Episode 107

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20th Dec 2021

MVP107: The Most Successful Game Stores Have Mastered Digital Marketing, Here's How Your Store Can Do The Same

If you're a game store owner, you're ridiculously busy most of the time.

You've got inventory to manage, events to organize, people to hire, and a million products to stay on top of.

It's a lot to handle... and marketing your game store often becomes an afterthought. Something that always gets pushed onto the back burner.

And it doesn't matter what stage of business you're in. If you're just getting started you have to do everything yourself.

You wear all the hats, all the time.

If you've been running your shop for a few years you've got even more moving parts and people to manage.

Marketing is almost always seen as a nice-to-have rather than a necessity.

It's the old build it and they will come attitude.

Most game store owners make the assumption that the gamers in their local area will find them. Seek them out.

And for the most part that's true, but if you want to grow your business you need to tap into a larger market than just the uber geeks.

But there is something else that I've noticed over the years...

The most successful game stores in the world have mastered digital marketing.

They have a comprehensive digital strategy that leverages the power of e-commerce, social media, paid advertising, email, search engine optimization, and content creation, all working together to create a powerful marketing machine for their business.

I've been putting out content around digital marketing and the business of running game store for a long time now, but, like I said, you're probably super busy and as much as you know you need to market your game store if you want to grow, there just isn't enough time in the day to figure it all out.

Sometimes you just need someone to come in and do it for you.

And that's the perfect lead in to my biggest announcement since the LGS Success Summit.

I am officially announcing the launch of the Manaverse Marketing Agency, the only digital marketing agency specifically for game store owners.

Get your customized digital marketing plan and kick off 2022 strong by going to manaversesaga.com/mma

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The Manaverse Podcast: Magic: the Gathering Business / Game Store Entrepreneurship / LGS Professionals
Grow your business, sell more games.
The Manaverse Podcast is a podcast created for you, the gamer with aspirations of building your own local game store (LGS), the entrepreneur running an LGS who wants to grow their business, and the player who wants a behind the scenes look into their favourite hobby. If you’re looking for inspiration, new ideas, and interesting perspectives then Tom Traplin has you covered. Learn the business of selling some of the best games in the world including Mtg, Warhammer, Warmachine, Dungeons and Dragons, board games and Euro games from some of the best retailers in the industry. Once a week, Tom talks with some of the most successful entrepreneurs in the game industry and pulls out the strategies, tactics, and systems that make their businesses so effective. With a special focus on Magic: the Gathering, you will learn how to level up your LGS and build a better community with Tom Traplin and the Manaverse Podcast.
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Thomas Traplin

Tom Traplin has been involved in the Magic community for the past 18 years in a variety of roles. As a player he played competitively in cities all over North America. As a tournament organizer he's managed hundreds of events and given away thousands of dollars in prizes. As the owner of an LGS he built up a local community and made a living selling Magic cards.

Tom is also the host of the Manaverse Podcast where he interviews some of the best game store entrepreneurs in North America including Pete Hoefling, John Coviello, Lynn Potyen, and many more. He is also a husband, father, business strategist, digital marketer, Dragonball Z fan, and philosopher. Not necessarily in that order.

His mission is to encourage more people to become game store entrepreneurs by giving them the tools and skills they need to succeed.