Featured Listing Spots - IMVU Catalog Survey

Shavedpeach · Joined: 09 Mar 2008 Posts: 254 Location: USA - MN

I see a future of Ads by Anshe on page after Page and.... Ads for Gucci, Yves St Laurent, Coco Chanel, Nike, Puma, Aero Postale Products which are already Trade Marks But simply get ignored, the True Talent will be Hidden among the Mediocrity as always
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CheapMeshes · Joined: 21 Jul 2010 Posts: 42 Location: USA - NV

I actually think this could be a good idea, and should be explored. I really think this is the correct kind of way to increase sales IMVU should really concentrate on, rather than trying to collectively screw us all with policy changes, ads, higher prices, dev subscriptions, etc. Allowing a way for developers to advertise more effectively while paying for it sounds like the first good idea Ive heard in a while.

Another thing that may seem off topic but anyone with power to be heard should consider mentioning is making badges purchasable with cash.
The reason for this is because it would probably increase the sale of badges for people that can not save up the amount needed for multi-tile badges. Also bringing in cash for this versus a credit sink would be beneficial for sales numbers, and they can stop with the ads and things that ruin the user experience for the pennies they receive there. If someone wants to buy a large badge and they havent saved up for a long long time, they cant do it unless they buy credits from multiple sites. They make it way too hard to do something that earns the company a lot of money.

Varsha · Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 5:18 pm Post subject:

Thank you all for the feedback. We are monitoring the discussion but please do take a few minutes to complete and submit the survey.

This is an idea we are considering and based on your survey responses, we will decide to run a test before doing anything else.

Thanks!
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Kii · Joined: 01 Dec 2007 Posts: 92 Location: USA - CA

InamorataSylaraia · Joined: 21 Nov 2008 Posts: 2040 Location: USA - WY

Okay, can some people please either be community minded or have the ability to foresee a day when you can afford to purchase advertising, even if you can't now? The lack of advertising in here has been a long bemoaned necessity that you just couldn't find. Shoutouts are the only thing IMVU hasn't tried to cram into the client, so their effectiveness has been halved at best, and other than getting on a friend's product page or hp, about the only other one has been getting a promo bundle. This isn't some case of 'WE ARE THE 99% vs. Wall Streeters' here. The scum who fill their catalogs with ZCD, stolen meshes and other illicit material are not going to buy advertising because it will hurry up the deletion of their accounts. This means that this benefits the hard working creators of IMVU.

Mewcifer · Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 5:47 pm Post subject:

I am a hard working creator of IMVU and I can not afford advertising either with credits or real money. There are plenty of ways people already advertise (in groups, through pulse, forum shops, etc) all this is going to do is make people with money have even MORE space for advertising.

People with money can already "pay" for advertising by forcing their way to the top of the hottest products. I think IMVU should think more for people who need the space but can't make money to pay for it in order to help benefit the community as a whole.
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Sikk · Joined: 26 Oct 2005 Posts: 11578 Location: USA - AZ

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InamorataSylaraia · Joined: 21 Nov 2008 Posts: 2040 Location: USA - WY

Annleigh · Joined: 30 Aug 2007 Posts: 247 Location: USA - AR

I like the idea.
I do not spend any real money on this site, but I would for this.
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Ishiaria · Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 547 Location: New Zealand

CheapMeshes · Joined: 21 Jul 2010 Posts: 42 Location: USA - NV

Perhaps the idea of something like a VIP Creator catalog or something to the affect of that. This could really solve a lot of imvu problems.

If you could put together a combination of ideas previously discussed and make it work this could be wonderful.

Combine ideas from the merchant pass (verification or inspection of accounts that sign up for the vip placement) dev subscription (a fee but also some seller tools like diagnostics would be nice)and fixing the catalog to make it easier to find things, this might actually work. I think
this could be the answer for some people that are tired of trying to find things from quality devs. If a dev doesnt have the skill they probably wont make the investment, but in this case I think it would be worth it as long as IMVU realizes it makes sense because the ones that paid for it would be getting something worth paying for.

Like for instance just begin a 2nd catalog but this time give us the tools to re-arrange our items the way we want in our store, and perhaps maybe we could have some sort of revolving advertising system like gafs advertising program that shows the icons of a users products- built in to the vip catalog start page to actually help us with advertising. Maybe if we could list the items we want in there using pids, that way we can include items we already made and exclude others, not be bound to the order we made the items we made.

People will say its unfair but I actually think its as fair as you can be, offering a valuable service to people that can afford to pay. Otherwise we have a overall higher cost for everyone for the same features...so obviously this would be much better

InamorataSylaraia · Joined: 21 Nov 2008 Posts: 2040 Location: USA - WY

Just please let this be the one time IMVU doesn't screw it up. The universe owes us, damnit! I'm still trying to get the stains left from 'the Year of the Creator' out of my carpets.

DiezAre · Joined: 28 Jul 2011 Posts: 1047 Location: Antarctica

I basically told them I liked the idea.... only if the smaller developers got a FAIR chance.

I even gave the idea of having a featured developer that is chosen at random to have a day of fame much like the daily outfit. WITH a wim limit.

And have devs make posters and submit them in to be randomized on the web catalogs homepage. And a limit of how many times you could be up.

If they make it expensive I dont want to think about it. I'm struggling enough trying to get funds to make a badge. D:

J0RDAN · Joined: 24 Sep 2008 Posts: 17 Location: USA - FL

I have to agree with what Jamo says on this subject. If you want to get to the top, then you have to put in the work. Invest the time it takes to create quality products. You can advertise all you want but at the end of the day.. people still have enough sense to know when you're creating crap. Unless they're blind then thats another story.

That is what makes some creators professionals and others not. I'm not a pro creator but I know exactly why. 1. Don't have the time and 2. I only do this for fun, not a source of income for me. Even though I don't make enough as other creators. I'm not going to be unfair as in to say 'this will only leave creators like myself in the dark' like a lot of others have mentioned. If you don't want to be in the dark.. Figure out why youre not in the spotlight and work towards that.

But creators that do put their time into developing. Truly deserve to be on top. Their hard work needs to be recognized. If this 'thing' that IMVU is coming out with, helps with that. Then I guess I'm all for it.
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