I put up the Halloween decorations in the store today. Here is one fun example! the skeleton is reading Ghost Rider, by the way. On the table we have a variety of fun horror themed merchandise.
You can go to my flickr page to view the other in-store decorations I put up today. Craig helped hang the two dozen bats. The feet glow in the dark, so they'll look cool when we close for the night.
Now I just have to switch up our window display with some horror themed items and decide what kind of Halloween in-store even we're going to do on the 31st (which is new comics day too, of course).
2 comments:
A costume contest, coming as your favorite horror monster or horror-themed comic character, would seem a natural for your Halloween store event, Lisa, but I'm sure you'd already planned for that, anyway.
How about a horror trivia contests? People answer a dozen or so comic questions related to horror-themeed characters and stories for a prize (like say an Essential Ghost Rider V.1 trade collection) and the first one to get them all right (or whoever gets closest) wins.
Maybe a fun type back issue sale. Get some stickers that look like pumpkins (or something Halloween-like) and mark certain back issues with them and say that those issues are discounted off 31% (because Halloween is on the 31st) from the sticker price. It'll get people digging through your back issues and help move out some stale inventory.
These are just a few ideas. You can use them (or not). Just make sure the event is fun. Which I'm sure you will. :)
Great suggestions, James. We did plan on some kind of costume contest.
The horror trivia would be fun too! That reminds me to contact the movie theater about doing a tie-in with 30-Days of Night. Maybe we'll do a trivia contest from that.
Thanks for the ideas!
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