Welcome to the Manaverse Podcast
The Manaverse Podcast is where we explore what it takes to build a successful friendly local game store! Since 2015, I’ve been interviewing a wide variety of game store owners and industry professionals doing some really interesting things in the world of trading cards, minis, games, and more.
If you want to learn how some of the best game retailers in North America have built their businesses and local communities up from the ground floor, you’ve come to the right place!
MVP066: How To Build A Winning Team
Welcome to another episode of the Manaverse Podcast. We've got a great show for you today because today the whole round table is here to talk about finding and hiring the right people so you can build a team that helps you grow your game business.Wayne Mittlesteadt is...
MVP065: Personal Development And Tools For Success
This is the third episode in the series where we're exploring the question "If a game store wants to grow their game store business today, what should they do?" If you haven't listened to the previous episodes of this series, I recommend you go and do that before...
MVP064: Round Table – The Games Industry Is Changing
The round table is back!John Coviello and Gary Sproul join me to discuss the recent changes in the gaming industry and their impact on the business.We go over Game Workshop changing their policy about online shopping carts, minimum advertised prices, and organized...
MVP063: How To Craft An Exceptional Experience
One of the most common threads among the game stores that have been featured on this podcast is that they provide their customers with an exceptional experience. Each transaction in your business fundamentally comes down to how your customer feels before, during, and...
MVP062: Marketing Your Game Store
How would you like to wake up every day, knowing that your game store is steadily growing.Events are pulling in larger and larger numbers of people. The number of sales is going up, along with the size of each transaction. And your customers are happy to spend money...
MVP061: Building Mind Sculpt Games From The Ground Up
In today's episode of the Manaverse Podcast we're talking about Great Bend's newest game store, Mind Sculpt Games. So new it doesn't exist yet.Usually, I interview game store owners that have been in business for a few years and have found some success already but...
MVP060: The GameBoard – How To Make Your Customer The Hero With Lynn Potyen
In today's episode of the Manaverse Podcast, our special guest is the most excellent Lynn Potyen.Lynn is the owner of the The GameBoard in Sheboygan, WI and in the words of the Geek and Sundry...
MVP059: Guardian Games Portland and Fostering a Magic Community with Gene Joo
Guardian Games Portland, the Grandest Game Store in Portland is the subject of this episode of the Manaverse Podcast. Gene Joo is the special guest today, he's the Magic Department Manager of Guardian Games in Portland, and he shares the strategies that he's used to...
MVP058: Business is War – Mark Koh on MegaCorp
Megacorp was created and designed by Mark G. Koh, a serial tech founder with a lifelong love of card games and business. Growing up in Singapore, southeast Asia, Mark discovered tabletop games at an early age of 8- beginning with Advanced Dungeons and dragons. He...
MVP057: Round Table – Breakout Games, Surprise Winners, Unexpected Stinkers, And The Lessons Of 2016 Round Table
In this episode of the Manaverse Podcast, the hosts of the show look back on 2016 and do a postmortem report. It's always a good idea to look back on what went right and what went wrong. You can learn some very valuable lessons from your past if you have the data and...