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    Recommended groups to increase traffic?

    in Merchants

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    4 hours ago, Polenth Yue said:

    The official Shop and Hops run by the Lindens are advertised on their blog, though those are harder to get into (also getting into one doesn't mean you'll get into the next). They run several times a year, are free to sign up, and you have to offer discounts and a free gift. Halloween is currently running. Keep an eye on the blog for the Christmas one opening up for applications. https://community.secondlife.com/blogs/blog/4-featured-news/

    Most other events have their own websites and groups. There are a lot of yearly charity events. They have a fee for taking part. You usually need to have two new items to sell for charity. Some of these get more visitors than others. Fantasy Faire is the biggest one for me, which usually opens for applications early in the year (to run in late April). https://fantasyfairesl.wordpress.com/

    There are also a bunch of monthly shopping events, but I don't do those. They usually have a fee for taking part and will often ask for a new item to be sold.

    Good preparation for these events is to make sure you have a Google account that you're comfortable using for Second Life (a lot of events use Google forms for signups) and to put aside some of the new things you make for the required items. For most events, you can sell these normally afterwards (exclusive usually means for the duration of the event, not forever, but do read the small print). Also, go visit shopping events to see how they run and if they're getting customers. You can search for their websites or join their groups from there.

    Thank you so much, I'll check later!

    Recommended groups to increase traffic?

    in Merchants

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    11 minutes ago, Chic Aeon said:

    Some (a few) groups let you apply for entry. You can look at Seraphim to find weekend groups especially that will let you "join". Note that this is ADVERTISING AND IS NOT THE LEAST BIT FREE (yes caps LOL).   The other option for clothes would be things like Free Dove and Fab Free.  Joining those freebie groups will likely get you some traffic.  I don't know if they are free for creators or not.  

     

    You can also give away free things and get coverage on your gift at both Seraphim and teleporthub.com (it's free). So personally I would go with that business model at least to start. 

    Ooh thank you so much! I'll chek Seraphin website!

    Recommended groups to increase traffic?

    in Merchants

    Posted

    On 10/21/2022 at 5:45 PM, Polenth Yue said:

    Alwin is right. Promotion groups for merchants only contain people who want to post notices about their own products, not people who actually want to buy things. The best promotional thing I've ever done is sign up as a store for events. It's a win all round. People get to see my shop, I make money (rather than spending it) and it's fun. Beats advert boards and the like.

    There's nothing wrong with having parties for fun, but view it as that rather than as a promotional thing.

    Sign up as a store for events? How I do that? please, would you explain to me how to do that? is there a website, group where I can sign up?

    Thanks in advance!

    Marketplace is failing to update Relevance Sort

    in Merchants

    Posted

    I submitted a ticket

    This is what they told:

    Hello, Fergie Finesmith
     
    We are sorry to hear that you are experiencing an issue with the Marketplace.
     
    We have forwarded this report to a supervisor and the Engineers as a bug report.
     
    As soon as we have an update from them we will update this Support Ticket. 
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    Is Marketplace failing to update the relevance sort?

    in Merchants

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    Hi!!

    For about a week (or more) I have been observing that new products on MP, no matter how often they are sold, are stuck in the relevance sorting. I also put a "test" product to test and often had it bought. But it looks like products, no matter how often they are bought, are not ranked first in the listing.

    I am wondering whether this is the only problem I have, or whether other creators have also noticed this problem. As long as this problem has not been resolved, I do not need to put new products on Marketplace, because after a short time my customers can hardly find them anymore!
     

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    Sales went down dramatically from one day to another!

    in Merchants

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    I don't get what's happening since monday, suddenly my sales went down  dramatically... I don't get it. Is there any kind of ban, glitch, bug whatever??? I'm getting frustated by this. My store is like 10 years old and it never happened something like that. Please tell me this is temporary system mistake or whatever.

    - Monday: I sold only an item during early morning (between 2 am and 5 am)

    - Tuesday: 2 items during early morning too (between 2 am and 6 am)

    - Wednesday: 4 items during early monting (between 2 am and 4 am)

    - Thursday: 2 items during early morning!!!!! ((between 2 am and 4 am)

    What is happening here??? 😢 I don't get it. It's like my store is only active on MP during early mornings! what the hell??

    I went from selling like 20 items per day to 5 

    Last sunday my sales were like heaven! then the nightmare started on monday. What's wrong! am I violating a TOS or what? I need help.

    People doesn't buy skins anymore?

    in Merchants

    Posted

    I have almost 7 years selling skins.... 7 years full of good sales, and I'm not even a big brand like Laqroki, Redgrave or Curio... but my sales were always fine... this year I'm having a dramatical drop in sales (almost 100%).... and I wonder what is happening, people doesn't like my skins anymore, people doesn't buy skins anymore like back in the time (2009-2013)...?? 

    Am I doing somehing wrong? please help.

    in Merchants

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    There's is something weird happening to my stuff on the marketplace. My english is really basic, so. I'll try to make it clear as possible.

    I noticed that, when I'm having a really good selling week/couple of days, my stuff appears in the first result pages, and then suddenly my stuff dissapears from there, even after having a good selling day prior. I try to search my stuff and I find them in the last pages, or maybe I never find them at all. That shouldn't happen right? because if you're selling well, your stuff appears higher on the results pages.

    Why does it happen? I don't get it. And that happens really often. I'm not able to recover at all from that, and then again my stuff appears in the first pages then good sales, then again dissapears, I don't sell nothing at all... .and again, and again. The sad part is that the dissapearing times are longer than the good sales ones.


    Does Linden Labs controls what appears on the first result pages, dissapearing stuff from there even when they are selling well? Am I doing something wrong with my stuff? Maybe I'm wrong, I don't know! But after almost five years of selling skins on Marketplace with great results, I don't get why this is happening. This year my sales went down, almost 70%. I can't stand it! when I have 4 days in row earning just between 1 - 5 lindens per day. This year have been a nightmare talking about earning lindens.

    Textures from local

    in Building and Texturing Forum

    Posted

    I'm sorry, maybe this is a dumb question, but reading this forum I discovered that is possible to use textures from my local disk? I used to upload temporary textures using Imprudence viewer back in the time, but it's not possible anymore. How can I do to use textures from local, what I have to do to use textures from my local disk and not wasting money uploading textures that may I won't use???

    Thanks in advance!

    Mesh Boobs

    in Fashion

    Posted

    First of all, thanks for all your help.

    I bought the lolas and now I'm trying to make an applier, but something weird happens once I wear the applier. It disappears in just a couple of seconds, I'm not even able to click on it, what am I doing wrong? I'm trying to follow every single step in the instructions notecard, but the applier just keep disappearing.

    Mesh Boobs

    in Fashion

    Posted

    Yes I'm a devolper. well then I guess I should get a Lolas pack right?

    The packs includes appliers in full perm right? Am I allowed to sell them to my customers?

    Hands, Feet and booty includes Developers kits too??

    I'm sorry to bother with all these questions!

     

    Mesh Boobs

    in Fashion

    Posted

    I was just to post a topic like this LOL, I'm a skin creator, I personally don't like those big boobs, but my customers keeps asking me about appliers and well, I have to do something to please them. BTW, If I buy boobs they would include instructions to make appliers right? ok... so if I make appliers based on some boobs brand they will fit well in another brands boobs? my english is not that good, but you got the idea?

    Seasons in SL

    in Merchants

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    I don't know about you but, (I have a skin store since 2009), and this is the worst month ever! I don't know what happen, but I'm literally selling nothing, my sales are down almost 85% compared to last year and even last month, it's just crazy. I just hope this change soon. 

    After the Skin Fair in mid March everything went downhill for me, I'm really worried, I don't know what to do.

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