Mr Skeletor wrote:
TheDukester wrote:
Mr Skeletor wrote:
SJ is no great shakes as a businessman. He runs one of the oldest companies in the business yet it's never gone anywhere has it?
Christsakes, speaking directly out of your ass yet again. Dislike him if you feel that increases your gamer cred, but give credit where it is due: the man has kept an independent business running for
32 years and provided a living for dozens and dozens of people during that time. Meanwhile, the hobby landscape is littered with the corpses of countless failed businesses during that time. I think SJ knows a thing or two about keeping the lights on.
In fact, I'd go so far as to say that SJ has relied
too much upon being a businessman in the last few years and has forgotten how to be creative. The reliance upon Munchkin has certainly paid the bills, but the company as a whole feels stagnant and has not done something truly
creative in many years. In a way, I'm glad to see them try this Kickstarter thing, if for no other reason than it's new and different for them ... and doesn't revolve around Munchkin.
Your second paragraph backs my point. Being a good businessman involves more than just surviving. It involves GROWTH. Where is the growth in SJG? If anything the company has regressed and does less now than ever.
There is no comparison between SJG and FFG, Zman, Flying Frog, all the german publishers. SJG should be an industry giant, instead its just a munchkin printer.
SJG gross sales
2003 $2,500,000
2004 $2,800,000
2005 $2,400,000
2006 $2,400,000
2007 $2,880,000
2008 $2,900,000
2009 $3,000,000
2010 $3,500,000
2011 $4,500,000
That's all the years that are available on the SJG website. For the eight years since 2003, six have shown revenue growth, one was flat, and one decreased. The flat and decreased year were partially due to a large warehouse expense (moving the main warehouse from Texas to Nevada). And a million-dollar growth in revenue last year is pretty significant for a business of that size.
I am not sure how you can look at the above numbers and say "SJ is no great shakes as a businessman." They speak for themselves.
But you also seem to be using a conflicting definitions of "growth," so maybe you can spell it out exactly what you mean, and what criteria would make someone a good businessman or not. Mine is pretty simple: turn a profit and don't go out of business.
