Alpha Channels have a number of applications such as setting the length of a sleeve, shaping a collar or even making an open shirt by taking out the middle section. Alpha Channels are key to clothes creation in SL. Once you have your clothing texture ready, the next step is to turn the texture into an actual clothing item which can be worn by your avatar. To view properties go to your inventory, right click the clothing item and click properties.
Modify — They will be able to modify the item, when relating to clothing they can go into appearance and modify the clothing attributes such as looseness and sleeve length. Transfer — The customer will be able to transfer the product to someone else if its no copy they lose the item if they transfer it to someone else.
In order to sell your product you will need to take some pictures to be able to show customers what your product looks like. You might like to set yourself up a little photo studio area if you have some land or perhaps just set up an area where you can place a backboard to take pictures in front of.
There are many model poses available if you would like a more professional style pose, there are also many freebie poses available in world and on SL Marketplace to help you get a good pose for your picture. You can be your own model if you wish or perhaps get a friend to model your outfit. The aim here is to get the best possible picture for your product. This can be make or break as far as selling an item.
Even the most fantastic outfit can be a non seller because the product picture is not showing the outfit to its best. Be sure to take clear and reasonably up close pictures. Its good practice to get a front and back view of your product. Take the picture up close to show as much detail as possible on your outfit. Again, take a look at the display pictures of other similar products on SL marketplace to get an idea of how to present your clothing.
These can be found on the SL website and on YouTube. The better your product picture is, the better chances you have of customers wanting to buy your product. Here is a link to a photography tutorial by Strawberry Singh which guides you through how to get great looking pictures in SL:. Now you have boxed up the product items into a package, you can now create a product board from which you are going to be selling the product from.
Create a new prim, re-size it, then place the product display texture onto the front of it. Now you can drag the product package into the display board and set it for sale. At the bottom of this window you will see the option to set the item for sale. Tick this box then enter in the desired price you want to sell the item for. You will also want to select the contents option below the price box so that the product board gives whatever is inside its contents to the customer when they buy from the board.
This is a great time to talk about what kind of theme you will have for your shop. A good idea is to have a look at what is for sale on the SL Marketplace. This online store is where merchants can put their items up for sale. Click on Apparel and take a look at some of the items that other merchants are selling. Most merchants have an In-World store, this is a virtual store that customers can walk around and view your items, you can decorate your store and set it out like a real life store, have specials, give away a gift to your customers who visit the store, etc.
Think about what kind of clothing you wish to sell in your store. Some merchants just have a general clothing store and sell a wide range of clothes whilst others like to have a themed shop. You may want to sell street clothes, formal clothes, costumes, leather wear, gothic, etc. There are many land owners in SL that will rent you space on their property to open your store. You will need to take a good look around the virtual malls and commercial sims a sim is a virtual piece of land or island to see what is available.
Well established and successful merchants will usually have a whole sim dedicated to their store. It can be hard choosing where to put your store.
As a new creator a good place to have your store may be in an established commercial sim. You will see thousands of these commercial sims all over SL. You can look in the classifieds on the SL website or inworld to see where empty stores are already set up and ready to rent. Be wise when choosing where to open your store, if you are selling beachwear for instance, try and rent a shop or stall in a beach themed area.
You will then be selling your product in an area where people who are most likely wanting your style of clothes. When you are on the hunt for a good rental space, how many other shops are there and what they are selling. Will your style of clothes be of interest in that area? Also take note of how many people are walking around and shopping in that area. If there are a lot of people shopping in that area then you have more chance of them wandering into your store to see what you have for sale.
Look at the location and size of the store you are looking at renting. How many items do you have to sell? You may want to start off with a smallish size store and move to a bigger store later as you expand your business. As you will see in SL there are thousands of places you can rent to sell your items.
Do you homework first by spending time looking for the best location for your store. A good bit of research first could be the key to whether you sell your items or not. Factor in the cost of the rental well. A small shop with about 30 prims will cost you anything from 0 — L. Keep in mind each of your product boards will be at least one prim. If the rent is particularly high look around the area to see why? So the landlord may charge quite high rent because the demand for available rentals there is high.
If the mall is new or has many shops available the rent may be quite low, although this is more affordable, there may not be a lot of visitors to that area and then selling your product may be harder to do. If you do decide to rent an area — pay for it week by week at first and see whether you are getting sales and how many people are visiting your store.
You can put in a traffic monitor available on SL Marketplace — usually around L this will give you a daily report to your emails on how many people are visiting your store and how long they are staying in your store, all this kind of information helps you to establish how well your store in that location is doing.
Some mall areas will even let you occupy a store in their mall for free but will ask to take a commission from each sale you have. A script is put into each of your product boards, this script will instruct the item to send a percentage of the sale of your item back to the mall owner. Sometimes it pays to ask questions. Classifieds are a good way to advertise your store to potential customers. Classifieds are paid listings that residents can search in, the highest paid classifieds are displayed first.
However, if you have a set of relative and unique keywords that are specific to your store, the more chance of it coming up in search when residents are searching these terms. Also, set the rating of the classified to either PG or Mature depending on your store content.
SL Marketplace is a website run by Linden Labs that allows residents to put their merchandise up for sale via the internet. Residents can then sell their items via the marketplace direct to the other residents.
Once you put an item up for sale there you will become a merchant. Customers can browse the marketplace to look for items to buy and have them delivered to them in-world. In order to begin listing products on SL Marketplace you will need a magic box and a place in-world to place it.
When a customer purchases an item on the Marketplace, it gets sent from the magic box contents to their avatar. Place the magic box on your home sim or somewhere that it will be kept permanently. Also, it may require you to reset the location of your magic box on the marketplace website. Now that you have placed your magic box down on a piece of land, right click the magic box, go to edit then click the contents tab.
Drag your product box from your inventory window into the magic box contents. The magic box will turn blue and start the process of communicating with the website, once it has stopped flashing and turned back to its original colour, this means you are ready to start setting up the product on the marketplace website. The product listing details page will appear allowing you to enter in the details for your product.
Here you can input the item title, product features, description and more. The keywords box is important since these are the words which when searched for on the website, will bring up your product listing. Make these words relative and specific to your product to improve the likelihood of your product appearing in search. Followers 1. You are about to reply to a thread that has been inactive for days.
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