Business planning, profit model

I attended the first class in Fleche Xeno’s workshop series. I was a bit impressed. More was going on then I had expected. Serious stuff!

The first thing that we did was open up an excel spreadsheet on google docs. The participants went through sales logs and identified how many products we sell per week, and how much money we make in a week with in- world sales only. From there, we went over how much land we use and its tier cost, event costs, traffic costs, advertisements, and more.

In the end, we had an excel document with formulas projecting weekly profits in different scenarios and identifying where we would start losing money.

The class continued on outlining marketing strategies and comparing them to the results from our spreadsheets.

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Are you linked in?

Well, I was looking at my email and saw that a few people on Linked-In asked me to be their contacts. I decided to work on building up my contacts and just send out an invite to everyone in my address book. With so many contacts, I did not want to bother with looking at who was worthy and who was not. I sent out the following message along with the Linked In request.

I would like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.

I just went through and invited everyone from my address book. If you don’t know who I am, here is a refresher of sorts in case we have met before.

I used to blog about my real life at http://www.lewismoten.com .

I am a programmer analyst senior member for Computer Sciences Corporation.

I have a second life where I am known as Dedric Mauriac. I blog about it often at https://dedricmauriac.wordpress.com
and I have a podcast for it too http://bluehair.podshow.com

I have a podcast of dreams http://lewiesdreamyaudio.podshow.com

I attended the Art Institute of Pittsburgh.

I am currently attending the University of Phoenix

Perhaps I am related to you. Perhaps I am your brother, son, husband, uncle, or nephew.

Perhaps I am your archenemy. In that case, you had better monitor on what I am doing.

Did we used to date? I bet you would love to know that you are better off than I am. You had better be linked in to make sure I am burning in hell at your last request.

Were you that person who forgot that kid who knew that girl who had a boyfriend that saw that other person who forgot about some girl last May? Maybe I can help you out. Chances are no … so you had better not reply if this applies to you.

Are you some automated system that does not reply to emails? You will probably give me some bogus message about not being a valid email address or some “user mailbox full” message. In that case, eat my bytes.

Are you a spammer who was trying to get me to get a free Xbox for buying into some advertisements for lots of money? That thing never worked out, but hey, I’ll link you in.

-Lewis

I hope that no one gets angered over this. Perhaps my network will grow so that I can boast to my brother how my network is bigger than his is. I just got ten connections within the first half hour for a total of 22 connections. I wonder why I had not thought of this sooner.

The linkedin folks even provide a nice utility to build pretty email signature. How neat.

Lewis Moten Programmer Analyst Senior Professional
Work: 703-205-6123 Mobile: 703-585-6883 Fax: 703-205-6399 Email: lewismoten@gmail.com IM: 364308 (ICQ) http://www.linkedin.com/in/lewismoten My Second Life Blog Computer Sciences Corporation 3110 Fairview Park Drive Falls Church, Virginia 22042 United States of America We’re hiring! Experience Results
See who we know in common		Want a signature like this?

Playing around with SL Query

I found out about another SL website to help people find products, events, and other sorts of things.

I started listing a few of my products already

The website is http://www.slquery.com/

membership is free and you can post pictures with your products.

They have a search hud just like 411, but no advertisements.

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