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Post by Triple S: POOR on Sept 29, 2016 19:19:11 GMT -5
Philadelphia would eat TNA alive.
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Post by Next Man’s Knowing Rock on Sept 29, 2016 19:26:41 GMT -5
Oh look, Ditzy Dixie is ing things up again. How shocking. What an idiot. To be fair to her, the company has lasted for fourteen years based on nothing other than her ability to ask her parents for money. Without Dixie, TNA would have been dead a few months after it started.
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Post by The Outsider on Sept 29, 2016 19:32:29 GMT -5
Philadelphia would eat TNA alive. That's a possibility. Or they could embrace TNA. Either way, it would be a building filled with PAID admissions and either reaction TNA gets, it would make for great TV.
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Post by Triple S: POOR on Sept 29, 2016 19:50:20 GMT -5
Philadelphia would eat TNA alive. That's a possibility. Or they could embrace TNA. Either way, it would be a building filled with PAID admissions and either reaction TNA gets, it would make for great TV. Until they struggled to sell out the 2300. I'm sorry, I just don't see TNA drawing much of a crowd anymore.
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Post by "Living Legend" Duttanized on Sept 29, 2016 19:52:37 GMT -5
Sounds like BFG is going to happen.
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Post by The Outsider on Sept 29, 2016 20:04:47 GMT -5
That's a possibility. Or they could embrace TNA. Either way, it would be a building filled with PAID admissions and either reaction TNA gets, it would make for great TV. Until they struggled to sell out the 2300. I'm sorry, I just don't see TNA drawing much of a crowd anymore. They may not. I'm saying that I agreed with the poster I originally quoted, saying TNA needs a change of venue. They have a current in-house audience that has paid a total of $0. My point is, if TNA were to change home base from Orlando, they'd be smart to relocate to an area with many rabid wrestling fans who might be a more receptive and loyal following that the tourists watching free in Orlando. Philly seems like the kind of place, in my opinion, to test those waters.
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Post by hCo.Bro™ [brandon_lee] on Sept 29, 2016 20:19:33 GMT -5
Not a post yet tonight in the show thread? LOL do we really care if they stick around?
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Post by beermoney86 on Sept 29, 2016 20:37:31 GMT -5
A change of venue would be good for TNA, I personally think go back to the original formula Jeff and Jerry had, fill the void WCW left, appeal to the southern fan base, go back to Tennessee or Alabama, maybe even Georgia, I think Philly would eat them alive, but who knows I could be wrong. I don't watch Impact, so I don't really know what its like, but maybe a more southern based promotion could thrive and fill the void and have people pay for admission again.
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Post by King Bálor (CM)™ on Sept 29, 2016 22:05:44 GMT -5
One problem financially that could be solved....GET THE HELL OUT OF ORLANDO!!!! Christ...Impact is full of tourists. Take the money you can get from selling tickets. I am not saying you have to tour. But setup shop somewhere...rent the building, sell the tickets, do the backstage pass, etc. Make your wrestlers commit to making TNA #1 by capitalizing on what WWE CANNOT do. Meet n greets, fan fests, breakfast with, etc. Do what you need to draw a gate. One of the biggest reason house shows failed...NO MARKETING in the area. TNA once had a street team made up of volunteers. Bring it back. What are you out? There are TONS of ways to promote, market, advertise all with a very, very minimal investment. To top it off, you reward the street team with comp tickets that fill your building out for the seats you cant sell. The Impact Zone is literally A LOSS each time they are running. They are renting from Universal, making no gate, crowd that is there are tourists, the merch area is all but non existant, no room for meet n greets, backstage passes, etc. Its a ing drain on the company to run there. The only plus is a good chunk of the talent is can drive into Orlando and that saves on flight costs.\ The iMPACT Zone is a loss each time might be true but so would running events in Nashville or Atlanta or whatever name someone wants to pull out of their hat. The location ain't the problem. The problem is nobody gives a big enough s*** about this company to spend money on them.
False. They were nearly selling out the Manhattan Center for 3 straight nights of tapings in NYC. I wouldnt try and run in Nashville or Atlanta either. They dont provide an advantage over Orlando area and are not in the hot bed of pro wrestling in the north east. Its more than just how many tickets are sold though...how much it costs vs. how much you can generate is more important. If TNA can only draw a house of 300 people but can make a 20% profit...thats better than drawing a house of 3000 and making a 2% profit. One problem financially that could be solved....GET THE HELL OUT OF ORLANDO!!!! Christ...Impact is full of tourists. Take the money you can get from selling tickets. I am not saying you have to tour. But setup shop somewhere...rent the building, sell the tickets, do the backstage pass, etc. Make your wrestlers commit to making TNA #1 by capitalizing on what WWE CANNOT do. Meet n greets, fan fests, breakfast with, etc. Do what you need to draw a gate. One of the biggest reason house shows failed...NO MARKETING in the area. TNA once had a street team made up of volunteers. Bring it back. What are you out? There are TONS of ways to promote, market, advertise all with a very, very minimal investment. To top it off, you reward the street team with comp tickets that fill your building out for the seats you cant sell. The Impact Zone is literally A LOSS each time they are running. They are renting from Universal, making no gate, crowd that is there are tourists, the merch area is all but non existant, no room for meet n greets, backstage passes, etc. Its a ing drain on the company to run there. The only plus is a good chunk of the talent is can drive into Orlando and that saves on flight costs. This. They couldn't go just anywhere though. I think their best bet, should they move, would be Philly. Not sure how the fans would react, but I guarenDAMNtee you'd get a reaction that would rock a TV taping. The Philly fans are rabid about their wrestling. I also think TNA would go over better in Philly than WWE, because TNA lends itself to more Non-PG content possibilities than WWE does right now. Just sayin'. I think you are on the right track. I would suggest mini tours, take advantage of spending money on flights and maximize. Run a 3-5 city home base. That means you have 3 to 5 different locations that you will tape out of. House your television equipment there so not to have to transport it around. You can stick to your once a month tapings. Maybe run 2300, Rahway, NJ, Baltimore, Rochester and maybe Conneticut. Then for example, you tape your tv Tuesday, Wed and Thurs. Each night offer a mini meet n greet package with 2-3 TNA stars for 1 hour before doors. Then travel to Easton on Friday for a house show, Harrisburg on Sat. for a house show and Reading on Sunday for a house show. There's your loop back to Philly. Now you have maximized return on your investment into flights. You have completed 4 to 5 televised events and drawn revenue in ticket sales. You have done 3 house shows that you have been able to sell backstage passes with. I just think TNA isnt thinking enough outside the box. I would also look to, not trim, but eliminate parts of the roster that may be costly. By costly, I dont mean high salary....but what it costs for travel. Flying the Hardys from NC is a no brainer. Merchandise, drawing power, etc. makes them worth it. Lets take Rockstar Spud for example. The dude is in Tenn. He is a bit player in the X division. Assume is guarantee is very small. But flying him here, there...etc. is costly. Offer him the chance to relocate or cut bait. Then I would look to expand my roster by using north east talents. Let me use guys that live in this area and can drive in. No rental car needed and no flight. I would even look to possibly pair up with indy fed leaders who have established themselves in areas by offering a piece of the gate and perhaps a house show spot for 2 of their guys they would like to feature. This would take some pressure off TNA on how to promote in the area, provide free advertising to an established fan base of indy wrestling fans and reduce costs. You dont lose any liquidity and instead are simply offering potential. In turn, the indy fed is garnering a bigger audience to promote their brand. They get a chance to feature their guys in front of some different fans. They open doors to TNA. And they get to profit from it as well. Simply...they TNA would be reverting back to the old NWA territory days. All these local area feds will be partnered with TNA and become an almost affiliate for them. WWE is all about global domination and they have done it. So why not be about regional control.
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Post by SodaGuy on Sept 30, 2016 0:30:13 GMT -5
The iMPACT Zone is a loss each time might be true but so would running events in Nashville or Atlanta or whatever name someone wants to pull out of their hat. The location ain't the problem. The problem is nobody gives a big enough s*** about this company to spend money on them.
False. They were nearly selling out the Manhattan Center for 3 straight nights of tapings in NYC. I wouldnt try and run in Nashville or Atlanta either. They dont provide an advantage over Orlando area and are not in the hot bed of pro wrestling in the north east. Its more than just how many tickets are sold though...how much it costs vs. how much you can generate is more important. If TNA can only draw a house of 300 people but can make a 20% profit...thats better than drawing a house of 3000 and making a 2% profit. You're actually trying to argue that because they drew good crowds in 2014 that they're magically going to repeat the process in 2016? The simple fact of the matter is that TNA is going to lose money running live events in Orlando or New York or whatever city you're going to throw around as being the "hot bed of pro wrestling" because TNA is not a draw. Blaming the location is just passing the buck which is not what TNA needs to do. They're millions of dollars in debt with little ad revenue coming in and an inability to draw crowds that make running non-Orlando shows logical. They'd be just as ed in New York as they are in Orlando and there ain't no amount of breakfasts with Jeff Hardy or autograph sessions with Gail Kim or street teams that'll change any of that.
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Post by Rob on Sept 30, 2016 1:03:10 GMT -5
TNA should have went on the road and became a touring company in 09ish instead of blowing all their money/budget on Hogan and friends. That was their critical mistake. If Dixie Carter had a single clue on how to run a wrestling promotion, TNA would still be a thriving company instead of the depressing dark hole it is now.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2016 2:37:32 GMT -5
Can we bundle Dixie in to a crate a ship her off to OVW?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2016 3:59:12 GMT -5
TNA should have went on the road and became a touring company in 09ish instead of blowing all their money/budget on Hogan and friends. That was their critical mistake. If Dixie Carter had a single clue on how to run a wrestling promotion, TNA would still be a thriving company instead of the depressing dark hole it is now. Becoming a touring company was Hogan and Friends' idea and that's when everything started going downhill. Trying to go national in a futile attempt to compete with WWE was how they blew their budget.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2016 8:27:08 GMT -5
Oh look, Ditzy Dixie is ing things up again. How shocking. What an idiot. To be fair to her, the company has lasted for fourteen years based on nothing other than her ability to ask her parents for money. Without Dixie, TNA would have been dead a few months after it started. I know nothing about TNA really, but when was the time frame from when the Jarretts started TNA to when Dixie joined, or was she aboard from the beginning? Weren't the Jarretts involved for years?
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Post by tylerbreezee on Sept 30, 2016 8:57:44 GMT -5
To be fair to her, the company has lasted for fourteen years based on nothing other than her ability to ask her parents for money. Without Dixie, TNA would have been dead a few months after it started. I know nothing about TNA really, but when was the time frame from when the Jarretts started TNA to when Dixie joined, or was she aboard from the beginning? Weren't the Jarretts involved for years? Since it started
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Post by tg11 on Sept 30, 2016 11:08:22 GMT -5
I want WWE to buy TNA and I will tell you why? If only for the tape library but also because of the fact that if WWE does buy TNA then WWE superstars can actually mention TNA on screen
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2016 11:30:32 GMT -5
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Post by The Natural Eddy Valintino on Sept 30, 2016 11:31:09 GMT -5
I know nothing about TNA really, but when was the time frame from when the Jarretts started TNA to when Dixie joined, or was she aboard from the beginning? Weren't the Jarretts involved for years? Since it started Actually i think Dixie and Panda Energy came in on Octobet of 2002, a few months after Jeff and Jerry Jarrett started TNA
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Post by tylerbreezee on Sept 30, 2016 13:01:14 GMT -5
Actually i think Dixie and Panda Energy came in on Octobet of 2002, a few months after Jeff and Jerry Jarrett started TNA I just meant since the beginning as in within the first year they started
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Post by tylerbreezee on Sept 30, 2016 13:02:07 GMT -5
I want WWE to buy TNA and I will tell you why? If only for the tape library but also because of the fact that if WWE does buy TNA then WWE superstars can actually mention TNA on screen But there would be no reason to mention TNA considering it wouldn't be around anymore. They can mention it already, they just don't. They talk about other companies, but just don't for TNA and owning it won't make them bring it up either
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