Unlock Higher Sales: Manage Your Inventory to Maximize Turn Rates
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...
Author: lloydbrown
Telling a Secret: How Shutting Down one Store Launched My Business to New Profits
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...
Lessons Learned: Personal Insights From 25 Years of Gaming Retail
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...
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...
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...