Architect Archive
Thread: Sales
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Pawlin
Sun Jul 18, 2004 12:07 am
#14
I think probably the best way to grind architect is to do walls. You can use them later on for the structures you'll be making or you might find a master architect that you can sell them to. Lots of us masters will buy walls from novices.
I didn't grind the profession. I built structures and sold them as I went. That is still possible but might take too long for most peoples taste. You could make a bunch of factories, medium and small houses plus a selection of furnitureand stock up a vendor. Dunno how well it will sell but I think its better experience and much less of a waste then pure grinding.
If you want to do it real fast and money is no object then statues are the way to go. Grind walls to Construction 1 then do statues on practice. Should take maybe an hour or less.
Ksynia
Sun Jul 18, 2004 9:16 am
#15
I've been an architect since I first started playing back in July of last year, and I didn't grind my way through it I just took my time and made what tiny little bits of credits I could lol.
As far as selling goes I've found that what works for me is having the best stocked vendors with the best merchandise I can offer. I'm not in a high traffic area, just a player mall in my home city on Dantooine, but word does get around if you price well and usually have what the customer is looking for in stock.
The most important thing I can stress is CUSTOMER SERVICE!!!
Most of my really high sells have always gone to people who I treated well. They come back because they know I'm fair, fast, and will take the time to awnser any question they may have. I also try to let potential customers know if I'm back logged and when I think I could get their order to them. I do the best I can, but sometimes I'll be busy with a big project and it's not fair to interrupt it for another one, small easy to make things are quick so I can do those, and sometimes I, for whatever reason, might not have the things I need to make whatever the person is looking for right away, ie running out of crated power cores. I try to get orders to the customer if I can, if it's not convient for them to come all the way out to dant, even if I'm just pulling something off my vendor. Letting customers know you're working FOR them and not just selling some item to them impersonally will work wonders for repeat business. I've had customers wait 2 weeks for a guildhall before because I was swamped, even though they could get it somewhere else that day, just because they've liked dealing with me in the past.
The only other bit of advice I can offer you is, beware doing too much! Try to specialize if you can, keep a well stocked vendor in one thing structures or furniture for example, if you have time you can stock everything under the sun but you're risking eventual burnout. I was working about 50+ hours a week on my vendors and arch sales, but I'm also a tailor so that was part of it, and it got to a point where I vanished for a while. So now it's back to the drawing board on vendor stocking.
If you keep up with stocking your vendors, like replacing items that just sold as fast as you can it's not as intimidating a job, assuming your vendors were well stocked in the first place. And while you're stocking initally do something on the side to earn money, customers, and make yourself unique. I find making the focal point for my business interior decorating suits me best and keeps me happiest, it's also extremley satisfying, anybody can make a harvester 
I hope something I said might help you, welcome to the architect community!
Ksynia
chris1988
Mon Jul 19, 2004 12:34 am
#16
before the mall i had my vendor in was torn down i was selling neerly all the types of furniture for 500cr (sept the big stuff) and a few small house's for 8k and every day i was selling about 20 items and i was getting lots of money fast from this and the mall i had it in was in a out of the way town on corillia
Locs
Mon Jul 19, 2004 6:55 am
#17
Thanks you 2 thats real good info and thanks for welcome to archi community
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