Real Promotional Help Needed

[permazorch]

I've been the manager of an indie video-store (that opened in 1986) since 2004, and over the last few years I replicated most of our very fine world-class VHS collection on the DVD format, as well as gaining new titles (the usual big boys as well as cult/indie/international stuff).
We still rent out VHS cassettes (about 14 or so a day), believe it or not.

The idea of starting from zero, again, leaves me in deep malaise. There's no real support from retailblu.com (If only they made a huge vinyl window logo sticker, I'd be happy to start actively ordering from my distributors for the store). How viable is it as a rental product (DVDs really are not, they're way too fragile a medium)? I mean, think about the careless aspects of scratching a disk.

Does anyone know how to get in touch with the powers-that-be, when it comes to marketing? Frankly, money is lost when I don't have something to signal the man on the street that I have new movies on blu-ray. For instance, it's a lost opportunity for "10,000 BC", anyone who was mildly curious about it has sated their masochistic urges. I will never order that title for the store. The clock's ticking on that bright and shiny "Speed Racer". Some people may be curious to test their blu-ray tech-specs on a new release like that, y'know? Too bad I don't have awesome static-clinging vinyl window stickers with the blu-ray logo, because I won't order these lame titles with a two-week shelf-life.

Seriously! Tell Sony/Disney et al! It's their money, too.

End Rant.