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		<title>Do Your Prices Really Matter?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2019 18:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You may have heard one particular nugget of wisdom before, it&#8217;s one I and my guests have articulated in various ways on the podcast multiple times. It goes a little something like this: Nobody buys on price. We know this is true based on our on personal experiences. For me, I am much more likely [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Coming up in a future episode of the Manaverse Podcast I talk with Pascal Espinosa. He&#8217;s the owner of Metal Galaxy in Calgary, Alberta. Pascal has a unique approach to the business and has managed to carve out a profitable niche in the shadow of two giants in the industry, the Sentry Box and Phoenix Comics NW. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2015 04:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Gamers, Magic players in particular, are a fickle bunch. We are constantly on the lookout for an LGS that will treat us better. Offer us a better deal. Make us feel welcome. The trouble is most store owners fail to create a lasting connection with their customers so when another store opens its doors a good [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Level Up Your Customers, Level Up Your Business Part 4: Mentors</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2015 01:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[August 23rd 2013, the weekend of Grand Prix Oakland. Hosted by Channel Fireball, the attendees of this particular Grand Prix were treated to an excellent seminar about how to build a proper deck in a Sealed tournament by two masters of the game, LSV and Ben Stark. Using a slide presentation and a microphone, they [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Level Up Your Customers, Level Up Your Business Part 3</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Traplin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2014 19:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is the third instalment in the Level Up series. If you haven&#8217;t read the first two parts you can find the first one here and the second one here. Each one leads into the next but if you prefer to read things backwards I can&#8217;t stop you. Some people like jigsaw puzzles. Let&#8217;s go [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Level Up Your Customers, Level Up Your Business Part 2</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Traplin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2014 22:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Last time we talked about how to turn customers who don&#8217;t play Magic into beginner/casual players. That article can be found here if you haven&#8217;t read it yet. The principle behind the concept of the Customer Development progression is that a local game store owner should invest into its customers in order to create customers [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Level Up Your Customers, Level Up Your Business Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2014 06:36:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Magic: the Gathering is an excellent game. 21 years and still growing is a pretty good track record. It is fairly easy for a local game store to open up, declare that they have game tables and Magic cards for sale and have a steady source of income for their business. The trouble is that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Lessons Learned at the Last Level &#8211; How to open your own LGS for $3000</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2014 17:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Partners are the key Business has always been attractive to me, even when I was young. Right out of high school I knew I wanted to run my own Local Gaming Store. I decided to abandon my studies in Computer Science and instead open a gaming establishment with two of my like-minded friends. Thus, The Last Level was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Game Store Operation 101 &#8211; The features every game store should have</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Traplin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2014 13:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Below is a list of features that every single game store should aspire to have. For those of you who are considering opening your own store use this list as a road map. There is far more to running a proper business than the bullet points down below but if these things are part of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Running a Magic Tournament</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Traplin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2014 03:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is almost the first piece of content I have ever posted on the internet. Before this the last time I participated in the great forum of the internet was answering a few questions about a tournament I was running on www.mtgontario.com. For those who don&#8217;t know, mtgontario is an outdated but still useful website [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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