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    Need suggestions and advices to run a shop

    in Merchants

    Posted

    3 hours ago, Beggar Mayo said:

     I would like build my own.

    tell us more about your skills in

    1. Texturing -> photoshop or gimp - there is a huge market for this. Most of the mesh bodies creators offer designers kits so you can make skins , tattoos , hair bases etc.

    2.Mesh modeling --> Blender, maya etc. Biggest market of all .Your imagination is the limit...

    3.Scripting ( like chinese for me but there are people who make big money on this.

     butthe most important, the motivation. Why are you doing this . Just to have a source of income? Easy peasy.. get full perms,modify them ( some meshes came with dae files so you can edit them to look as you want, combine items from different creators to find a nice new look, ad your own textures , an you will have products to sell.

      to have a succesful store, put your soul in it, make things you are proud of and be at least 25% unique.

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    Where to learn about new shops and things?

    in Fashion

    Posted

    7 hours ago, SpoiledCyborg said:

    How do I learn about new shops and things (clothes and so on) appearing in the game? Is there some digest anywhere – in the game Groups, here on Forum or in some Blogs?

    Sadly, events, big advertising groups and blogs cover mostly the big brands, the ones who affort to spend for advertising. If a new creator open a small shop inwold, you might never find it.I don't think exist in a blog post or a notice in an advertising group for a small new shop with only few items.If they open a shop In marketplace to, is more easy.Just do a search with "newest first " and there is a chance to find new shop.

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    FREE avi female bodies/ hands?

    in Your Avatar

    Posted

    Duck girl have a nice ruth on market, also some clothes to fit it.

    https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Free-full-perm-mesh-Avatar-bento-head-and-hands/15108130

    https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/ruth-upgrades-rc3-hands-feets-nails-2/15726755

    you can get it from Release candidate , or the one from Vlad blackburn but is same from Duck, only reupload it, Some of the files ( RC2 ones) are based from original upload of Hyacinth Greymoon  but i don't know if her place inworld is still there.

     

     

    A brief note on pricing changes, which ran long.

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    14 minutes ago, Monique Bellambi said:

    I have the super old account that gets L$500 a week. I'm paying the quarterly now, but I've been wanting to go to yearly. BUT, I've remained on the quarterly because of my fear of losing my stipend.  Has anyone had success in this situation? I'd like to take advantage of the old annual pricing for one more year at least.

    Lucky you :). The 500 /week is granted because the account is old. As long you keep it premium (monthly , quarterly , year , no matter) the stipend will be the same.

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    A brief note on pricing changes, which ran long.

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    On 5/30/2019 at 4:40 PM, Wulfie Reanimator said:

     This is why I'm asking for someone to give some kind of a concrete example. How much are you cashing out? How often? (And most importantly:) How much of a difference does the 2.5% actually make in the total you get into your bank account? I understand these are pretty personal questions, but it's very difficult to relate when all you hear is "the sky is falling, believe me."

    ok. time for some answers .lol. on my main account ,as a small creator, i make  around 70 $ in a bad month, 110$ in a good one. this is the profit, after i pay all my bills.usually, after I exchanged 100-120 $ i sent them to process credit ( you have to process more than 100 because is 2,5% now but is minimum 3$/trade so it need to be more than 100). and i do this thing once at every couple of months, because i don't cash out every penny i made. I have a life here too :) and you cannot resist to a nice pair of shoes, or some nice new hair etc. so for me, the increase is not a big deal . i already spend around 40-50$ /month in sl, so i really don't care about 2-3 $ more. ( yeah, hate me, but i am on lindens side here. )

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    Male mesh body advice

    in Your Avatar

    Posted · Edited by Kweopi

    because you are new to mesh bodies, you can start with the free ones , just to test them and learn the basics:

    Altamura have few limited inworld, in different places, also is a free one at Ex Machina , or the almost free one from meta ( linked down),  plus the free full perm roth (linked down) . after you get used to them, get demos from all mesh creators and choose according to your taste (yeah, i know, i always give advices to get the free ones instead of those expensive, is a bad trait of mine.i learned my lesson in the hard way, after i recommended to a friend something expensive, i loved the item very much, she don't and she blamed my for bad expenses and never talked to me again )

    https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Donald-A-Roth-mesh-avatar-Duck-Girl-edit/15560391

    https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/META-Male-Mesh-Body-Base-BASIC-Fitted-Bento-Hands-GIFT/16432257

    Is there virtue in being a Second Life troll?

    in General Discussion Forum

    Posted

    11 hours ago, kali Wylder said:

    I think there must be some therapeutic value to trolling, else why do so many persist? 

    for most people, it's fun to see others suffer. if you see someone stumble, first laugh, then you go to see if it's ok. Just human nature. why do you think all that home videos with "epic fail" compilations are soo p
opular? they difference is trolls provokes that situations, for the "fun" ( or what they think is fun). is ok to troll the trolls? yea, if you are sure they really are trolls.

     

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    Making mesh nails

    in Inworld Employment

    Posted · Edited by Kweopi

    free advice, go to market place, search for ruth , there are few avaible ( duck girl, vlad blackburn as sellers) in description you will see a link for github where you will find all the blender files for ruth/roth bento bodies - nails included, all shapes and sizes. nail are already bento rigged so is easy to upload. what you need is only to match them for the body you wear.

    did that saved you 15 K :) ?

      contact me inworld if you want to see more. free of charge

     

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    10 million people watch a DJ in Fortnite

    in General Discussion Forum

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    9 hours ago, animats said:

    Fortnite has progressed beyond being a first person shooter. They had a concert.

     

    10 million concurrent users. The DJ was in a motion capture suit, with the motion was fed into Fortnite. In multiple shards, like Sansar, not all in one world. 10 million concurrent users.

    Sansar claims to be in that business. "The go-to destination for live entertainment". They have a small comedy club.

    Back in 2011, Duran Duran had an island in SL. That was a long time ago. LL is not keeping up.

    Do you remember the huge popularity of Pokemon game sometime ago ? who 'catch them all' now? Popularity brings new people but is no guaranty they will stay years.

    Also, i remember years ago , there were numerous live singers in sl,. Not much of them here now.

    Is time to face the truth. We are not in Second Life for live streams or shooting people. We are for sex and money. That's all !!!

    The average custom Mesh creation fees in year 2019

    in Merchants

    Posted · Edited by Kweopi

    9 hours ago, MeshPromo said:

    Custom meshes as full perm: Some people asking that way but I don't see any reason to buy or sell custom meshes as full perm. Because buyers can't able to recover that custom full perm cost by selling what they going to build and mesh creator can earn more money by directly selling in marketplace.

     

    Sadly, the hole point is here. there is no reason for someone in secondlife to pay a job like in real life except when they think it will generate an extra income by selling those items.

    i like my secondlife doll to be dressed as well as my RL , but i will never pay for a mesh cloth the same amount like a real cloth.At least when are so many good items around at few hundred lindens.

    Same for furniture, yeah custom work might sound nice, and possible unique ( not sure here if a bed or dinner table will be unique, more sure there will be in SL some items that look similar and way more low priced) but you know how many diners, beds, chairs are in second life?

    Like every other job here, Second life have his own unique system and prices are really low. Imagine a dj or a dancer or host in a club. in RL they can make hundred of dollars / night. Here, they are happy with few hundred of linden dollars / set. sometimes even less. You work hard as a mesh modeler, they work hard entertaining people. Do you think someone who make 1-2 USD / hour will pay a 8-10 USD /hour work, even is custom?

    I don't want to sound bad and make you quit creating. There are money to be made in sl, but is just harder than rl.

    But there is hope.I took a fast look on your market items. they look nice and well made. My advice, make a lot of them  , wait for the customers and see how that work (it my help if you ad a note-card inside with thanks and la little quiz - are you interested in some custom work and how much you will pay for it)

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    customises the library items and selling inworld or in market

    in Creation

    Posted

    After all, the second life library is there to be used as resources for all residents. We all have same items there with same permisions.. Selling them 'as it is" , in my opinion is not breaching intellectual copyright is simply stupidity..why should i buy an item from some seller when i have same thing in Library?

     

    Customising items and sell .. is like car tunning..usually u can pay more than the value

    of the car  and get just your car back..with a new face.. so "good upgrading" is sure

    legally, as long u are not pretenting u are the original creator (is sad people do that a

    lot in SL as in real life..for ex.  there is  a lot of skins in sl who use Eloh Eliot base

    skins and sellers pretend they are the creators).

      To be more specific, because i am sure it will be at least one person who will reply "i

    cannot understand your post" i see the problem like that:

      Take out from your library a vehitar . his creator designed as avatar but if u drop it to

    the ground u have a full perm car/plane/bike. next step is to ad car/plane /bike script,

    some uggly loud sound, change some colors, pieces, maybe use some spare parts from other

    vehitars and ad them to you work. in the end your product can became a very nice vehicle.


      Or.. i love the new gladiator avatar. u can ad some sheat/draw script to sword/shield from the back (u can also get the free full perm  warrior sword/hud from Life church, ad a some improvements to the boots and belt (they really need that), a chest plate etc. and have a nice warrior outfit u can sell it.. of course not pretending u are the original creator.

      anyway, if your work look like a shit no one will buy it even is original creation, if the final resul will be great you deserve credit at least for your vision..

      BTW.. full perm in SL  general acception means you can do anything yor brain can imagine with the products (copy , modify and sharing free or for some money.if a creator dont want you to sell his work he will just set it for no transfer.

    Regulary they just dont want to be sold/share "at it is " with full perm


     
     

     

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