Aim Higher: Add Value To Your Thriving Retail Business With Game Production
I’m a big proponent of retailers venturing into vertical integration by producing their own product. Each side of this equation–the retail division ...
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Taking Scissors to the GRG: 10 Updates to Improve Your Value
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 ...
Six-Hour Masterclass: Starting A Successful Tabletop Game Store
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...
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...
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 ...
Why Are We Here?
One retailer concern that keeps coming up is the swing of customer purchases moving directly to the manufacturer. Technology allows the manufacturers to reach t...
Choosing Partners
Know Who and Why Whether you’re still in the planning stages or looking for an option to grow your business, one option you might want consider is bringing in a...