Market Day by SL Merchant Guild

~::~ What is Market Day? ~::~

In many real life communities of any size, you can find merchants gathering in a downtown or town square area for at least one day a week. Oftentimes, they vend fresh foods straight from a farm or seasonal items right before a holiday. For Second Life, we will gather together to give residents a singular location to see many vendors of certain types on THREE days in our Inaugural Market Day Week April 5-9. On these days, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday we will have vendors from all product and service areas come together on a single sim--Elizabeth Town sponsored by Laura Liberty--to demonstrate a sense of community not only among the merchants of SL, but with residents new and seasoned. When possible entertainment or music will be planned that fits the first three themes we'll experiment with: Role Play Monday, Furnishings Wednesday, and Fashion Friday. The market will last an entire 24 hours from SL midnight to SL 11:59 pm on the given market days. The sim will be closed for sales on Sundays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays for preparation for the following Market Day.

~::~ What's in it for you? ~::~

EXPOSURE & hopefully sales :) This is mostly an opportunity to be seen and interact. While you may realize a few sales, I expect that You'll have plenty of prim to rez goods, but your best benefit will come from getting seen and known for the relationships you choose to create both with potential customers and with your merchant family. There is MAJOR long-term potential in this project profitable for any subsidiaries you may choose to pursue and especially for giving new merchants the kind of mentoring we either wish they had, or wish we'd had. In the long run, better relationships all around equate to better sales. We could all use those...

~::~ How do I sign up, and where? ~::~

An application will be put into notices within the next few days. Read the info carefully and resubmit your application. We will contact any merchants who can be accomodated. At that point your rent will be due (listed in the application), and applicable for your assigned day. Vendors with paid and approved applications will be assigned to a given week and will have rez rights for their designated week. DO NOT pay your rent to the group! Please pay S0phie Sautereau directly as your transaction ID is your receipt. A landmark will be made public, so even if you don't get in this week, we will contact you about a subsequent week to participate. Vendors will be listed for each week via notecard notice. We encourage EVERY group member to participate in Market Day by attending and supporting this community, however, giving out LM and spamming visitors NOT on your given market day will get you booted and potentially banned from sim and/or group.


Market Day Is April 7th 2010
APRIL 7 MARKET DAY by SL MERCHANT GUILD

This is the *OFFICIAL* Market Day hosted by Aire Xaris and sponsored by SL Merchant Guild, a coalition of merchants in Second Life committed to bringing a sense of COMMUNITY to Second Life commerce! The ultimate goal of the Guild's Market Day is "1 sim, 1 week, 100s of merchants" offering residents a peek at what they offer and a chance to interact. Subscribe to Market Day News at a kiosk during Market Day or at a favorite vendor's location. If your vendor doesn't have a kiosk yet, suggest it!

Market Day will include demos, freebies, entertainment....the elements of a fair! Of course, you can also purchase items from merchants participating. ;) There will also be promotional objects there such as Midnight Mania, Lucky Chair, Lucky Cupcake etc. Stop by and meet some of SL's most dedicated merchants!

THIS IS A 23-HOUR EVENT, BEGINNING AT MIDNIGHT, CONCLUDING AT 11 PM THE SAME DAY!

Settled in

I'm Home!!!!!

Again. Well, That was fun, if you ever get the chance to buy land on transfer in SL, ... Um.. Don't. Run Away. (or at the very least, Keep in mind that if you are selling your Full Sim with a Homestead, Don't sell your Full Sim first, because you have to OWN a full sim in order to sell your Homestead).

~That being said..

After almost a full twelve days of being homeless, Due to a communication mix up, and some red tape at the Lab, the New Gull gallery is situated firmly, once again on the grid. Looking more like an old New England Brick and Stone Institution, and lovingly settled with its adjoining garden and soft sounds of waves and gulls, I believe the gallery has evolved into its best and most apropriate form yet.

Galilee Landing is a Full Sim and a combination of what was best about the two Homesteads I owned before. Gull Gallery, Aire Xaris studios, and Galilee, Sand Hill Cove. Continuing with their themes, Galilee Landing is a small Artist and Fishing community. On the East Side of the Sim, Visitors will find The New SandHill Cove Galleria, Where A beutiful build known as Old Wood Store made by Fornicola Butuzova of Prefabulous Homes, hosts Sezzy's Fashion Jewlery, Clothing and Mind's Eye, Unique gifts. Also in the Galleria, visitors will find a real working elevator that transports them to either the Beach or a the Seven Seas Fishing lake.

There are Shops in the Galleria, and Ad boards for rent as well.

HOMELESS

Yes, well...
Last Saturday, March 6, was the last time I ever saw Gull Gallery and Galilee:( Both Homesteads were sold, and are in the loving hands of their new Owners.
I have been waiting for my new Full Sim to be transferred onto the grid.
~ And waiting
.. And waiting.

Thank God for my Governor Linden cupboard! I miss my home :(

the New Sim will be called Galilee Landing, and will carry the same theme of a small RL Fishing and Art community in Narragansett Rhode island, Known as Point Judith. The Block Island Ferry will Take visitors over to a Small Island Called New Harbor where the North Light will feature a small gallery and pub.
Sezzy's clothing and Fashion jewelry will be on the mainland and a new shopping center Known as Sand Hill Cove Galleria will host a shopping mall, A cultural Arts common where visitors will be able to leave their LM and Slurls for free or rent out store space at the Boardwalk and Beach front boutiques.

Aire Xaris studios will be located in its own separate area and The Gallery itself, will be rebuilt, bigger and better than ever.

Its been a rough road this past week, and I'm not looking forward to sifting through that mess I call an inventory, but as soon as the Sim is ready and the Ribbon has been cut, I will post the new landmarks and links here.

Thank-you for your kind e-mails and notecards.
Aire