Designer Showcase Network

Actually, this feature was in the works for quite a while, but I’ve been busy offworld.

As you know if you’ve read the rules and the manuals throughly, DSN needs to keep track of who sent what to whom to function in the first place. It can also attach other supplementary information to these records, and that’s where the new DSN Visitor Counter comes in.

Once a designer places it on their property (preferably, right next to where the landmark that they have been giving out points to — you’re free to place as many visitor counters as you need to cover all landmarks and the entirety of your shopping space) it will keep track of visitors, and visitors that have received your sample product(s) will be marked in the transaction record list in the designer web interface and counted on the main designer statistics page. There is a separate page in there that will sort the visitors by the sample they have received and compute an effectiveness rate per sample. Visitors will only be counted once, and the date of their first visit will replace the date of the sample sending in the records, so you will know for sure just how many of your samples resulted in a shop visit. Visitor counters owned by you will only register avatars who have received a sample from you, so don’t be afraid to overlap your neighbours a bit.

That should give you a clear idea of just how effective your advertising through DSN was.

The visitor counter is part of the DSN Starter Kit now, no updates of other components are necessary, and the counter itself is completely optional — but it’s the kind of information you probably want to know, so it’s in your best interest to place one. Every designer currently registered in the network will receive a package, if I missed anyone, please contact me about it (email to dsnteam@cleverthings.info is the preferred method) and you will get one as soon as possible.