Gifting tip (ギフトのTip)
知っての通り、あなたは、いつでも無料で製品をサブミットし直す(resubmit)ことができます。これは、あなたはギフトボックスだけの3D家具製品を作ることが*できる*ことを意味します。その後あなたが選んだ日付に、ギフトボックス製品を再サブミットして、完全に異なる製品(カウチ、椅子、熊手を持った磁器製の子犬、その他なんでも)に変えることができます。ここでのポイントは、ギフトを贈る人さえギフトが開けられるまで中身を知らないような、本当の贈り物がIMVUにおいて可能であるということです。これは非常に楽しいでしょう。
(以下原文)
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Get Ready for the Holidays!
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Tis the season for kick booty products in IMVU! This year, we are expecting a significant increase in sales in IMVU. We're talking HUGE numbers!
We want you to be successful and have some recommendations to help you maximize your holiday profits. Of course, since IMVU is a global community, it is not necessarily winter in several of the places where people use IMVU.
That said, the winter holiday theme is a very good time to sell to the US, Canada, Australia, England and much of Europe. We believe focusing on the winter holidays will result in better sales for Devs this year. To increase your sales, do the following steps:
1. CREATE your products NOW!
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Now is the time to get your winter holiday products out the door. Santa Claus; snowmen; sleighs; sleigh bells; warm fires; wreaths; garland; the works! Pretty much all product types can be made in this theme. For example stickers, male/female clothing, male/female accessories, pets, scenes, FURNITURE! We have seen a healthy appetite across all product lines so have fun.
2. TAG your products
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Over the coming weeks, we will be sending out email promotions asking IMVU users to search for winter holiday products. Even better, several promotions will have big buttons that lead people directly to the winter holidays search page.
We encourage you to tag your holiday products with several holiday themed words. More importantly, though, we encourage you to include the words "winter holiday" in your product tags.
To change the tags on a product, browse to your product's information page and choose Edit Settings. At the bottom of the submission page that follows, there is a section for entering tags. Type in words that will make your products more likely to appear in winter holiday searches. Here are some examples of tags you could include:
* Winter
* Holiday
* Gift
* Christmas
3. ADVERTISE
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* Shoutouts
Hundreds of thousands of potential customers use IMVU all day long. Shoutouts are a great way to advertise your winter holiday products.
* Forums signatures
As many of you know, the image in your forum signature can be a powerful advertising tool. Why not change your siggy to promote your winter holiday products?
* Avatar picture
Your avatar picture shows up all over the IMVU website. Use this advertising tool to show off your latest holiday products.
Gifting tip
As you all know, you can always resubmit a product free of charge. This means that you *could* make a 3D furniture product that was just a gift box. Then, on the date of your choosing, you *could* resubmit the gift box product to be something completely different: a couch, a chair, a porcelain puppy with a pitchfork - WHATEVER. The point is that true gift giving is possible in IMVU as not even the gift giver would know what the product might become when "opened".
IMVU will no doubt use this resubmitting feature for several of its promotions as well. This one can be very fun.
As many of you know, version 1 of Developer Tokens (DTs) hit the stands this week. Developers receive DTs is received whenever one of their products is purchased with promotional credits. This gives value to the promotional credit sale while still protects the IMVU economy from inflation.
This initial version of DTs is limited to paying for submission fees and shoutouts. This means that, instead of paying for shoutouts or submission fees with credits, you may now use DTs.
* Every time a sale occurs, any developer in the chain who would have earned any number of predits instead earns 1 Developer Token (DT).
* A DT is worth 10 credits for the purposes of submissions and shoutouts. 50 DTs is enough for a new product submission.
* The price of product submission is base derivation + submission fee. The submission fee will be payable in DT, the base derivation is still a credit charge.
* We have written a script to retroactively reward DTs for all sales that have occurred since the predits were turned off on September 8th, 2006.