What is your idea to improve comic book stores

BrightRaven · **Joined:** Thu Aug 11, 2011 11:44 am **Posts:** 260

jerad741 wrote:

Since I am not in the industry Jay, set us straight. Were sales better 7 years ago in comics or now?

I'm not Jay, but to inform...

http://www.comichron.com/yearlycomicssales.html

I'll let you come to your own conclusions after you read that, Jerad.

GordyMclean · **Joined:** Fri Mar 02, 2012 1:52 am **Posts:** 39

A mailing list customers can sign up for. Every week they get an email with not only that week's release but also links to samples, recommendations, free issues etc.

jerad741 · **Posted:** Wed Apr 04, 2012 7:46 am

BrightRaven wrote:

jerad741 wrote:

Since I am not in the industry Jay, set us straight. Were sales better 7 years ago in comics or now?

I'm not Jay, but to inform...

http://www.comichron.com/yearlycomicssales.html

I'll let you come to your own conclusions after you read that, Jerad.

Thanks, looks like the industry is tremendously strong and has grown significantly. What is everyone crying about the industry dying for then? Its double the strength it was 10 years ago.

jerad741 · **Posted:** Wed Apr 04, 2012 7:47 am

GordyMclean wrote:

A mailing list customers can sign up for. Every week they get an email with not only that week's release but also links to samples, recommendations, free issues etc.

Yeah, my comic store does that. I think its a great service, and why he gets so many image books out there.

wesofthedead · **Posted:** Wed Apr 04, 2012 11:34 am

i got a good one, dont hire complete jackasses

Quest Mar-Vell · **Posted:** Wed Apr 04, 2012 11:51 am

wesofthedead wrote:

i got a good one, dont hire complete jackasses

ha ha... That reminds me of one of my LCSs back in the day. It was originally a Card shop that had a small comic section in back. Someone bought the comic section and hired a couple people to run it... one of the guys(just a friend of his) was a complete comic idiot... didnt know anything about anything. I remember I was looking to buy

for my brother. He went to look it up and mentioned something about Marvel. I said it was a DC comic and he argued back and forth with me for like 5 mniutes until we found it. How can you hire people that dont even know that BATMAN is a DC character?

wesofthedead · **Posted:** Wed Apr 04, 2012 2:03 pm

the one i use to go to didnt know anything about image books and only carried invincible, godland, and walking dead

The Euge · **Posted:** Wed Apr 04, 2012 2:06 pm

wesofthedead wrote:

the one i use to go to didnt know anything about image books and only carried invincible, godland, and walking dead

Fail. I would never go there.

wesofthedead · **Posted:** Wed Apr 04, 2012 2:06 pm

The Euge wrote:

wesofthedead wrote:

the one i use to go to didnt know anything about image books and only carried invincible, godland, and walking dead

Fail. I would never go there.

i had to look for other places, my friend still goes there and says they are still anti image

Quest Mar-Vell · **Posted:** Thu Apr 05, 2012 6:01 am

I went to this CS in Salinas California that only had the comics that the employees read on the wall. They would order and pulllist anything you wanted... but to just walk in and grab comics on Wed, if you didnt want what they read, then they wouldnt have the books.

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