Saturday, May 5, 2012

IMVU Creator Program

I have several time met with some of the IMVU creators, and makes me wonder.. what the advantages of being a creator's. Until now i still gathering information by asking questions to friend and read in IMVU website. 

They say, if we join to the IMVU creator program, IMVU will give us the basic tool to get started and the rest is up to our imagination. By being a creator we can create our own design, the more challenging with a hard work and a little capital, we may discover a lucrative side business that will earn our financial rewards as we continue to develop as an entrepreneur and artist, ..hmm.. the question is, is there anyone that has experience a lot of money from this business

Of interesting is, a creator has a potential to make real money, the plot may like this :
Creator makes product  > Consumer buy product with credits > Creator sells credits to reseller

But IMVU determine the rules, creator sale of credits to an accredited Credits Reseller is fine, however, this creator account cannot engage in the resale of credits to other IMVU users.

I read at IMVU forum, and found this opinion:

When you start you just make things for yourself and a few friends, and it costs you money.  
You start making a few sales then figure if only you could make enough to support your own shopping addiction.  
You make enough to cover your own addiction but then you feel like a billionaire and start feeding all your friends as well.  
Friends of friends of friends start asking you for gifts and you realize just how stupid you are so you stop buying for others... own the catalogue yourself and your credits build up and up til it dawns on you that they can be sold.  
And from that point you decide if you want to put more effort it and really then the sky is the limit depending on how much skills you learn, sleep you want and how much you butt can handle sitting in a chair all day.  
The CEO of IMVU reported last year that the top earners here were doing 100k a year, but I can tell you right now its a lot more than that, probably closer to 250k but to be at that level, you need staff, years of experience and are quiet a good sized business.  
You initial goal as a developer though should be to make enough to cover your costs and its not as easy as it seems especially if you have no prior experience in graphics or marketing. IMVU is a market place, developers just rent stalls, some go home broke and some go home with fits fulls of money. Main thing is to have fun, meet new people, learn new skills
I also still read myself if i could take the time to be creator. May be i will try. 

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