Lots has been happening. Lots and lots.
I'm going over to Drew University for a day to be a vendor at the university center. Hopefully that will do good things for me.
In the meantime, I've been working like crazy on the business plan for my game store, which is now a game and comic store. It still doesn't have a name, but everything else is starting to fall into place. My rough trajectory for the store is:
- December - first draft of business plan finished and incorporate to an LLC
- February - settled on a location and begin build-out (and quit my job)
- April or May - Soft opening, trying to take advantage of free comic book day.
- June (after the already scheduled and booked vacation) - Grand opening.
I've registered on this wonderful resource called (appropriately enough) the Game Store Resource Forum, and I've met a lot of wonderful people and gotten a lot of support. This is really going to happen. I have to keep pinching myself... this is taking on a life of its own now and all I can really do is keep stumbling forward so the momentum doesn't knock me down.
Going to a trade show in Baltimore next weekend to meet a few of these guys and attend some seminars. Hopefully I can get the business plan to a point where I'm comfortable showing it to people and discussing. These guys would be more than happy to help me refine it. I think that's not an unreasonable goal, either. I'm very close to having it at a stage where I feel comfortable with people reading it.
I'm excited. Maybe this time next year I'll be blogging from my store. That'd be nice.
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