Archive for the 'Setting Up Shop' Category

Setting Up Shop: Part 4 - Creating Sales Posters & Delivery Boxes

19 September, 2008

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.

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Setting Up Shop: Part 3 - Selling Your Creations

27 August, 2008

There are two main ways of selling your items, either via a simple box, or via a vendor system such as JEVN or hippoVEND. Obviously the vendor system is more expensive, as you would need to buy the vendor system you wish to use. However, the main advantage that a vendor has over a simple box, is that if SL is having problems and not delivering items, it is easy to spot if an item was not delivered and redeliver the purchased item.

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Setting Up Shop: Part 2 - Pricing

3 August, 2008

Selling anything in SL has similarities to selling in RL. So it’s useful to research the market you’re entering, whether that be simply wandering around SL looking at similar items for sale, or doing a more thorough market research. Think about the following:

  • What type of items are people selling in the market you wish to enter?
  • What type of extras do they have? (Be that freebies, menu systems, script enhancements that make it easier to modify the item…)
  • What permissions do others typically set on their items? (Modify, copy or transfer.)
  • What prices to they charge for items?

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Setting Up Shop: Part 1 - Your Shop

21 July, 2008

There are three main places where you can sell items which you have created for SL:

SL Exchange charges anywhere between 3% - 5% for each item sold through it’s website and charges for featured listings, where as Onrez charges for featured listings but doesn’t charge any fees for selling the items. If you wish to find out more about these websites click on the links above.

For the remainder of this post, I will discuss selling items in world.

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