Originally Posted By: musiclover
Good luck with site Pat.

thanks! I'm sure we'll need it... statistically new businesses fail about 100 times more often than they succeed... but overhead is significantly lower for a digital service business than it is for a brick and mortar business with physical inventory, so.... (fingers crossed...)

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To be honest I always considered SJ a dead site anyways, most of the times I checked nobody on it broadcasting.

I understand your thoughts on that... although I see it a bit differently. Starting from scratch, a business like this can't possibly jump from no activity to 24-7 coverage. There are too many obstacles, plus in this age of entertainment overload, there are many many other sites competing for the same customers.

With any business that builds momentum, you have to define success differently at the various stages of the project. The first success is when the web site works as advertised. The second success is when you get some customers who like it and make some kind of commitment to it, either as performers or as audience. The third success is in growing the base... and that's where the other site is right now. I consider them to be one of the successful contenders because they are actively working the business, and it *IS* growing. Even on a mature medium like TV, MOST of the day there's nothing on that I want to watch.. maybe an hour a day of interest to me.. usually less.

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Now if there has been recorded highlights or something would have brightened it up a bit.

I agree.... we will be mining that idea for every nugget of usefulness we can find...

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I never even signed up to it, though did see you in chat room once.
Sites like this are a form of social media, and I think it is true of all such sites that you can't fake being social. You have to show up and interact, become part of the scene. That's why you see most of the performers on such sites also showing up in the audience. At first it is the music that interests you... but eventually it is the people... and that's when it becomes most compelling


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Sure they can't ban you, big deal...lol....just sign up with a different email and name.

Musiclover


not entirely true... most people don't just ban a login name... they restrict that IP address from accessing the site. I would need more than a new login.. I'd need to log in from a different ISP account. And even if I did that, there is that small matter of being a live video concept, and they know what I look like.

But, no big deal. If getting booted from a web site is the worst thing that happens to me this year, life is good!

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