http://www.gamingretailer.com The business of games Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:48:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en GamingRetailer.com Podcast episode 2. Today's show is an interview with Gary Ray from Black Diamond Games in California. Gary talks about using facebook as a means to connect with your customers. Also included with this episode is a bonus video (only available on the site) in which we walk you through ... http://www.gamingretailer.com/2010/08/19/marketing-your-store-on-facebook/ Gamingretailer.com wants to build a game industry wiki as place to hold information useful to retailers. While new pages will need to be created by the admin, exisiting wiki pages will be editable by any member of the site of who is logged in.  We have seeded the wiki with the ... http://www.gamingretailer.com/2010/08/16/the-industry-wiki/ Welcome to the Gaming Retailer dot com website version 2010. Our first podcast episode is now up. Several more are in process. Feedback, comments and concerns should sent to Gamingretailer@aol.com. [podcast]http://www.gamingretailer.com/downloads/podcast/GRC_episode1.mp3[/podcast] http://www.gamingretailer.com/2010/08/11/introduction/ While this is not a new concept, it will continue to dominate the minds of small business retailers until one of two things happens. Either A) some form of change reduces the competiton on price alone or B)the small business is out of business thus making it a non issue. The ... http://www.gamingretailer.com/2009/12/16/deep-disounting-puts-the-squeeze-on-small-business-retail/ As I drive by a local quick oil change business, I notice two people standing on the roadside holding up signs that read “no wait, $5.00 off”.  At first I think to myself what a great idea.  If they have no customers, they stand out road encouraging customers by offering ... http://www.gamingretailer.com/2009/11/07/no-wait-5-00-off/ I am in my early fourties, married and have been self employed since I was 20. I have owned business in food service and current own a specialty retail shop. I am not wealthy, in fact you could say i live paycheck to paycheck.  At times i struggle to pay the ... http://www.gamingretailer.com/2009/11/06/who-am-i-part-2/ So this website is built, the core is finished. Now we need content. I thought about hiring some writers to generate a bunch of articles on various (quite generic) topics. But as i began jotting down some ideas for these topics i quickly realized they began to fall into two ... http://www.gamingretailer.com/2009/11/05/who-am-i-part-1/