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I agree with the business aspect. A lot of people now adays do not take in to account a lot of things that make one run. Being that I work at a craft store I talk to a lot of people that run their own businesses from Artist to chocolateteers, freelancers or just people that sell their cards on Etsy. From what I understand about business, its about your client base and what your product is. There is alot of investing that goes in a business and I think a lot of smaller sites neglect a few things. One that is to know who you are doing business with. I know never to go into business with my friends, unless I know they are all good with money and ideas with an excellent work ethic. They are not.

Two marketing. I think where tris went wrong was not having something identifiable other then the layering system and pg 17 content allowance. If I say Oliver or Gambino people who traffic those sites know who I am talking about. Right now other then Sebastian I am not sure the regular users know who the npcs are. Though I know a lot of thought as been put into Trisphees story line. It doesn't help that the site changes staffers frequently. The new ones have to be caught up to date quickly on the complex story line. But from a business aspect that limits the icons that trisphee can make marketable. I mean I can't cosplay as Zypher at a con and have people immediately identify me.

Marketing is not always about buying an Ad. I mean how often do we post on the Trisphee Facebook? Is the Facebook part of other networks, lets say if we like another site and we asked that site to like us in return? Is it possible for us to be a part of DA groups? Etc etc.
Edit: To me marketing is about networking. That is the long and short of it. It is too bad that many smaller sites are protective about their user base and users on say Roliana can not direct link to here and back and forth.


It is not just Tris that had this problem. I didn't really know who the npcs were on Crysandrea either and I can't see myself getting involved in another avatar website where I have to post and start from the beginning all over again. So I will not be joining places like Royal Creed and Syndrome. I have no heart for Midorea as well and that one at least has a battle system.

And if Kids really are the ones running the sites then I have a theory on that as well. It is my opinion kids today have no real value of money. I am not much out of the generaion gap but everything I own in life it is because I had to work for it. I couldn't just start a project and abandon it with out consequences and loosing the money I invested into it. I have also throughly investigated any project I know I want to take part in. For example I know if I want to run an Etsy, I know the cost of maintaing the images, doing the product I want to sell. How much it will cost me to print business cards to get traffic to my site. What my state sales tax is and that if I make over a certain amount I expect to pay 15% in federal taxes. I do not have to ask my parents for 100 dollars to do this, and if I fail its my own 100 dollars failing. A lot of youths to me do not know this. I watch them push buttons on their iPhones and spend about 50 dollars of their parents disposable income with a swipe of a pastic card just so their parents wont have to deal with them.

How can I expect some one that easily thinks money can from their parents to want to make money by making my site work?