Training Handbook
One of your business goals should be to make yourself redundant. When your store works just fine without you, you’re free to focus your time and effort on growi...
Competitive Analysis: Local Market Store Comparison Guide
It’s important to conduct an objective, honest analysis of where you stand in your local market. It tells you where you need to improve. It shows you what angle...
How Game Stores Empower Local Economies and Build Communities
What do we mean to the community? I want to assess my company’s value to the local community: how much of my revenue is spent locally, and can I do anything to ...
Unlock Prestige: How to Earn Wizards Premium Retailer Status
One of the key questions you must ask yourself when you plan your store is the question of whether to build for the Premium store designation from Wizards of th...
Transform Your FLGS: Domino’s Pizza Delivered My Retail Success
I’ve told the story before of how Domino’s prepared me for my own business. Let me provide a little more detail. Background When I joined the company in 1987, D...
Titus Tabletop Games: A New Direction
From before we launched our brick-and-mortar operations in 2013, the plan for Friendly Local Game Store has been the dual development of multiple retail stores ...
EDDM Marketing
EDDM Marketing The EDDM (Every Door Direct Mail) program is an offer from the post office that allows you to send low-cost marketing pieces to a very specific p...
After-Action Report: RapierCon
Introducing FLGS I’ve learned a lot about game retail since I bought my store. I’ve considered re-entering that arena several times under different ...