My Semi-Monthly Post
Boy, I'm going to have to get back in the habit of posting again. SL blogging has one inherent problem: you can either do something or write about doing something. Or, in my case, do nothing and not write about it. Either way.

I guess the most notable event in the last month or so, as far as I am concerned, was the grand opening of the Mo-Tech Industries storefront. I've been releasing minor trinkets under the Mo-Tech Industries brand name for over a year now, and I figured it's about time I created a store front for it all. Okay, I've had rental vendors before. I think I sold exactly 2 items in three months. I guess I should have advertised or something. This time, I'm ponying up the Lindens for Classifieds and Find listings. I may expand into other advertising venues when my stock grows sufficiently, but I don't see doing so until I have at least a few dozen or so items. We'll see.

The shop is mostly an attempt at justifying my hobbies here. It makes me feel like I'm not wasting my time when I spend hours on end tinkering with some new scripted toy. Now, when I come up with an idea, I can develop it into a finished product instead of just dumping in my Objects, Experimental folder and forgetting about it. It'll never make me any real money, of course. I covered about half my tier last month, which I expect puts me somewhere in the middle of the bell curve for SL business ventures. But it's good practice to develop a product to full release status in any case. And it lends my tinkering an air of legitimacy.


I decided to co-opt an old build (pre-remodel version, for comparison) for the purpose. One evening, I realized that I hadn't even entered it for a couple months. (Not a good thing when you're paying tier to keep the prims around.) But glom a couple more floors onto the bottom, and it becomes a fully functional floating boutique kind of thing. Maybe not the best approach, but it makes me feel like I wasn't wasting the prims all this time, anyway. And the semi-modular floor design makes it easy enough to expand when I need the space.

I'm sure I'll rabbit on more about the various products in the shop at a later date. In the meantime, feel free to drop by if you're the neighborhood. It's tucked in the middle of the Garden of Mo (location link at upper right).
Posted by Moriash Moreau at 4:19 PM