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<blockquote data-quote="Memnoch3434" data-source="post: 5984804" data-attributes="member: 6676476"><p>My favorite part of FLGS's is interacting with the other customers. It might be a good idea to set up some things to get people interested in right off the bat. Friday Night Magic is a no-brainer, but maybe you should have a few local DM's come in and run a few gaming sessions with new (to them, or completely new) players. Have a game session to show newbies the RPG ropes and play them through a few simple modules. </p><p></p><p>Other games are obnoxiously difficult like 40k and Warhammer will need someone to teach people to play them. Have a board game night where a few of the employees will take some time to teach a new board game kinda like table top. </p><p></p><p>But as it's already been said, Customer Service is key. My favorite FLGS was so good because the guy who owned it only really cared about making people happy and having a good time. He only wanted to make enough to keep the place going. Since he didn't really care about profit he was much more loose on what he would trade from his stock to customers (as far as CCG's go). </p><p></p><p>Another decent FLGS that I have been to doubled as a used videogame/dvd store but they tried to bank in on the rare stuff. I don't like the "if you don't buy something pay to sit here" rule. The last FLGS I tried did that (unless you were there for the dedicated event of the night) and it was a pain to work around. Since our game didn't have a huge following (Legend of the Five Rings CCG) we never had our own night besides the "free" Night.</p><p></p><p>Something else that store had that worked pretty well was having a set of top of the line gaming computers that you paid for time on to play a game from their collection. League of Legends and MW3 were big hits and alot of people would come in just to play those games on the high speed internet connection and awesome computers. That way you can run some gaming tournaments, halo and all that. You can keep the computers behind the counter if you dont want to endanger them.</p><p></p><p>That's all I can think of, also maybe call your store "The Android's Dungeon?" Might draw a few old simpsons nerds if the copyright is good.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Memnoch3434, post: 5984804, member: 6676476"] My favorite part of FLGS's is interacting with the other customers. It might be a good idea to set up some things to get people interested in right off the bat. Friday Night Magic is a no-brainer, but maybe you should have a few local DM's come in and run a few gaming sessions with new (to them, or completely new) players. Have a game session to show newbies the RPG ropes and play them through a few simple modules. Other games are obnoxiously difficult like 40k and Warhammer will need someone to teach people to play them. Have a board game night where a few of the employees will take some time to teach a new board game kinda like table top. But as it's already been said, Customer Service is key. My favorite FLGS was so good because the guy who owned it only really cared about making people happy and having a good time. He only wanted to make enough to keep the place going. Since he didn't really care about profit he was much more loose on what he would trade from his stock to customers (as far as CCG's go). Another decent FLGS that I have been to doubled as a used videogame/dvd store but they tried to bank in on the rare stuff. I don't like the "if you don't buy something pay to sit here" rule. The last FLGS I tried did that (unless you were there for the dedicated event of the night) and it was a pain to work around. Since our game didn't have a huge following (Legend of the Five Rings CCG) we never had our own night besides the "free" Night. Something else that store had that worked pretty well was having a set of top of the line gaming computers that you paid for time on to play a game from their collection. League of Legends and MW3 were big hits and alot of people would come in just to play those games on the high speed internet connection and awesome computers. That way you can run some gaming tournaments, halo and all that. You can keep the computers behind the counter if you dont want to endanger them. That's all I can think of, also maybe call your store "The Android's Dungeon?" Might draw a few old simpsons nerds if the copyright is good. [/QUOTE]
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