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Message: <blockquote data-quote="William drake" data-source="post: 3394833" data-attributes="member: 49143">Well, best of luck.Now, for a bit of the advice: in my area there have been three gaming/comic stores and I'm sorry to say that they've all gone under, the gaming stores sooner than the comic store.Fist: I would advise no instore computer games: linked for multi play or othewise. Reason: everyone has the internet, and every one plays the same game you can offer but with a larger crowd, faster speed, and cheeper a the end of the day.Second: if have warhammer games or other terrain table-top games, don't make it free. Don't allow for these quality tables, with trees and water, and everything be played upon by people who bring in theirown armies, use your table and pay nothing. A few dollars an hour, for these great pre-made terrain tables isn't to much to ask, and most gamers wouldn't mind paying if that means that their game shop, the place where they spend time for their hobbie, will be kept up and running.third: offer as much as you can for anything you run. If people play warehammer, offer the novels. If people play D&D offer the magizines and other reading materials for the hobbie. Offer the paint and brushes for all the minnies that you'r selling. Just offer, don't tell them you can get it online, becuse if you can get it online, than they can, which means that they dont need you.fourth: run games....run them, make sure that everyone knows that you can do Mage, WOD, Rifts, Shadowrun or anything else that they want. Do gaming nights, find DM's. Keep the gamers coming to your shop, if you don't they'll go else where and buy elsewhere. fith: keep everything that can be tied to another hobbie in the shop: comics, movies, books, posters...anything, you don't have to buy alot of them, cost is a point and extra space being taken up with this inventory, but keep some. Buy enough so that customers see that you have it, and buy more only as the need demands.sixth: advertise!!!!!!!!!!!! You've got to spend money to make money, go to all the places where you'd know gamers to be, and use the net; talk up your story on every local site you can find.seventh: food, drinks and are things are good, but only sell them for as long as you make money back, not just enough to keep restocking them.eighth: nothing is free, but don't try and oversell things so that your making more back then you should. Everyone knows your out to make money, but you're not the oil companies, we don't need games or comics, we can do without or go else where, you dont have the monopoly. Remember this, and charge so that your customers know that your giving them a good deal, while keeping a few bucks for yourself. You're after return customers, and word of mouth sales...that wouldn't happen if people feel cheated.That is about it.Remember, you're getting into a store where your not going to make alot, but, if done right, you can live off of it and perhaps grow. AA short story, the gaming store just up the street from me, was opened for the owner and his few gammers friends. (they all worked it, owned it, or both) in truth, at the end of the day, they took upon themselves the store for a place to game, it wasn't a job and that's what made it fail. Ofcourse you want to have fun, and enjoy what you do, and be involved in the hobbie and comics and everything, but you're running a store and that must be kept in mind first and foremost.Keep posting, I love these shops, and wish more would make it. Game On</blockquote>

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