Intellectual Property and Publishing Rights

3 September 2010

I was recently asked by a reader about publishing rights on games and how those are typically structured. Let me first say, that I am mostly unfamiliar with how agreements are crafted at other publishers. As for myself and Tasty Minstrel Games, we believe in simple contracts that are designed to protect all parties involved. [...]

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The Absent Salesman

2 September 2010

You do not like to be sold to, and yet you like to buy things.  Salesmen, or saleswomen, need to jump the hurdle of getting you to buy without actively selling to you.  You would probably prefer to be left alone to make a decision on your own, rather than being pestered about what to [...]

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The Difference Between Dreaming And Doing

31 August 2010

Are you prone to dream about the results?  I mean really dream about the results…  You start running fictional numbers and look at them like they have already happened.  Some schools of thought say that this visualization is needed. I know I can spend hours or even days of time analyzing fictional numbers.  The analysis [...]

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Working On The Right Stuff

25 August 2010

With so much to do to improve your business, how do you allocate your time and work on the right stuff? For me, I ask myself the following questions: Will the results of this effort be repeatable? Will the work I do scale properly with significantly larger sales numbers? Does this directly improve upon the [...]

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How To Improve Your Life Or Business Through Elimination

20 August 2010

Over the course of time, it is easy to get into a state of ease, into a state of executing pre-determined actions (at least partially). While having a ongoing system of operation brings greater efficiency, it is imperative to review, simplify, and improve that system. Improving the system, really needs to be part of the system.

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3 Days With 7 Minutes For Email… An Experiment

17 August 2010

This became an opportune time to test out a no email checking, maintaining, answering policy for the trip. Especially considering I try very hard to not email on Sundays, and I would be spending time with family. Actually the experiment really was deeper than that, it was 7 minutes with the Internet!

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Free Game Fridays – July 23rd, 2010

23 July 2010

Greg from Minnesota is this week’s Free Games Friday winner. He will be receiving the following game: Enter the board game giveaway by subscribing to the email list.

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New Directions… Important Announcement

22 July 2010

I have been utilizing this blog at michaelmindes.com for a variety of purposes.  I have been actively reflecting on how to accomplish my goals in a fashion that is MORE appropriate for those that care about what I have to say.  Upon that reflection I have decided: #1 – michaelmindes.com will continue to be used [...]

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