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A Guide To Success In Second Life

September 3rd, 2010

Linden Lab, the owners of Second Life, make a large chunk of their money by selling plots of land and islands. A private island will generally cost about $1,000 USD which is a pretty large amount for most residents. However, if you buying so you can lease out plots of land to future homeowners or small business owners, than it could turn out to be a great investment.

Although are Second Life hacks and other forms of cheating available to gain that instant success results with not a lot of work and time, a lot of success stories will have that Donald Trump-like sound to it. Starting small and building from it.

One resident named Ray started his Second Life by buying small plots of land. After he saved enough money he bought his first island. He then began leasing out the space. He bought more islands with the profits.

Through perseverance and investing smartly he currently owns more than 100 islands and makes enough Second Life money to pay real life expanses.

If you want to become an entrepreneur like other residents, one of the most important things you can do is seek the advice of successful businessmen and businesswomen. This advice can be found in the form of Second Life guides where you can learn from their mistakes and dramatically increase your chance of success.

By utilizing SL guides and learning from some of SL’s best you may also end of saving tons of money and avoid endless hours wasted by common beginner mistakes

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Thinking About Starting A Second Life Business?

August 18th, 2010

When you first get started

When trying to decide a career path, let your personal interest guide you. It’s more fun to have a hobby-turned business than doing something you have no interest in.

Don’t expect to make SL money right away, be prepared to dedicate many hours before your business takes off.

Like in the real world, start developing your own community of contacts. Many of your clients will come from networking and you’ll also save on advertising costs.

Second Life business opportunities
Here are some examples of jobs that are available and businesses that residents have started in Second Life

These are just a small example of all the money making opportunities in the game. Doing so, however is not always easy and requires a lot of time and dedication.

A successful Second Life business
You may never make millions from real estate like Anshe Chung but many people have been able to bring in a considerable income or even earn enough to be able to quit their real life job.

They oftentimes create SL walkthroughs based on their success stories to help you and other residents pursue your own dreams. They oftentimes also share Second Life tips to making money that they have discovered on their journey.

If you are looking to start a Second Life business take advantage of all the resources possible and remember to have fun with it. Don’t let the business aspect of it ruin what was once your passion

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A Better Teen Second Life

August 11th, 2010

Teen Second Life is a virtual place created by Linden Lab where teens can gather to socialize, play, learn, and create the world around them. Teens create a customizable digital representation of themselves which is called an Avatar.

More than just a videogame or an internet chat room, Teen SL is a safe place for teens to make new friends and go on adventures all while learning valuable skills in working together, and also use their imagination to shape the world around them.

Teen Second Life is different from the adult version of Second Life since only teens ages 13-17 are allowed to enter. There are of course a few exceptions. Linden Lab’s staff, Linden Liaisons, is always present to make sure that Teen Second Life remains a safe and friendly place to be and everyone there is who they say they are. Sometimes teachers are also brought in for educational purposes; residents are always notified who they are and what projects they are working on.

Teen SL is an amazing place for young people to meet and get to know each other. Another place hang out is a Second Life forum which is also a place to gather, socialize, and learn. A forum is also filled with many resources that has been created by none other than residents who have mastered the game to help you advance:

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Starting Up A New Second Life Organization

August 4th, 2010

Have you been thinking about starting your own organization in Second Life? Going about it can be difficult and time consuming as is but then you also have to find a location to host your meetings. When you first start up you’ll be busy coordinating and managing things and not having an immediate meeting location can be a huge setback.

To save you time, Second Life now has four pre-built regions with buildings, landscaping, and necessary features. You can purchase these developed regions from the Second Life Land Store by credit card or PayPal, or you can make your purchase by a special order site if you want to pay from an invoice.

Conference Center Region – Located on a secluded island, this spot includes adjustable furniture and media screens

Baronial Castle- This mountain top SL building includes a tavern, boat, and a dungeon for a more informal meeting setting.

Theater- This theatre has a capacity of 100 residents and is designed for presentations

Moonbase – This unconventional meeting space is designed to spark creativity. It includes spacesuits, shuttlecraft, and moonbuggies.

These pre- developed regions will help you start up your organization much quicker than having to do things yourself. If you want to simply things even more you can visit a Second Life forum and chat with like-minding residents who can provide you with many useful SL tools on how to best manage and promote your new organization.

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Creating Second Life Scripts

July 28th, 2010

Linden Scripting Language (also known as LSL) is a programming language in Second Life that enables you to add interactive behavior to objects in the games. With SL scripts you can make lights that flash different colors, a gate that opens and closes when you click it or you can even create rain.

One SL resident makes his living by selling rain, virtual rain that is that he sells for about a dollar per reusable storm. He is just one of the many residents selling products in Second Life for real money. Others sell things like snow, fire, lights, or even the sound of barking dogs or chirping birds that they have created.

Second Life Scripting is basically a list of instructions that are carried out in the order they are written. These instructions are performed by a computer and need to be in a specific format and grammar known as syntax. Learning the scripting language can be difficult at first but with the correct guidance you should be able to learn fairly quickly.

If you are interested in scripting or are just looking for some scripts you can go here: Second Life Scripts. Creating scripts can not only bring objects to life but it can create endless opportunities for you.

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Making Money In Second Life

July 21st, 2010

In Second Life, Avatars need new hairstyles, new dresses for parties, new shoes for the ballrooms, suits for business meetings, watches, jewelry, houses, furniture for their houses, art to decorate the walls of their house, ponds for their landscaping.

They need virtual goods, virtual goods that cost real money.

In the last couple years, many of us have seen our real economy sink while Second life’s economy has thrived.

Goods in Second Life are not bought with real money but with the in-game currency called Linden dollars. Second Life Lindens can then be traded on an exchange. Similar the real world Federal Reserve, the Second Life owners, Linden Lab, control the exchange. The exchange rate has remained relatively consistent at 230 Linden dollars for every U.S. dollars.

There will blogs to come about diversity of goods and services that are sold in Second Life for money. Meanwhile if you want some ideas on what you could possibly do to make a virtual living or want to discuss some ideas with residents so can do so by joining a Second Life forum. This is another place where residents with similar interests can gather and share SL secrets on how to be virtually successful.

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Making Second Life Lindens With Surveys

July 13th, 2010

Many residents who are running low on Second Life linden dollars try their hand at survey ATM’s. It is tempting to try them after seeing advertisements on how you can make thousands of linden dollars that way.

Is it really a quick and easy way to make lindens? You’re promised lindens in exchange for giving your email address and completing a survey. In reality it’s usually some offer or promotional trick and as you’ll find out soon enough, new surveys are hard to find. Also most ATM’s use the same survey but have different payouts. So once you’ve completed a survey and you find it again later at a location that paid more, you can’t fill it out again.

Completing surveys used to be a decent way of making SL money but most of the big-name companies that used to pay out have all but disappeared from Second Life:

If you do decide to complete surveys be sure to use an alternate email address and don’t expect them to pay. The large survey sites have gone out of business and what’s left are smaller companies that can’t pay out as much.

There are hundreds of better ways to make lindens in the virual world. There are Second Life strategies available that will show you the latest money making idea. Second Life millionaires also oftentimes create SL guides to share their money making secrets with you.

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Making SL Money- Take The Gamble

July 6th, 2010

Last week we discussed Second Life tips to making money with little effort. Aside from camping, another way of making lindens easily is Freeplay. Second life Freeplay is playing one of the many types of in-game machines such as Zyngo Wild or Deal Extreme. You try to beat the high score to earn SL linden dollars.

Like camping, Freeplyay games are used to try to increase traffic to gaming parlors and such. There are two types of SL Freeplay payouts:

Instant payout- you instantly win money when you beat a high score
Timed payout- The high score of the day wins money

Second Life Freeplay has been around even before the gambling ban. Some people consider it a form of gambling since the land owner of where the games are played can temper with the probability of winning simply by adjusting the high score. Games that cost a bit more to play also tend to have higher return rates. Many compare Freeplay to “games of chance” such as those seen in gambling cities.

Freeplay is a fun way to earn some lindens but on the downside, payouts are usually low so its basically useful only if you just want to kill some time or find a game you really like.

If you are a risk taker that is looking for easy ways to make money that have higher return rates than try some Second Life cheats instead. These can show you ways to making money and advancing faster than normally possible.

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How To Make Second Life Linden Dollars - Camping

June 23rd, 2010

Camping in SL is one of the easiest and common methods to earn Second Life linden dollars. Linden Lab got stricter with campers a few years ago; however, it still remains largely popular. Here are three types of camping.

General Camping
The way general Second Life camping works is simple, in exchange for some money, your avatar sits in one place and creates traffic for land or shop owners. With Linden Lab clamping down on camping that payouts have gotten smaller over time but it’s still a real easy way to make a few extra lindens.

Profile Picks Camping
Profile picks camping also made an appearance a few years ago. You tend to get a bit more money this way than regular camping but the downside is that you can get permanently banned from the system if you remove the location from your profile picks tab before the time that you signed up for is up. How it works:

Traffic Cone Camping
The third type of camping is the traffic cone method. How it works:

To make the camping process even easier and earn more lindens doing it many players are using camping bots. These Second Life bots, also known as macros, are basically programs designed to do camping and other tasks for you while you go the work, school, or even sleep. So all you have to do is start up your SL macro and have it automatically accumulate lindens while go about other things.

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How To Invest Your SL Linden Dollars Wisely

June 15th, 2010

After the ban on gambling back in 2007, Second Life’s residents had somewhat reduced opportunities on where and how to spend their Linden dollars (Second Life currency).

Casinos and gambling used to be a significant part of the SL economy. The US government, however, prohibits most from of online gambling and after an ongoing investigation by the FBI, Linden Lab made a sudden decision to ban gambling.

After the ban, many turned to the world of share trading to make their living. Ironically the world of share trading is seen by many to actually be a lot worse and riskier than gambling in itself.

Second Life’s World Stock Exchange (WSE) is located on its own island. The trading room enables players to buy or sell shares, with Limit Ordering also available. General information is given about different companies as well as stock price history and current trades.

Investing in the stock market can be a huge gamble, to lessen the risk its best that you be well informed before you decide to invest your money. SL hints can go a long way in giving you advice and ensuring that you make good money making decisions.

These Second Life hints are oftentimes released by veteran players who have mastered the game and are willing to pass their Second Life secrets on to you.

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