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For sure. That’s why it’s titled “some” and also I chat about it at the start of the video that I’m just talking about buildout costs and some things to get rolling

We opened with about $8K in inventory (at cost) since we started online and did local events first and invested in another $15-$17K upon opening, and have been steadily adding to that number over the past two years and now fluctuate between $65K and $80K in inventory. When looking at how much inventory you need to open to be profitable my suggestion is this formula: (Total inventory at sale price * turn rate) * profit margin vs. your operating expenses

I kind of covered that in the video. I ended up needing a rush installation and there is a huge markup on a business install versus home install. Planning can save a lot of $ and this is one of those tiems I did not plan accordingly. I could have probably figured out how to install them myself, but it would have taken me at least a day or two since it is not really in my skillset and I would of had to learn. Any kind of contract labor, especially in CA is quite expensive! The ability to install a 4'x8' 80+ pound piece of slatwall is not possible to do on your own. We are a business even if we wanted to get some help from a friend, we are still a business and need to pay for labor. We didn't want to open a "Mickey Mouse" game store with a table and chairs. Plant was free and donated by sister-in-law. I would love to hear a brick-and-mortar store in a large metro area that can open today for under $50,000 and survive several years! I don't think that is possible anymore. Feel free to come back and share your update on your opening! We would love to hear it!

How's it going with your store update?

I kind of covered that in the video. I ended up needing a rush installation and there is a huge markup on a business install versus home install. Planning can save a lot of $ and this is one of those items I did not plan accordingly. I could have probably figured out how to install them myself, but it would have taken me at least a day or two since it is not really in my skillset and I would of had to learn. Any kind of contract labor, especially in CA is quite expensive!

@@BoardGamingwithEducation it’s actually easy you just need to find the stubs and an look out for electrical and plumbing and I believe that the instructions tell you what to do to

@@NinjaTenK It took a professional 6 hours to do three TVs in our unit. Had to crawl up in the drop ceiling connect to the electrical, run an outlet through the drywall, cut holes in drywall to install the mount, etc. Sounds easy! 😀

@@BoardGamingwithEducation yep but I don’t remember watching

We’re still here! Year 2 is just around the corner in April. I was actually in the middle of typing up a business update for our newsletter. Social media, especially RUclips has taken aback seat in the past few months with all sorts of other things going on. We’re planning a convention with a couple of other game stores in the area and if you’re curious about behind the scenes business stuff we’re launching our VideoCast on Friday @LFGCon on RUclips.

I kind of covered that in the video. I ended up needing a rush installation and there is a huge markup on a business install versus home install. Planning can save a lot of $ and this is one of those tiems I did not plan accordingly. I could have probably figured out how to install them myself, but it would have taken me at least a day or two since it is not really in my skillset and I would of had to learn. Any kind of contract labor, especially in CA is quite expensive!

For sure! Thank you again for coming by!

Oof! Battletoads! So tough!

We hope to see you all again soon!

Hey Alex, thank you for the suggestions and insight! I think jumpstart is actually an excellent product but it wasn’t executing very well with Dominaría and the upcoming Brothers War. It would be a much better product if they threw some cards in their that magic players wanted as well as being a good beginner product. We do offer a pretty flat prizing structure. 1-3 win a little more than the rest of the players and we always do a fun game and raffle at the end of the event. Usually first is excluded from any raffle at the end too. We might try to pull off some cool holiday gift packs for different gamers. We’ll likely throw some jumpstart packs in there too. Hope that helps us move some product as well!

Also played Planet Unkown

@@BoxedMeeples It was great to have you all! And yes! Planet Unkown was fun too!

It was great having you on! Thank you again!

It was great to meet you both!

Stop by anytime! Maybe for a VideoCast interview?? Eh?

@@BoardGamingwithEducation I'd be happy to collaborate any time our schedules work👍

Thank you!

Thank you for your support!

Thank you!

Definitely!

I am happy to share some numbers! Feel free to send me an email. Off the top of my head we paid $2,100 for rent in November and $3,500 for rent in December. And we invested probably another $1,000 on random things like shelving, bags, stickers, a dolly, ect. A lot of that stuff will be used in the future though too. And thank you for the words of encouragement and advice!

Hey! Thank you for watching and the kind words!

Hi Carlson, can you help me understand what you mean by a "specific theory"? Feel free to reach out to me through email!

@@BoardGamingwithEducation Hello, sir, actually I'm looking for theory about interactive games/ game based learning for my theoretical framework, but I'm having hard time looking for it, sir

@@BoardGamingwithEducation Can i have you email sir?

@@carlsontulabot2801 yes it podcast@boardgamingwitheducation.com (you can usually find emails related to channels on the channel page as well)

Thank you for the kind words!

Glad you found some tips helpful! I’ve loved using the individual white boards. Just finished another class where we played this block-building game called “Bilder” I think it’s getting a new publisher and a new name. There are some cool cards that require different types of communication. Also, need to check out your socially distance rules for Mathemagician’s Duel!

Hi Dan! Thanks for the comment! Math is definitely not my forte, but I’ve seen some pretty clever games out there for teaching math. Check out Mathemagician’s Duel! Or Math Rush and Math Fluxx! I’m not sure what level your students are at, but I know when I was tutoring students last year when the pandemic just started a couple of the students I helped could definitely use some help with multiplication tables and finding a game that helps them get in some repetition with that is awesome. Also, I wish I had the game Mathemagician’s Duel when I was introducing negative numbers. Though, the game isn’t made for it you can modify it a bit to demonstrate how adding negative integers work. They’re working on a second edition of the game too!

Not sure if you hit geometry at all, but I bet there are some spacial puzzles that could relate to that somehow...

Was awesome to talk shop…as they say!

It’s a great game and Kim’s channel is fantastic too! (Tabletop Tolson on RUclips)

Heyyy Ayudia!!