I'm really sorry, I don't mean to bash because I know it takes guts and money to start a business and I admire that you had the courage to do this in today's economy, but I ran across this thread in your forums:

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Help Us Choose a Tagline

OK here are some options for the Kachoozie Tagline, we need you help deciding:

"Let your Kachoozie Flow"
"When you say Kachoozie, you've said it all!"
"I wish I was a Kachoozie!"

I suppose you were going with something clever that people will remember with the Kachoozie name, and I sincerely hope that will work for you. And if you succeed and your site takes off, I will eat my words and apply for membership. But personally, and this is offered as constructive criticism, you by all means can take or leave...I think it's WAY too cutesy and does not impart any feeling of seriousness or trust for me. Again, IMHO. But that's just me.

You are the same poster as corareed correct?

Well how are your other sites Doggyhats.com and embroideredtreasures.com doing?

Looks like the kachoo people are Do ANYthing for a Buck. Yeah, selling stock photos must be really easy so let's try it...

To Trunion - so how are things on E Hale St? See, you're not that hard to track down. Just about 5 minutes of internet sleuthing. Nice swimming pool in the yard BTW.

Wow, you are really good! No not anything for a buck since I have not made any money on those, I wish we could claim we made some money on that, but  we ended up killing those, that was a business my wife and I worked on about ten years ago, we had an embroidery business, and that was a really hard business to get going, not to mention, it is very hard to work with your spouse, so fast forward ten years, we have decided to give it a go again, I would like to think I have matured and working with the wife is all good, we have been married for 20 years now, and the doggyhats thing just was not worth it, since it almost cost us our marriage. We are working together again, and things are going well, she is helping out a bunch.

Just so you know we don't live on Hale anymore , and have not lived there for some time, if it is really important to you, I would be happy to meet you for coffee anytime, so just drop a line, and I am there! Well maybe not since you are in Buffalo NY. Trust me selling stock photos is not easy, if you think it is , you might want to give it a shot!

Hello there, I wish I had found this before,but none the less, I just got the Google alert for it, and I also had someone send me an email about it.

First off I must say I really appreciate the extra traffic you have sent the site, since this thread has gotten a ton of views, and by the emails I get, telling me about it, those views are converting to contributors and buyers, so thanks for that!

Having said that I think the original poster should really take some time to think about what goes on behind the face of a website, if it isn't obvious yet, I am the owner operator of the Kachoozie site. While you might think is is humorous to bash a site, I hardly find it humorous, since I have spent a ton of money, and have put allot of time and sweat equity into the site! I basically work night and day on my sites, and try to put a quality product together, and provide the people I deal with, a pleasant experience. I also operate the business with integrity. One poster has pointed out there is a po box associated with the site, that is because we work from home and don't want our home address on the Internet, I am sure you all can appreciate that.

Just some background on this, Kachoozie is a small business that I have funded out of pocket, and I am so sorry but I simply do not have the high dollar budget, that other sites have. We had a developer who we originally hired and had the site built, paid them half down, only to have the original site never get finished, so we moved on to another developer, only to have the same thing happen, luckily that time, I had placed the money in escrow, and was able to get a refund. So while you may think ktools is a joke, I must tell you that script has proven to be pretty awesome, and the support from the company is fantastic. We did have to do a bunch of customization, to make it look good, but overall the site has come along way since the original post. Again, while you may think there are huge companies behind sites on the Internet, the company consists of my wife and myself, we even have the kids help on occasion.

As far as trusting your photos to us, we have remained committed to the site and project, even in this tough economy, unlike others who fail or cease operations and just keep your money.  I was with Lucky Oliver and they ceased, and basically said if you want to use what earnings are in your account we wont pay you but we will let you buy some other peoples images. We are actually going to change the tagline to the best stock photo site on the planet, and here's why, we pay 70/30 so the contributor gets 70% as opposed to 50% or less. We also pay out earnings within a month not hold the contributor hostage until some minimum amount is reached. That is the real reason I started the site since I felt the big dawgs take advantage in allot of way.

Logo- hmm, in the feedback program that we have done ( the participants that were involved can be found on kachoozie.net) everyone really liked the logo, I can't remember if we had the Monkey last May, but it has been a hit so far.

Finally, again I want to thank everyone again here so much for sending traffic, please do continue to do so, you know what they say any publicity is better than none at all.

Please be sure and have a Kachoozie day!!!!!

PS- one final thought , the original poster is from Denver, and that is my home town, I just want to apologize, if I picked on you in school, or stepped on your foot or something in passing, hey you never know it could have happend! ;}

Have a great day ! -ter