Dr. Willy
Well-known member
Operator looking for ways to increase interest, draw, followers?
Warning this is long winded post:
Thought I would throw this out to my fellow klov'ers. I am a part time hobby operator in my area. I currently have 5 locations; movie theater, a hipster bar, two pizza places, and a bowling alley. There have been a few bad operators in our area that screw over people regularly and were just shitty in general. I am trying to overcome that general stereotype for my local market and have arcades be a draw again.
My whole approach with my locations is bringing back the traditional arcade, as we all know and love. My location owners love this and have supported me, giving me free reign of their arcade spaces. My locations by no means are struggling, but the perfectionist in me is always striving to make everything the best I can.
I always said I never wanted this to become my day job, however that is changing as I love what I am doing with the locations and just enjoy getting games back out into the wild. I am in talks with another long time operator who I have made friends with and helped a lot over the past couple of years to take over his locations as he is getting to be of the age where he can't keep up physically and is looking to get out. If this does happen, I am planning within two years to be a full time operator. At this point I am trying to build my business and get the word out and am looking for suggestions to do so. I am trying to get better at using Facebook, Instagram, ect ect.
Right now everything the business earns goes back into buying more games. I run free play nights at a couple of the locations every few months, and have an arcade themed special night at my bar location coming up where we will be giving away a free machine via raffle. I am just trying to brain how to get a bigger following? Maybe I am just dreaming and won't actually get any type of following at all?
My facebook page has about 200 followers and I have been trying to run "boosted" posts more often to draw more likes/exposure. I have been toying with the idea of doing some type of machine give away via paid ticket raffle with all proceeds going to a local charity/local community.
Any ideas are welcome and appreciated!
Here is a link to my facebook business page, if you have suggestions for it let me know.
www.facebook.com/sklarcades
Warning this is long winded post:
Thought I would throw this out to my fellow klov'ers. I am a part time hobby operator in my area. I currently have 5 locations; movie theater, a hipster bar, two pizza places, and a bowling alley. There have been a few bad operators in our area that screw over people regularly and were just shitty in general. I am trying to overcome that general stereotype for my local market and have arcades be a draw again.
My whole approach with my locations is bringing back the traditional arcade, as we all know and love. My location owners love this and have supported me, giving me free reign of their arcade spaces. My locations by no means are struggling, but the perfectionist in me is always striving to make everything the best I can.
I always said I never wanted this to become my day job, however that is changing as I love what I am doing with the locations and just enjoy getting games back out into the wild. I am in talks with another long time operator who I have made friends with and helped a lot over the past couple of years to take over his locations as he is getting to be of the age where he can't keep up physically and is looking to get out. If this does happen, I am planning within two years to be a full time operator. At this point I am trying to build my business and get the word out and am looking for suggestions to do so. I am trying to get better at using Facebook, Instagram, ect ect.
Right now everything the business earns goes back into buying more games. I run free play nights at a couple of the locations every few months, and have an arcade themed special night at my bar location coming up where we will be giving away a free machine via raffle. I am just trying to brain how to get a bigger following? Maybe I am just dreaming and won't actually get any type of following at all?
My facebook page has about 200 followers and I have been trying to run "boosted" posts more often to draw more likes/exposure. I have been toying with the idea of doing some type of machine give away via paid ticket raffle with all proceeds going to a local charity/local community.
Any ideas are welcome and appreciated!
Here is a link to my facebook business page, if you have suggestions for it let me know.
www.facebook.com/sklarcades


