Any Merchants Noticing a Drop in Sales This Week?

OMG, I have spent so much money this week while on that stupid hunt. Stupid, stupid hunt. Bad! Bad!


BAD!

I go to dollar store get a bag of 1.99 assorted candies.. and 2 gal bleach, scrubbing pads a an extension hand and some car wax.. thats my expenses for halloween..

They sell products costing $1.99 in a 'dollar' store?

Nup. My sales are rock-solid steady, at the same rate they've been for the last six months or so at least. Sorry to be the bearer of good news :-7 but doomsayers notwithstanding, stuff in my store is selling at least as well as it always has.

Speaking of Christmas, if I promise to be more of a help, want to run a Christmas grid wide hunt? *ducks before she gets hit*

If you havnn't seen any growth in your business for the last 6 months I wouldn't say that was good news for you.

Porky, you have a lot more experience in and knowledge of SL business than I, but I think holding steady over the past 6 months is pretty good. (My business is growing, but it's only 5 months old.)

Many business owners have a summer slump and SL's financial figures confirm that September was not good for SL businesses. I know several business owners who would love to have had the steady results that Nimbus reported.

Weak sales here. I think it's the U.S. elections rather than Halloween. I hope it's one of the two!

Inflation... Next thing you know they'll be selling freebies for L$1. (^_^)y

yes. BAD! i can never possibly wear all the clothes i bought. i don't even remember what i bought. my inventory increased by 2k. that is BAD!

I think that there are a huge lot of halloween promotions going on as well, and people are out hunting

I did about the same this month as last month, where until last month I had maintained steady growth. Well, so far that is...because I have already had a pretty nice return from shoppers coming by my store during the Gridwide Pumpkin Hunt, so todays sales might bring me up a bit.

I think making sure you get involved in or host events like this is a great opportunity.

Hmmm sounds like excusses for lazyness to me

Pull your fingers out of your arses get creating and promoting!

Why? The growth-at-all-costs economic model is a tad *cough* problematic, don't you think? I'm happy to continue steady-state, honestly. I have a constant stream of new and repeat customers buying my stuff. I suspect that to significantly increase my sales at this point, I'd need to significantly increase the amount of time I'm putting into my business... and since my business is a *part time* effort, that's not really gonna fly, since I do need to put some time into my RL work as well! If many other folk are reporting a downturn in sales, I'd say that keeping mine steady over that same time period is quite an achievement!

I have hasgreat sales he last few days, though interestingly not to many from my main store as I would hav thought becuase of the hunt i was involved in. Although it may change as epopel get through the items they collected and come bak to my store to try things out again maybe?

I also finally got around to joining and paying that 1000l fee for fashion consolidated, so I am interested to see what theresults of that will be when im added to be allowed to post to that group. With 10,000 members i am hoping i can at least make back the initial cost (around 20 sales for me). Anything more than that is a bonus YAY.

OMG your name rocks, did you ever kill her?

I am here to make money and I forget that other business owners are not purely driven by that. If I saw 0% growth over a 6 month period then alarms bells would be ringing for me. I cant identlfy with your satisfaction of having a stagnated business. This past weekend has been my best of this year. I sell prefabs not pumpkins by the way. So the customers are there. the money is there. Unfotunately the competition is also there and if you are not willing/skilled enough to step up and compete then you are gradually going to go from 0% growth into negative growth.

Tha majority of people here are 'part time'. I work 60 hrs a week in RL and spend about 20 hrs a week in SL. I earn more per hour for the time I invest in SL than i do in RL and have done for the past 2 years. You dont need to spend every second of your free time here, just focus purely on Quality rather than quantity. Try and create a few 'must have' items and market them well. Plenty of other people I know play SL as a hobby and still have thriving businesses today. They are just good at what they do.

Sales over the weekend were very good.. So pacing for me is about the same