Magdalena Siemens

Hey what about some advertising? There are advertising models on marketplace, plus you could use bloggers and have them write about your stuff.

I would like to add one more: Bann bannlines and have security orbs to give you at least 5 Minutes to leave!

Guys here another fun calculation: According to the Grid Survey website (data from LL) there is 1.4 Million USD changing hands on a daily basis in Second Life. There are about 900.000 monthly active users. That means every active user spends about 46 $ per month. Not a bad market place. http://www.gridsurvey.com/economy.php

Hello everybody just found an interesting article on the subject. Ebbe Altberg states that in just one year, a total of 60.000.000 $ (US) was cashed out of Second Life. Some folks must make a pretty good living of Second Life. He mentiones a fashion designer who allegedly sold 300.000 dresses at 4 $ each. http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/11/07/think-second-life-died-it-has-a-higher-gdp-than-some-countries/

Lasky Lets distinguish here between intention (profit, and you are quite right about that) and lack of quality. I actually sincerly believe that profit comes from either quality or outright spam. You seem to put anything that is primarily intented to make money in the spam corner. What is or is not quality is in the eye of the consumer. For example one of my publications is about slex. For many people the content is outright rubbish or even ofensive, others (more liberal or promiscous) people love it to bits. It depends on the targeted consumer. It is the same with RL media, people who love the peoples magazin are most likly different folks than people who read a science magazin. We covered the adult market very succesfull, but it has reached a point where it can not get much better (in traffic that is), the site occupies number 1 positions for every possible relevant keyword combination you can think of in that segment. So for further growth, we need to identify new markets and new markets require new topics. Somebody suggested role play as a topic. Yes true, its something I could write a lot. And yes I know much about it, and yes there is a market for it. There is just one little problem: I got bored of it. When a topic bores you, the content will suffer in terms of quality and frequency. Not a good start. I am not going to create something intellectual. I intend to create something fun and entertaining, which is why we came to SL in the first place. I shall rephrase my original question: Its not really the "famous" or the "celebrities" that are my main focus, its people that stand out of the crowd,even if that is within niches or communities.

Radium, You are off topic. I know my market pretty well and I know that most SL related blogs are kinda dead. That is mainly because the majority are not meant to be professional, but are setup for the writers and his/her friends enjoyment. Just for fun so to speak and there is nothing wrong with that either. Don't worry about my publications, I generate over 100.000 page views every month with them, so nothing to do with "the standart adwords blog". Ok back to topic: Do you have something to contribute to the topic? Are YOU a fan of a specific artist or designer in Second Life?

Laskya, what is wrong with that business model? The entire media industry works like that. There is absolutly nothing wrong with it. And yes I do care about the content, because quality and engaging content is what gets the visitors and keeps them. What made you feel I would not care? Just because I make an income from that?

Radium we did some successful puplications and some which failed to get audience, happens in the media business. The Gorean one was actually one of the very first years ago and was closed when the interest for Gorean RP dropped significantly in SL and became a very small niche. The most succesful one is (no surprises here) an adult one. Now we want to produce something more "clean" to run adsense adverts (which is not possible on adult content). @all Thanks for all the input, nice list to get started with. Anyone else is a fan of somebody and would like to get that person more audience (which comes with free publicity for their work as well)?

Thank you, nice one!

Well, Officially there are 5.500 Residents Cash Flow positive. I know at least 5 who make a living of their SL income. I am cash flow positive, but still have a RL job.

Seana Is there sombody, like a blogger or a designer YOU are a fan of?

Hello I am asking this question for the following reason: I am about to start a new blog about known people in Second Life. It will be something like the "People" Magazin but for virtual persona. I want write about them, their historie, their activities and complete the article with a small interview. To start with I need to know, who to write about, apart from the obvious ones (Anche, Torley). Therefore I would appreciate some pointers. It could be known business people, designers, bloggers, artists, models, porn stars anything and not only celebrities. In another words: Who are you a fan of?

preferbly with access to blake sea. Would consider Nautilus or Corsica waterfront preferbly with access to blake sea (direct or indirect). Alternatively would consider Bay City or souroundings. Anyone? Mag