Rapid POD to open its Publishing Doors This June

[DaWizard]

Would you like to set back and just design games for a living? Would you like someone else to spend their money on printing, advertising and promoting your games. Would you like your games to be sold through Alliance Distribution, Diamond Comics, and 30+ other distributors worldwide? Then maybe Rapid POD has a deal for you!!!

We are looking to form strategic alliances with a few companies who have the ability to create genius product. You get to keep your designs, we pay you 40% of collect monies (bi-weekly), we share a duel logo on the back of each product, and everyone is a winner!

So, what’s the catch? You have to produce some damn fine product. Once we get the product—ready to print— then we take care of the rest.

Current Advantages of Publishing with Rapid POD
— In House Print Capabilities
— We pay for the printing
— Current Gaming Advertising budges over 50k for 2007
— We pay for your advertising and promotions
— Alliance Distribution Fulfillment Agreement
— We do all the money collecting and payments
— You get paid by-weekly

If you are interested in our program, please drop me an e-mail so we can talk.

Thanx,
Ken Whitman
Rapid POD Publishing, Inc.
ken@rapidpod.com

502.212.6258

 

[Morrus]

— Current Gaming Advertising budges over 50k for 2007

I'm interested in where that $50,000 is being spent? We're halfway through 2007, so presumably you've spent about $25,000 in advertising so far. The reason I ask is because I haven't seen any ads, and you seem to be spending a hell of a lot of money on it.

 

[DaWizard]

Most of the money spent so far was acquiring booth space at GTS, EXPO, Origins, Gen Con, and Dragon Con.

We just signed deals with F&W and will appear in Scrye, Comics and Games, Gaming Report, and their online weekly news letter. We also have many multi level services with Alliance and Diamond Comic Distributors. We will have ads in each GAME TRADE magazine as well as Previews.

In the overall marketing plan, 50k is a drop in the bucket. We plan to drop 7% of our gross income into advertising, we are betting with the people we plan to sign and announce in the next few weeks will allow us to jump that number up substantially by the end of the year.

-Ken

 

[DaWizard]

Some clarifications from other sites

Each Design House will be given a budget allotted based on reactions from sales reps at Key Distribution companies. Rapid POD will then base an ad campaign based around this amount.

Obviously with RPG’s doing 200 to 600 units in the first 30 days, the budget will be lower then someone producing a card game that has the potential to sell 1500 units out the door.

All advertising, budgeting, graphic design, price point setting, etc. will be determent by Rapid POD.

However, Rapid POD is not Blindly picking up publishers like a consolidator would. We are going to be picky and only carry the companies or writers with good track records. As far as new guys go, they better come with a great business plan or some product concepts that know our blocks off. We may work with 4-9 clients at most.

Last thing, the companies we choose to work with may or may not be picked based on WHO we choose. We obviously wont work with 6 companies making Fantasy games. Will look at different departments, i.e.- kids games, kooky games, sci-fi, fantasy, giant robots, etc. So if some companies don’t get chosen, it wont be because they were not any good, they might not fit the group dynamic.

Hope that answers questions,
Ken

 

[Mark CMG]

It's been three months. How is this partnership program working? With Gencon a week away, I'd imagine a number of people have some important projects coming to a head right now. Has Ken Whitman proven to be reliable?

Would you like to set back and just design games for a living? Would you like someone else to spend their money on printing, advertising and promoting your games. Would you like your games to be sold through Alliance Distribution, Diamond Comics, and 30+ other distributors worldwide? Then maybe Rapid POD has a deal for you!!!

We are looking to form strategic alliances with a few companies who have the ability to create genius product. You get to keep your designs, we pay you 40% of collect monies (bi-weekly), we share a duel logo on the back of each product, and everyone is a winner!

So, what’s the catch? You have to produce some damn fine product. Once we get the product—ready to print— then we take care of the rest.

Current Advantages of Publishing with Rapid POD
— In House Print Capabilities
— We pay for the printing
— Current Gaming Advertising budges over 50k for 2007
— We pay for your advertising and promotions
— Alliance Distribution Fulfillment Agreement
— We do all the money collecting and payments
— You get paid by-weekly

If you are interested in our program, please drop me an e-mail so we can talk.

Thanx,
Ken Whitman
Rapid POD Publishing, Inc.
ken@rapidpod.com

502.212.6258

 

[leeatrapidpod]

It's been three months. How is this partnership program working? With Gencon a week away, I'd imagine a number of people have some important projects coming to a head right now. Has Ken Whitman proven to be reliable?

Things are changing quite a bit at Rapid POD right now...

http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=174279

I will be issuing a release as soon as all of the matters are finalized.