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Just a little note to let everyone know that I will be coming out with a new item next week - trust me it's just what you need to get your "Love" on (and no this has nothing to do with sex!).

Also, on another note and with some drama; I was recently approach by an "entrepreneur" (I am using the word graciously) to become a partner in his so-called business (he wanted to take over my business and rebrand everything with his logo and he would run the show while I did all of the work - no thanks!). I ended up turning the "offer" down because A.) I don't work for free and B.) My instinct said to run...

That being said I found out a few other things about the content creators here in SL. Most of them are approachable and willing to offer advice - thanks to those who listened and offered me advice, you know who you are and I appreciate it immensly. I also noticed that contract work seems to have a degraded price here. If you compare hours to that of a freelance artist in the U.S. the content creators here are getting ripped or they just simply don't know about the going rate for design in general.

Make no mistake - the stuff we do here takes just as much effort and skill as it does to create a webpage or 3D game - so why don't the rates reflect it? I am assuming it is because of the "drift" between lindens and dollars, but that can't be the only reason. Are there just not that many "professionals" doing this? By professional I mean someone who has worked in the industry either as a freelance artist or for an agency - I in no way mean to offend anyone who is self taught or has never done design work before. Now, I am not talking about the price per item in world - the market dictates that. But contract design/programming work in-world is less than par with the market on similar items in RL.

Any comments are welcome - as I am scratching my head over the rate differences between SL and RL design work.