Advice on Sales!!

*giggles* i came in on the recommendation of Amar, it's nice too see you all again, so glad ur all doing well in business and in SL

btw, it's Rhiannna

YES!! I've just re-named my sales board and even parts of the store. My store is really intimate [read small lol] and doesn't really have departments. I do suggest to folks that they show all hover tips on the View menu so one can read during rez too

Glad to see you in here- Belinda/Rhiannna.

As Rha is the Mother of the Undying Thread, you started this rolling and it snowballed. All of us have benefited greatly from all we have read here and implementing the advice given. For that thank you - now move over and share the popcorn!

it's good to be back, though would help if i actually spelt my old name correct wouldn't it lol, those damn fairys must be back *looks around for them*

I'm very very happy everyone is doing so well, i'll have to take some time and pop over to everyone's store. See what they are selling now ^^

*plonks back down onto the couch.. passing the popcorn to Amar*

Yum! popcorn for breakfast - we need a beer -!!!

look me up in world kiddo- SL is just grand

I'll get right on that Amar ^^

GREAT to see you back!!!!!!

/me does a blatant promotion of STEAM: The Hunt beginning Sept. 1. From looking at the website, there are some really cool items being given out. (And Amar is participating in this hunt as well!!)

waves...welcome back

As Amar said, I don't think any of us can thank you enough for starting this thread, I know we have all learnt a lot from each others experiences and formed some great friendships along the way too.

Hangs head in shame.....I have to admit I don't really know what SLU is....anybody care to enlighten me ?

huggsss with love to all
Rhia xx

No shame. What it is for me is a good source of info not found in the SL forums/blogs/ravings.

http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/virtual-business/8523-new-second-life-sims-past-17.html

I open to that particular page to keep abreast of Tyche's posting on sim changes.

http://www.sluniverse.com/php/ = SLUniverse .. Home of Snapzilla, Forum with Ad space available too

Thanks sweetie and again yvw lol. Glad i atleast did something good

Like everyone else said SLU is SL Universe

I'm sure it's been posted before, but does either of you have a link to the website? (I don't mind cutting and pasting.) I'm looking forward to seeing this particular hunt.

The website is:

http://steamhunt.blogspot.com/

The group to join for the hunt for clues and such is STEAM Hunt Punks.

AND.......the hunt begins in my store!!

Best luck with it Czari!

Thanks, Clarissa!

Well, it has been a couple of crazy weeks.

Two weeks ago I meant to go back and rework the XStreet listings to get more keywords in, and maybe sort out some of my other builds (few though there are) so I could put out a few more, ended up running all over the grid instead.

Last week I was under the weather, either low-grade sick or burned out from the running of the week before. Mooched around in the forums, but was hardly in-world. I did get sidetracked on a building project, but I'm not sure it will go anywhere.

This weekend I was feeling better, but pinched for L$ to cover my tier rental, so I spent hours hopping around the grid looking at 1024s and found a couple I thought I could fall in love with. Then I TPed home. Looking at my SL yard through the lens of real estate listings made me realize what a prime spot I have, and I fell in love with it all over again.

Checked my email to learn that the beloved club I hostess for, my SL home-away-from-home, is shutting its doors. I also spent some time reading one of the notecards Czari passed me from one of jojo's lectures - emphasizing the importance of an in-world location.

So... need for an inworld location... big piece of land that needs to start helping pay for itself... out of an SL job... sounds like time to think about setting up a store, and refocus on building stuff and building business. Funny how life works, isn't it?

ETA Czari, thanks for posting the link for the STEAM hunt - how exciting that it's starting in your store! You go, you!

Good on the bump up Nic

Sometimes, in both lives, things happen that seem they will be quite tragic or at least a hiccup and it turns out it was all for the best. I hope this joblesness in SL will turn out that way for you, Nic.


Now a little headsup, don't make my mistake sort of warning...

I made a little fireplace- first i have made, and i am darn happy with it- you can see it if you are curious on my blog page- anywa, i finally got the pix shot as i wanted them, my photo editing thing was giving me grief before, and i set the thing out for sale on XStreet. Had not finished setting up the additional pix when Bang! One got sold! OMG!!!! I am jumping out of my skin 'cause wow! ... I go back to check the commission and such... I uhm- neglected to put a price on it! So my first fireplace went out to one lucky Xstreet shopper as a freebie! Haha No biggie, I fixed the issue and maybe some one will think it worth the L's

Well time for an update from me again as well I guess.

Last time (I think) I mentioned that I acquired an animation store, selling full permission erotic animations. That happened to be quite a good buyout, as it generated good revenue Spent a lot of time re-packing and re-branding, and finally the move towards Zindra. Sold the 4096 mainland (for a stunning 2 linden per sqm), and now work from 4 parcels of 1024 sqm, double prim. Good trade I would think.

After a lot of testing with classified ads in SL, I decided not to use those anymore. For each of my 3 businesses I simply run a 50 linden ad so I can be found, but that's it. Paying several thousand linden for an ad simply does not pay of.

Different it is with XStreet. 3 of my animation packs I put up for Homepage Features, costing my about 9000 linden per month. Did my revenue a lot of good though, since the cheapest box is already 4000 linden, I break even pretty fast. Since all my items are listed under the same account, sales on my furniture are slightly improved as well on XStreet.

At the moment I am thinking about expanding my business a bit more, though I am not in a hurry (lack of time). Want to dedicate my HS sim to the plants business, and move the furniture to a sim of it's own (HS as well). So I am investigating the 3 options I have:
1 - renting a second HS sim.
2 - buying a mainland sim, sell my furniture from a platform, and use the ground leven for the plants.
3 - buying an island and do the same as in 2.

Now since the purchase price for mainland sims are still pretty high, that probably is not a viable option. Tier on a private island for me is 295 + 19% = 351 US$ which is a tad too much. It would simply put a hole in my profits, and I do not need the prims at all. So I just might open a second homestead sim one of these weeks, pretty kewl.

You're most welcome Now that I've finished my hunt item, I can relax until this evening when I set everything up in my shoppe.

Then I can relax some more and get some much neglected RL stuff done.

First hunt I have been excited about participating in as a hunter - I think tonight I shall give it a go. Got my gear all set up and ready to go last night. Good luck Czari- I understand there are some hichups from folks that may have dropped in the early ones. MY shop is no 97 and if that's the case- peeps may not mke it all the way thru. I am Using my daily alottment of adverts to make sure other tha tmay not have heard of it are aware.

Thanks, Amar - you too! *Blinks at 97* I had no idea there were that many stores participating.

I came back online last night at 10 pm SLT (2 hours prior to the start of the hunt) to put out my item and hint. I arrived to at least 5 people in the store and several arriving every few minutes. I told each one that the hunt didn't begin until midnight and tried to get my item hidden between arrivals. Whew!

161 people had come through the store when I read my visitor list this morning. I sat in the store for about 2 hours and greeted people as they arrived and there was a steady stream.

(I really have to make some more items and this would be a good time to set out my group joiner again.)

Q: what do you call an abrupt convexity or protuberance on a surface?




A: bump.

Hehe @ Rhonda!

The party was cool last night Czari, I saw you but didn't get beyond hello not sure if you even if you saw me greet- The lag was hurtful so we did find other venues - but wow! bunch of peeps did turn out

I started a couple locales this morning and will continue this evening - really lots and lots of fun! Haven't seen my traffic numbers - then again- I am sooooo far up the list who knows how long it will take foks to get there.

Someone should be heading your way very soon, Amara. I think you're about #74 or so? I saw someone in hunt group chat a few minutes ago saying they'd skipped ahead and were at #71.

Awesome! No 97 - I hope i didnt hide it too much!