Creating suitable sales posters (that are either used on your sales boxes or vendors) along with a good shop location and suitable pricing will help sell your products.

Sales Posters

What is the most important information that you want to get across to your potential customers when they are looking at the sales posters for your products?

Information that you might like to include could be:

  • Name of item.
  • Name of creator.
  • Price (although this could be left as a mouseover hover).
  • Images of your item from different angles depending upon the design.
  • Whether the item has mod/copy/transfer capabilities.
  • What’s included with the item. (When just selling clothes it is a good idea to make it clear that any hair, shape, shoes etc that the model may also be wearing in the picture is not included in the outfit.)

If you are selling clothes, you might like to invest some money in your avatar so that they have nice hair, shoes, shape, skin and model poses to show off your creations to their best advantage.

Tip #9: Create any images (width and height) in multiples or subdivisions of 512px, as SL will otherwise resize them, and stretch them if they’re not in a 512px multiple.

Pink Summer Wear #1 (Poster)

I prefer not to put the cost of the outfit on the poster, and have it as a mouseover hover as I tend to change the prices depending upon how well an item sells. So if I had the price on the poster, each time I changed the price of an item, I would have to redo the sales poster and upload it again at a price of L$10, which obviously costs me time and money to do.

Delivery Boxes

Delivery boxes are the objects that contain your items that are given to a customer when they make a purchase. A delivery box can be as simple as a box with the name or logo of the shop, or have an image of the contents on the box. The delivery box can be made to look more like a shopping bag, or in it’s most sophisticated form, be an elegant and beautiful item in it’s own right e.g. like the dragon eggs that contain Daryth Kennedy’s dragons which are sold in Cathedral (which is part of the Isle of Wyrms).

Delivery Box (Simple) Delivery Box (Complicated)

There are two things to be aware of if you make a complicated looking delivery box:

  • If it is made out of quite a few prims, your customers might have difficulty in opening your delivery box to obtain the contents that they have purchased. In Daryth Kennedy’s case, she provides a sandpit which allows any customers to be able to rez their egg to open the contents.
  • If you don’t have a touch-open script on your delivery box that immediately opens the contents when a customer clicks on it they may not realise that it is actually a delivery box. If the customer speaks the same language as you, then you can explain that it is a delivery box and what they need to do in order to obtain the item they purchased from it. However, in SL there are people who may purchase your items who don’t speak a common language with you and trying to explain that what they have rezzed is a delivery box and the item they brought is inside it, is not so easy to do.