To be way back in second TNA had better become more fan friendly and start kissing some butt. I went to the show in Charlottesville, VA last night and honestly I probably would not go back again. This is basically the Mick Foley "Take your picture with a Legend" tour. He grossed more taking pictures than TNA did in ticket sales.
 
What dissapoints me is they have some talent but they have no clue what they are doing with it. Some of the matches were okay, some of the talent works the crowd well, heels were great making fun of the locals, faces were good at building up crowd participation but the product is crap. If TNA stands for "Total Nonstop Action" then why did I have to sit there for 20 minutes for a mid card intermission?
 
They need to go back to meet and greets before/after the show. All of the wrestlers need to reach out to the fans and not just a select 5. Only a couple made a real effort to sign for the fans or take pictures. I know this isn't "WERSTLING" but they need to sell themselves better. Samoa "Twinkie" Joe didn't make an attempt to sign anything, no bad guy wrestlers attempted to sign anything. There was alot of cussing and flipping the bird and such as well as The Motor City Machine Guns pulling down Sonjay Dutts tights and he never attempted to even pull them up so everyone had to look as his bare a$$ for 5 minutes till the match ended, full moon not a crack shot. Great family entertainment. Plus the chant "Joe's going to kill you" sounds great coming from a group of 5 year olds. Much props to TNA.
 
I'm not against being edgy but don't bill yourself as "fan friendly" or "family oriented". Does Jeff Jarrett want Sonjay Dutt's bare a$$ around his daughters?  
 
Just one man's opinion and to answer your question I have no idea how they make money but without changes I see where they are headed.

My issues are that when the card for Norfolk was announced right down to the billboards in front of Wal-Mart and downtown the stars of the show were A.J. , Joe , Nash , and Angle , outside of Nash everyone should have been there of the four only Joe was. Our set up was half the arena and only floor and bleacher seats but those seats were 50% empty. Of course the day of the show all tickets dropped $10 to slap our faces for paying full price. Just like the ppv in NC where the password got you 4 tickets for free plus service charge. They are so WCW 1991 and WCW at the end it is scary. Did So Cal Val fall off the face of the earth after that horrible storyline?
Abyss = Kane
M.E.M. = N.W.O.
Fake Muta = Great Muta
Shark Boy = Stone Cold
Jay Lethal = Randy Savage
Joe = Tazz  
TNA Jeff Jarrett pushed by Russo = WCW Jeff Jarrett pushed by Russo
I do like the Angle , Booker , Foley photo opps after the shows in the ring , but it is stars they got but did not create , they again are taking what WCW did ,  pushing stars from elsewhere to the moon at the expense of homegrown talent.

I wish they would go back to actually more wrestling less talk. The PPV in Charlotte was not good at all.