Mel Thompson will be at San Diego Comic Con:  7/24 - 7/25

Mel Thompson will be at the San Diego Comic Con Friday 7/24 and Saturday 7/25.  He'll be staying Friday night at the Hilton, downtown San Diego.

He will be in the Retailer Lounge Friday from roughly 10:30am to 5:00pm, and on Saturday from roughly opening time to 5:00pm.

If you want to schedule a meeting with Mel, call, click or write beforehand. 

Mel will have the latest copy of ComTrac for Windows with him, as well as our new Store Analysis program.

The Store Analysis program is an updated version of a program which we originally developed more than fifteen years ago for the Capital City and Diamond retailer sales conferences.

The program uses a variety of information about your store and:

1.  Identifies strengths and weaknesses
2.  Ranks your store in terms of all comics/game stores
3.  Ranks your store in terms of comparable stores
4.  Estimates potential unrealized sales and profits

We are also working on an Internet version of this program, so that retailers can get access to this service easily. 

Diamond July '09 Order Form for DOS

The July 2009 Diamond DOS order form is available in the <Diamond Catalogs> section.

The Comics Spectator is Back
Mel will be posting new issues of The Comics Spectator on the website beginning 01/29/2008.  It will be published every two weeks, and will normally be 2-3 pages in length, concentrating on just one topic.  This may be material on how to run your business, information from one of our research projects, or generally useful information.  If you have a specific interest that you'd like discussed, e-mail Mel at mel@comtrac.net.  You can download the current issue in pdf format by clicking here.


Future Attractions:
We will be posting a link next week to a podcast of Mel Thompson's seminar presentation at this year's GAMA trade show.  Mel spoke on the fundamentals of comic and game store location, using Sacramento CA as a real-life example.  We will also post a download link for the pdf that contains all the screen shots that tie to the presentation.

Mel Thompson will be out of the office 6/21/08 through 7/5/08.  For emergency software support, telephone us at 800-379-0748 and go into Voice Mail.  Rachael will receive an e-mail from the VM system and will route your call to the proper person.

The ComTrac DOS version of the "new" July 2008 Diamond order form will be available in the "Diamond Catalogs" area as of June 21, 2008 by 5:00 pm PST.

The ComTrac DOS version of the "new" June 2008 Diamond order form is available in the "Diamond Catalogs" area.

Mel Thompson will be at GAMA, Las Vegas, April 21-23 2008.

Is your state over-stored or under-stored?  Download a map showing which states in the US are over or under-stored.  Mel discusses whether the US marketplace is at capacity.

Here's a summary of what Windows ComTrac can do for you and your business!

We have received a number of calls and e-mails about the upcoming changes in Diamond's DOS ordering.

The current version of the ComTrac 4.0 (Windows) User Manual is available.