Tamara Artis

There is something about it but I have no idea what... one of my friends got her account on hold after she gave the password to her SL bf to login on her account and do something when she couldn't. She had to prove the account was still in her possession and was not stolen. Another friend got banned because he couldn't prove it was his account, he traveled to States from London and was logging from his laptop. In email he received from LL was said that his logins are recorded in several states and because of that they have reason to believe it got stolen or something.

Thats a good thing lol, you have to delete them anyway so now you have a good reason. You can set a date range while searching in your inventory and also the type of item. Don't give up!

Interesting.... I loved to go on the beta grid and work in peace and since I play more I planned to change password and go there again, seems that won't happen! But i wanted to ask you something else... what is "Photo Ops LANDMARKS" you mention? I am making a list of sims where you can rezz shooting props and asking everyone for theirs, if you can contribute that would be awesome!

2 years ago I published an article on my wordpress with the list of sims we can use for photoshoots - that allow rezzing. It was probably close to 50 sims, recently a friend asked if I know any and I sent him the link... He said most places are gone by now so I feel bad to link the list here but maybe we could all post in this thread and make a new list? I know Wastelands, Black Kite, Shiromani sandbox....

Maybe you can use the teleport history from the viewer and see if you can find the place, or take a look in your inventory if you accepted anything from the place like notecard with the sim rules?

I feel your pain... sometimes I buy full perm objects and its really bad to see what MP has turned into and how much research one has to do before buying a simple product!

From your post I am not sure what group you are using.... it might be that you have to activate the land rent group in order to rezz objects on your parcel and that your store group is different than land group. In this case you have to create 2 objects - 1 will be your group gift (set to your store group) and 2. will be just a box set to the land rent group. Go in edit mode and change the group on the 1. object to your store group and then link it to the land group object. You can also buy some scripts that let you do same. I like the old fashioned way, less scripts

LOL exactly! I see you prepared too

I think they are preparing mentally - thinking about it because there is no way of knowing what conditions need to be met in order to launch a successful business. Or LL let 100 creators to play in Sansar and 38 of them decided to prepare their businesses to launch.

HunniHope wrote: The ability to change these fields in bulk is already there and has been for some time. It may not be perfect but its a vast improvement on having to change them one at a time On the listings page simply change the list view from 10 to 100 then click the box to select all, and then click on edit at the bottom, from there you can choose which fields to change across all those listings. Did mine this way when i m oved 6 months ago and its a huge time saver, even if you do still have to repeat it till all arer done. Beats doing it one at a time. Quoting this just so it gets repeated one more time, too bad there is no kudo option for this part of the forums! Thank you for pointing out to this feature, I changed my listings one by one but I don't have many so it was not a big deal, now I wish I knew about this lol One thing I do is always check profile of the creator and then profile pics - there you have all updated infos and landmarks to in-world locations, its what I wrote on some listings knowing I will probably miss some when updating.

Its illegal the way you describe it. There are few right ways to promote products in-world... One is to just gift them to your friends and let them know that, in case anyone asks, they point the person to your shop. If its rezzable object then anyone curious enough can right click on it and see your name as a creator. Make sure to have all infos about your shop in your profile pics. Another way of promoting your products is to rent an adboard - pay a certain weekly fee and support the place. Or you can offer some kind of rewards for people who put your place in their profile pics. Everyone's reading profiles so you can be sure people will find out about you.

Hello everyone, nice theme! I had a friend, student who used to learn how to create mesh objects. Every time I saw her she was wearing one of her creations, some were good, some not so good. Many of those items ended up on the market as freebies, she said she knows they are not really good, but she feels bad deleting them and why not offer it as a freebie on the marketplace? Maybe someone would want it. In this case leaving a bad review for something created long time ago might harm the merchant because their skills improved. Someone else might put out a freebie as a way of marketing their products and choose only best item! When reiewing items one must be objective, read the description, see if the item can be adjusted or maybe the body shape needs to be adjusted for a better fit. Interesting is how people leave reviews on my freebie items but not so much on the paid ones. I leave review if the item is specially good and i see its a new merchant not so known or if the item is really really bad!

I would say to think how many prims you need? This will determine the size of the land you will rent. Mainland is great because its cheap and empty, but you have to fly around and teleport from one yellow parcel to the other and check everything! If you see many green dots on the map run away, don't rent there. This either means that some club is near or that a business has tons of alts parked high in the air to bump up traffic numbers in the parcel description. Either way, it can mean more lag to you and friends that visit you. Mainland sims have no covenant which means your neighbour can be anyone! Private sims have covenant, sort of a list with written rules about who can rent and what type of bulds can be built in certain areas. For example there are family roleplay sims where you can rent a plot and "fit in" your cute little family home. Or you can rent in a post-apocalyptic sim and have all your neighbours in the theme. You have to check the owner of the land and the business he/she runs. Is it good reputation? Do they allow breedables? On the Mainland you can rent a parcel that is prefectly clean and after 2 weeks a neighbour can move in and rezz 200 pets! But same can happen on a private sim, if they don't forbid breedable pets. I would say to pay rent one week in advance, 2 weeks top! Never pay more than 2 weeks in advance because your landlord can simply disappear with your money, he can return all your objects and ban you from the parcel, LL will not interfere. I have a nice landlord now, she rents rather big Mainland parcels and islands but maybe she has smaller plots too, I can check just let me know.

I like your shop and agree that it is good to have an in-world shop! Maybe you can setup something small and have rezzers for items so that, for start, you don't use too much prims.

I must warn you, sometimes I sound rude... its either the language barrier or because I just say whats on my mind. I like to be straight. Please don't take it wrong I would remove the pricing from the vendor photo, you don't need it, it just uses the space and takes the attention that should be focused on the shirt. Plus, if after few more posts you realize 20L$ is really too low (and it is) you will have to redo all your vendor photos. Just leave the price out. I would remove the permissions too, but thats up to you. Using one color is okay, but it is not really the best solution to use the same plain color (just different shade) on the shirt as well as the background of your vendor. My suggestion is to shoot some nice in-world photos - a garden, beach, someone's front yard... and blur it until you can't really recognize whose home it is, it will look better than this. Plus your avi will pop out if placed on the blurred background. Someone said to use a fabric texture when designing shirts - I am all for this! You can use same one, just change its blending mode to something that makes it look good. Also, try to add some realism to the shirts - draw wrinkles or some shades/lights... anything just so you don't have a plain shirt with a cute drawing on it. If the drawing is your original one - write it in the description, say it in simple words "this is what I drew, you can buy it only here and nowhere else on the whole internet"! Rename the vendors - saying "sheepy texture" makes it like you sell a texture that I can place on a full perm shirt! Is it? Fonts and letters design - place it so that it is well balanced with other elements in the vendor photo, for example that purple one where it says "Teeny the Tiny Hyena" in the top row and some other letters in the bottom row - first I would change the color because having two opposite colors together (purple and green) makes my eyes hurt when I try to read, plus the font is kinda playful and what I wanted to say about the balance, letters are too close to the horns and the avi while on the opposite side you have some empty space. I would move the letters more to the right and use allignment on the right side. Marketplace allows you to upload more images for each product - use it! Main image can be edited and rest can be raw snapshots that show item as it is in-world. Good idea is to show the avatar wearing the shirt on the main image and shoot the shirt alone - front and back side, on some other image. In product descriptions you can write more unique texts, short info about your item or something interesting.

Depends if the shop is worth visiting, do I have time and what am I buying. Usually I will search on the Marketplace, someone already mentioned using it like a catalogue, and when I find something interesting from the seller I never heard off, I will visit their in-world shop just to see whats there. This is what I meant with "worth visiting" - its worth if its new shop, or if they sell houses, trees, furniture or anything that I want to see how it looks in-world. If I am buying something from a creator I know, who's shop I know, and who offers demo on the MP, then there's no need to dress and teleport just to buy something in-world. In general, I prefer in-world shops over marketplace because I like to "get the feel", see how they decorated the place, what colors they use, is the shop organized so that you can easily find your desired item, do they participate in events, hunts, do they promote some other brands, do they make you land outside the shop and then walk around to figure out which doors to click in order to get inside the shop just to find out that building is empty and the actual shop is on the opposite side of the parcel, do they have 5-6 alts parked 2000 meters above you, do they use lucky chairs, and all kinds of stuff. Many times it happend that I found an item on the marketplace and teleported in-world to check the item and then went back on the marketplace to buy it, just so I could leave the review. Last item I reviewed was some kind of slideshow script. I found several that seemed worth checking, one of them is classical example of merchants who abuse that option "see item in-world" because after teleporting and wandering around the shop for a while I managed to find a vendor board that has exactly same photo as one on the marketplace and allows you to right click and buy/pay the item - so you teleport in their in-world shop just to see the vendor board! I hate that. The one I bought had direct teleport so I landed exactly in-front of the item in-world, it showed a big screen that showed how the slideshow script works. It was perfect

I am curious now to find out what was the product and the review?

1) It depends of the "type" of review - if its reasonable and my product has flaws I will try to fix the product, contact the customer to offer a refund and a new product. If the poor review isn't reasonable, like the one I received yesterday, I will try to sustain from leaving a nasty comment, thank them and move on. 2) I left some "less than 4 star" reviews but never received cussing message from the merchant. If I did, I believe I would either mute them and stop buying their products or try to work it out, depends of what was the issue. It would make me feel irritated for a moment but wouldn't affect me too much. There are merchants who make a living from their SL sales and they fight for every star, for every customer and every Linden, which is understandable. Its not a game to them and they can't simply walk away and focus on other things. I've seen how "mad" these people can get from dealing with SL customers on a daily basis. Its not nice and not easy. I honestly believe that doing SL customer service can make the person go mad. There are also customers who act really weird. They buy products without reading the description then leave bad reviews saying the product is not good - its what happened to me yesterday. I sell poses and one of them is 1L$ pose that makes your avatar lean her head on the hand. In the description I wrote that people might need to edit their shape to get the exact pose on their avatar, this customer complained how pose is not same as in the ad. There isn't much I can do here and it would be stupid to ask for 5 star review, even if I think its not the flaw of the product. Another customer went into friends shop and somehow managed to find a vendor that was burried below the shop, buy from it and then write really mean notecard to the merchant saying ugly things about ruining their business because the merchant left half-finished vendor below the shop. Another merchant had a situation where the customer went into his shop, bought the wrong applier (he was a guy but bought female applier) and then complained to the merchant that he didn't manage to organize his shop well and because of that he needs to refund that wrong purchase. I could go on and on.... Its always two sides of the story, none of us is completely, 100% right and one should go deepeer to understand the issue and deal with it.

huh... nights can be hard

lol I mean it works in "one click" - I don't have to save as, rename or whatever, just one move of the finger and its done.

Yeah I use it often... and even faster tool happens when you install Dropbox, then all you need to do is press Print screen buton on your keyboard and it saves your whole screen from which you can later cut out whats important

Here is the list of their Trademarks http://secondlife.com/corporate/brand/trademark/tm_chart.php Windlight is there I would just keep quiet about it, its well known magazine that does great work. Considering how famous they are, I don't think rebranding would do them any harm, but its better not to attract attention. Let them stay pretty

I think most galleries feature photography works simply because there are not many people who can draw good, ones who do it sell their works for waaay more than photographers do. Galleries are one way to do it, if you are just starting with the art and don't usually buy lindens to spend I would say maybe it is better to save some lindens and focus on websites for start. Best way to do it is to register on 2-3 websites with many active people from SL, create yourself a nice profile, fill in some important infos and start uploading your artwork. Please, always pay attention to the rating of your artwork - general, adult..., tag it appropriately and submit to relevant groups. Follow and friend other artists, comment their work and be active. Soon you will notice other people comment your artwork, ask questions and, if you are good you will get asked to do some commissioned work. I am active on Facebook, Flickr and sometimes DeviantArt. There are many other sites too but if you only focus on one of these you will be fine, its always better to focus on less websites and do it well than try to be present on many and do it half way... You can also include information about your artwork in the signature here on the Forums (look top right on this page under My Settings, then Personal - Personal Information) - if you plan to post more in the future. Feel free to ask here if any question comes up, before "retirement" I used to run pretty big studio and featured many artists, offered classes and tips of how to promote your work and become more knownin the community.

6. of course, whats better than a friday flirt? But there's if... if the casual flirt is the kind I like - smart, a bit of humor and not cheap/everyday/overused if she can dance well if I like her look if I don't have someone else in my IM (flirting or not, I find it polite to focus on one at a time)

I can't find a thing! What troubles me now is what makes an item to be new? For example, if I upload another copy of the pose I created, rename it and put up for sale, is that considered to be a new item? It has another UUID, new name and I will make a photo from another angle so anyone can say its a new item? But its not... In the last few days I received reports on 2 websites and I expect another one either on the MP or in-world. Its why I asked, I want to be sure that this rebranding or any other thing doesn't enter a grey area and can't be considered as violation of some rule.