MVP113: The Secrets of Unplugged Gaming's $14K Grand Opening Day

The Manaverse Podcast: Magic: the Gathering Business / Game Store Entrepreneurship / LGS Professionals

Jake Tanner is the owner Unplugged Gaming in Manlius New York. Jake came into the tabletop gaming business from a different angle than most of the game store owners that have been featured on the podcast.

Before launching Unplugged Gaming, Jake, along with his business partner, owned and operated a highly lauded digital marketing firm called Digital Hyve that they grew to over 50 employees over a handful of years. Digital Hyve was acquired by the advertising firm Butler/Till last year, which allowed Jake to explore his other passions.

Unplugged Gaming launched this past November and on day one they did over $14,000 in sales, since then they have done over $270,000 in in store sales and are on track for a spectacular year one. We're going to dig into the Unplugged Gaming launch strategy and talk about how Jake and company got their business off to a great start.

We talked about:

• The Unplugged Gaming origin story.
• How Jake built a group of raving fans on Facebook before launching his online store, and how that helped them start the business with a huge amount of momentum and sales.
• How focusing on SEO early on helped attract a major online influencer and how their deal doubled Unplugged Gaming's traffic.
• The most important thing a new store owner can do before opening their game store.
• The one piece of technology that Jake couldn't do without for running his business.
• How digital marketing can be used to grow and launch a game store in 2022.

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