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Currently, new virtual worlds are popping up all over the place. With each one, new opportunities for making money are created as well. Although there are some people and even companies making thousands of dollars a month, most will not make more than a hobby income at most. In this article, I'll focus on a few ways that someone cam make some extra income on www.SecondLife.com, one of my personal favorites.
First, what is SecondLife (often just shortened to SL)? Its a virtual world where you can do just about anything you can imagine. You create your own personal avatar, or representation of yourself. You can alter your appearance in just about any way imaginable, from your clothes to your body shape, even a tail or horns. In SL, you can also meet, greet, and make friends with all kinds of people from al over the world. You never really know who you are going to meet, but many are nice people. Just like in real life, though, there are many people that are out to take advantage of new people so have fun, but stil be careful.
With that being said, go through the tutorials and complete the tasks at the orientation island where you are started out at. With the sign-up bonus and after completing the tasks there, you should have some linden dollars (L$) to do with as you please. This is the currency in SL that all business takes place with. You can buy clothes, rent or buy land, play games, give it away, or just save it and keep it forever. If you have enough saved you can sell them for real money too.
So if you spent all you L$ and still want more for whatever reason, how do you get them? Well the easiest way to get more L$ is simply to buy them. You can use a number of methods. That entire process is covered at the link on the upper left on the home page. But that isn't what this article is about. You want to go to the next level and actually earn your L$ so that you never have to buy them again.
Money Trees
You may have heard the old saying, "Money doesn't grow on trees." Well in SL, that is just not true because it does. As you are familiarizing yourself with the virtual world you will likely come across something called a money tree. These trees are set up to help new people gain more L$. Why do people do this? Simple, exposure. People come to these trees and see the things around them and hopefully find it interesting and come back regularly and the land owner can make money from that. More on that later. Lists of money trees are all over the place and there are hundreds of trees everywhere. My personal favorite is the Wolfhaven Moneytree list. You can find it by clicking moneytree.wolfhavenproductions.com/ and then on the left where it says "Golden Apple Tree List". A list of many of the trees will come up. make sure you are logged in and click on a link. It will give you a teleport link to where the tree is. You may have to look around a bit and occaisionally the get moved. All you need to do once the tree rezzez (when objects load it is commonly called "rezzing") is just walk up to in, look around in the tree for a dollar or a fruit and click on it. At the base of the tree, there is some text. One says money in tree. If it says L$0 move on, its empty.
Money trees are a great way to get started making a little bit, but many of them only allow you to take from them for your first 30 days. Realisticly, they are only there to help out new people and are not meant as a way to make real income.
Camping
You can also make money by something called camping. When a land owner enables their place in the search, it is ordered by its traffic. The land owner will, in many cases, set up a place where other people can stand, sit, dance, or whatever and get paid for the traffic they count for while doing it. (Each minutes a person spends at a place, generates one traffic point for that parcel of land) Look around in the search at the bottom of the screen. You can find many places that will pay anywhere from 1L$ per hour on up. There are different ways that camping works too. Some you will have to just sit on a poseball and it will count. Others you have to log in to their system, usually by just clicking on the sign. Some you will have to join their group. More and more people are using anti-bot systems. This usually just means that you will have to answer a simple question (like click on the button with the number two on it) every 10 minutes or so.
Generally, you can camp no matter what your age. You can also make more than from the money trees. Again, though, you can't realistically make a substantial income this way.
Paid for...
There are also many places that will pay you for doing certain tasks. One very popular system is the paid for picks reward system (PPRS). With this system, you get paid for adding a place to your profile picks. How much and how often is totally up to the owner. Some will pay 100L$ or more every month plus have a bonus reward for one person that claimed the bonus that month. Also, many times you can find ways to get paid for doing surveys or visiting various places. One of the best I have found is www.earn2life.com. They combine surveys on the web, in-world visits, and paid for picks programs into one place.
Paid for tasks is a good way to make some money to support your SL shopping or a great way to build start up capital for opening a business in SL of your own.
Designing and Building
Just like in real life, designers are a dime a dozen. One advantage with SL is that even the little businesses that are just starting out really can compete. You may not be able to make a million L$ right away, but it is entirely plausable to break even within the first month or two. With a business in SL, it is more important how you market your services than how great those services are. Get active in the forums and on sites like www.XstreetSL.com where you can show off your new items. Also, start your own blog. Write about your new items coming up and feature different items.
This just barely touuches on the subject of opening a store in SL. Just like in the real world, it is a very complex situation, but at least this is a start.
Real Estate
Yes, virtual real estate can make you legitimate real life money. Anything you can do with real property, you can do with virtual property. Build a comdominium or housing complex and rent them out. Organize a shopping center and rent out the smaller shops. Buy a large piece of property and subdivide and resell the smaller lots. If you can think it up more likely that not, it can work. You just have to be creative.
These are just a few of the ways to make money in SL. There are as many ways to make money as there are people, just like in real life. I know I keep saying that phrase, "just like in real life," but that is because SL really does have many similarities to the real world. Remember that behind those virtual avatars are real people and that they live in the real world.
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