Demos for Dollars, Part II
Demos aren’t your only option for game room activities. Leagues Leagues are a finite periodic event with a competitive element. You require players to play matc...
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Demos for Dollars, Part I
The gamble with having a game room is that the increase in gamer activity it generates will encourage more sales than if you filled that space with more merchan...
Grace Period Whirlwind
Race to the Starting Line Ah, the mindset of a gamer. When a bank approves a loan, they typically request that you reapply if you take more than 30 days to en...
Seven Ways to Save Money at Startup
Another Bullet List of Savings I’m not counting lease negotiation in this article. A commercial lease is a huge effort with plenty of strategies for reducing co...
10 Ways to Save Money
Cutting costs is less about brainstorming and more about consistency and awareness. Frugality is a mindset. It should such an integral part of your business ope...
Alternate Business Models
The majority of the articles in this series apply most specifically to a certain set of assumptions about your game store model. Most of them are so fundamental...
Managing Success: A Cautionary Tale
Recently, I’ve been in a position to watch a curious thing. A business owner, who we’ll call Brian, owns five stores. He started well. He managed his first stor...
The Change In Your Couch
Unconventional Financing Building Assets Building assets is your best method of financial positioning. Even if you abort your plans late in the planning stages,...
The Change In Your Couch
Unconventional Financing Building Assets Building assets is your best method of financial positioning. Even if you abort your plans late in the planning stages,...
Branding
It Is Your Business Importance of Branding In my library I have a copy of the Consumer Reports magazine in which Consumers’ Union did a taste comparison of soft...