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Brian Garside is the founder of Manage Comics, subscription pull list software for comic shops, and he's dedicated his life to helping comic stores grow, survive and thrive. This post is part of his series "Managing Your Shop". In my previous life as a slinger of four color stories, I thought of myself as a bit of a[...]

Brian Garside is the founder of Manage Comics, subscription pull list software for comic shops, and he's dedicated his life to helping comic stores grow, survive and thrive. This post is part of his series "Managing Your Shop". 2019 was a tough year for Brick and Mortar shops, but 2020 is already looking better Stores are still[...]

Brian Garside is the founder of Manage Comics, subscription pull list software for comic shops, and he's dedicated his life to helping comic stores grow, survive and thrive. This post is part of his series "Managing Your Shop". The world of retail is making a drastic shift, and the comic store model will have to shift as[...]

This post is part of his series "Managing Your Shop". Your customers need to know how to find you (thank you so much Captain Obvious of the League of Unhelpful Advice), and many people will search online to find your shop They may know the name of the location, or just know that they're looking for[...]

This post is part of his series "Managing Your Shop" In our previous column, "How Comic Shops Can Survive the Inevitable Sales Apocalypse", we mentioned five strategies that comic shops need to employ to survive the retail apocalypse The fifth of those strategies was "Be Where Your Customers Are", specifically that you need to have a[...]

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