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How to Pick a Winner

Find the Right Stuff for Your Store


Just because a toy's a hit over in Paducah doesn't mean it'll be flying off your shelf. Learn a strategy for determining whether a game will be fun enough and involving enough to keep your customers' interest. Find out how hit movies can affect toy sales. And learn how to temper customer whims with hard-and-fast data in next month's TDmonthly Magazine.

   

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Alison MarekWriter's Bio: ALISON MAREK is an award-winning writer, director and cartoonist whose work has been published by Fairchild Publications and DC Comics (Piranha Press), broadcast on Showtime and other cable networks, and viewed worldwide in film festivals. See her short films and print work on www.alisonmarek.com. Watch her nefarious villains in the web series www.MuggsMovers.com. Get inspired by her cartoons "Daily ARFFirmations to Unleash Your Inner Fido" at www.ARFFirmations.com. Phew! And then ...  Read more articles by this author


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