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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Son_of_Thunder" data-source="post: 1633880" data-attributes="member: 258">Hope this helps!Hello,I seriously considered for a while there opening up a gaming store. I even came up with a pretty good plan.So here goes:As has been stated, keep your place clean. It’s going to be unavoidable to have smelly unwashed gamers but have ventilation, maybe some candle warmers and good lighting.Service. Can’t emphasize this enough. I can’t tell you how many times I walked through the LGS and not have the person supposedly running the joint even look at me once. Be friendly, give the buyer a minute or two to look then approach and ask if there is anything specific they want. Get to know the regulars, unless they are bottom feeding scum, then boot them out.Knowledge of product. Make sure you stay up to date on various product. Ask friends or well known associates to run demos. Keep in stock what sells but don’t be afraid to special order.Is this store strictly hobby games or will it include family friendly games? If it will have family friendly games, have a family game night such as chess or apples to apples or catch phrase or abalone etc. Keep away the suggestive posters, paintings and such. As has been said, a parent will not want to see those elements (most parents I should say).Speaking of nights, have a collectible card game night every Thursday say, and a D&D night every Tuesday. Have an ever-changing genre night. You might think of having a ladies night for the gamer that has a lady in their life, and most do. The ladies can come in and earn a 10% discount for presents for their husbands, brothers, sons etc. or even for themselves.Be prepared to handle undesirable people. Don’t be afraid to ask someone to leave, particularly the above mentioned unclean. Go to the following site:<a href="http://www.actsofgord.com/" target="_blank">http://www.actsofgord.com/</a>Lots of good stories there. He deals with a video game store but his experiences are priceless.As for other product. Sure, sell the D&D comics from Kenzer and other comics, tasteful anime, dice (goes without saying), and the more popular TCG’s.How much room do you have? Maybe a bank of networked computers. Definitely tables for mini, card, and role-playing games. Think about limiting the playing time to slots of various hours, like at cons. But when the doors close for the night play with your buds till the wee hours of the morning.Presentation. Learn where the eye level of your various age groups are. When I worked in a grocery store we put the popular and higher priced stuff at eye level (easy to grab and look through). Which brings up another thought. Will you have perusable copies of game product? Will you keep a lot of stuff bagged?That’s it for now,Good LuckSon of ThunderP.S. Oh yea, seriously think about an online presence; web site, pre-order page etc.</blockquote>

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