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Nefertiti Nefarious

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  1. I have freebies and  sell mostly inexpensive decor photo-prims and textures.  One of the freebies - a modification of someone else's freebie - has over 10,000 deliveries.  My two runners-up have close to 5,000 each.

     

    I can't say how much traffic they bring.  I've had a consistent preoportion of sales to freebies for the last three years. It's about 3 sales for every freebie delivered, where the freebie was not in with something purchased - I have no way of tracking that.

  2. If they download them and then upload again, they will be shown as the creator and the ID numbers will be different.

    However, check their in-world and marketplace stores and see if they are reselling your stuff.  And remember they might also be the alt of the person who is doing the selling, so check their friends.


  3. Muletta wrote:

     

    The worst of the bad reviews in my opinion, are the ones which are written on give-away-gift items. You get something for free, and write a bad review? This is really very strange behavior in my eyes.
     

    I write a lot of reviews on freebies ... if it's truly horrid, I explain why it's not worth the space it takes in my inventory, and if it has places to improve, I'll mention them. 

    But I never write the "this sux" review. If it sux, I explain why.

  4. Not possible ... we've been asking for it.

    You can create a store under an alt, but you have to make sure the clothing was also created by that alt so the uploads and permissions aren't messed up. 


  5. What is used by the program to choose the order of "Relevance" and can it be used by me when listing so I can show my newest items first without having the person viewing set the order.

    The user can set search terms to show newest/oldest low/high price or relevance (default), but you can't force it on them.

    Your can WRECK your relevance in your listing:  Relevance is how well what I entered in search matches what you have in your item listing.

    Let's say I'm looking for a red leather morotcycle jacket and type that into search.

    Don't dilute the message, don't get cutesy.

    TITLE: Seems to be extremely important.  Nouns and adjectives.  Using "Red leather motorcycle jacket" will score better than "AWSUM Scarlet Gangstah Biker Togs"

    Description:  Same thing. Make the first sentence or two be about that item and that item only.

    Keywords: Be REALLY specific and make them custom to that item.  Copy and Paste is NOT your friend here and don't try to steer people to your leather corsets, wooly knickers or anything ... stick to the nouns and adjectives that would describe the item the best.


  6. PersistentDigger wrote:

    Any suggestions for a lightweight (=inexpensive) programme ?

    Occasionally, I need an exact geometric line-drawing for my texture creation  - so it is useful to import that as a layer
    in Gimp.

    If you mean porecise squares and rectangl;es and such, I use any other vector drawing program ... even PowerPoint can draw constrained squares and circles

     

    InkScape, free and fun, also works.


  7. But what now? I have the time to spend but I don't know what to do next.

     

    Do you have a marketplace store?   I checked under the name BlacklightUnity and came up with nothing.  Show me the store and I can have better suggestions.

    Learn how to take good product pictures, learn how to write good clear ad copy, and keep working on new products.

  8. I have some vendors set up ... it was a free one that could be edited to remove some prims.

     

    I think (can't log in from here to check) that one may be on the wall in my pavilion of free stuff. Check my parcel in-world.

    It's simple, was free, and does all I needed to do, which was organize the various 1-prim decor panels by category.


  9. Amari Maven wrote:

    Hi, I'm wondering if anybody knows
    if I were to edit a older marketplace listing to update it would that effect the items position it has in search now
    ? Some have moved up a bit due to being sold more and I just wanted to know if that would move them back down to the bottom of my listings if I edit the picture or listing content. 

    Thanks for any and all replies
    :)

    Yes, and no ... If you edit it to fix any issues that are preventing it from showing up well, yes.

    If you just tweak a few words and save it, probably not.


  10. I am a big time user of affiliate vendors for my places. What I have notices is that (what seems) more and more places charge $L 1000 to over $L 5000 for you to get their affiliate vendors.

    I realize that it is their product and I know they have a right to do it - I understand that part.

    What I wonder about is what are they getting out of it ? (besides the fee that they charge of course.)


    Perhaps they want someone who is already successful at selling products, and not someone with a parcel jammed with affiliate vendors trying to make money?

     

    I had a couple of affiliate vendors in my place - they were appropriate to the theme of the parcel and tastefully done, the products were excellent.  And I had ZERO sales ... so I deleted them.


  11. MysticDraggy wrote:

    I've been making system clothing, mainly dresses.  I have textures that are 'glittery'. 
    What I am trying to figure out is how do people get that specialized edging on an outfit?  Like along the bodice line that is all jeweled looking?
       

     

    Pixel by pixel editing on the template, frequent uploads with temporary textures to check progress, and a lot of patience.

    Each of those beads might be only a few pixels, but each one has a highlight and a shadow.

    I made a couple of lace bikinis and it was astounding how a few highlighted pixels it takes to make the lace stand out, and how much time to learn which pixels to change.

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  12. Bongo Steampunk wrote:

    After struggling to amass decent non-copywright fabric images for the making of mesh clothing from the web, have decided it might be best to start paying for them.

     Bongo.

    Buy mine!  :matte-motes-big-grin:   I think I have every freeby pack in SL sitting in my inventory.

    It's important to have seamless textures, tileable textures, optimized for SL use. Using stock textures in unexpected ways can get you a long way ... just because the texture says it's wallpaper doesn't mean it has to be used on a wall.

    Torley's free texture sets are created by Torley Linden AND free to use. See my texture hut in-world for the free Torley collection package if you can't find it online.

    You can get Filter Forge (
    and mess with their filters.  Many of my textures are made with Filter Forge's filters, with pre and post-processing for some of them in The GIMP (
    and some are made seamless from actual photos of fabric or other things (it's a PITA!)

     

     

     

     


  13. jordanit0 wrote:

    it would be great if there was a away to be able to update your listing to show where an item has been moved to.  

    Maybe a way to call up some basic functions of the marketplace listings in world.  
    Such as being able to stand next to the item in question bring up the listing and click set tp at my location.  All done in world prob not ideal if you have a lot of items and im not even sure how easy that would be to do.  
    .

    That's flipping BRILLIANT for people like Pamela who have a bazillion houses and furniture sets.  Finish setting up the display, call up the listing, click "Set TP Point" and it's DONE!

    I have no clue how hard it would be to implement, but it's a winderful idea.

     


  14. It is unclear if they will close the entire market place for a migration to the new system, or just close individual stores or groups of stores as they migrate them to the new system.

    And maybe leave all the "dead" accounts behind?  Again? 

    As long as I can create and manage listings from the Internet I'm fine.

  15. You either buy full-perm flower bits and texture them the way you want OR learn to make them yourself. I have several full-perm flowers I use in different places, some free and some purchased and I even made one.

    Don't be afraid to "kit bash". That's when you use bits of several products to make something different than any of the starting kits.

     

    These for example, could work.

    https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/White-Flowers-Builders-Kit-Mesh-Full-Perm/5578344

    https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Flower-Rose-deco-FR-1-Full-Permission/5862972

    https://marketplace.secondlife.com/p/origami-Basic-Flower-MeshSculpty/573615

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