Every marketing specialist will tell you that the #1 thing in business is to be visible. You can sell the best products with the lowest prices you won't get any customer if they don't hear about you.
Actually the SL market is ruled by traffic. Traffic is ruled by camping and camping ruled by money. There is one alternative which is the classified ads and it is ruled by money too.
So, basically if you are not going to throw a lot of Linden$ to get known your best luck is to sell your products on sites such as slexchange and onrez.com or rely on some fashion groups. This works fine, but only for shops, not if you have a club or another kind of place.
However, I am offering you another way to become visible. It is designed to be a good compromise between your interests, your customers interests and my interests. It is a network, so to become popular it has to be popular first. If nobody uses it then nobody will... use it. It sounds silly but its the truth.
So, what is the deal? It is very simple. You will get a board and there is a search engine.
Try the Search Places in SL and type "Wing" then "Wings".
I offer you a way to Bypass the Search Places function by providing a reliable search engine, you'll just have to type Win and you'll get everything! Furthemore you'll have an additional 128 letters description to add more keywords or a nice description.
You will to get evaluated by your customers along the following criterias: overall, crowd, camping, music, design, friendly and Shop of course. If your customers rank you as the best shop or your club with the best music why would they check your traffic, you will get residents come to your place. This is how you will beat the camping places, if you are the best you will get the best votes.
The survey system can be harsh. For instance I am a poor designer and I get my shop voted low on the design part. But it's fine I know it and I accept it. However you can choose to disable it completely (for instance if you are in the process of making a better shop). Residents passing by your land can take the survey any number of time they want.
Of course it can be gamed but the more residents will survey your land the harder it will be hard to game it since a resident can take a survey only once, but can change their mind and modify it anytime.
What do your customers get? Well they get power, since they will survey your land, they will get money since you can optionally reward them for their survey, they will find their products more easily through the search engine and as a bonus they will get a measure of lag at your place (close to 1 no lag, then going toward 0 if it is laggy). This you won't be able to hide it, it will be updated each time the board is touched. Again this can be very harsh but if your place is ranked very crowded it is perfectly normal that lag arises and residents have the right to know before they get stuck on a land.
What do I get? Well basically nothing you don't want to give me. I've included a donation sysem in the board. The top donators will be listed first on the site. Other than that it is free.
Finally, I'd like to mention that no place will be listed that didn't place the board. Also, the board will check that you have the land rights before registering. And finally the board doesn't scan for anything on your land, except through the touch menu and money system of course, there is no stealth data mining of any kind there.
The search engine can be looked at : www.slhotpop.com/infoparcels.php5, you can grab a copy of the latest board at Twisted Designs main shop: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Ceilostomo/160/52/88
It is actually under beta test, and you are welcome to participate and send feedback. Once all the bugs have been ironed and the final design made it will be launched for good.
Thank you for your attention
Twisted Pharaoh