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WCCW - END OF JANUARY, 1984 - MONTHLY REVIEW
POPULARITY
-Texas/Midsouth: 65.7% (Down from 66.1% last month)
-Midwest: 56.9% (Up from 55.9% last month)
-Southeast: 35.7% (up from 32.7% last month)
-Great Lakes: 33.2% (up from 31.6% last month)
-Mid Atlantic: 33.2% (up from 31.6% last month)
-New England: 33.2% (up from 31.6% last month)
-North West: 33.2% (up from 31.6% last month)
-Tri-State: 33.2% (up from 31.6% last month)
-Southwest: 33.1% (up from 31.5% last month)
-Puerto Rico: 32.0% (up from 30.4% last month)
It's going to be a LONG time before I approach the "National" size level for WCCW, but with national TV, pretty much any show I run, no matter the quality, is going to increase popularity in most regions of the country. Our fastest growing region is the southeast, where I'm running a couple of shows a month. Texas popularity dips after I thought I had leveled out there. If I'm ever going to get to national, I have to figure out a way to run B+/A- shows consistently ("National" status requires 71% in 8 of the US regions - that's about a B- in the game, but to actually improve popularity, you typically need to run a show that scores about 2 grades above that (i.e - B+).
FINANCES
Income (Last month in parenthesis):
Ticket Sales: 547,456 (614,450)
Sponsors: 77,813 (76,681)
Merchandise: 14,640 (12,400)
Expenses:
Worker Costs: 286,150 (239,079)
Show Costs: 106,500 (113,500)
Marketing: 25,000 (25,000)
Merchandise: 38,888 (35,864)
Production: 75,000 (75,000)
Misc: 159,491 (172,890)
Total Profit: $-51,120 ($42,198)
Cash in Bank: $870,981 (922,101)
-After the nice profit last month, I figured I could be a bit more loose on the budget after I figured out how to play around with ticket prices. But then this month, we lose 51k.
-Worker costs are getting to be a problem - this was easily the most money I've ever spent on talent. I'm in the process of trying to cut the roster a little bit, and run longer matches (and thus use less wrestlers per show).
-Ticket sales are down, but month-to-month changes in that area are more a product of how many shows I run in each different region. I'm going to continue to push the southeast to develop it as my clear #3 region, and those shows are going to be money losers.
-Still, I have plenty of cash - Fritz's year-long goal for me was not to dip below $225k - after I made $500k in profit my first two months in WCCW, I didn't have to worry about that any more. Fritz's new goals will come in a couple of months, once I'm a year into the dynasty. Depending on what he orders, it could be a whole new game starting then.
-I'm still annoyed I'm losing so much money on merchandise every month. I'm using the lowest merchandise settings, "standard" quality and "conservative production", so I guess that's just something I'll have to live with.
-It's nice to see the "misc." expenses finally starting to come down, after being at Cult level for several months now (There's a huge monthly "misc" expense that comes with raising size levels, but that amount slowly decreases every month)
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