Monthly Archives: May 2012

Embarrassing Photos In Desperate Attempt To Publicise Sale

You cannot of failed to have noticed how the United Kingdom is having a massive holiday to celebrate my 44th birthday the diamond jubilee of our unelected, parasitic much loved monarch. To celebrate this we are having a massive sale! Its My Birthday … In the arms of my maternal grandmother at my christening. I [...]

Birmingham Expo – Didn’t We Do Well!

Last weekend, we took a trip to Birmingham UK for the Gaming Expo, the largest tabletop game show in the country . Unplanned The Expo was not on our original list of cons for this year because of its sized and cost. At a large con it is easy for small publishers to be lost [...]

Three Things

Three things for your diary… Open Business This Friday, I’ll be doing an Open Business Hangout between 6pm & 7pm (UK time). An opportunity to talk about 6d6 and the RPG business in general. Or to just chew the fat. SALE! Next Thursday, 31st, is my birthday sale. I will be 44 so look for [...]

6d6 at the UK Birmingham Expo

Next week is UK Birmingham Expo and 6d6 will be there as part of the Toolshed Miniatures stall (First floor, Green 13). As well as being on the stall selling things we will be … Running a demo table right by the stall showing off 6d6 Magic and Toolshed’s miniatures in one hour mini-games. Running [...]

The Beautification of 6d6

One issue we need to tackle over the coming months is improving the appearance of 6d6 – its products and web sites. This will be a gradual process that starts with the storefront – 6d6RPG.com – as we update it inline with the one-product strategy. The storefront has a job to do – converting interest [...]

What 6d6 Has To Do Next

When the going gets tough… Having had a big-rethink and pondered what is wrong with 6d6, we are ready to announce our new plan for making a profit. The One Product Strategy All our attention will be focused on selling 6d6 Online. The logic is simple. It makes us the most money. Plus the more [...]

This Is What Is Wrong With 6d6

The last two weeks or more have been spent rethinking where 6d6 is and the drive to make 2012: The Year We Make a Profit is taking us. During this time we have talked among ourselves, talked to other people and tried to look at 6d6 with cold, hard business focused eyes. These are some [...]

Making a Living from Kickstarter

The links below are a three part analysis of RPG Kickstarter projects by the Geek Industrial Complex blog. I need to read them in more details but some numbers jumped out at me. The average successful RPG Kickstarters raises $8,251.31 per project from 110 backers on average. About $45 per backer or the price of [...]

There Is A Change Coming

One third of the way through the year and we are bang on target to make a profit. And yet, there is no way we are going to hit our financial goal for 2012. How can we be on target and yet expecting to miss our goals? The simple answer is growth rate. What we [...]

Where is Part 2?

If you are wondering where part two of 6d6 Shootouts – Sales Vectors is, there won’t be one. In writing the part two and doing the planning involved I realised it wasn’t right, that the whole approach was flawed. So there will be a new article (or possibly articles) about how 6d6 plans to infect [...]