How to quickly lose a few k in your inventory

So. This is how my (blog)poses are sorted. (also note the artistic angle on the picture)

As you can see, there are 10 stands, numbered for easy use (and obviously, I use Tillie’s posestands). Nrs 1 – 6 are all standing poses, grouped by creator, that I use for blogging. I try to keep a maximum of 300ish poses per stand. In nr 7, I have (static) poses that express some kind of movement (flying, dancing, …), nr 8 has sitting/laying/… poses, nr 9 has boy poses and nr 10 is where I keep the poses for special avatars (hamster, mermaid, …).
By only keeping them in posestands, I have seriously reduced my inventory count. (When on location, I can rez or wear a certain posestand to pose)

But here is where I am stuck. Should I organize my standing poses into more sets? Per creator? Or per style (leaning poses, bending poses, facing away poses, …)? Or should I throw around my whole system? Are there posestands that will sort all your poses for you so you don’t have to fill your pretty head with all these questions?
How do you keep your poses sorted? Please share your tips!

Pose: Bag lady II 3 – aDORKable poses [Using Tillie's posestand]
Hair: Pandora – Truth
Skin: Thursday – Essences
Eyes: Stella eyes n4 – Glam affair
Lashes: Mesh lashes v.01 – Beetlebones
Nails: Classic nails spring/summer 2013 – Izzie’s
Dress: Odette – Teefy [Fameshed - May]
Shoes: Mae – Gos
Slurls and designer info here.

I blog therefore I shop: Making shopping easier

Hi everyone this is my first post here on the [SL] Blogger Support blog, and this is a simple piece I´ve been thinking about doing for a long time now.

As you all might have realized by now, Bloggers shop a lot, I wouldn´t say that we are the best authority on it of course, but this is we pretty close to the ultimate experienced shopper you will ever find out there in the grid.

And thru all my shopping experiences I noticed a few small details that sometimes seem to be missing, that could make my whole shopping experience easier, better, faster and with smoother running in general, so this is a kind of oh hai there help me buy your stuff kind of post.

There have been several issues I came across whilst shopping that I think are good to address, I think most of them arise from the fact that probably the creator just either forgot it or never really thought about it, so I´m gonna address those points.

- Profile: I open a creator profile, what info should I expect? Well sometimes none, some creators keep their profiles hidden, that makes it hard for me to contact you later if I need costumer support, as a shopper I usually avoid shops where contact info is not on the merchants profile. I´m pretty sure a lot of merchants who do this do it without knowing they might have consequences for it, but as a shopper, I need some basic info.

Now basic info, or things that should always be on your profile front page: Shop name, link to your marketplace shop, and  main store location, who and how to contact if I have an issue, these are so simple but are sometimes missing. There is also of course additional info i love more as a blogger then an actual shopper: Your shop blog link, your Flickr account link as well as your Flickr group link, and all other links to platforms you belong to or are active on, with a single link i can follow all your official announcements.

- Marketplace: So many creators do this, they don´t link their inworld store in their marketplace, I never understood why, especially if you sell furniture or buildings having that link there takes a few seconds to add and saves me the trouble to fight LL´s flawed search to find your shop. And don´t forget to keep it updated.

-Blog: Do you have one for your shop? Anyone can get one for free either from WordPress or Blogger, is easy to use and an amazing way to talk and show your work, announce your new releases, with just the ad pic and a slurl, that´s all i need, copy paste from your inworld notecard for new releases, just show me what and where I can get it. Announce your participation in events, and tell me where to go to get your stuff.

-Social Media: Now this is a tricky one, not everyone is cut out for social media, interested in it or even good at it, but you can use some of it without compromising your privacy or being too personal and using only a shop account, the truth is Facebook, Flickr, Google+, Twitter, Plurk and evenPinterest can be amazing tools to expand your business awareness and reach out to a bigger audience, many of these platforms have a huge SL community hungry for news.

-Timing and consistency: You´re releasing a new product, open your profile, where all your links are, and update them all at once, you´re moving your shop open your profile and change all the Slurls, then send out that group notice. Make sure your links are updated as well in all your forms of communication, at the same time and as often as possible.

Paying attention to all these things allows me as a shopper to quickly find out with one click what where your new releases, WIPs, changes of location and preferences in forms of communication, making my shopping experience way easier, and making your business, look polished and professional.

Again is not my place to tell people how to run their business or how they should handle their comfort zones when it comes to sharing info, but if you look around at the most successful stores, and not really just in SL but mostly in RL you will notice how some of these steps are useful, not just for me as a shopper but for your own shop. See you all again soon with hopefully another helpful post.

April may bring showers…

There has been numerous blog posts about etiquette. Especially blogging etiquette.

Don’t do this. Don’t do that. How should you present this? How do you do that? What is the right way? Who says this is wrong? WHO – in turn – makes these decisions on what is best for the “whole” in regards to blogging within Second Life? (I say this toward those who blog Fashion.) While compiling posts and such for [SL] Blogger Support, I came across many forms of what to do and what not to do. Neither one post was perfect, nor was it imperfect. Most said the same thing, while some regarded different ideas.

So what I wanted to do was this: Compile everything that WE KNOW on Blogging Etiquette. If you think about it, we are the ones that do the blogging – and that means EVERYONE. We all have ideas, and thoughts in how things should be done. We all do things in our own ways. Yet, when there is someone new to Second Life Blogging, we’d like for them to know the ins and outs, right? I know I had not a clue on how to do a thing when I first started, so I had to stumble and fumble my way through a lot of things. I forgot to credit items, or give SLURLS. I almost did put music on my blog, but decided against it!

So how are we going to do this? Well, you know I love Google Documents so I made it very easy! Click HERE and you’ll be taking to a form to fill out. Give us five things you THINK are things that we should as bloggers know to do, or learn to do. We’ll collect the data until April 15th, in which then we’ll compile the Top 25 Blogging Tips to make Second Life Blogging a breeze! Enjoy!