Business Boom!!!!!

So who is cashing in on all the new users flowing into SL? Has your business been booming lately?

I expect that clothiers, furniture stores, landlords, and Animators are raking it.

Personally, my sales have been quite low since Christmas. I'm hoping that the Summer will be a more prosperous time.

Could it be, even the freebie reselling Queen of SL is having to deal with competition? Must be some awfully small slices of pie being fought over in that "market".

I'm doing ok.

TBH, I've noticed there is usually a 2-3 week lag period between large numbers of new users and a noticible influx of sales.

Anyone else experience this?

Makes sense. The new users need to lean what they CAN do before they go off to do it. Most probabaly get to the first sim after tutorial island and think that's all there is. They'll socialize, and slow, inevitably, knowledge of what else is out there will get to them. If you notice a 2-3 week period, that's probabaly the point at which the knowledge hits a saturation point high enough where they will go out looking for stuff to spend their L$ on. (+ or - time to figure out how to buy more L$)

I know when I made my first account, SL was very daunting. I actually gave up on SL for over a year and a half. Then I decided to give it another try with this account. This tie, however, I had a "First Step" to follow (Furnation SkyMall). Once that step was made, it all snowballed from there, and I'm delightfully hooked and have spent quite a bit of L$.

Wow! This sounds just like my story! I too signed in as a newbie and found it daunting, and then stopped playing for about 6 months. When I returned, I then figured what business I wanted to go into. Real estate!

Currently, my homes are renting almost as fast as I can put them up or reset them. This sometimes causes me not to be able to advertise as it gets way to busy when I do.

My business never has been actually good. Lately it's been soooo bad I finally just packed it in.

I've had a huge business boom over the past week-- only thing I can think to attribute it to is new users thus more consumers.

If anything, a little worse but definitely not better.

Any other ancedotes?

The thing I find weird is that my sales always seem fast and furious or no-existent - meaning I will sell 20 items one week and then nothing the next. I don't seem to do anything different...

There seems to be little pattern to it besides a rise at weekends.

I've actually found for the last week and a half that my business volume has nearly doubled. I'm not really sure what to attribute to it, as I've done alot of things. But it is indeed possible that the larger amount of new users could have something to do with it.

I find the best sales are on Holidays or during December. There's just no Holidays this time of year. Sales seem a bit slower than January or December even though I have many more items on sale. I also find it strange I could sell 20 items one day and then only a few the next day. It doesn't even matter what day of the week it is. Back in January, the weekends were always the biggest days. Now I'm not sure. It seems Monday is the busiest day, but not always. But why Monday?
I did notice that sometimes sales go up if the value on the Lindex drops a lot for the buyers.

Fact:

I'm still trying to investigate this, and I'm a fair piece still from working over the ethics of it.

How is it you have access to that privateMy sales are invariably variable. Steadily unsteady. Something like that!

But it all seems to average out.

My biggest day may be Tuesday.

coco

The Business Week article seems like it is RIGHT on the verge of starting somewhat of a "Golden Age" for MSE and Cyberland. I'm getting daily IMs about the article from friends and strangers alike. Many of them are new residents who joined after reading the article.

We're currently exploring all of the avenues available to us, which will allow us to best capitalize on what we've labeled "The Business Week Effect". I really wasn't expecting for it to light as much of a fire under us as it has, and the timing couldn't have been better. It seems like everyone knows who we are and what we do now, and that is going to translate into more people wanting to be involved as clients and/or investors. Business BOOM? I'll agree!

My monthly profits have been a fairly level since January - though I saw a noticable surge this Saturday (takings on Saturday were ~16k ...something closer to 10k/day is more typical for me on a weekend). Makes me wonder if Friday + Sunday would have been similar, were it not for the service outages.

Jamie just wants to know what businesses are booming so she can get into them next.

I'm already committed to entering the pre-fab market. That should take up the rest of my time through Fiscal 06.

There's always a retail slump between Valentine's Day and summer vacation -- it usually picks up a bit during the summer before going back into full gear during the fall...

I would speculate you are right, but what about the new influx of SL's huddled masses? There are so many people coming into SL right now that I would think that would offset any traditional sales weakness.

As Fishbone sang:

Everyday is sunshine.

I've been having a roaring month selling reappropriated av skins to noobs these past few weeks. Didn't know making money was this easy.