Rene Pierre Foosball

Rene Pierre is a name in foosball that is synonymous with quality and style. Rene Pierre tables are made in France with a sophisticated cabinet design that make this an attractive piece of furniture in addition to a well-constructed game. Let's take a quick look at four features the distinguish a Rene Pierre table from the rest of the foosball field.

• Die-cast players. The foosmen of other manufacturers are typically a hard molded plastic. Rene Pierre foosmen play closer to the style of traditional foosball tables when it first achieved widespread popularity in the middle of last century.
• Telescoping rods. All Rene Pierre tables have telescoping rods, meaning when you push forward on a steel rod full of players, they do not come out the other side. This is particularly attractive for families with small children, whose heads are right about at the level of protruding foosball rods.
• Outdoor foosball table. Rene Pierre makes a foosball table from 100% recycled materials. It is an all-weather foosball table that can be left on your outdoor patio or back yard.
• Beech wood cabinet. The solid wood construction of a Rene Pierre foosball table is attractive on both painted and unpainted models. Check out all five styles at our FoosTables.com Rene Pierre page.

NCAA now up!

NCAA bean bags, banners, and gifts are now online. Shop for fun memorabilia to add to your game room or give as a present this Christmas!

NFL memorabilia

We've been adding NFL merchandise for every team. Pennants, office products, helmets, home goods and more. For the fan that wants to deck their whole world with their team's logo...

thinking fun

so many games can be mastered and present endless challenges, but nothing beats a game of chess. We play at yahoo chess.

old school arcade games

Often people ask about all the old-school video games which started the arcade game craze in the '80s. "Can I get Space Invaders?" The answer is an emphatic Yes - In fact you can get 125 games on the Arcade Legends 2 game machine. It includes many of the original games millions of people love - although Pacman is noticeably absent, and can only be purchased on its own separate arcade machine.
For those of you who use Facebook, you can play several of the classic games by installing the application "old school retro games".

But be forewarned - these can be very addictive. Whether you purchase an Arcade Legends 2 for your home game room or play these games online, you may find yourself spending hours upon hours enthralled in the games you played as a kid.

classic jukebox look

Our comparison of the four jukebox manufacturers, Crosley, Rockola, Wurlitzer, and Rowe, is up on our music jukebox page. Also check out our game equipment table of contents.

golden tee cabinet comparison

We've made a page laying out the difference between the Golden Tee versions available for purchase. For your home game room, get the Unplugged version which has all the same courses as the arcade style. The cabinet with LCD monitor provides a brighter arcade display, which being newer may appear unfamiliar to some players. For a commercial location, get the Golden Tee LIVE with player tour cards and nationwide tournament connection.

Tornado Foos

Check out our article comparing all the Tornado foosball tables. There are other quality brands out there, like Carrom, Shelti, and Garlando, but if you're able to drop the coin for the biggest and best, Tornado is what you'll probably get.

bills and paperwork

That's the last time I'm paying the Waste Management bill by mail.
I had trouble setting up on their online system, so gave up and have been mailing bill for several months. No more. what a waste of time, stamp money, and saliva. click click or call. Bills can become that easy. and if someone would create a uniform language like they talk about as "semantic web", we could see all our expenses in life very clearly and summarized in unlimited ways. likely the collecting companies do not want it to become easier - a planned revenue stream is in Fees.




On another note SHIPPING COSTS are through the roof. Probably everything you use is experiencing a 25+% increase in costs to deliver, because gas costs more than we had thought in all but the worst scenarios.

new gen turnaround

Building, testing, and delivering a photo booth to an island off the coast of New England within a fourteen day timespan is an impressive feat, if I do say so myself. Getting the New Generation is a good idea because it is compact, at 400 lbs portable with less effort than other booths, yet it still lets users get "in" it. Prints out two strips with four poses, the traditional photo booth experience. This one being delivered just in time for a wedding - its first event just two days after arriving on the island.


Inside scoop : New Generation Photo Booth prices going up in July.

photo booth detail

Simple Kid kicks it today as the musical selection. average man. what are you looking for?

I'm looking for fact sheets about photo booths and bam they came today in the mail.

Graphic seletions, artist styles, 4-way sticker output and options to choose from.
Power source requirements - all 110v or 220v 15 amp dedicated circuits.
Gigabyte processor vti-matrix composite dye sub or ink laser heat printing.

Quotes. film. The prices for the pieces you need and what is included is a complicated part of almost every purchase. I wish they would change that. We should package game room products as easy-to-understand as possible.

So that's what we try to do here - Take complicated info from game equipment manufacturers and make it easy for you to understand.

memorial

Although the streets were empty Monday, the phones here were at a normal pace. Memorial Day means everybody has the day off, except in retail. Consumers are out in full force.

Hard hard hard to admit when there was a problem that you overlooked. Our contact form worked fine every time I tested it, and we would even occasionally receive a message from a visitor. However we had our programmer look into it, make the Comments a required field, and while editing he made some other change that is too technical for me. Now we get several contact forms each day. Were we missing out on them all along? No, impossible, I refuse to believe it! ;-) It must take two months for the right type of visitor to learn about us.

The phones ring in waves. Quiet for hours, then everyone calls in at once. Answer customers' questions in a flurry, then get work done when it's quiet.

fill up

I sent this pic to my friends back in 1988, and even though they didn't have email back then, they responded.

" Wow you guys must have flying cars that get 130 miles per gallon, and minimum wage makes a person $240,000 per year."
Gas affecting shipping costs in a big way, and customers feeling the heat. A Great American air hockey table weight 475 lbs costs just under $1-per-pound to send across the country.

quiet busy quiet

Fridays are the quietest, but last Friday was our first day of having every available phone line lit up.


So much I would tell you, but somehow the course of a day goes by and I am left here with a string of notes, and no consistent blog topic.
Every day I try to embrace the idea of playing games and then writing about them. Instead I wind up analyzing and adjusting our online marketing. Talking with customers is no problem, in fact it's fun because usually people are in a positive mood when they're considering buying a fun product. Fixing shipping problems stinks. Messing with computer code or working with programmers is typically not my favorite either. How great is the day when I can sell an air hockey table, then turn around to play foosball until the phone rings again.

balancing act

Each day as a new business the number of visitors is determined by how you spend. Over time we aim for links and organic search engine listings, but as the new biz on the block we must first announce we are here, so for fifty cents each click we have an international billboard on the paid side of Google and Yahoo results. Cannot spend too much, must attain high click-thru, must determine if the keyphrases I'm chasing are the thoughts of people just about to buy my product.

The process is a balancing act of all the priorities on which you attempt to deliver. Through daily toil it can be made more efficient.

Yesterday we rebooted a ppc strategy going after air hockey tables in a new way. However a new campaign - an alternate instead of editing the current - means starting on the ground with no quality score. Our ads were more expensive for lower placement. In some ad groups our impressions were a fraction of what they could be. The struggle to balance goes on...

high stakes poker

Marketing vs sales in a small business seems like high stakes poker. Always an eye on the long-term outcomes, attached though we are to the moment's ups and downs. Each day we wager X, whether through paid search or affiliates or artwork or marketing mishmosh. Some days we profit 5X, some days we lose our stack. When you're putting money out on the table and see it disappear instead of multiply in returns, you um, get a little flustered.

Arcade Hits and other stories

So much occurs that the hope of documenting all from the startup business stage on through adaptation to success slips further and further away. Monster monday, financials tuesday, content and design, affiliate network marketing, on and on. Orders in the pipeline demanding attention. Quotes and questions for people who are a month away from buying, or a moment away from never. Promotions and advertising spend, graphics and backend uploads, getting the sale on the phone and trekking through each step until the customer says they love their new game room item.

How about Pacman? We sell several games in which the marquee 80's arcade attraction takes center stage. The controversy over Pacman's image is one of the most fascinating battles in the amusement field. Everyone thinks Namco owns the rights to Pacman the name, picture, and game. But they negotiate with an individual for certain royalty rights in sublicensing. Namco released a cd-version for upload to a computer, thinking it posed no threat to the arcade game on which they annually make so much money. (Pac man sells individually. 125 other games are packaged into Arcade Legends.) But Arcade Hits shows the industry evolving - this is a PC-based machine - it is a computer inside an arcade cabinet. Disliked though it may be by the coin-op heavyweights, the ClassiCade multi-game system (with no coin mechanism or dollar bill accceptor) represents the morphing of the video systems we interact with. As the computer and tv become one, what will this arcade-size cabinet do to the game? It is a sturdy standup computer with internet access, complete Windows interface, and 1000+ video games with classic arcade controls. Maybe computer access will sit in the corner of our living room in an arcade game cabinet that is now so much more. with Pac man too.

14' shuffleboard tables are so hot right now

forklift

First shipping damage. Shipping issues abound, will this consistently be a difficulty? ugh. The customer said it looked like a forklift went through the box. Demands a complete refund. Grr, freight carrier costing me money

top blocks

First we had to build the blocks. Then we started building the castle. Now the final blocks are just about put in place. This is rockin', quite exciting. we like the feel of goldstargames.com right now.

We have all this product everybody! If it's the awesome equipment you need, buy at GSG!


product types manufacturers distributors trademarks prices days suppliers locations inside curbside delivery trademarks trucking extensions customers first names last names contacts sets tables tops timeframes lists articles pictures dimensions contractors web hosting area codes marketing grids phone numbers orders furniture phones trials milestones - what a wild ride to get us to t-minus 16 hours 21 minutes to launch

power out

Had a power outage the other day. Must admit my first thought was "omg did I not pay the bill?"
Then we found out it affected the area, and despite our computers having battery-backup power, we saddled up in front of the white board and had a brainstorming jam.

As an employee a power outage gives a great reason to get out of work early for the day. In my mindset now, every moment of no internet or no electricity is bad for business.

shined up nice

Something that is encouraging and plays a bit to the ego is when a big company tells you this : “We normally don’t approve website stores - in fact we haven’t approved any in the past year - but we’re going to give you a shot.”

Here’s my timeline of e-business from the perspective of traditional manufacturers :
1992 - the internet? who would put their credit card into a computer?
1995 - are there really that many dollars being spent? I’m interested, but I don’t really get it.
1999 - wow there’s big money to be made online. sign up everybody with a website!
2002 -the bottom fell out! I knew this was going to happen. Nothing like the good ole days. I told you so.
2005 - Ok the web is here to stay. we must treat it as its own branch of business. Work only with full-scale legitimate web companies.
2008 - Gold Star Games, finally the answer we’ve been waiting for! ;)

foostastic

Get back on the train - nothing like multiple sales before 10am to keep your spirits up.

taxman

If I sell a product to a customer outside my state, I do not have to charge him sales tax. Officially he is responsible for paying sales tax to his own state, which of course he never will. surprised the IRS hasn’t jumped on this more aggressively. or maybe they have and I just don’t know it, which is why I am writing this post soliciting advice.

More specifically, as a drop shipper not in Georgia, if I sell a product that ships from the manufacturer in Georgia to a customer in Georgia, do I have any involvement in the collection of sales tax? quite a concern on a product that costs 3 grand.

pics & product

Adding product like gangbusters. we’re trying to have 1001 loaded by May 1st (although at our current pace we’ll only be at 600). still should be plenty to launch the “mother” site. also making pics - try to give ourselves the ‘appeal’ advantage. we’ll find out if that means anything - are customers looking only at price, or does the “feel” of a site with better graphics create search-ending loyalty?

Now I’ll overcome to the 3:00 lull with that liquid legalized crack :

b a logger

It's a sunshiny day - we have all the windows open for a nice cross-breeze.
Cut back our PPC budget so it's all quiet here on the eastern front.
Loading up the ecommerce platform with more product, getting ever closer to our launch goal of 1001 games. When we turn goldstargames.com live I'll lose the blog at that url, since for some reason I can't put it in a directory or even a subdomain. I need more programming friends! (or a whole lot of money)
So regardless of the order in which this appears, it's actually my first blogger post. Should I
use it, or post on a domain we own? For the moment, it seems I've settled on this as the solution.
Google was on our site today. not just 'bots - it appeared to be someone from their corporate IP looking for a foosball table. Yes you may buy a thousand.

wkd

There’s so much to do that you find yourself working every day. Saturdays are for cleaning up the paperwork that has amassed throughout the week, or fixing the squeaky wheel on your chair. Sundays we get in for just an hour or two, then try to relax so we have full energy for the new week.
Now it’s back at it gung ho. We’re adding product lines for the coming launch of the master site with 1001 products. Kudos to the companies that make drop shipping a breeze - they’ve embraced the internet age and will be more profitable for it. Business with an old school perspective require a much more hands-on approach, i.e. more work for me, but there’s more opportunity in it for us. If you don’t make it easy for customers to buy your product, we will.

big toys

Our mini-streak was broken yesterday with no sales coming through. Let’s start a new run today!

The bigger site is coming along - chess pieces are the latest addition. Chessmen in the fashion of the American Civil War, Napoleon’s army, Camelot, the Russian Tsars, etc. These will be just about our smallest types of game equipment, and we’re aiming for crossover shoppers; the same guy that buys a $2000 arcade game for his basement will be back for a $300 set of ornate chessmen when he needs to decorate his den. now it’s just down to great customer service and making people feel comfortable that Gold Star is where they go for high quality games.

Speaking of high-end game equipment, how about the most expensive toys of all? An Indycar team is what, a $10 million toy? Helicopters and F1 cars and those planes that fly around pylons in Europe may require a bit more, but there’s no real difference between 10 and 100 million to me. They’re all just out of reach - but they’re still fun to watch. I saw the first two races of the Indycar season, the first reunified races since the split a dozen years ago into two competing series that would do equally horribly. Now we can watch all the open wheel superfast toys together.

ring that sales bell

we don’t really have a bell
so right now we all just clap and make a lot of noise

get your order processing in order

foosball foosball air hockey. calls are rockin, orders are in, we have trucks going from florida to california, nevada to ohio, pennsylvania to new york, quotes and requests criss-crossing all over in every which way.

a few graphics are up : like this one on a list of air hockey tables
the DMI HT280 sold thirty hours after we added it as a product.

there’s so much dish about the industry. there are circuits of stories that distributors and manufacturers and wholesalers and operators all share. Did you hear blahblah told his customer blah, or that blahblah got cut off by blah, or that blahblah is sniffing around for a new job. it’s industry gossip and I doubt I have any amusement game readers yet but we don’t report industry gossip. we want to make sure that all the talk about us is always good - unless it’s that we’re taking some of their customers or making them work harder to keep up - so our plan is to be open and honest and be friends with every person that’s willing in the game industry. sell more fun stuff.

phone-in customers often want replacement parts. we don’t carry them. If it’s a $4 item that comes in 43 shapes and 91 colors, we’re out.

phones

What do you do for phones? local phone company, giant phone company, cells only, PBX, VOIP, and other options out there. of course we all want high quality, flexibility, and the cheapest price.

ClearTel has been a disaster. I never thought I would long for the regular ole phone company so badly - but I’m crawling back as fast as I can. The day we switched over from the Bell/AT&T megagiant to the T1 supposedly-faster internet connection and phone service that would offer greater flexibility is a day my internal organs would prefer not to relive. The phone numbers, toll-free numbers, voice mail boxes - none of it worked right. The T1 was slower and regularly cut out completely. Every person I spoke with in the ensuing days - literally 20+ representatives of ClearTel, were all really nice, but they one by one promised me the next person would fix it. I would get transfered, called back later, forgotten about til I called in again, and shuffled around the world until it was clear no one really knew what to do. My numbers would stop working, the toll-frees go dead, and voicemail give out so that their best advice was to start over again. The experience revealed layers of incompetence with that company.

So now I’ve vented to you - and faxed a contract back to Bell. Just work - just be reliable - just be up all the time. from an older perspective it’s amazing any of this stuff works at all. from a millennial’s frame of mind, it’s a disappointment when there is a half-second delay in delivery.

The company depicted in the cartoon below had nothing to do with my awful experience - but it’s a funny image of dealing with phone companies as we all must.

hockey

have cooled on photo booths. still love it, and the demand is certainly strong. but have spoken with enough operators to get a gauge of who is out there working the field, and found a somewhat-central network for distributing leads to regional photo booth owners. i’m not going into the rental business, so trying to change the industry with a newcomer’s “do it my way” approach may not be the best path to change. I have no doubt there is a better way to deliver the information customers are in search of. Turn the burner down to simmer and develop this over the coming months. Meantime….

Fast Air Hockey has launched.

Bubble hockey is one of those childhood experiences which brought a smile absolutely every time I could play. Thrilled anticipation filled each step as my fingers rubbed the quarters on my way to the machine. The rubbery smell of the hockey rink lounge area, the sticky floor and bits of popcorn covering the game center slash snack bar. Thanks for waking and driving me to a 7:00 a.m. hockey practice, Mom and Dad, but why won’t you give me fifty more cents and wait ten minutes for me to play another round against the next willing competitor. The wicked flip-clip-smack of the puck banging off the plastic bubble when your defender with the extra long stick whips a shot that circles the entire rink twice. The electronic oohs and ahhs, cheers for the Americans and boos for the CCCP. The jump-up-and-down joy of scoring in sudden death overtime - the sinking heart of the opponent scoring on you. It was true childhood bliss.

idea sketch

I can’t do it. It’s too hard. Let’s give up.

Here’s what we’re trying to do: the market wants a photo booth rental headquarters. People call us every day, while we’re advertising to sell photo booths, in search of rental for their wedding or their daughter’s bat mitzvah. Customers are standing in line to rent! We know photo booth operators, and sure, they want leads. But they do not want them that badly. Most leads are no good, people just looking into it or hoping to rent a photo booth for $300. Leads don’t want to pay for photo booths - and photo booth operators don’t want to pay for leads. Remind me why this is a good idea???

hot! just got a call for a wedding in July, and it’s in the region of the one operator who appears aggressive, who looks like a business of young entrepreneurs who will break a sweat to get new business. Here I was aiming to write a post full of the frustration from a day of silent phones and no new sales, then bust out of the office to go watch basketball. But the market says “stay on it - we want to spend money - just give the information that no one else will!”

make something happen

not very much action on Monday and that had us down. plus my friend had food poisoning from frozen beef, gross.not too sure always how to straddle the line between business and personal. in business you keep it together and at all times convey the vision that you are knowledgeable and in control. amongst friends you relax and open up, admitting when you feel rotten, sad, or don’t know what to do. the coming millions who will get a job or run companies from an entirely different perspective may cause this to change. imagine a business world without a sense of proprietariness, protectionisticosity, or even fear of making up new words. seems counter to much of the dog-eat-dog that has long been part of reality. but what will we do, those who have facebook and have never felt our personal information was kept that private anyway? embrace the openness, it appears, but only the decades ahead will tell us how that transfers to other aspects of life. we will just do the best we can and share the status with everyone else. admit that we have not met nor are ourselves a super-human. place trust at the center of our relationship with the market. open up even if it sometimes means revealing too much - the harm that comes from admitting you are regular is less than the advantage of admitting you are faulty to other faulty people.

so with that, below is a bit of free-writing I was doing at the end of the day.

How can we win with photobooths if we cant win with foos tables Where can we find the money Where can we give people what they want How to set up a national photobooth rental system How to get programming help in this respect How much will this cost Where do we get it How do we trust them Foosball Bubble hockey air hockey table game accessories Things people want for their game room your ultimate rec room Delivering America’s Fun. Where can we go next What are our best opportunities What products sell now Photo booth registrations! Listen to the market What do they want? Photo booths at their weddings, high school reunions, they’ve seen Amelie, award ceremonies gatherings of diverse types. sometimes they want 25 cent replacement thingees for foosball tables or whatever it is they outfit their gameroom with. Breathe fresh energy into the industry in order to get more business done. Fly overnight shipping service with a smile invent new styles Connect to the customer. Be 100% honest. Be 100% open. Forget the competition. God’s in charge.

rockin

just like that Monday’s gone and here we go ready to rock. photo booths are so popular - started the morning with a dozen rental requests. yesterday was full of obstacles : coding difficulties & silent phones, like our road was headed into a wallheard back from a professional videographer who is too busy to want work. heard back from an amateur who is all about it. I have two requirements in people that I work with: skills, then motivation. of course demand attentive, experienced, quality work. but beyond that, I don’t care what you can do, only what you do do. I don’t need to pay extra for your experience if you still get nothing done because you’re lazy.

woot - just answered a call about photo booths. every photo booth operator in the country right now is booked and needs to hire more staff. this cultural fascination with photo booths is pushing demand up a serious spike. note to the world - yes it would be awesome to have a photo booth at your party (wedding, bar mitzvah, sweet sixteen, quinceanera, & prom seem to be the market drivers), no it is not cheap. $1200+ for a real photo booth, the kind people get in and love. you can spend $400-800, but it will be for a janky rigged-up photo deal which you may enjoy, but be fairly warned.

they want photo booths in europe. at parties for teenagers. at events for grown-ups. in any business that has foot traffic b/c people love hopping into one. willing to pay 3 bucks to express themselves, to gain a little piece of private reflection in the midst of a busy public world. We already have the most comprehensive site about the photo booth machine. Must now create the international headquarters for photo booth rentals.

woot - just had our first foosball table sale.
What to do your path is blocked? Divert and power through it!

change and games

Had a great conversation with a manufacturer yesterday about online sales and the amusement industry.

but first…

I began in ecommerce when cost-per-mil impressions on a banner ad was the standard payment structure, educating myself online all day in the office of our web design company in 2004. That entrepreneurial effort was doomed to fail from the outset, since the market was redefining itself weekly and we had no idea what we were doing. I graduated from the school of hard knocks while touching the pulse of an industry in creation, holding a knowledge of online traffic flow. Compared to the developers creating amazing new programs, I’m a computer-neophyte with a kindergartener’s vocabulary. Compared to most people, I’m an internet genius. Now I have found an industry that is a blast to work in and is ripe for new internet efficiencies. Keep it simple - Give the customer what they want.

So….
a 100+ year old game maker had to decide what to do as the industry was changing. Web stores would deliver the product to the customer’s door anywhere in the U.S., and slowly more consumers purchased all kinds of products online. The traditional stores, who still make up the lion’s share of the manufacturer’s profit, saw a decline in sales. These brick-and-mortar resellers, formerly necessary to get the product to the people en masse, suddenly feeling abandoned for startup virtual stores, banded together. “We will stop buying your product if you sell to the online retailers,” these resellers said. The game maker had to make a choice about company direction - and they did. A corporate decision was made to continue selling to the online stores. Not only did the sales of the web stores continue to grow, but the brick-and-mortar resellers did not stop buying. Their bluff had been called. The internet in its adolescent years has delivered more than one change to the way we shop and think. Distinguish your store with something better for the customer, or prepare to fail getting continued business.

I don’t know why the amusement machine industry is so resistant to change that happened in other industries ten years ago. The ground level of selling product throughout the nation has been necessary and making a strong profit for years. Now service is critical at the ground level, but the delivery of the product from source can be done with e-commerce ease and efficiency. Capitalism makes lower costs lead to a lower price for consumers. Fresh life is needed in the amusement game service, and the operators who are committed to improving their knowledge and customer service are the ones who will survive.

foos

FoosTables.com is live!

score

Entrepreneurs are adept at solving problems without spending a whole lot of money. You can always pay a consultant to analyze your obstacles and prioritize important considerations, and there are times you should use them, but consultants are never cheap! That’s why I would suggest to anyone starting a new business to visit SCORE. They provide free advice to fledgling companies. Walk in with a business plan or carrying only your idea, and they’ll help you lay out what steps you should be looking toward next.

What is their motivation? I don’t really know. It seems to be full of individuals who truly just enjoy helping others, who find satisfaction in sharing their ages of business experience. SCORE is a division of the federal government’s Small Business Administration. Their acronym gives a decent description of their purpose : Service Corps of Retired Executives. So one of their potential motivations…. boredom. These guys have spent their careers in business, they’ve succeeded (and probably failed a few times too) and now simply want to be involved in something new. These retired leaders miss the energy and hopefulness of young entrepreneurs which once filled their days and late nights.

I met with two SCORE representatives last Friday. Just to make sure our business plan makes sense, just to find an objective ear to provide feedback. I had to do a lot of explaining about ecommerce and the amusement machine market, but I wasn’t there for their insight about games. Does our budget make sense? Is there anything we’re forgetting? Sometimes just speaking your ideas out loud to an experienced businessperson will help you see more clearly into your own thoughts.

Take their advice, toss it aside, see them once or a once a week. Whatever works for you. With a free valuable resource at the waiting, I just suggest trying it out.

image labeler

go play image labeler. you’ll be hooked for a few minutes at least.

http://images.google.com/imagelabeler

Apparently this has been around for over a year, but I just discovered it. I have long wondered how Google was going to come up with an automated way to accurately describe images, since a robot cannot translate things we see with our eyes. (seems the human brain is still the most powerful computer in existence.) well they solved it through the use of free labor. and how do you get people to do a tiny task for no benefit? you make it a game!

say cheese

Photo booths are up and running at newphotobooth.com. We have examined just about every photo booth on the market - and picked only those with proven commercial success making money for their operators. There are some homemade versions out there, which works for some individuals. But if it’s really about generating revenue in a commercial setting, one of our photo booth machines is the way to go.

We are dealing with several manufacturers, some quicker to act than others. I just cannot understand most of the people in the amusement machine industry - territorial, resistant to change, and slow to act. The medium of the internet and the energy of the next generation means action is gonna happen in game machines. Photo booths first!

saturday

Getting the shopping cart platform mastered… well maybe I better use the word ‘understood’ for now. mastered later .

with Adwords and an 800 number, phone calls start right away. just like most of the clicks are not properly targeted, most of the phone calls are not buyers either. plus there’s the amazing number of telemarketers that hit you as soon as the phone company activates your number. Does that come from simply the listing of the number, or does AT&T make extra money by selling lists of new activations?

Here’s me playing with the built-in camera on my imac. we have great big windows, facing west, and I go blind for about 15 minutes every day at 5:43pm.

Look out!

computers, phones, even a little greenery. Gold Star Games is up and running!