I’m currently planning to get out of the #SecondLife farming game #DFS, or #DigitalFarmSystems, by the end of the year. It just takes up too much of my inworld time, for very little return on investment. I’ve never been great at marketing my items, but it’s even more frustrating when the official marketing group for this inworld game sets limits on the number of posts per day. Just now I posted for the first time today, but because it was within 24 hours of my 2 previous posts, I’m now on the naughty list and have to contact a CSR person to get myself sorted out and able to post again. I risk getting banned from the group if I post on the trade channel again.

Okay, I made the mistake of thinking that I was okay to post on a new calendar day, as I posted twice yesterday. Now I have to be aware of not posting within 24 hours of the previous post(s). It’s hard enough to make myself post these little marketing blurbs selling virtual farm goods and “meals.” I’ll have to just post on the big group once a day, in the morning, and more than 24 hours from now, too.

Yes, it’s a virtual tomato planter. Shaped like a bunny.

Even though selling on the Second Life Marketplace means that SL will take a cut of the sales, I’ve listed some of the collectible items there again. It’s just impossible to get any traction using the inworld groups.  The most desireable one is this bunny planter thing, which is admittedly pretty cute and decorative. The newer DFS products in the “collectible” or “rare” category just aren’t that cute these days; the designers have changed a few times and the newer things aren’t floating my virtual boat.

After getting back up to speed creating my own things again, I’ll have some new mesh top hats listed on the store under my Chameleonic Possessions brand. If the DFS stuff doesn’t sell by October, it’s going up on a platform for a fire sale. I’ve already got about 15 planted, ready to harvest “fields” ready to sell. In October, I plan to reduce my virtual land holdings, as the DFS stuff is very resource heavy and requires a lot of extra “prims.”

Currently I still plan to keep a few fields and “growables,” but after hitting this roadblock this morning, and not seeing any responses to the marketing posts in the last 2 weeks, I’m really seriously re-thinking this “just step it down” strategy. It hasn’t worked before – I reduced a lot of inventory 3 years ago and then built it right back up again when I re-entered SL last year. It’s an addiction and I have to come to terms with it.

If I manage to sell off the turkey crates I’m holding, that’ll be cold turkey, right?