While many of you may be aware of the free products and services we offer for Merchants through Shop.OnRez, did you also know that we offer you the use of our OnRez Runway free of charge?

Calamity Hathaway is taking advantage of the event space this weekend, by hosting a Valentine themed Fashion Show!

“My Haute Valentine” fashion show will run Friday, February 1, 5pm SLT at the OnRez Island runway. Everyone is invited to attend. Featured designers: Blaze, DBS Heart, Tori-Wear, Sassy Secrets, Sc Design, Dee Leavitt, Olkami Ningen, Ambergris Deadly Fashions and by Alexandar, fine jewelry. There will be give aways as well as a goodie bag of treats as a souvenir of the show for all attendees!

This show is produced by CH Enterprises and directed by Calamity Hathaway with models fromCalamity’s Haute Models agency, where fashion is passion! Sponsored by Olaf’s Merchantile in Caernars Demise and the Blue Wolf Mall in Kensington.

If you would like to host your own runway show please contact me, TheDiva Rockin, in-world to reserve your date! I’d be more than happy to help you get set up!

All the Shop OnRez vendors, including the recently released a Beta version of an 8-panel Vendor, are fully customizable. OnRez seller, Dedric Mauriac, has customized his 8-panel Vendors to make the most of his shop’s space and integrate them with his overall theme.

(Dedric Mauriac’s OnRez Store Front)

Inspired by Dedric’s mod, Killashandra Falta has also thrown her own personal twist on the vendors and created two looks for her shop:

You can learn more about customizing your vendors on our help pages.

Have you customized a vendor? We’d love to see it! Comment here or send us feedback using our Feedback Form. Please include pics, slurls, or urls if you have them!

Last weekend, Ewing Fashion Agency held their gala event to announce the winners of their 2008 Design Awards. The Invite Only event was so popular, that the organizers decided to open the event to the public and the SIM was nearly filled an hour in advance of the official start time!

The competition was facilitated through Shop.OnRez using Tags to submit and track the entries. 40 designers submitted nearly 1400 items for the chance at an award from 10 Categories and one Grand Prize Winner.
I had the honor of announcing the award to the Grand Prize Winner: Alla Ruff for her Round and Aboutton Black - Complete outfit.

Congratulations to all of the winners!

Category Single Category - Footwear
Winner: Ansor Hooorenbeek & Limer Fredriksson

Category: Single Category - Hair
Winner: Digit Darkes

Category: Single Category - Jewelry
Winner: Hibiscus Flossberg

Category: Single Category - Hats
Winner: Siyu Suen

Category: Single Category - Skins
Winner: Direct win for Charlotte Morellet

Category: Casual Outfits
Winner: Alla Ruff

Category: Outfits - Corporate Wear
Winner: SHAKA SAINTLOUIS

Category: Outfits - Couture
Winner: Betty Doyle

Category: Outfits - Evening
Winner: Ann Otoole

Category: Intimates
Winner: Cattrina Careless.

See the Official post from EFA Here: http://ewingfashionagency.wordpress.com

I ran into my friend Hope Clary, wearing the Babydoll is not Dead, by Ghost Found OnRez.

The hat is by Nicki Ree, also shown here, but only available in world as noted in that item’s description. The boots, Nymphaea Boots by First Flower. Streamline glasses by Paper Couture.

She told me about the Antique Kera dress, also by Ghost, which I just had to have! With an RL name like mine, it’s isn’t often I find something with it, not to mention the exact spelling :)

The fun 80’s hair is called Moppeh and was only $1L from Philotic Energy. Classic Black & Silver Stiletto Slingback pumps are by Saki Galiazzo.

Show off what you’ve Found OnRez in our Found OnRez Flickr Group and maybe your look will get featured!

Shop OnRez now has featured listings, which allow sellers to promote their items at the top of keyword search results, at the top of category browsing, even on the Shop OnRez homepage! Sellers may also decorate their items with colorful borders to improve visibility.

When browsing or searching, featured listings will appear before all non-featured listings. They are rotated so that featured items all have equal opportunity to be the very top listing. We currently have listed some Shop OnRez items for demonstration purposes.

Featured listings options:

• Category Placement, L$100 for 2 weeks
  Featured items are shown at the top of the results for the item’s category when results are sorted by Top Matches (the default).
• Keyword Placement, L$100 for 2 weeks
  Featured items are show at the of search results for purchased keywords. Keywords are selected from an item’s tags.
• Homepage Placement, L$500 for 2 weeks
  Featured items are shown on the front page of Shop OnRez. Listings are rotated so all featured items have equal opportunity to be displayed on the homepage.
• Decorated Listings, L$20 for 2 weeks
  Decorations add a colorful border to a listing to attract attention. They do not affect the order in which an item is displayed.

To purchase featured listings, edit your items as normal and use the 2 new tabs: “[$] Listing Placement” and “[$] Decorate Listing”. Details about your listing’s performance are available from My Home->Seller Tools->My Featured and Decorated Listings.

Let us know what you think of the new system at http://support.onrez.com.

Hello!

Due to a change in my Wed. morning commutes, I need to change the morning in-world support hours from 7am to 9am SLT. This will apply to Wed. only and ongoing till otherwise posted.

Thanks!

Kera / Miss Sheep

We are pleased to announce the release of Paged Vendors on Shop OnRez. We are currently offering a limited release of a beta version that displays 8 thumbnails at a time, with a large preview window for the selected item. Get one here!

Paged vendors are free, customizable, and fully compatible with your existing vendor packs.

Why the limited beta release?

Since this is a brand new feature for Shop OnRez, we want feedback from sellers and buyers about the paged vendor interface before making it available in a wider release. If something could be improved, please give us feedback at http://support.onrez.com!

The afternoon support @ OnRez Island from 2-3pm SLT is canceled for today, Friday Jan 11th. If you need assistance, please visit our support portal at http://support.onrez.com to submit a ticket.

Thanks!

Due to Second Life’s scheduled down time by Linden Labs on Wed. Jan 9th, there will be no morning support at OnRez Island.

Afternoon support will be available from 2pm-3pm SLT. If you need assistance, please visit our support portal at http://support.onrez.com to submit a ticket.

Today we released a new updates to Shop OnRez to improve the seller experience and help new users get started. Changes in clude:

• Redelivery links on the sales history page to make it easy for sellers to resend items
• Warning to sellers when first listing an item for L$0 to prevent accidentally selling items for free
• New instructions on My Home when first registering for an OnRez account

Many of the changes we make to Shop OnRez are based on your feedback! If you have a suggestion or comment, please submit it to http://support.onrez.com.