I've been holding learn to play events since last year, due to a big chunk of our LGS SWU crowd jumping to One Piece after the SHD set wasn't exciting for them. We have a good crowd at stores closer to the city but I live in a medium sized rural area, and trying to attract new players. Up until now I've taught a couple folks, here and there - but this past week, in two learn to plays (one at my LGS and one at a store closer to the city), I taught 5 people! And one of them is coming to our weekly play on Friday which is awesome.
I wanted to get input on how I am doing these and if there is anything I can improve/add that I haven't thought of (which I'm sure is a lot of stuff). Here's what I do so far:
- I keep 10 or 12 pre-built deck pairs on hand, made from my bulk. Each deckbox in the image has two decks, with leaders who are thematically opposed and from the same set; using mostly cards from that set (commons, some uncommons and a rare or two). After I teach someone I have them pick one to take with them, along with cardboard tokens etc.
- I have some weekly play packs my LGS gave me that were extra to hand out to folks as well; and I have some token boxes and initiative tokens to give as well.
- I use the x2 Hoth boxes primarily; I do have the previous two-player starter decks in a bag in case they have a favorite character among those and want to try them instead, but the Hoth box seems to be very streamlined for teaching.
- The store advertises the learn to play on social media a few weeks prior (it's monthly), I like and share it after they post.
I want to make sure it's as good as it can be; I don't think there is anything else I can do giveaway-wise, but wondering how else I can get the even 'out there' besides the store posting about it on FB/Instagram etc. One thing I thought of after these last ones, was maybe I should have a flyer to give away that has information on it? Store play day/time, and maybe a QR code or something to the official websites How to Play? Anything else you guys can think of?