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“Getting What You Pay For”What "Buying Cheap" Reveals About The World
Learn the FOUR PHASES of affinity that determine your attitude on life.
Discover FIVE WAYS game play
contributes to the health of your business and community
Discover the SIX STEPS to creating the right environment for complete personal happiness
“You Get What You Pay For”What "Buying Cheap" Reveals About The World
Hosted by: Jonathan Albin, the ‘Game Market Guru’
Author of : “Your Life. Your Game. Your Move.”“Top of Your Game” “Counter Measures.”
Definition of a game: Any socially interactive experience of a limited time span, defined in terms of rules, play area, and components, and which requires participation in intellectual decision-making, emotional responses, and mutual resolution.
What makes a game, or anything, VALUABLE?
Why should every business have a game library? Games have intrinsic value
Collectors pay premiums for ancient copies of game products Games have aesthetic value
Chess, Go, and others are just plain good-looking Games have educational value
Who doesn’t have a story about how a game helped them learn? Games have remembrance value
Who doesn’t have a story about that one game… Games have social value
Who doesn’t have a story of redemption, of belonging, of…
What are your “lenses”? Are they a help or a hindrance?
Changing a paradigm is sometimes difficult. Past experience supports your current one. Culture can certainly influence it Psychologists speak of “what you get for it” Power of a paradigm shift is in its capacity for
change. With a change in point of view, all other change is not only possible, but
likely. When we decide, we act. When we act, we change. When we change, we
Be the Change you want to see in the world – Mahatma Gandhi
What characteristics should something of “Value” exhibit
High Value over time. Be Worthy of maintenance High replacement cost. If it is difficult to replace, the need for care
increases Tangible and Transcendent nature. Hard to show value of an MP-3 file. Something that has some level of utility. Even a painting can elicit a
response. Treasures are worth as much sitting still as they are in use or on display. Relationships exhibit other value characteristics. Trust. Dependability. Loyalty. Connection. Understanding. Camaraderie.
Awareness of time slows its passing. Parsing the time vs. Passing the time. Make time work. “Anything worth doing is worth Blocking Out”. Determine the duration of YOUR “working blocks” What would an extra hour a week be WORTH to you?
Create a time block tracker. Calculate how many time blocks to accomplish a given task. Dedicate and use that many blocks during a given week. Be sure each
block is completely used for that one purpose only, and that you use each block.
If every block is used only for that item, you will find you complete the task early, and leave yourself an extra hour that week.
On a shelf in prominence – played frequently Games Closet – perhaps once a month or less? Kid’s Game “pile” – may or may not be complete. In a box somewhere…What does your collection say about their
Responsible ConsumptionBetter buyers - Get more than they pay
forOptional rules, alternative scoring, more BITS!Number of players or team option– the more the merrierDiscounts or bundling. Recommend yourselfOffer to teach others. (Stores love and reward volunteers)
When the number of players goes up,The amount of copies sold goes up,
More players with more copiesMeans more value in the early adopters!
Responsible ConsumptionThe REAL reason onlne stores discount:Online business is ephemeral. Has no basis for pricing.If B&M is aggressive, online business will suffer.Business depends on supply and demand. Online has neither We have come to depend on perfection, which cannot be achieved.
Online Retailers must discount to be competitive.
When consumers begin to VALUE basedon another basis than just pure price,
the trained brick and mortars will win every time.