It’s easy to make real money in the virtual world — lots of people have been doing it for years. Don’t ask where you’ve been all this time. There’s a lot to do every day, who can keep up with everything?
You can do a regular business and conduct your marketing and sales online and ship what you sell.
In Gorby’s Scientific Business Plan you need no inventory whatever, at least not the ordinary kind that you have to store in a costly storage unit for years on end, kinda like a timeshare but with just yourself holding the bag.
So never mind conducting your online business as a side-hustle. Let’s talk serious money, enough to pay the bills every month.
Show Me The Money!!!
Okay, what can YOU do right now, sitting there in your fancy jacket and undershorts, that would really bring in the dough, enough money to keep you able to keep up with the bills???
Probably nothing you can think of right now, huh?
Most business ventures end in failure for a LOT of reasons, but mostly it’s due to common mistakes that every newbie business mogul inevitably makes.
I’ll get into those common newbie mistakes and we’ll eliminate them from your business plan when we’re in workshop together on ZOOM.
Why ZOOM? Why not ZOOM? Actually I have a number of security and presentation reasons for selecting ZOOM as my primary connecting tool apart from the Virtual Ashram.
Listen, we were doing the virtual ashram YEARS before you HAD to do it because of the quarantine.
What is Virtual Real Estate?
Let’s look at the business potential of a twenty-year old company that makes Second Life. Linden Labs is a company located in Silicon Valley in or near San Francisco, Californa.
They’re very nice to work with. We have a large number of properties, so we’re a valued customer, and they treat us right.
Don’t think of Second Life as a video game. It isn’t. It doesn’t work anything LIKE a game. It’s a VIRTUAL WORLD, and it has it’s own currency, real estate and merchandise, all of which is for sale or rent, and all of which except the land were made by USERS.
It’s a User-Based Economy and lifestyle, and is a great way to stay quite close and yet physically far-removed from touch. If you want hugs, Second Life is the place to get them.
No need here for surgical masks or any of the paraphernalia and trappings of the vicious world of the Corona Virus and the many Future Viruses To Come, awaiting us in the far-flung but not-too-distant future.
There’s no way to avoid them — they come, unexpectedly or not, and wipe out a portion of the human race every time one passes through, creating a global catastrophe from which there is no escape.
Or is there?
You have to work to make a living to feed your face and keep a roof over your head, right? But who says you have to risk your life to get to and from work and to avoid getting infected AT work while you’re working in a crowd of other folks also working or shopping or being served at whatever counter they’re standing at.
Then there are the ball games and the sports arenas in general, not to mention the gyms and spas and other social mixing spots.
I can say it all in just one word: “Springbreak”. Yeah, that says it all in a nutshell, don’t it? People just don’t take it seriously, and another outbreak will happen as a result, making further lockdowns necessarily crushing psychologically and emotionally.
Emotional is the worst part of it, ain’t it?
So one major way to avoid the downward drift into despair and loneliness and frustration and suffocating claustrophobia and cabin fever and annoyance with family members and stuckness and just plain unhappiness is to STAY IN TOUCH.
Stay in Touch
Sure, stay in touch, sounds easy, just … just … just WHAT??? It isn’t that easy to stay in touch, and after four solid hours on the phone with someone, you want a break, right?
At the same time as you take that break, you want some way to make a living.
I have the PERFECT SOLUTION for you. I can show you how to make a living BY STAYING AT HOME, and I mean a GOOD living, even in this horrible Covid Environment where everyone is out of a job and there’s no one to buy your goods, and no way to ship them to your customers and nobody able to PAY for what you’re trying to sell.
There’s only one way out — sell nothing for something. But what would that be like???
It would be like exactly what I’m about to divulge to you. Yes, divulge, reveal a secret worth actual MONEY, and if you want to know how much it’s possible for the very skilled and very lucky to get fabulously rich in Second Life, review the business life of Jessica Chung, who made more in virtual real estate than most realtors in your home home.
But you don’t have to be terribly clever or smart or lucky or any of those things that made Jessica Chung into a Real Estate Millionaire, and by the way, it wasn’t overnight — she really worked to make that happen, just as one would in any real estate company.
The rules of Second Life are such that you can put property into escrow and do just about anything in legal terms that you can do in any other reality, virtual or otherwise.
So What’s the Secret???
Boy, are YOU excited. Calm down, I’ll explain:
You start out by learning the Second Life Real Estate Business. How? By learning the rules, the regulations and the sizes and prim numbers of all eight business blocks and parcels that you’re likely to sell or rent.
Now you get into Second Life and set yourself up with a small business rental on the Mainland, so everyone can see your shop.
You’ll study the way other real estate offices are set up and you’ll follow those procedures, then simply set up your lease agreements, virtual scripts and … oh, you haven’t the time or inclination to learn that stuff?
No problem, I’ll do it for you.
Well, not forever, just during the workshop WEBINAR to which I expect you’ll want to come — there’s one happening over the Memorial Day weekend, and there’s just a little time left to apply for the workshop, which is priced on your ability pay — strictly by voluntary donation.
I want you to pay SOMETHING for the workshop, whatever you can EASILY afford, not a penny more, and if you haven’t even got that, you’ll attend free as my guest, if there are open spots left in the workshop, which is limited to … well, lemme put it this way — there were 67 people on a MORNING meeting.
You can only imagine what’s going to happen when we open up the WEBINARS to the public, which we will do, real soon.
What About NOW???
Okay, in the meantime, YOU can take advantage of these ideas to make a really hefty online livelihood for yourself and your family — yes, they can help you do this and it makes a great family activity that is new every day!
It is exciting to invent new properties and put them up for sale or rent, and to find and BUY virtual real estate, improve it and then sell it or if you really want to rake in the dough, RENT your properties out by the week — you’ll collect way more than you pay for the land, and in these COVID times, you’ll have more than ever the number of customers.
Second Life Marketplace was overwhelmed this morning and any request came back, “There are too many users and our server has crashed, please try again”.
I’m not kidding. There are MILLIONS more users actively using Second Life now than there were pre-Covid, and there are more every day as potential users discover the virtual world and they soon learn that there’s ACTUAL MONEY to be made there.
You can even get a job as a farmer or ranch hand on some sims. They’re hiring. It’s not much money, but what better have you to do right now, sitting in your bedroom, living room, basement, garage or toilet with your laptop aimed at your face?
Okay, Okay, But WHAT IS THE SECRET???
I just told you. Buy some Second Life property and IMPROVE IT, then sell it or rent it out by the week or month.
Here’s what happens: you buy a piece of land that is 512 x 512 metres, and then split it up into as many as 128 parcels, each of which has something built on it — a house or cabin or hut.
The thing is, these parcels have to be somehow unique and different, and you’re limited to 175 prims per parcel, so you can’t get much for these properties, but it adds up fast, if you have a LOT of them — but then, you need a customer base upon which you can depend.
That, you have to build over time.
In the meanwhile, how can you make a serious amount of cash selling or renting in Second Life?
The most obvious way is to have a million-dollar estate for sale.
Well, cocky-doody doodle-doo, how in the virtual world do you do THAT???
Hang on for dear life, I’m about to reveal it to you — but first, this commercial message. Just kidding, couldn’t resist. Here’s the REVEAL:
It’s all in the underwear.
That’s a direct quote from Jean Marie Stine, and it’s totally relevant to this situation. Some would paraphrase that by saying, “The Devil is in the Details”, and they’d be right.
It may have already occurred to you that the virtual space could be used to build a business, grow a customer base and introduce new products.
It’s also an obvious candidate for public gatherings such as sales seminars, industry conventions and other events that require close contact with a lot of people, and the virtual world stands ready to serve in this capacity.
You can have a zillion people walk through a gallery or attend a convention, at which you could have some real world celebs showing up in avatar form and signing autographs — of COURSE you can do that in Second Life.
I told you — there’s almost no human activity that isn’t represented, and I mean WELL-represented, in Second Life, and that includes everything you can think of.
It truly IS, all about the bass.
You can understand that to mean, it’s all about the fundamentals, the underpinnings. So how does that come out when you spill the beans???
If you don’t know architecture, you can’t build it, so you’ll probably have to buy it, which means you need some serious “Architecture Today” instincts and observations, or you’ll have to rely on what you learn in my Second Life Real Estate Tycoon Webinar, right?
If you don’t own the FULL PERM rights to the house, you can’t transfer the property, so you’ll have to own the rights, and “rights” and “ownership” are really important aspects of Second Life, and the rights of owners and makers and creators are strictly maintained.
If you spend the time and energy making something, the rights are all yours to sell, give away or otherwise dispense.
In short, you need to make the house in order to sell it, but what if you can’t?
Then you’ll spend the extra money to buy the best FULL PERM buildings and plants and textures and trees and grasses that you can easily afford, or you can use the stuff they give you free, which looks really sad when you rely just on that stuff, but you CAN do all this for almost nothing to start with, and maybe even nothing.
As a matter of fact, you can make altered avatars from their basic avatars and create all sorts of items in prim format and mesh, and you can actually sell them for real money, so it’s quite possible to start totally for free and work your way up from there, but let’s take it as written that you can scrape together a couple of bucks to finance this big real estate deal.
You’ll need about $50 to get serious results.
At the moment, you don’t need any actual property other than the property they give you when you become a premium member, which you’ll need to do if you wish to acquire property, so that will set you back about $99 a year, but you can apply your land rights to gain an extra 512 square metres when you buy parcels, which I’ll explain in the Webinar, and guide you on how to do that and take advantage of other land speculation stuff that Linden Labs has arranged in Second Life, all of which is totally ethical and quite fun.
So what you do is, you buy or rent a piece of land. There are two basic options — Mainland or Private Island.
There are reasons why one would be better than the other, and those reasons will vary from client to client.
If you want visibility and crowds, the Mainland is your answer, but if you want privacy and quietude, then a Private Island is the choice you’d make.
Private Islands are easier to protect from griefers, people who enjoy being assholes. This mostly happens on the Mainland, which is why the price of Mainland parcels is SO much lower than Private Island property.
Knowing the “ropes” of Second Life Real Estate is not easy and it doesn’t come fast or cheap.
You learn by trial and error what not to do, but one thing is certain — the property is there, and you own it or you’re renting it, and you have access to it and you can list it for sale or for rent, depending on your ownership of it.
The thing is, how to get your properity to stand out from the zillions of properties for sale or rent?
Well, you don’t.
You don’t ever need to make a property rental or sale to make this work. You can raise tons of money without ever selling or buying land, but you ARE a real estate developer!!!
I’ll tell you instantly how that’s done.
You fill up your offerings with valuable artwork — paintings, sculpture and even original exclusive one-of-a-kind personal diamond or 18k gold virtual jewelry on the cosmetic table or in the household safe.
Of course you can have them in a safe, but there’s no better safe than your own inventory, and you can keep magical items there if you like, to carry them with you all day long.
Didn’t I tell you? I guess not. You can make ANYTHING in there, and there’s no limit to the value you can set for original artwork — just make sure you actually own the rights to it.
But how do you convert those things into cash, without putting a lot of money up front for properties???
You don’t buy or rent anything.
You merely take screenshots of various setups and sell them on lots that you don’t yet own, then install them on the parcel and transfer the deed, collect the money in Lindens and convert them to paypal and take that to the bank!
You can even buy a FULL PERM setup with all the trimmings, and fill it with the artwork from your art stash in your FULL PERM inventory.
No matter how fancy the house, it won’t be worth much more just by itself. You need to FILL IT with value to make it stand out, otherwise it’s just another fancy house on Second Life, and there are plenty of builders who can outdo you any day of the week, so it doesn’t pay to compete on an architectural level, but it does pay when you use valuable artwork, which I can provide for you or you can find for yourself.
How to Make it Worth More!
You can improve the value of your property in several ways.
- EXCLUSIVE — One of a Kind home and decor, nothing else in the virtual world like it — you’ll have to go pretty far to make it fabulous, but it CAN be done, and others have done it before you, so you’re not alone. You never WERE alone.
- ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST — You built a structure that was worth a spread in the greatest architectural magazines on the planet, something that, if it were built in the real world, would sell for MILLIONS of dollars, particularly if it were in Beverly Hills.
- ARTISTIC — Yes, fill the space with valuable UNIQUE artwork that nobody else in Second Life has. Artwork has relative value no matter what its form, and I can deliver virtual artwork that is worth some serious money.
It’s in that third category that I can be of help to you. For over fifty years I’ve been at the head of the JazzArt Movement, and was for over a decade the official International Association of Jazz Education, IAJE.
My work has been featured in performances with Herbie Hancock, Nancy Wilson, B.B. King and many more jazz and blues greats.
My art is in the Smithsonian, and my work is collected by the crowned heads of several nations.
My large canvases have sold for $35,000 to as much as $110,000. Of course, that was a long time ago, when I was actively in the art market, which I haven’t been for over 25 years now, but the sales are valid and they still stand as testimony to the value of the artwork, at least at the time of the sales.
Okay, in addition to that, I have other background things, such as the fact that I have a reputation as a writer and editor in the field of published science fiction literature, and I’ve sold a few movie scripts and television gags as well.
More? Sure, there’s tons more background from which I can pull an almost infinite number of rabbits out of the same old top hat, but the idea is simple — fill the space with art that is valuable and to which you happen to also have the legal rights.
Get Rich with ART!
I certainly have the rights to my own art, and I can make artwork for each project, so there’s never going to be a duplicate.
Each of my houses or commercial buildings or shrines will have its own theme and its very own unique artwork, exclusive of textures, like “rock” or “brick” or “asphalt”. Those are in every setup where needed, and they’re all FULL PERM to me, which means I can sell it to others only with the “FULL PERM” taken off.
That means the new owner can MODIFY and COPY to their heart’s content, but not actually TRANSFER an unlimited number of copies forever.
When you own the artwork, there is only one copy of that artwork, and that goes to YOU, from which you can generate more copies, but you can’t sell them or give them away to someone else.
Now, if you wanted to be a real estate PROMOTER, you could buy one of those artwork-filled buildings from me at wholesale — yes, of course I sell wholesale to resellers who save me the trouble of finding clients for my stuff — and install it anywhere, on any build, including one that you owned FULL PERM or made yourself.
Either way, I get paid for my artwork, and you get to mark up the artwork ballistically if you like, creating an “Andy Warhol” style warehouse and art generator that could keep many artists working at least through the crisis.
Sure, you can hire famous artists to “paint” for you — what the hell else have they got to do?
Where are they going to get a show? How are they going to get the paint and brushes and all the stuff they need to make a painting, including the canvas?
What art supply store is considered “essential”???
What’s the Basic Gimmick?
I just told you — crank up the perceived added value of the house and property by including expensive and exclusive original art by a celebrity artist.
You don’t know any celebrity artists?
Well, you know me, and I am, or was back in the distant past, a celebrity artist, but hey, you probably know at least one celebrity, even if they’re only a local or regional celebrity, it’ll work.
What you do is, you have them scribble something on a piece of paper. It doesn’t matter what, just a wild scribble of some kind, then they sign it in the lower right corner, and put the date in the lower left corner, nice and readable and thoroughly visible to the naked eye and the overly casual observer, which will be just about anyone on Planet Earth.
How do you convert the scribble into a piece of original unique one of a kind artwork?
That is the subject of several hours of instruction and practice on ZOOM, and that means that yes, once again, I have to pitch the upcoming online Memorial Day Weekend Webinar & Workshop.
Get to my GORBYZOOM!
That’s where we’ll have the time and setup to get you actually DOING it, not just talking about it or hearing about it.
A GORBYZOOM is a different kind of meeting. You apply what you’re learning AS YOU’RE LEARNING IT, not a new concept in learning, but a new concept in ZOOM learning, and I’ll demo the effect at the aforementioned Webinar Workshop.
How about a church that’s called a “House of Workshop”??? It’ll never sell, but a church called the “Reformed Church” might.
I have a statue of Liberty which I dubbed “Our Lady of the Harbour”, but it’s still sitting on my “for sale” shelf out in storage shed #3 — or was it 4???
I put that last graphic in here to remind you that you can use the Second Life environment to make some pretty funny “comics” from screenshots with funny captions.
You can make stuff from your FULL PERM items that you have in Second Life, but it’s a lot harder to keep track of them when they’re in real life and they’re dumped into a storage unit by someone who didn’t have the time to put them in there properly.
I don’t keep a record of the tons of stuff in the real world sheds, but I do keep a sharp eye on my virtual FULL PERM models and scripts in Second Life, because those are my bread & butter ever since my “Dumpster-Diver” hands-on junk shop took its final dive.
It’s true that I closed those brick-and-mortar doors over a year ago, but I happen to be a card-carrying registered fortune-teller — and I did foresee and report that I had foreseen — a Great Plague that descended over the world like a greasy rag thrown over a rusted hubcap.
I thought I’d leave you with that picture.
It’s time to get out from under the rusted hubcap and re-imagine yourself as a WORLD-FAMOUS SECOND LIFE ART & ARCHITECTURE CONSULTANT, and start cashing in on the online business world right now, today!
There’s no other way you’re going to legally get hold of high-end art to include in your property sales, and sales of these items could include the sale of actual art, if you play your cards right and make some customers happy!
Once you get established, you can open branches and hire help and expand beyond Second Life into many other areas of virtual art and architecture.
Like I said, we’ll delve further into this at the workshop. Together we can work wonders, like Miracle Pictures.
You never heard the Hollywood phrase, “If it’s a good picture, it’s a Miracle!”.
See You At The Top!!!
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