I clicked the link and my eyes literally hurt from the brightness, and I immediately shut it down.

I thought they were going to try to open a physical store and or co-brand with another company. The previous site was better in just about every facet, including being more connected to the product they are actually attempting to sell. I can't see many, if any, going to the site and dealing with it beyond their YT fan base.

Not being a "hater", just giving an honest assessment as a general internet user.

I've seen better designed sites on Angelfire and Geocities in '97. It's not even mobile optimized.

There's literally free, fool-proof ways of making professional shopping sites by just following tutorials and using templates. In 100% of site building platforms, there's the ability to preview the finished design in desktop and mobile browsers.

How can they think this looks good? Were they hacked, maybe?

Any chance they've never looked at the customer facing site post publishing and just refresh the backend waiting for views and sales? I have so many questions.

Their site is on Shopify and is a drag and drop free template. They put in the minimal effort.

i never watch his vlogs, but based off what you guys say about him, i imagine they intentionally deviated away from all the suggested templates offered because they wanted to "do it their way"

Also: You do not want to use the color blue as your background color,
as blue is an appetite suppressing color.
The SPRKLi homepage is atrocious.

I mean, just get one of the thousands free clean ****ing WordPress templates.

What a moron.

Edit:

Took me 2 secs to find this:

https://gracethemes.com/product-cate...dpress-themes/

I almost said the same thing. My eyes hurt looking at it.

He is going to do it HIS way though, and get results like this:

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/s...ostcount=10401

Btw this is why we should believe he is honest.

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/s...ostcount=10606

So if he screws someone else over instead, we should think he is honest?

1400 hours of live poker seems like an awful lot to me, especially at live 1-2. I’d say if you aren’t doing well then, it’s because you have a lot of leaks in your game. I also think it’s incredibly commendable to admit this and improve, and not very good to chalk up 1400 hours of live 1-2, especially Vegas live 1-2, to variance. There is something to be said if it’s like these Texas games like dream crusher described where they are very deep but even then, 1400 hours, that’s gonna be your winrate at 1-2 or very close to it, unless you’ve improved a lot during that time or something

So the reason why Sprkli was down was because they were redesigning the website? That's what all the secretive mysterious talk was about that they were alluding to in the Costco vlog? Had nothing to do with them legitimizing their business? Absolutely hilarious!

8 minutes to break down the concept of rake with visual aids as always. The way he talks it's like he's explaining something really complicated to a little kid and so he has to dumb it down and talk really slowly, repeating everything multiple times so that they get the message.

Then you go to the comments section and you see everyone complimenting him on a very educational and informative video. So he obviously knows his target audience. You cant make this stuff up!

Was thinking the same thing, what a complete joke and just absolutely classic Trooper-hyping up stuff that isnt even noteworthy.

IIRC, he declined a Cali trip with Lady Trooper cause he was busy in the lab designing Go Gamble's website. All the time working on it and he releases that horribly designed site.

Then he takes down the Sprkli website for a redesign and released what we see now.

So it's pretty clear that these iterations of these two self created sites is what he likes and thinks looks best.

Not surprisingly, this translates into his life and his poker play. You can't improve your poker play if you think you are actually playing well and making good plays, kinda like Pman's poker game.

Do you know how many 6+ hour sessions of poker I've played where I felt like I played a perfect session, with no mistakes? Maybe 1% of my sessions. I could always self analyze and immediately find hands I could have played better. And I always assumed I probably played hands bad that I wasn't currently good enough to see as well. That's how you improve your game.

Trooper is too hard headed to take constructive criticism. He thinks everything he does is great.

You have to remember that Sprkli started out as a company that sold jewelry. Christina transitioned to lollipops at some point, but for a while the site sold both pops and jewelry items. Then she stopped making jewelry and added brittle and rocks to the lineup.

I used to work in branding and advertising, and Sprkli is an absolutely horrible name for a food brand. It makes me think of a dental hygiene product or a dishwashing detergent. She'd be better of calling it Christina's Treats or Lady Trooper's Kitchen.

The butterfly logo also has nothing to do with a food brand or a candy brand specifically. The beauty shot of planet Earth as seen from space, with the sun sparkling over the horizon, also has nothing to do with a food brand (or with the butterfly). Does this company make satellites or have something to do with astronauts or a space station?

Clearly, the owners of this company don't know the first thing about branding or graphic design and didn't have the money to hire professionals.

As for the rest of the site, where is the About Us page? Or the Mission and Values page? Who started this company? What's their vision and philosophy? Nobody knows.

The site's biggest flaw, of course, is its lack of functionality. I can put items in my shopping cart but I can't check out. That is simply unforgivable.

Good post, and so so true everyting here. I wonder how much their business would grow if they did all these things you mention in a better more appropriate way.

Exactly.
Even on days I absolutely run like dog **** somewhere in there is a hand I could have played better. I might go 0 for 8 in all ins and have played all of those hands well but somewhere there is a mistake that I could actually control even if it was only a 50 dollar mistake on a day I lost 10k.

And yea website and name are both atrocious.

On Thanksgiving, please remember to give thanks that Little Timmy educates us on world events and politics via his Twitter feed. I can't think of anyone more qualified to provide advice and commentary.

they sell lollipops, buddy

jeez

I can't wait for the sprkli myspace page launch.

I got thing about nomad is he answers alot of youtube questions.

How will I know if they support social causes?

They can still write a bit about who they are, what their story is, why lollipops etc. This is just completely standard stuff to make a connection with new customers and get them to support you. Much better than inages of butterflies in space which makes you think the candy may be laced with LSD!

On a separate note you could probably ask AI to make a website with appropriate branding for a candy company and the results would be much better than what Trooper has spewed out one of his orifices.

Yeah, as you say so standard as you can possibly get it. To be able to just jump hurdles over these things you just have to be beyond amateur level,or being the Hamster97 in charge.

The Troops ain't no libtard socialists and don't believe in handouts.

(Unless it's a freeroll for WSOP events or giftcards for food & coffee)

She made the jewelry? I thought she just bought it from wholesalers and re-sold it. There's a whole "thing" about opening websites and reselling wholesale crap. It only works for girls for a couple reasons - they're the only ones that buy that cheap crap, AND they're the only ones who knows which cheap crap will actually sell.

I think you know why those pages are missing, but if you want to know that stuff, just watch all the old trooper videos.