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<blockquote data-quote="Morrus" data-source="post: 7696310" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>I'm pleased for you. I always like to see fellow small publishers doing well. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't rely on Paizo's front page for my marketing (like I said, it's only about 5% of my sales - just enough to cover the OBS exclusivity difference). I do my own marketing - lots of it - and additionally get decent passer-by sales from OBS stores. I was mentioned in a Paizo newsletter a few years ago during the Rebuilding Kickstarter, which was awesome, but that was a special occasion.</p><p></p><p>A shop needs to do its selling. That's the main function of a shop. In the case of John's (the old one, not the new one), he needs to find new ways to market the stock he holds that for whatever reason his current marketing efforts (like his SRD compilation) fail to target rather than say to manufacturers "your products don't match my marketing and that is <em>your</em> failure". He can choose just to sell to a certain demographic, and that's fine, of course. There's nothing wrong with that. If he markets my products, I'll stock them with him; at the moment he doesn't, so I don't. That's fine.</p><p></p><p>It's not fair on him, I know. OBS has a near monopoly and doesn't need to market its stock. And that sucks; I totally sympathise. I know he faces a heck of a challenge, and I don't rightly know how you deal with that. I'd love it if there were three competitive stores we publishers could use, because the competition could only benefit us. With luck, this new venture will be able to do what d20pfsrd couldn't do - adding folks like Bill Webb to the mix and with support from Green Ronin, Kobold Press, Frog God, etc., I think it might have a real chance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Morrus, post: 7696310, member: 1"] I'm pleased for you. I always like to see fellow small publishers doing well. :) I don't rely on Paizo's front page for my marketing (like I said, it's only about 5% of my sales - just enough to cover the OBS exclusivity difference). I do my own marketing - lots of it - and additionally get decent passer-by sales from OBS stores. I was mentioned in a Paizo newsletter a few years ago during the Rebuilding Kickstarter, which was awesome, but that was a special occasion. A shop needs to do its selling. That's the main function of a shop. In the case of John's (the old one, not the new one), he needs to find new ways to market the stock he holds that for whatever reason his current marketing efforts (like his SRD compilation) fail to target rather than say to manufacturers "your products don't match my marketing and that is [I]your[/I] failure". He can choose just to sell to a certain demographic, and that's fine, of course. There's nothing wrong with that. If he markets my products, I'll stock them with him; at the moment he doesn't, so I don't. That's fine. It's not fair on him, I know. OBS has a near monopoly and doesn't need to market its stock. And that sucks; I totally sympathise. I know he faces a heck of a challenge, and I don't rightly know how you deal with that. I'd love it if there were three competitive stores we publishers could use, because the competition could only benefit us. With luck, this new venture will be able to do what d20pfsrd couldn't do - adding folks like Bill Webb to the mix and with support from Green Ronin, Kobold Press, Frog God, etc., I think it might have a real chance. [/QUOTE]
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