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tent creators may also be interested to know that later this year Kitely will be opening Kitely Market an online store similar to Second Life Marketplace. Kitely Market enables merchants to sell via USD and get the proceeds automatically deposited into their PayPal accounts. If you get in early enough you will be able to benefit from the promotional Free Listings which allow you to list twenty items for free, with an option to add more items for free, providing you do so before the market is open to buyers later in the summer. In addition, if you list at least 100 unique products you may be granted Featured Merchant status and win free advertising on the Kitely Market homepage and a free store in the Kitely Plaza. You will have the option to decide whether the items you sell via the Kitely Market will be Kitely-specific or whether they will have an ‘Export’ permission which will allow them to be backed up to OpenSim Archive (OAR) files and taken to Hypergrid-connected grids. Finally, Kitely Market offers a well-designed categories tree and supports product attributes to make items easier to locate. Kitely is growing fast. It’s the biggest commercial OpenSim grid in land size and already hosts about 3,800 private estates compared to Second Life’s 22,300. Kitely’s low land prices, the fact that there are no upload costs on that grid, the current shortage of quality content for sale in Kitely, and the upcoming opening of the Kitely Market, make Kitely a great opportunity for creators to open up a whole new market with very little effort. To learn more about the Kitely Market visit http://www. kitely.com/virtual-worldnews/2013/05/11/kitely-market-is-now-open-to-merchants To get a free Kitely account or to find out more about this exciting virtual world visit http:// www.kitely.com and check out the feature on Kitely in our real life magazine MANIERA May issue (link here) 76 | MANIERA | mymaniera.com JULY 2013