Land or mall....store or storage....now or later....

I'm trying very hard to do this whole business thing the right way. Now the question is what is the right way?

My thought is to develop inventory first, then worry about a store front. Small hitch in that plan; I currently have a Linden home. That means limited prims - 40 to be exact. I can't do a durn thing with my shiny, new Beadrez in that space. So I end up taking my stuff over to a sandbox and working on it. It's so easy to leave things behind that way. It would be really nice to be able to leave things out.

Should I get some auction land now, just a 512 plot, and use it for storage without spending a lot of money? Should I wait and buy a bigger plot for store and storage? Or use space for storage and get a mall location and possible mall traffic? And what about all the rip offs with renting mall space and land I hear about? How do I know who to trust?

On paper things look simple; in reality it seems to be anything but. It really is the same as opening a real life store with less investment. Hopefully I figure something out - or I keep delaying which seems to be my tactic at the moment. Delay a decision and keep learning about Beadrez and Blender and whatever else.

My brain hurts.....

A Giant Leap Forward....with a lot of help...

Somedays things just work out well. When I was in SL on Saturday, I ran into Rita Munro. She hangs out at Happy Hippo. In this case, she teleported me to a great free dress - if I figure out where it was, I'll post the link. Anyway, we started chatting and I got to ask a number of questions about her business, Rita Munro's Touch It. She was very helpful with advice.

Another surprise came from Patty Pavlova. I had purchased some Byzantine jewelry sculpts from her store, Logo & Kin. She was very helpful and very kind. She offered to show me how Beadrez, a product of Xoph, worked as I've been considering buying one. It seemed to work quite well and she showed me quite a few things that could be done with it. She also gave me other merchant names for other aspects of business. Very nice, and very helpful.

Thanks to these two lovely ladies, I feel further along than I was by quite a bit. Now if I could find the perfect gold texture......