On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Erik Schweitzer wrote: > To promote it, do what you did the first time; > put fliers up in local game stores, that give > the url for the site. My first planned step, though I think I'll go with bookmarks, since they're cheaper than whole sheets of paper and take up less of the store's valuable display space. > In addition, there are a number of gamer databases on the web that > allow you to search by region. Most of them also allow you to include > an url, and you could include the address of the site there. As far as I can tell, Wichita gamers don't bother with these... there are very few locals registered that I can find. SJ Games game finder lists two people... me and a player in my group. > 1. Reviews of local stores. (Provide a few > yourself, then ask for more from others.) This would be a good idea in a city with real game stores... we have a small handful of stores and I don't see reviews being beneficial. They're likely to get me blackballed by some of the stores that get reviewed. > 2. Provide a 'swap meet' section, to allow > people to swap or sell items to people in > the same area. This would reduce or eliminate > postage costs. The market place is one of the primary features of the site. > 3. Provide coverage of local cons, or any other > events pertinent to the local gamer community. We don't have local cons. That's part of the reason for the Wichita Gamer... to increase communication and build the community so we can have cons again. Encounter 10 was long, long ago. (How long? Gene Roddenberry was special guest, hinting at an up-coming new Star Trek series.) We did have one con for awhile after Encounter, but it went downhill and gamers were second-class citizens there anyway. (It was a scifi fandom con.) -- Carl D Cravens (raven@phoenyx.net) GMAST List Owner * The Idea Factory: Helping GM's Create -- http://www.rpg.net/ Illusions of grandeur are not visions of greatness. -Dr. Ed Cole ---------------------------------------------------------------- GMAST Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gmast/
