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The Order Narrative (Tradecraft)
This is a nuts and bolts article about understanding where a product stands at any given moment. Before an order is placed, even while talki...
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A Book
This week I've spent time thinking about writing a book. Let me tell you up front, I find nothing particular amazing or noteworthy about...
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Tariffs And You
With a proposed 20% import tariff, I was wondering about the game trade exposure and specifically my store. Only six of my top 30 best selli...
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Growth And Books And Miniature Games
I'm on vacation, so of course I'm writing a blog post. Here are a few updates on what's going on: Post Construction Growth We...
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A Path To A Middle Class Income In Five Years
I've been writing the book since the last blog post. As you might expect, it's a lot of work. It is not a bunch of blog posts turned...
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Competition (Tradecraft)
Here's the thing about competition, a well run, well rounded store is shielded from direct competition. You can't generally steal cu...
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Retail Apocalypse (Tradecraft)
There is much talk about the demise of retail. We have Sears, JC Penneys, Macy's, Radio Shack, K Mart, GameStop and many other big chain...
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Magic Formula Vs. Pump & Dump
There is a magic formula to board game sales. It assumes you do everything right as a retailer. It goes something like this. You become the ...
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Ptolemaic Retailing (Tradecraft)
Everyone is trying to get the best deal, be they retailers, distributors or consumers. In the game trade, we go through this twisted psycho...
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State Of The Store
It has been six months since our big construction project completed. Our store square footage is now at 4,300, an increase of a third, all d...
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Sales Vs. Discounting (Tradecraft)
Sales I believe, for a variety of reasons, that the only good sale is a clearance sale. A clearance sale should be like putting down a ...
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Dance Of Desire (Tradecraft)
When I think about long term plans for the store, whether it means keeping it well into retirement, selling it later, or keeping it going af...
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Benevolent Dictatorship (Tradecraft)
I hear stories all the time from retailers who have had their stores hijacked. Perhaps it's the customer using your RPG section and gene...
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So, You Need Some Money (Tradecraft)
One of my minor claims to fame is I'm one of the few store owners who has succeeded in leveraging the hell out of my store, while still ...
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Narrow Windows (Tradecraft)
There's an interesting article here that talks about the aspirations of employers and what they actually get. It's exemplified ...
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Now With Video (Tradecraft)
In the past, I would have never considered creating a video for anything other than something dire. You know, like a plea for cancer treatme...
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Dialed In (Tradecraft)
When I first started the store in 2004, I recall some odd conversations with friends. One friend, an executive at an Internet start up asked...
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Protecting Merk Value (Tradecraft)
The game trade eats its young. It's a painful realization that the mechanisms of the trade are designed around the pump and dump, the ac...
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