The Flea Market Way
I’ve recently created a truncated form of business plan describing a low-budget way to start a game store. Get inventory, get some fixtures, and focus on ...
Author: lloydbrown
Pre-Opening Promotion
Build Sales While You Build Set your budget. You should have already assigned a figure to this category when you created your financial statements, but now is t...
Bankruptcy in 10 Easy Steps
A Bizarro Look at Running Your Business 1. Blow off Special Orders Special orders require paying attention to something else while you’re furiously concentratin...
The Big Margin Discussion
Margin, margin, margin—retailers talk about it a lot. Yes, margin is extremely important. Without it, we wouldn’t be here. The difference between cost and sales...
Planning Store Layout
What to Place Where Early in your planning stages, you should have a broad idea of what major features you’ll have in your store. Will you have a game room? How...
Pre-Opening Marketing
Let People Know You’re Opening Marketing includes more than just advertising. It includes everything you do strategically and tactically to gain and retai...
The Pros & Cons of a Game Room
Should You or Shouldn’t You? The question of whether or not a store should have a game room is highly contentious. Fortunately, both camps are on good ter...
Finding Suppliers
Where to Buy the Goods You’ll Sell Your primary sources of products will be game distributors and the game manufacturers themselves. Choosing which sources to u...
Deciding What to Carry
Merchandise, Space Requirements, and Cost While developing your business model is not the time to get caught up in how many copies of an RPG x or ablister pack ...
Game Store Business Valuation
How Much Is It Worth? Last week we compared the benefits of buying a new store vs. opening your own store. This month, we’re going to expand on that topic a bit...