(Regarding Discover Games’ member response to a request for board games within 5 days for an event) I want to thank everyone for their quick response to my email.  I am so amazed at how many emails and phone calls I received.  Please know that my game need is fulfilled now but I will be creating a folder on all of your emails for future needs.  You are fantastic! Thanks again!

Jana Clark

Gift & Floral Manager

BryanLGH Enterprises

jana.clark@bryanlgh.org

As you know, I have been in the toy industry for 18 years with Manhattan Toy, Applause, and Ty (beanie babies) usually as a top salesman. Now I find myself as the president of a growing start up game and toy company, and am I so glad I found you! 

Our organization was faced with the enormous costs of creating, presenting and staffing even a small Toy Fair booth with a projected expense of over $10,000! That’s when we heard about you - $1,400 to get our two games in to Toy Fair was the start of the enormous value Discover Games offers. We thought that was good, little did we know what else you were offering.

At Chitag we got plenty of exposure to consumers and picked up a few retailers. Enough to pay for the trip, how great!

Then you recommended Eric Gwinn and his influential article that appears in the Chicago Tribune. Mary, we sent him game samples and he gave one of our games a positive review, we received over $1000 in orders from Illinois over the next 2 weeks!!!! I can show you the day it hit and every Illinois order we then received. They were clearly based on the impact of the article, thank you! 

Now we still have all the wonderful resources of your website in addition to presence in another gaming show! We couldn’t be happier with our investment in Discover Games, please tell anyone who is on the fence to call us, they would be crazy not to work with you.

Martin A. Uniacke, President

McNeill Designs for Brighter Minds

866-520-2555 toll free

www.McNeillBrighterMinds.com

MUniacke@McNeillBrighterMinds.com

“Shortly after founding our company in 2003, I came upon Discover Games while searching on the Internet for guidance related to the toy and game industry. What a stroke of good fortune that was! I joined the group, and we have attended Toy Fair and other trade shows with Discover Games ever since. Mary Couzin is a fountain of knowledge and keeps group members informed continually of industry opportunities. With her advice, for example, I submitted our games for review by the Chicago Tribune and Better Homes & Gardens magazine, for their annual Holiday game and gift guides. Our games were featured in both, resulting in greatly increased Holiday season sales in both 2005 and 2006. My recommendations to any entrepreneur in this industry: Join Discover Games and follow Mary’s sage advice!”

President, Karmel Games, Inc.

dennis@karmelgames.com

866-350-4320

http://karmelgames.com

I am very happy to recommend a membership in Discover Games. I think the new member rate of $1000 for one year at the gold level (renewing members receive a discount) is a great deal. I know $1,000 (?82 - for our company in England) may sound a lot, but the renewal is only $750 and each new game can be added for only $200. The subscription includes:

1. inclusion in the NY Toy Fair, GAMA and CHITAG on the Discover Games booth
2. access to the members area of the website, where people exchange info about retailers, bar codes, storage, printing, new shows etc (The website has long lists of distributors and agents across the US.)
3. regular updates on the competitions and awards available to help build profile in the industry and well as a range of other helpful information and contacts and
4. co-op mailing to retailers, catalog houses and media (only the hard costs are split, not the labor to put it together).

Although folks can't turn up on DG booth and push their own game, they are always welcome to come to the exhibitions and Discover Games member dinners held in connection with the events, which adds to the networking.

We are renewing for our 3rd year, even though we already show ourselves at the 3 shows listed. We figure there is never too much exposure! DG's booth is a booth industry professionals across the spectrum (licensors, ma & pop retailers, distributors, large chains, etc) make a point of visiting each year to see what's new. The staff on DG's booth knows the industry (Mary Couzin who runs DG has been in the business for more than 15 years) - they know who buys what, how they evaluate games, & how to approach them afterwards. For NY and GAMA they send out a list of everyone who came to their booth with 'general' interest so inventors can follow up later. They also take down the details of anyone particularly interested in your product and send you that info as well.

Mary is a great resource, and we've become good friends. Even before we were friends, Mary made herself available for phone calls at 6:30 in the morning her time and on weekends. She never takes sides, and she is always good about spelling out the options.

I can't speak highly enough of the service.  

Words cannot express our gratitude to you and Discover Games for the opportunities you've brought our way in the past year.

Becoming a member of DiscoverGames.com has been extremely important to me as an inventor. The information available on the website is very useful, but what makes DiscoverGames.com invaluable are the services that they provide. They have consistently responded to my questions and concerns quickly and helpfully. The professional representation they provided for my game at the New York Toy Fair allowed me to have exposure and contact with members of the toy and game industry for a fraction of what it would have cost me to have my own booth. I would highly recommend joining DiscoverGames.com. to any independent inventor. It is a professional and personal morale booster!