Chris and Reggie's Cosmic Treadmill

Cosmic Treadmill Presents... Comix Tawk, Episode 9: Brian Hibbs' 10-Point Plan

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For this week's (sorta-kinda dated) installment of Comix Tawk... Reggie and I take a look at a 10-Point Plan outlined by Brian Hibbs at the 2019 ComicsPRO Meeting, which he felt would keep the industry healthy (or perhaps even make it even healthier/actually healthy!).  So, please spend an hour listening to a couple of guys with zero experience in comics retail, discuss a fella who's been "in the trenches" for decades!

The 10-Points we discuss here include:

  1. Stop Mixing SKU’s
  • Sales Charts with a “penetration index” – # of accounts purchasing specific SKU’s
  • Abandon “meets or exceeds” thinking
  • Tie variant SKU’s to native base sales (1 variant per 20k sales)
  • Tie variants to percentage of publisher’s line (25%)
  • Shipping information in a box-by-box format, and review discounts and shipping
  • FOC locked no later than noon Fridays, including all aft and information otherwise 100% returnable
  • Every comic should be listed in PREVIEWS, not available only at FOC.
  • Data Summit to determine where and when to assign “Series Codes”
  • First three issues of every new series to be fully returnable from all publishers (including one-shots and mini-series)

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