I decided to start a thread with hopefully a more positive tone. I can't see many people being guilt-tripped into spending money, but perhaps some can be. I don't know.
So for anyone who has positive feedback or ideas on how to get people to support TAR, here's your chance to do so.
I'll start. I watched some of the free stream, and didn't buy the women's PPV, so I guess I qualify as one of the 950 "cheap bastards" whose "mama wouldn't give him 10 bucks" for TAR. LOL.
Personally, I was busy last night, among other things, playing pool. Imagine that. LOL. I did watch some of the free stuff on previous nights, but due to working an 8-5 job, I could only watch a very small fraction of it. That said, I did watch longer than I meant to, which brings me to my first idea....
Does the streaming company support some kind of a preview? I think that if viewers could log in for free for say, the first 15 minutes, they might get hooked and decide to shell out the cash when they get cut off. Or, perhaps the first 5 minutes of every hour. This functionality may not be possible, but if it is, I think it would help. Give them a taste, and they'll want to keep eating. Even if the pay stream site doesn't support this, maybe there's a way to air a few minutes on BOTH sites (free and paid) at the beginning, and then yank the free one when they want the preview to end.
Next idea: during the PPV, put up some kind of message on the free stream site to point people over to the PPV. If it's possible for the chatroom mods to make an automated chat message? If "theactionreport" screen name could automatically post a message, say, every 60 seconds, that could be a nice ad to help bring people out of the free chat and into the PPV stream. Something like, "We hope you're enjoying the streaming. Please support TAR by joining us for this first of it's kind Women's All Around <etc>". For all I know, some of those people may not have even realized that there was a PPV going on.
Third idea: Tell the commentators to hype the PPV's during the free streams, including the day and time that it will be aired. Maybe they did this, I don't know, but during the short times that I watched, I can't remember hearing anything about the PPV's. I think this was especially important since the match got postponed from it's original time.
Those are all my ideas for now. OK, not Earth shattering ideas, but maybe they could help a little.
I've bought TAR PPV's in the past, and I will in the future. The SVB/Hopkins Last Pocket 8-Ball tonight at 8pm EST sounds very enticing.
One last thing, I just want to say that TAR is doing a hell of a job, and I do agree that we should support them. Let's face it though, only so many people are going to donate based on they got for free. So, let's continue to help promote TAR so that people will BUY their product!
Thanks, Action Report. Keep up the good work!
EDIT: Edited to correct the starting time of tonight's 8-ball PPV.
So for anyone who has positive feedback or ideas on how to get people to support TAR, here's your chance to do so.
I'll start. I watched some of the free stream, and didn't buy the women's PPV, so I guess I qualify as one of the 950 "cheap bastards" whose "mama wouldn't give him 10 bucks" for TAR. LOL.
Personally, I was busy last night, among other things, playing pool. Imagine that. LOL. I did watch some of the free stuff on previous nights, but due to working an 8-5 job, I could only watch a very small fraction of it. That said, I did watch longer than I meant to, which brings me to my first idea....
Does the streaming company support some kind of a preview? I think that if viewers could log in for free for say, the first 15 minutes, they might get hooked and decide to shell out the cash when they get cut off. Or, perhaps the first 5 minutes of every hour. This functionality may not be possible, but if it is, I think it would help. Give them a taste, and they'll want to keep eating. Even if the pay stream site doesn't support this, maybe there's a way to air a few minutes on BOTH sites (free and paid) at the beginning, and then yank the free one when they want the preview to end.
Next idea: during the PPV, put up some kind of message on the free stream site to point people over to the PPV. If it's possible for the chatroom mods to make an automated chat message? If "theactionreport" screen name could automatically post a message, say, every 60 seconds, that could be a nice ad to help bring people out of the free chat and into the PPV stream. Something like, "We hope you're enjoying the streaming. Please support TAR by joining us for this first of it's kind Women's All Around <etc>". For all I know, some of those people may not have even realized that there was a PPV going on.
Third idea: Tell the commentators to hype the PPV's during the free streams, including the day and time that it will be aired. Maybe they did this, I don't know, but during the short times that I watched, I can't remember hearing anything about the PPV's. I think this was especially important since the match got postponed from it's original time.
Those are all my ideas for now. OK, not Earth shattering ideas, but maybe they could help a little.
I've bought TAR PPV's in the past, and I will in the future. The SVB/Hopkins Last Pocket 8-Ball tonight at 8pm EST sounds very enticing.
One last thing, I just want to say that TAR is doing a hell of a job, and I do agree that we should support them. Let's face it though, only so many people are going to donate based on they got for free. So, let's continue to help promote TAR so that people will BUY their product!
Thanks, Action Report. Keep up the good work!
EDIT: Edited to correct the starting time of tonight's 8-ball PPV.
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