Tara Chester

What's the big deal about those freebies? I went premium last month, and those gifts were not on my list of reasons to do it. Like we don't have enough problems already with freebies from other merchants on the Marketplace, now this. KILL THE FREEBIES! Who's with me?

Only with physical objects, which sometimes and sometimes it doesn't... I can only guess LL has it's techical reasons not to provide us with tools for simple smooth movements of all objects.

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Don't know much about hardware, but I wanted to tell you 2 things. First, see my other post about optimizing your computer resources, which can be very useful tips for multiple logins in SL. And second, I'm also using Opera , so maybe you should try using iincorporated email client Opera has, instead Eudora, and it also has chat client, so you don't need Trillian either, and if you need RSS reader, it's there also. Opera is the best and it's more then just a browser. Oh, there is torrent download client in Opera, also Enjoy!

Yes, I know about that debug setting, but for some reason it didn't work for me, (maybe because I'm on XP, which handles multicore processors differently then later versions, or maybe because I use Phoenix). However that may be, that's one of the reasons why I share this tip about CPU core assignment, so people with similar problem can try what works best for them. It's always better to have "multichoice".

OS and viewer were not doing their job in the first place... And the point IS to reduce performance when viewer's window is minimized or when you don't need SL to use all machine's resources, and in many cases it's not even noticable to the eye, and it means a lot to your laptop (and desktop, too).

If you run SL viewer on a laptop, hate fan noise even if the viewer window is minimized, or want to save battery, and generally want your Windows machine to last longer (Vista and Windows 7 have this buit in, but I hear there is similar stuff for Mac or Linux), here is a cool tip a friend gave me. I use this all the time now, and it's useful for many other things. You can use Task Manager, or just download famous Process Explorer (if you're gonna use it all the time) or run it live from a web site just to try. Since most computers use multicore processors nowdays, the tip is to set so called "processor affinity", which basicaly means, telling the processor to use only one core for a process, in our case SL viewer (it works perfectly with any viewer). Open Process Explorer (or Processes tab in Task Manager): 1. In Options menu check "hide when minimized" and optionally "replace task manager". This way the program will run all the time in system tray and you can quickly open it with one click. 2. In the processes list find SL viewer .exe (or Phoenix.exe, ProjectViewer.exe, which ever one you're using to log into SL). 3. Right click on the process and select "Set Affinity...". 4. In the little newly open window uncheck one or the processor cores (or more then one if you have quad core processor), and close both windows. 5. You can see in the Task Manager or Process explorer tray icon how processor use is now almost zero, when viewer window is minimized, or only half what it used to be when maximized. Thats it. You can do this all the time back and forth, and while the viewer is running, now you can assign how much recources it will use in only couple of clicks, depending on what you do. I personally do it all the time, since my viewer window is often minimized, so there is no need to bother me with noise or waste resources I need for other stuff. Personally, if possible, I would like to see this option in viewer debug settings, or something, because you have to do this each time you start the viewer. If someone has better solution for this, I would like to know about it, thanks. Hope this helps. Enjoy! Prosess Explorer download page (at the bottom of the page is a link to "Run Process Explorer now from Live.Sysinternals.com").

check your email, you have all the links and information there, enjoy.

Thanks for the info, very nice job!

I hear Casper is good. I'm using at the moment very simple commision based affilate vendor, since I need it only for one product. It's doing the job, but I can't recommend it (and expecially not for large number of affiliates, products or sales). Most others I tried were free, but too complicated to use or missing some features I need. Try also searching old forum threads, this was always interesting topic.

All work no play makes Wili a dull boy.

couple of things come into my mind: 1. raise your draw distance, maybe they are too far away for you to see them. 2. go to edit mode, and use alt+left mouse button, and move your mouse around and back to zoom out into the sky and select all the objects in the draw distance, this way you will see all rezzed objects selected and highlighted (even if they are invisible). if you find the plants, make sure to select only them before deleting.

yw... but for obvious reasons, i think this option should be hidden, dependant on script permissions, available only in Admin mode... or something.

You can see all the basic parameters in hover text above the object producing particles if you turn on: Advanced>Rendering>Info Displays>Particles.

That is not a good idea at all. Just from the top of my head: 1. Permissions of the item and its practical use can be different from its contents permissions, and usualy are (not to mention problems with box in a box in a box...). 2. Customers in my experience often dont understand permissions system, and many dont even care. 3. Why risk having another potentional source of bugs, problems and failed deliveries - I set permissions correctly, don't need and don't want the machine to do it for me. And i have customer support for eventual problems; plus, you can still have misunderstandings, no matter who/what sets permissions.... For me, all this is more than enough not to do it. ty

@Kerhop Seattle I was just playing with the Excel Data menu. Maybe someone with better writing skills can post it in details on Wiki, I'm not the best person to do it. Here is Microsoft offical page on this i just found: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/get-external-data-from-a-web-page-HA010218472.aspx http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/get-external-data-from-a-web-page-HA010218472.aspx' rel="nofollow">And one more important thing! The fastest and automated way I discovered so far to IMPORT ALL REPORT PAGES, not just for first 20 products is BY RECORDING MACRO of web query for each page. All you have to do is start recording, and after query for each page, select the next empty cell below the already imported results, and make the next query. You can delete repeating rows with names of the colums as part of the macro operation or after you finish recording. It worked very smoothly for me, and the best thing is you have to do this ONLY ONCE for all your product report pages, and save 2 copies (or in separate sheet) of this as macro enabled excel file. The next time when you open the file, you will be asked to allow data connections and macros, run macro (or refresh the connection), and you have updated numbers for your products to further sort, compare and analyze! If you have problem while doing this, feel free to contact me. Unfortunatelly, you have to record our own macros, because macro template which would suit all of us, would require VBA skills, and thats beyond me. The only trouble so far is Top Searched page, because products are in different order there, I can't connect them with sales and views properly. But I'm working on that. Maybe someone with more experience in Excel can help us here. In the mean time, I ask more merchants and creators to post their ratio tables. Please, feel free, so we can all have more accurate results.

I found an answer to my own earlier question: yes, there is a simple and pretty straight forward way to import data from the Web into Excel, in this case from the Reports Top Selling Products page on the Marketplace, at least for first 20 products, since there are only 20 products per page. Edited: Copy/paste the 3 lines below into notepad, replace XXXXXX with your merchant number (you can see it in your browser's address bar, when you come to Merchants home page - note: this number is different from your store number), save it as something.iqy file (query file), and open it with Excel: WEB 1 https://marketplace.secondlife.com/merchants/XXXXXX/reports/top_selling_products Make sure you dont have empty lines or spaces before WEB, that you are logged in, and answer Yes or Enable when Excel asks you some stuff (if you receive "Edit the query" message, right click the selected cell, select "Edit the query", and login again: now you can close the window and refresh the connection, or you can make your own new web query). You can also save the web page as HTML only file and use this as data source (which is useful for comparing daily, weekly or monthly results). If you are making your own web query, make sure to select little yellow arrow only for the table not the whole page. As far as I know this works in any Excel but not in OpenOffice Calc. This can be done for each 20 products page or Top Searches page (or any other page that contains table data (Orders, Transaction History...)). If i find a way to import all this at once, I'll let you know. In the mean time, we dont have to wait for .csv export option and we can arrange imports manually, it's much easier then typing numbers. And then the real fun can begin: formulas.

Ok, but if I understand you correctly, you are proving my point on factors of high search results (my examples are probably bad). I didn't say you have to get rid of some keywords, but rather that certain group of products will have higher number of searches no matter what (because of the keywords that have to be there, or maybe because people want those products more, or maybe same people search more, which can easily be us lol), and only if we want to compare their performance with other group of products, we have to keep this in mind. I think perhaps this is a good thing for you. If my logic is correct, because of this "naturally" high number, small chages in tweaking keywords will be more visible, therefore easier to make corrections, right?

I'm glad you find it useful. don't forget, it takes into account searches also, otherwise it would only show product success in terms of revenue. And yes, you want to do the math for all (or almost all) of your selling products, not just top 5 or 10, because, in Reports they are ordered by number of sold units. That doesn't mean we have the right strategy for each of our products. Maybe there is a neglected hero. We all know how volatile Marketplace can be.

Houses/clothing/shoes/hair creators, we know you're busy counting lindens, but we don't want them, just give us your numbers, so we can have more examples for our conclusions, please.

Awesome numbers. I want to be tuff as you.

@Toysoldier Thor Thats good, i think, it can show there is standard ration in the category. It would be good to establish a relation between those numbers and someting we all can see, like number of products in the category, or something else. I'm not the most analytical cookie, so as far as i can tell, only two things can make search number high: number of keywords we put for our product, and number of searches in the marketplace. Its obvious that more people are searching for "sculpted something" then, in my case, "armchair". But what i dont understand is this: what counts as "appeared in search"? Only when you type in something in "keywords" search box, or also when im browsing through products without using it? At this point, i have to assume both participate in the search number equaly, and people are using both ways equaly. But if im on the wrong track here, someone please correct me.

@ Robert Galland Statistics are from the moment product was listed on the marketplace, but I believe time has no significant influence here. But, of course it would be better to have more detailed reports. My practical problem also is that Top searches are on separate tab (page), so you have to go back and forth all the time, either between pages or browser windows. It would be much more useful to see it all under one page, columns next to each other, and then we could easily copy/paste it, but export is by far the best option. Maybe someone can help here: is there an easy way to import the Reports data into Excel directly from the browser page source code or from the saved page off line?

@Clover Windlow Maybe you should also add info that they have to be logged in, or they will only see marketplace main page, not even login page. some of them may think its a bad link.

yes, its interesting to see that there are so many searches for landscaping items... big competition in that field, i guess... although, i never looked for how many of them is on the marketplace. i bet clothing items have even bigger search number and even lower views/sales ratio... in this regard, my building items are most successful.