Are You Sabotaging Your Own Business? The Deadly Pitfalls of Inventory Mismanagement
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...
Category: Operations
This category includes everything relating to the mechanics of running a store.
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...
Things I’d Have Done Differently
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...
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 ...
Making Money at Cons
My new article at rpg.net is up. It talks about finding, planning, and handling your sales at conventions. Cons give you an opportunity to reach those customers...
Free Games
In this week’s upcoming article on The Business of Gaming Retail, I talk about how to get free games–to the tune of over $2,000 a year.
Brian’s Fate
In A Cautionary Tale on RPG.net, I described the business of a person not named Brian. Here’s an update Brian managed to hold on for a while, parti...