This morning I stumbled upon Maria Korolov’s Hypergrid Biz Twitter account and decided I could do a better job of keep up with the news and save some time by adding her latest Hypergrid Biz tweets to my blog site. Â I was elated to find the WP Simple Feed List plug-in. After only a few minutes of use, I must say I highly recommend it! You can add the plug-in directly through WordPress but I recommend going to the publisher’s site and reading about all the options available before installing. Using this plug-in you can install RSS feeds in pages, posts and sidebars.
Artsy Pixels in the Marketplace
I have been watching the web side e-commerce application developments for Second Life members ever since I became a member. Â Last week I finally decided to give the Marketplace a trial run and opened up a shop with my Jewle Rae Coiffure avatar hairstyles on Monday evening. Â After spending over 100 hours getting goods ready to sell, I still didn’t have all the inventory ready to go live in the shop. Preparing products for sale was a lot more work than I thought it would be!
I am striving to load the product descriptions with keywords and have added more than one photo, a PDF file and video slideshow to most of the entries. Â I decided not to make any big announcements or buy any advertising until I had my virtual shelves stocked with more goods. I really wasn’t expecting much traffic after reading posts from other merchants who were frustrated by the inadequacy of the Marketplace search feature. Â I Â was really surprised to find I had made my first sale early in the morning on Thanksgiving Day! What was most interesting is that the product sold was not listed among the “Top searched products” at all and the highest number for the “Times appeared in search” was only 183. Â I’m just intrigued enough to continue stocking the shop for now.
Winter in SL
If you love winter, Second Life has loads of winter fun to offer. Here’s their latest promo on places to go and things to do during this holiday season. If you’re not a member yet, please accept my invitation to join me there by clicking on the Second Life banner to the right of this post.