Beck’s

Great news for our customers: Beck’s will soon be twice as large. More convenience and a much larger variety!

The first cards I sold were Valentine’s cards in February 2007. The shop wasn’t quite ready to open, but it was far enough along that I was able to open temporarily and offer five or six Valentine card designs. Business was overwhelming. There were so many orders for personalized cards that I only got an hour of sleep on February 12 and 13. I was amazed.

This year, I have a lot more designs. (The ad below only shows a few.) Most are available now, and a few more designs will be placed in the shop during the next couple of days. These are the best cards I’ve made.

I just dropped off another new Christmas card design at the store. This has a snow globe on the cover. When you touch to open it, the card emits snowflakes.

Your choice:
L$45 Card + Envelope
L$125 Custom Message (scripted) Card + Envelope
L$235 Personalized Card + Envelope

All Beck’s cards come with a card-rezzing envelope.

These have been the most popular so far.

There’s been an outstanding response. Nevertheless, I’ve been able to personalize and deliver most orders within 8 hours.

My personalized Christmas stockings sold well in 2007. This year, I improved them. I created new sculpted prims and new, highly-detailed needlepoint textures. Six designs are available now, with more to be added soon.

To get one, go to the shop (or to Xstreet XL or OnRez) and purchase it for L$235. You’ll receive a notecard. Fill it in and return it. I’ll create and deliver your stocking(s) promptly — usually in less than 8 hours.

Transferable, and these are wonderful for gifts!

Edit:  OnRez is having technical problems. No new items are showing up in search or in the storefronts. This problem surfaced ten days ago, and they haven’t solved it yet.

Beck’s has now been opened for a week and the response has been just what I had hoped for. There are over 30 new card designs, plus gift boxes with an easy-smeezie menu for controlling hover text, a beautiful wall photo frame with clock on beveled glass (great gift!), and the stepping stones I’ve sold in the past (now organized into three sets of 3).

There are four types of cards: economy, Custom Message (scripted so that you can add a message in chat, made VERY easy by a menu), Ultimate Personalized with your details added in the card and on the envelope, and Ultimate Photo Personalized, which is like the Ultimate Personalized card but with your photo added. I’ll post more details about these four types of cards soon.

All my cards are rezzed by the envelope! Come to the store and touch one of the sample envelopes on the reception desk to see how it works.

The items from my store that have sold the best are personalized Christmas stockings, personalized house flags, and personalized cards. Despite making some non-personalized items available (and at low prices), it’s the personalized things that have been the favorites.

But not only do I like making personalized things, I love it when I see something really special someone else has made. Rosalie Roux has a wonderful necklace you can have customized with initials for only L$500. It’s in a classy, understated style. She’s new at making jewelry, but you’d never know it by looking at this. Check it out at her store Norfolk (200, 120, 24) or on SLX.

A question I’ve been getting a lot: Is Beck’s open?

Not yet. It was open temporarily for Valentines, and there will be a permanent re-opening soon. I have some ideas you’re going to love. You’ll have more options than in any other greeting card store in SL. And, just like at Valentine’s, I promise the highest quality and the best service I can provide. The code monkeys are working overtime. I’ll make an annoucement as soon as I get the first batch of items in the store. That’ll be followed, of course, by a GRAND OPENING.

The question I get the most: Am I accepting orders now?

YES!! I’m making invitations and personalized cards for birthdays, thank you cards, etc. All invitations and cards come in a free envelope. Cards are L$185 and invitations are L$350. IM me if you need to place an order!

The two questions asked most often during the Valentine card shopping season were: “What’s next for your store?” and “How do you put the card back in the envelope?”

One “next” thing is to continue creating cards and related items. I barely had time to get the store opened for Valentine’s, so all of my effort went toward Valentine’s items. Next: items for birthdays, rez days, anniversaries, etc. I’ll also have invitations (a frequent request in those first few days of being open) and frames.

The other “next” thing is to find a better way to indicate how to put cards back into their envelopes.
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Only a few SL greeting card stores offer customized cards with the names printed on the cards, and most don’t treat it as one of their primary items. (There are many that offer “personalization” with hover text or text in chat.)

I offered several items during the Christmas season, and the most popular was personalized Christmas stockings. With my greeting cards, I want to have a similar business: feature the same kind of personalization, give the highest quality I can, and provide good customer service.

The designs are all original — no copied images from online, and no use of textures sold in stores and seen all over SL. Each card comes in a personalized envelope. The recipient touches the envelope, the envelope opens, and the card rezzes in front of it. (And yes, I had to learn some scripting for that feature, especially so that the card would rez in front even if the recipient rotates the envelope.)
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