Advice on Sales!!

Hi 3ring.
I saw this question, and realized I wasn't sure. I know that editing an object and looking at the creator of the prim is unaffected by the creator of a texture. (Otherwise, texture sellers would be barraged with IM's for customer support for random things made with their textures ALL the time.) I wasn't sure about the more>more> inspect feature though. I'd never thought about it.

I tried it out in world just now, and I don't see any evidence of the texture makers name even in the detailed "inspect" window.

Based on my test, it seems all clear. If, however, the texture was in the inventory of the prim then one could look at the creator of that texture.

I'm also not *certian* if one got the UUID of the texture used, that it would be impossible to back track to the original creator of a texture, but I think that would be pretty difficult for a typical user.

I'm also not sure the implications for clothes, as I don't make those.

3 ring.... i visited your mall just now... it is actually only a few sims away from my home sim The rez there does take a while. Longer than some but not awful. your fence took FOREVER to rez though. Dunno why. Once things had rezzed the lag was minimal

The overall feel of the mall is great and i LOVE the signs you use for rent this space... better than the normal boxes.

I would suggest blocking out those huge red for sales signs if you can. Also the path from the space with the koi pond through to th bit where u have mixed contributors and resale items?? if that was bigger it would be more obvious there are more shops there. I wouldnt have looked normally.

I don't know how effective I am being Mickey, my store is spread out over a whole sim with walkways for people to wander, or a teleport to let them cut to the chase and get right where they want. My store on Ramos Isle might be a better study case. I know what works for me selling animals, but I would no way presume that it would work for everyone, especially with the folks trying to make a name for themselves in the clothing biz.

I hope everyone doesn't mind, but I've spent a bit of time combing this thread and putting everything together - all the useful tips and links, and the info from merchants asking for help - into a document that everyone can reference, here:

http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfz3dk33_0d2dvsbgx&hl=en

If I've missed anyone out, please let me know. I know that I did miss at least one name out (Jojogirl Bailey) but that's because I'm not inworld right now and can't search for your store, Jojogirl. If you can give the SLurl out, then I'll add it to the list.

Also, if any of you have additional info (SLX/onrez webstore links, inworld locations, blog URLs etc) that aren't on the page, please let me know here and I'll amend your section on the page.

I thought this might be a good chance for all of us to see what others are doing to promote their work, so if you can see someone has a blog and you don't have one, you might want to create one, etc.

Secondly, I can't remember who suggested it, but there was mention of promoting each others' work, followed by mention of being confused by that kind of thing happening in another store, so here is my suggestion for that:

Has anyone visited Lemon Island recently? It's where Bewitched Hair and many other stores are. Each store on the island sends out a regular notecard newsletter to its groups, wherein *all* the designers on the island write about their latest creations and include SLurls and images.

Many of us haven't created a group for our customers, but I wonder about creating our own kiosk (doesn't need to be anything fancy; just a one-prim kiosk design with a notecard-giver script in it) that each of us can place at our stores. Inside it we could place a similar newsletter kind of notecard to the one used by the Lemon Island group, wherein all of us in this group write about and include images of our latest creations. The frequency would need to be decided upon (I'd go with every other week, or even monthly).

Thoughts and further suggestions on that?

Also, the notecarding idea I had earlier (glad you all like it! *g*) can be used to archive full-perm versions of your designs, either for saving in your own inventory or sending off to a mule alt as backup (or both).

Finally, as an inworld group, I wonder if it might be an idea to create a wiki for our reviews. Each of our stores can have its own page on the wiki, and whenever one of us visits another's store we can edit the wiki page to include our reviews. There are several online wikis out there that allow editing only by specified people (usually by login name) so it's another thought. Wikis are a fluid thing, many of them have pages like the front page on Wikipedia, where updates can be given and latest edits highlighted, so we could all check out who's been where and said what.

Right, It's 3pm and I've not even eaten today. I need coffee and food. Back later!

I like the visiting each other on a regular basis- Mickey- And yes- if we could all do the notecard thing for the group members (Come on - if you haven't joined - do it now!) We can help each other out a long way! OK_ I want notecards from every one- I will set u a thing tonight or as immediately as possible

And if one of us already knows how to build this thing- please donate it to the members so we can each add our cards- our- maybe one person could volunteer to do them and hand the kiosk out to all members?

My picks has my store first {followed by my loves } then another pick of another favorite store.

I would love it if we had a picture album thingie in profiles- sorry- different thread for wishes.

3- I will resend tonight- but you can join on your own search for the group Bix Owner Network.

I have not even thought of sending the video url to the group! I shall do that- my group i mean- not ours- don't want to spam- 3- I will resend tonight- but you can join on your own search for the group Bix Owner Network.

Mickey- I saw u had im'ed me- but i went in thru Ajax life and i think i lost your im- sorry -please re-do?

Oh geez...why is it that when I plug in 3 very specific words into group search...Biz Owners Network....a ton of pages come up that don't even have that in their title???? What's up with that? That's not the first time I've had that problem finding a group.

Could someone please send me an invite? Thanks.

use it in quotes. "Biz Owners Network" Without quotes, it is looking for anything with those 3 words in it.

Early on Michael said not to rely on Onrez. I have to agree. Although I have dogs and cats and assorted animated wildlife listed on both, I don't make enough sales through Onrez to matter. I will have spurts with Slex...several sales there a day, then nothing for days.