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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vagabonvoid" data-source="post: 4250593" data-attributes="member: 61265">I ran a LGS in conjunction with my ice cream parlor the year before I sold it.  These are things I learned.1:  You must provide a friendly service...  And you must be clean and organized.  If you are not professional (showing up to work late, wearing a cheetoes stained shirt, etc) you will fail.2: You must provide a vast amount of services.  A gaming store can no longer be a nitch store that just supplies rulebooks and some minis.  You must expand to meet the times and compete with the online revolution. Include RPGs, Minis, TCGs, Comics, Models, Videogames, etc...   3: Include Rulebooks from the easy to find (D&D) to less mainstream rpgs.  Include miniatures from mainstream companies such as D&D, warhammer, and reaper, as well as from harder to find minis (such as from Hasslefree or cobblestone minis).  Also, include a painting/modeling service.4th: PreOrder all your stuff from Buy.com <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=":)" /> (just a joke)5: Provide an atmosphere that encourages gaming.  In addition to the open gaming tables for RPGA and Warhammer competitions, Add a couple of small lounges that group can reserve for gaming.  Decorate these with themes that engourage a play style (flagstone wall-paper for dungeons and dragons as an example).  By putting in these lounges you can even offer bonus services such as pizza delivery, snack foods, and beverages.6: Put in a computer/xbox live lounge that for an hourly rate, patrons can play WOW, Halo, Everquest, etc.  If you can, include even older systems (I used to have an original nintendo, snes, nintendo 64, and sega genisis in my store up and running).        7:  A gaming store must be in the proper place.  It needs to be accessible.  Recently a LGS in a nearby city moved from their original location on Main street (near a school, university, town college, and surrounded by neighborhoods) to a location in the middle of nowhere. Their business has since dropped dramatically.</blockquote>

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