Onward to XstreetSL

All items for sale in my House of Skin and Gallery are also now on XstreetSL (search by MarkMonet Thor). The virtue of this outlet is that one does not have to rent a store, can add a useful description to the items, and they are well organized to find what you want.

As to the House of Skin and Gallery, I went through three ways of generating visitors and sales. First, I announced through events that the first buy is free—just buy, and I would reimburse them. That got a lot of visitors, but no IM’s for a free item. So, I surveyed almost all the visitors (I have Super Greeter there, which records and sends me the names of all visitors) asking why the didn’t ask for a free item. Major reason was that it required too much trust that I would repay them.

So, changed this through the events list to IM me and I would send the item free. Got about as many visitors, and only 2-3 requests. Again I surveyed the visitors as to why so few, and got answers like it was too difficult, or nothing interesting. I guess the problem really was that visitors were spoiled by getting freebies laying around for the taking, and what I was doing was new.

Then, I stopped using events to get my message out, and left it to first-one- free signs. Left the advertising to the find places tab, and the classified advertising of all my items for 500L. I am getting about 2-3 visitors a day, and occasional requests for a free item. Now, will see how well we do through XstreetSL, with no first one free. The next step maybe to sharply reduce all prices—a big sale.

One step at a time.