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Dianelou Boucher

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  1. Hi Killie! Nice meeting you when I dropped by your store! Your stuff is cute, and with such reasonable prices, you should be able to do well. As I mentioned when I saw you, the store is unfortunately a little hard to find - the LM in your profile lands shoppers outside what I assume is the sim owner's store, and ban lines kept me from flying over to your store. I had to do a separate search for your store to actually get there. You might want to change the LM in your picks (just stand in your store when you're adding the pick to your profile and choose that as the landing point). You might also run a classified ad in addition to listing your store in your picks. You're going to have a LOT of competition in classifieds for clothing, and unless you're willing to spend a lot of money getting your ad near the top, you're better off listing items that you think are unique to your store in your ad. For instance, be sure to list your mermaid costume, poodle skirts, etc. If someone is searching for "dresses", they'll get a million ads, but if they're specifically looking for "elf ears", you have a better chance that they'll find you. If the sim owner has a group for that sim, find out if it's okay for you to advertise in the group, and send out notices when you have new items out or you're running a sale. It's also a good idea to start your own subscriber group - Subscribe-o-Matic, for instance, is free for under 500 subscribers, and it's absolutely invaluable for letting customers know about what's going on in your store. I try not to bombard my customers with notices, but I do give out a small gift once a month and send out at least one notice with pics of new items every couple of weeks. You might also want to join one of the "weekly sale" groups as a merchant - there are several groups that promote a one day a week special sale. It's a fairly easy way to promote your store, as everyone in the sale group will get pics of your items and a landmark to your store, and if they like what they get on sale, they're likely to come back and even join your subscriber group (it will also increase your traffic, which can't hurt). My only warning here is not to join more than a couple of those groups, so that you're not constantly selling your items for less than full price. Entering a hunt now and then as a merchant can also be a good way to promote your store. There are a lot of differing opinions on whether hunts are worth the trouble as a merchant, but if you're selective about which ones you get involved in, they can also increase your sales. Personally, I try to avoid hunts with hundreds of merchants, just because the customers in those hunts tend to "grab and go" without really looking around the store. With Halloween coming up, you might want to find a Halloween-themed hunt, since you sell costumes, and make sure your costume items are at the front of the store during the hunt. Most importantly, keep doing what you're doing, which is making cute, high-quality items! Good luck!
  2. Thanks all! Just discovered that I could also turn it back on under "View - Hover Tips" (though I did actually consider letting the cat do another walk-over, since he's apparently the computer genius in the family).
  3. Not sure if this is the right forum for this, but I don't know where else to ask...in the process of walking around on my keyboard last night, my cat somehow managed to fix it so that when I mouse over an item for sale, I get the green dollar sign but no product info, i.e. the name of the item, description or price. I can't find anything in Preferences or Advanced that looks like a way to turn this back on, and nobody I've asked inworld has had this happen to them. Short of reinstalling the viewer, is there a way to fix it?
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