Posts Tagged ‘business’

Listening to Explain Why

Sunday, August 5th, 2012

GameratiTV is a year old, and I’ve learned a lot from it. (more…)

RIF Beyond Reading

Sunday, July 29th, 2012

Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) has a series of great articles about how parents and teachers can engender a love of reading in kids. If you have a little free time, they’re worth your attention, even if you don’t have kids and even if you’re not a teacher. (more…)

Marketing Lesson from Braum’s Ice Cream

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

The fast food industry has spent millions of dollars to figure out how to market to us. What can we learn from them? (more…)

Your Type of Customers

Wednesday, September 21st, 2011

Whether you are a manufacturer, distributor or retailer, the type of customer you will have is determined by two factors… (more…)

Customer Lifetime Value (CLV)

Monday, September 5th, 2011

Customer Lifetime value (CLV) is a pretty simple, yet important and powerful, concept. Basically, you’re asking this: How much profit can I expect to see from my relationship with an average customer? (more…)

What Do You Care About?

Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

“At its heart, business is not about formality, or winning, or ‘the bottom line’, or profit, or trade, or commerce, or any of the things the business books tell you it’s about. Business is what concerns us. If you care about something enough to do something about it, you’re in business…” – Sir Richard Branson (more…)

Orienteering and the Art of Business Navigation

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

Have you ever heard of orienteering? It’s an interesting sport – the marriage of cross-country running and land navigation skills. (more…)

Hobby Game Incubator?

Saturday, October 9th, 2010

What would it be like if a half dozen aspiring publishers got together and spent a few months in intense product development? (more…)

Eden Studios

Friday, July 4th, 1997

Alex Jurkat, George Vasilakos and I started Eden Studios to publish the Conspiracy X RPG. We’ve got great plans for the future, including a re-release of CJ Carella’s WitchCraft and Armageddon RPGs.