How goes it?

Well the Diversity hunt may be small, but it has had a steady stream of hunters going through, and most seem VERY happy. It has taken a few a moment or two to understand the concept of the paths, but once they got that, they loved the idea.

Many hunters and shop owners have asked me when I am doing the next hunt... NEXT hunt? Geeze you people must really think I am insane (I will freely admit to being a little nuts, but insane is taking it a bit far). There is no way I could have done this hunt without some very nice, generous, and tolerent shop owners. Some processes in this hunt have been a little complex, and having to change LM's to skip tardy shops and later add them back in is a tad bothersome, but everyone did it with grace and I thankyou all for that.

So really, do I plan to do another hunt?? Hmmm, there are lots of hunts coming up already, everywhere I see halloween hunts (some of those have even started already), and of course christmas hunts are being advertised now or are are well in the works. So do people need another hunt on their calendars? No really, I am seriously asking that question.
I am one of those people that is never really short of ideas (just don't always have the resources, know how, or confidence to carry them out), so have plenty ideas for innovative stuff (and no not saying here to have the ideas nicked lol), but has the time of the Hunt wanned? Is there so many people are sick of them and they are no longer effective?

In november I have my Virtual Fruit event that is a crossover between SL and RL. It is for Feast (www.feast.org.au) which is a festival for gay/lesbian/queer folk in Adelaide, Australia, and will hopefully attract new people to SL. I am happy to have a small gridwide hunt, or even more ideally little outlets around my area for people to promote themselves. I am talking rent free as such for those having outlets, but preferably 10 or 15% of any sales made (I have upped my tier for a while during this time to make for a better event, and would love, not expect, to cover some of that cost), temporary outlets could stay until after christmas to grab a few holiday sales as well. This is also ideal for individuals that have never been able to afford a shop to see if there is interest in their goods.

So anyway, be part of november proceedings or something to start the new year would be my suggestions for people, like the idea stick up your hand (ok put it down, you look silly doing that in front of your computer, just send me a message instead).

Huntress

It's off and running

Well the Diversity hunt finally seems to be running fairly smoothly, it has been interesting to say the least.
I have a little list of things to remember if I ever do this again, I tried to think of most stuff, but there is always going to be something that just could not be planned for.
In this hunt what wasn't planned? Lets see, one poor shop owner (and now friend) had the rental land she was on go to a new owner who was immediately putting in a combat zone, with 3 hours then to move, I am amazed at her organisational abilities. Another poor vendor had a rl accident which meant it was too uncomfortable to even sit at a computer (I do hope they are healing ok).
I did expect some places to be a little tardy in setting up and/or setting up not quite right. However I didn't think there would be too many not set up at all, especially anyone with quite a few entries and apparent interest.

Sadly with the few vendors that were not ready, it caused a few broken links in the various chains, so those keen hunters that turned up right on midnight freaked me right out lol, and of course they did not get the best experience. Have sent those that were in my greater an apology, and a small gift, so hopefully they return and enjoy things now that the bugs have been ironed out. (why do that?, just makes good business sense for all the shops involved)

The buzz with the hunt has been intriguing, Shops have suddenly appeared out of the woodwork wanting to be in the hunt, a small but steady and keen stream of hunters has been turning up and in most of the stores actually browsing and buying, not just doing a quick grab and go. (yay some shop owners are actually getting some money for their efforts)

I regret having to get some shop vendors to mess around changing landmarks so often etc, and I know the hunters are confused at the numbering system (like I had actually planned one of those lol), but thankfully there are some very tolerant and lovely people involved in all this, so I just hope at the end of it everyone thinks it was worthwhile.

Huntress (usually the one popping about with the weird hair - I just gotta be me)