Game-Changing Marketing for Game Store Owners
We empower and support friendly local game store owners by growing their businesses online, allowing them to focus on what they do best: helping customers, building relationships, growing a community, and running a thriving and successful game business.
What is Manaverse Saga?
Manaverse Saga is the secret weapon for your game store. We grow your game business using cutting edge digital marketing strategies drawn from the online trenches.
We drive people to your store and website so you can do what you do best, deliver an awesome experience for your customers and community.
We are the Q to your James Bond. The Lucius Fox to your Batman. The Geordi La-Forge to your Picard.
Keep going to find out how we can put the Magic in your marketing.
Just because the games are analog, that doesn’t mean your marketing should be too!
Your website is the HQ for your game store’s online presence
- Your website is where most of the magic happens (pun intended)
- It website needs to be fast, responsive, and functional, not confusing and slow
- Ecommerce is only becoming more important to success, your website needs to be a sales generation machine
- It needs to reflect your brand guidelines and showcase who you are
- More than half of all traffic is on mobile, your website needs to be mobile friendly
We’ll make your digital storefront look and feel amazing.
Ranking isn’t just for the big box stores
- Drive organic traffic to your website
- Rank on Google Page 1 and get more traffic for keywords that matter to your game store
- Raise your brand awareness and brand value
- SEO takes time but it’s along term investment that keeps paying off
- Organic search engine traffic that generates revenue
- Attract visitors to your website 24/7
Search engine optimization is an important aspect to your game store’s continued growth.
Email Marketing is one of the best ways to reliably drive sales
- We build out the most important automation sequences to warm up a cold subscriber and keep them engaged
- Your newsletter strategy keeps your business connected with your customers
- Email marketing enhances other strategies and integrates with the other pillars of digital marketing
- Impactful content and visual elements designed for you
- Build brand awareness with email campaigns
- Boost customer loyalty with direct contact
Email marketing keeps your brand in the consciousness of past, present and prospective customers of your business. It’s a tried and tested way of marketing new products has some of the best ROI around.
Social Media Marketing
- Engage, interact and keep your business in front of your customers on the platforms they spend the most time on
- Connect with your target audience directly
- We will devise compelling social media campaigns that leverage your natural strengths
- Build a community around your brand
- One of the most effective marketing tools for continuing the conversation
Social media has gone from being tools to ‘keep in touch’ to becoming ‘mini-internet’ unto themselves. If you aren’t on social media, your business is missing out.
Content Marketing is the foundation for growth
- Rich content drives the right traffic and amplifies your SEO efforts
- Compelling content gets visitors interested in what you have to offer and what sets your store apart
- Engage potential customers with great copy
- Content can tell your brand story
- Showcase your brand as thought leader
- Attract and retain a clearly-defined audience
Impactful and good quality content helps you showcase your brand as the leader in the market in its industry. Content marketing will help you set the tone you want for your game store.
Pay-per-click can put traffic, subscribers, and growth on autopilot
- Ads designed to grab attention and get results
- We target the right keywords and audiences that are essential for your game store
- Drive sales with dynamic ads
- Capture traffic as email subscribers
- Reach your target audience faster
- Cost-effectively reach your brand goals
Paid advertising is one of the most effective ways of generating revenue – if it’s done right. We believe in making every PPC dollar count.
Mr. Traplin,
The Latest Manaverse Podcast Episodes
MVP165: The Secret Lantern – Why Community Is Not a Marketing Strategy at This Game Store
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MVP164: Brass Dragon Games – Building a Game Store Around People, Not Product
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MVP163: Tariffs, Trade, and the Future of Tabletop
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MVP162: Mastering Your Store’s Google Business Profile with Bill Hibbler
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MVP161: Q5 – The Secret Shopping Surge After the Holidays
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MVP160: Game Store Strategies for Black Friday Weekend
In the continuation of our holiday series on the podcast (check out the first episode right here), today we're tackling one of the biggest...
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