I'm all about video games, so of course my mind wanders in that direction, but has anyone tried party games at work? having customers stop by to play Rock Band casually or any sort of tournament with prizes?
Anyone try video games to get customers in the door?
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Alex has done that - hosted a ... Guitar Hero tournament I believe. Not a bad idea at all.
I think that's a great idea! Young people would be the largest demographic you would pull into the store but, with young people come parents!
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Agreed. Killer idea.
Jeff & I joked about a Guitar Hero contest as well. Project Gotham or Need for Speed would be fun...
I put a car related game on our Easy Touch window recently at the mall store. . Plenty of fun things to try...
Anything that lets your guest leave w/a positive, memorable experience is a good thing.
Jeff & I joked about a Guitar Hero contest as well. Project Gotham or Need for Speed would be fun...
I put a car related game on our Easy Touch window recently at the mall store. . Plenty of fun things to try...
Anything that lets your guest leave w/a positive, memorable experience is a good thing.
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Great idea! Don't forget, many 5-10 year olds pack their DS everywhere with them. Make sure you offer something for that platform/agegroup (and their parents) as well
A coworker and I went to the Evolution 2009 competition in Las Vegas over the summer (not expecting to talk business). A lot of players competing came from Southern California, including players that live down the street from our dealership. Since it's kind of hard to sell a gamer a car at a gaming tournament in Vegas, we offered a $1000 coupon towards any of our cars or trucks to anyone who can beat us in three sets of Street Fighter IV. Out of the ten or so people that whooped our asses, two of them actually came into the dealership. One couldn't finance a cheeseburger, but we rolled the other customer out on a car that made us some profit.
So we basically succeeded in 10% of our total prospects, however that wasn't a dealer event. I would set up tournaments and competitions for games that better suit your target audience.. like Guitar Hero, Rock Band, etc. The fighting game/action game audience differs per consumer, and it may be difficult to find a select group of consumers that would actually compete AND become a customer.
OR, old school LAN party?
So we basically succeeded in 10% of our total prospects, however that wasn't a dealer event. I would set up tournaments and competitions for games that better suit your target audience.. like Guitar Hero, Rock Band, etc. The fighting game/action game audience differs per consumer, and it may be difficult to find a select group of consumers that would actually compete AND become a customer.
OR, old school LAN party?
Also, I've been thinking of building a MAME Arcade Cabinet, and loading a ton of arcade roms into the cabinet to place in our showroom while customers wait, or when their kids are bored, etc. However, id kind of be there all the time.
Our SMART store has a couple of Wii points. It's pretty cool. Not a bad way to have customers kill time while waiting to get into F&I.
@KoreyB Most definitely!
Check it out. It's actually not a bad idea, but it might be cheaper to just invest in the Wii and a Rock Band set
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Check it out. It's actually not a bad idea, but it might be cheaper to just invest in the Wii and a Rock Band set
NorthCoast Custom Arcades - Your one stop arcade cabinet building and arcade games resource
