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www.beatenetworks.com
So what's out there to help the budding entrepreneur get to grips with Second Life business opportunities and developments, the first recommendation is to view Torley Linden's numerous and very helpful video tutorials. this allows newbies and others get to grips with many of the Second Life features enabling a more productive working environment. Then there's Marc Attenborough who is proposing offering business training for a nominal fee, but what else is there? One company that has positioned itself in this space is BeateNetworks, which offers a variety of training modules to both beginners and advanced users. A number of these training courses are free, allowing for the prospective student to familiarize themselves with the training methods in advance of purchasing the tutorials. BeateNetworks is the brain child of Alice Klinger and Allison Selene and they have an impressive training academy in Long Beach, they have together in excess of 7,000 hours of SL experience and a background in RL marketing and design, bringing these acquired skills into their SL tutorials.
BeateNetworks offers some free training, this could either be live in their Academy with a teacher or as an automatic slide-show tutorial. BeateNetworks has an long list of training modules available with more coming on line each month. Their tutorials rely on more pictures and less words that the usual presentations, also every tutorial is a small project in itself, allowing students to create their first product as they learn by following each step. Beate Networks claiming that this makes the learning process fun, fast and effective. The tutorials cover topics such as building, design, marketing skills for SL, web 3.0 marketing, graphic design and tutorials showing how to use GIMP and Photo-shop. Classroom tutorials last for no more than 1 hour, the slide show presentations allowing students to progress at their own pace, but usually lasting between 20 minutes to an hour. These tutorials can be found at the Quality People Academy http://slurl.com/secondlife/Long%20Beach/101/60/24/
Tutorials can be purchased for home studies or for other teachers to use, they range in price of between L$500 - L$1000, for this you receive a transferable copy of the tutorial and any additional material that is required, most tutorials are in the form of a note card with PDF format available soon. Some of the products come with add ons such as a copyable pose ball with heart background with studio lights to enable couple photo shooting. The tutorials can explain techniques that can help promote a business such as how to take a picture in SL, how to save it to their computer, download, and drag into the profile picks section of their profile. As we all know, profile picture links are a valuable and free marketing tool. So this tutorial, once purchased and followed can help business owners attracts visitors to their business locations.
BeateNetworks is a registered and full service content provider for SL, which means they can offer full market entry for real world companies entering SL, they can create realistic 3 D digital copies of real people or buildings. They also provide scripting, web integration, event management, machinima and land acquisition. They are currently shifting their focus towards automatic tutorials, their avatar gadget shop and web 3.0 development. They also offer a blog which offers valuable news and guides for business and socialising in the web 3.0.
The future for BeateNetworks is the continued developing of new useful tutorials, gadgets, avatar customization which can be purchased at their store location or on SL Exchange. BeateNetworks is eager to focus on larger businesses and amusement applications with web integration. Their interactive treasure hunt and brand new clever shop sign being examples of their direction. Company owner Alice Klinger is extremely friendly and accommodating, if you are looking for training requirements or any of the other services offered by BeateNetworks I would recommend a direct approach.
It will be interesting to see how Marc Attenborough's training compares with services being offered by BeateNetworks, hopefully they'll be complimentary and allow for better education for those seeking it in SL.
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