2021 VW: Want more traffic on your Kitely place? How can people find your place? What makes them want to come? What can you do to help?

Why don't you get more traffic?   

How can people find your place?  

What makes them want to come?

What can you do to help?

Imaginary greeter bot applies for a job.

• Watch on YouTube
• Works 24/7, always says what you wrote, 
• works for milliamps, makes a virtual world social.

Contents

• Spread the word
• Improve onboarding
• Collaborate
• Ad a greeter bot
• Make videos
• Promote

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Spread the word

• Every mention of your place that carries a link can bring people to your place.
• The ABC's of persuasion. We are all in sales
• SEO tips for promoting your virtual community (Not how to cheat with SEO)
• Checklist for promoting your virtual world projects and communities
• Use-cases for marketing user-managed virtual worlds. Think product differentiation. Think multiple markets. The Kitely model

Events

• Post in the Kitely calendar.
• Post in all the social media you can.
• Post in a blog (could be collaborative).
• Make videos and post in YouTube.
• Kitely videos

Use your Kitely web page

• Kitely web page
• Not limited to inworld--on the web, in the outworld.
• Use the links to post to social media. 
• You can post for every event or big advance.
• Be sure to put promotion text and pictures there.

Improve onboarding

• Starting in OpenSim and specifically for starting in Kitely. Reducing the barriers to entry.
• Student onboarding for the online campus: Treat onboarding as a use case with its own skill set. Use-case analysis. Identify and teach the skills.
• An introduction to Kitely desktop VR.

Collaborate

• See you later aggregator. Aggregate the offerings and you aggregate the customers.
• Plan for organizing a blog in a digital "world". One person, publishing once a month, will get no following in years. But a collaborative blog...
• Meet the NPC Board Podcast by CVL (Community Virtual Library).
• Promoting something? Your social media "timeline" could help
• Promote your Hypergrid place on the web
• A dozen+ tips for building your blog about virtual worlds
• Reposting is your magazine, your recommendations, your promotion.
• SEO: Build traffic to your blog about virtual worlds

Add a greeter bot

• Charlie wants work as a greeter bot. Works 24/7, always says what you wrote, works for milliamps, makes a virtual world social.

Make videos

• Kitely Merchant Fair, the Video, the Fair is gone but the video lingers on
• How to use OBS to get video in virtual worlds. Not the long and short of it. Just the short. And a few links to the long.
• Simple video editing with Shotcut, for virtual worlders

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