I've started the Retailer page that we talked about at Games Expo, listing the various retailers who now carry our stuff.
Not sure if I've captured them all. The page is not yet linked to anywhere else, prefer not to do that until we have it all shipshape. We also need to have ome form by which retailers can contact us as a group: yes/no?
You can view the page here
Cheers
Malc
I will check my stuff from
Submitted by Iain McAllister on Mon, 18/06/2007 - 21:21.
I will check my stuff from expo and see if there is anyonw else we should contact with follow up info. We should absolutely have some way for retailers to tell us they are interested in stocking our games.
Do we want to include links to places like RPGnow, IPR etc. on top of the traditional retailers?
Cheers
Iain
Lead Developer Mob Justice RPG
'The Giant Brain' has launched.
Calling Tim Gray!
Submitted by Gregor Hutton on Mon, 18/06/2007 - 23:33.
Tim, could you surmise some of the online vendor options?
Online sales sites
Submitted by Tim Gray on Tue, 19/06/2007 - 06:56.
Tim, could you surmise some of the online vendor options?
*bamf!* Dammit, I was in the shower!
I take it you mean "summarise", i.e. list what they are? Well, I'm using:
RPGNow - www.rpgnow.com
DriveThru - www.drivethrurpg.com (?)
Your Games Now - www.yourgamesnow.com
and Lulu - www.lulu.com.
Then there's Indie Press Revolution - www.indiepressrevolution.com.
Other e-tailers (yuck) include e23 and Paizo, but I guess it's unlikely for folks here to be using those (I might have gone for e23 but they're only paying by cheque, so not much use for non-USians).
In terms of listing "look for us here" it's good to have those down. In terms of listing products in a brochure/catalogue it's probably better to direct to the publisher's site - apart from anything else a given store might be having problems, and that lets the customer try an alternative.
Tim Gray
Silver Branch Games
www.silverbranch.co.uk
There's also Key20. I'd be
Submitted by Andrew Kenrick on Tue, 19/06/2007 - 07:21.
There's also Key20.
I'd be reluctant to overwhelm customers with too many places to buy our games. Might be best to focus on a couple that we want to channel sales through.
This is all good stuff, but
Submitted by Malcolm Craig on Tue, 19/06/2007 - 09:03.
This is all good stuff, but I think it would be preferrable to have a series of pages showcasing the various options, rather than having everything on one page. The reasoning behind the retailer pages was to provide information for customers but also (hopefully) as something of a 'thank you' to retailers who stock our stuff, mainly by shifting some business their way.
I think providing information on all avenues is good, but I think it needs to be in the format of several pages.
In this case, are these retailers correct? Are they all the retailers that currently carry our stock? Accuracy is important!
In addition: how do we provide contact for interested retailers?
Cheers
Malcolm
Contested Ground Studios
It looks accurate to me, as
Submitted by Andrew Kenrick on Tue, 19/06/2007 - 10:40.
It looks accurate to me, as far as I know that is.
As for contact, you can send them all in my direction if you like. I've got a stack of everyone's books after all.
You could use
Submitted by Tim Gray on Tue, 19/06/2007 - 11:40.
You could use info@collective-endeavour.com or something (like retail@...)redirect to whoever. Then if it needs to go to someone else later on you just change the redirect.
Tim Gray
Silver Branch Games
www.silverbranch.co.uk
Should we set up a seperate
Submitted by Iain McAllister on Tue, 19/06/2007 - 22:45.
Should we set up a seperate email address for inquiries and ask retailers to provide information about themselves so we can check them out before giving the go ahead?
A pdf form could be made up fairly easily.
Cheers
Iain
Lead Developer Mob Justice RPG
'The Giant Brain' has launched.