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#131: Getting Your Game Into Barnes & Noble with Chrissy Fagerholt
Making It in The Toy Industry with The Toy Coach
English - June 22, 2022 10:00 - 48 minutes - 33.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 32 ratingsDesign Arts Business Entrepreneurship toy industry how to design a toy how to make a toy toy design fit toy design make my own dolls entrepreneur small business Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Is your toy idea begging to see the spotlight? Do you have a game idea swimming around in your imagination? You may be a burgeoning toy inventor! However, if you are ready to fully flesh out your toy idea, brand, and marketing, you may be a toy entrepreneur. What is the difference between these two toy industry tracks? You will find out that and more on today’s episode of Making it in the Toy Industry.
Today’s guest is Toy Creators Academy alumni Chrissy Fagerholt. After a career as a floral designer for 17 years and a short stint as a school lunch lady, she now has a successful game out with Goliath, Friend or Faux. She has two more games coming out soon: Lunchroom and You Who. In today’s episode, Chrissy tells us about making the jump from toy inventor to toy entrepreneur. She explains a bit of her inventing process and tells listeners all about how she came up with a key element in one of her new games that makes it really fun.
She explains why the shift to toy industry entrepreneur happened, and where in the process of inventing a toy she starts to come up with marketing and branding ideas. She also describes a bit of the process of working with other artists to make her vision for her games come true. You will also find out how the Toy Creators Academy helped Chrissy to make more toy industry connections which led her to figure out how to make toy industry entrepreneurship work for her.
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