AshleyRay Runway Magazine November
News Issue
Posted on October 7, 2014
By Katiemarie – Online Community Engagement Manager
IMVU is all about creativity and self-expression. As IMVU’s Community Manager, I love to see our community share their individual sense of style and artistry through our popular feature: the Daily Outfit Challenge. IMVU’s Daily Outfit Challenge features outfits put together by our fashionistas and voted on by fellow community members. Each day a brand new theme is available and participants go shopping in our vast virtual goods catalog for clothing and accessories that match the theme. They put together creative outfits that cleverly showcase them in photos before submitting the image and the outfit for community review. Then, it’s all up to our community members to vote them up or down to select the daily challenge winners! Fashion savvy users who win multiple challenges proudly grab a spot on the leader board and receive prizes. Daily Outfit Challenge (DOC) themes are chosen based on community suggestions and ideas from our own team members. The themes often coordinate with seasons and ongoing IMVU community events. Our more popular DOC themes tend to have ties to real-life holidays and events. Summer vacations and urban fashion also garner a lot of interest. And the sheer diversity of our IMVU comunity means highly creative ensembles! The Daily Outfit Challenge is a quick way to explore fashion and product trends among IMVU creators, and is a great source of inspiration for both our community and IMVU’s own creative teams. Coming up with new themes and reviewing the DOC participants’ creations are some of my favorite parts of my job. I love seeing how our community uses the IMVU technology and catalog to express themselves!
IMVU Adds
Live Chat Support For VIP Customers
Posted on September 30, 2014
IMVU is excited to announce another exclusive benefit to
being VIP among our community. Expedited support has always been available as a
perk to this elite group. In order to further enhance the premium VIP club
experience, we have been testing a new way to offer instant support for the
past few months. As a result, our treasured VIPs can now chat LIVE with IMVU
Customer Support team between 6 am and 6 pm Pacific Time every day. All they
have to do is visit our Help Center - accessible via our website and 3D Chat
client – and click the Live Chat button available at the top. It takes barely a
few seconds before our VIPs can start talking to one of our knowledgeable
Customer Support representatives via chat.
The chat communication is convenient and quite similar to
any other Instant Messaging services that our customers are familiar with. They
can easily attach and send files if needed during the chat conversations. When
our VIPs have obtained all the help they need – in a speedy and convenient
manner – they can simply close the session and go back to enjoying IMVU. The
chat logs are automatically saved for easy access for future reference, and an
email is sent to the customer with a link to that chat log. We also want our
customers to tell us about their Live Chat experience and we will be doing so
via short surveys sent to all the happy customers who have benefited from the
Live Chat support experience.
So far, our VIP members love this service, based on the
feedback we have received on our customer satisfaction surveys. They love
getting answers to their questions or concerns in minutes instead of hours or
even days with multiple back and forth messages involving help tickets. IMVU
appreciates its customers and is delighted to have added this perk to its VIP
club members.
IMVU Turns
September Into GIFTEMBER
Posted on September 5, 2014
End of summer fun, back to school routines, and seemingly
still too far away holiday season can bring one down during September. This
year, IMVU’s team of product managers and engineers decided to make September a
month to remember for its community members! A cross-functional brainstorming
and planning session shaped into a new project – GIFTEMBER! -a 30-day
celebration full of community events, contests, exclusive promotions, and of
course gifts. Two fast-paced and intense weeks of design, coding, and testing
work made this a reality on September 1st!
Its been barely a week and the fun is just getting started!
IMVU customers have already enjoyed log in gifts, discounts in the Credit
store, and a wildly popular Back To School themed party inside multiple 3D chat
rooms. The highlight of the month is multiple day of our new “Give a Gift &
Get a Gift” feature, where two sets of products have been created so that our
customers can choose one friend to give that day’s free gift and in return get
a free gift for themselves. Doing so on all days will complete their
collections – a beach resort and a space club!
There are many more days remaining in the month and our
customers have been invited to join us every day – those who do have an
extra-special surprise in waiting for them on September 30th.
Here’s to Giftember!
Mobile Payments from Over 80
Countries
Posted on
March 5, 2014
Our
customers love IMVU because they get to meet people from around the world and
make connections. The “from around the world” is literally 100s of countries
and our global community continues to grow every day. We look for ways to
support our international customers including offering them multiple ways to
purchase Credits and other services from us to they can enjoy their IMVU
experience fully. The ever-popular mobile phones offer an easy way for
customers to make payments while on the go and from anywhere in the world as
long as they have a phone.
We have been
offering SMS and home phone payments to our customers for many years and. keep
working with our partners to expand our reach. In February alone, we added 10
new countries to our list including Kuwait, Dominican Republic, Chile, Kosovo,
Costa Rica and Morocco.
Want to know
which countries are supported for phone payments? Just visit the phone purchase
page and check out the complete list of countries as well as the Credit
packages available for each country.
Toddler/Child Pageant Fundraiser
It’s got it all, glitz, glamour and
beauty. This isn’t the Miss American Pageant though, this is the Toddler/Child
Pageant Fundraiser. This event is to be about fun even though it will be a
competition. Good sportsmanship coupled with some good ole team spirit.
For this pageant, it’ll be about winning the crown, ribbons, and prizes. Any money earned will go towards what it’s intended for, and that is the school. To host this fundraiser here’s a few tips to get you started on your way.
For this pageant, it’ll be about winning the crown, ribbons, and prizes. Any money earned will go towards what it’s intended for, and that is the school. To host this fundraiser here’s a few tips to get you started on your way.
1. Select the location of the
fundraiser. You want to be able to add a temporary runway, so there needs to be
room for that, as well as seating. If your town has a theater or you have a
community center, these will probably be the best locations, unless you can
host this in one of the school auditoriums where the stage can be utilized.
Once your location is secure step two comes into play.
2. Select the crowns or tiaras, 1st,
2nd, and 3rd place ribbons for each category you’ll have in the competition and
prizes for the first place winners. Divide into age groups. Example: Toddlers,
Age 4, Age 5, Age 6 and Age 7. I’d have an age cut off so that things can run
as smoothly as possible without to many hours spent going through several other
age groups. You’ll need ribbons for each age group, so take that into
consideration when purchasing them. A crown or tiara will need to be bought for
each category as well.
You might want to consider
purchasing special ribbons for everyone who participates so they’ll receive
something for taking part in the competition. Purchase age appropriate gifts
for the 1st place winners in each age group.
If you can find someone willing to
donate gift certificates say to Putt Putt, pizza place, movies, water park etc,
for everyone who participates, then everyone will receive a nice gift
regardless of their placing or not.
3. Now you’ve got the location and
the awards in order, it’s time to run an ad for the fundraiser. First and
foremost this is about raising funds for the schools so be sure that is known
when placing your ad, then play up the pageant theme.
4. Place your ad. List the
categories and age groups, then list how many positions will receive honors.
Make note that a tiara or crown will be given to the winner of each age group,
in each category you include in the pageant. You might mention that every
participant will receive a ribbon for entering and (if you’ve secured gift
certificates) that each toddler/child will receive a small prize. Then list the
amount of money you decide on to enter the competition.
The more you can do to and offer,
for those who win, the more moms will be willing to donate funds to enter their
child in the competition, then the more money you’ll raise for the schools. So
really put a lot of thought, energy, and time into creating a spectacular
pageant.
Don’t forget to list the day and
time the pageant will be held. Encourage those who enter to arrive early enough
to get their little beauties in order and ready for the competition.
5. Have some refreshing drinks on
hand and snacks for the kids who’ve entered. You don’t want them getting to
fussy because they’re thirsty or hungry.
6. Select judges. Don’t have anyone
on the panel who is related to any of the participants. You might think about
asking local beauty pageant winners to judge the competition or someone on city
council.
Now things have been planned out. Do
a walk through with the moms and kids the day before the event happens. Collect
all the awards, gifts and things needed. Designate different jobs to volunteers
so you aren’t so stressed out. Cross things off the list as they are completed.
Set up creative donation boxes for
extra donations. Make a sign for each stating that donations are going towards
activities or needs throughout the year for kids in the schools. Have
volunteers man those locations donation boxes are set up at.
Okay you’re ready. Get your best MC
voice together and enjoy the pageant. Have fun, remember to smile and be free
with the ‘thank-you’s’ and ‘oh don’t you look pretty’s’, while smiling at the
moms. This is going to be a successful fundraiser.
Check out AshleyRayStewyG’s
shop, new items are added monthly. This month’s hot items are The Rich
Diamond Bitch Bundle, Pinky Bundle, & Gucci Dreams Bundle. Here’s a peek of
the bundles.
December 2014 AshleyRay Fashions will be launching a new
clothing line inspired by Nicki Minaja . These pieces will be bazaar print
clothing that will resemble clothing from off of Nicki’s clothing line now in
your local Kmart Stores. Here is a sneak peek of what’s to come on my IMVU
clothing line.
Neon Light Outfit
Coach 2pc Pant Suit
Neon Panther Outfit, stay posted to see more in December 2014!
Season 3 AshleyRay's Next Top Model Show is now posted on AshleyRayStewyG's IMVU homepage. You may follow this link to view all of the shows: http://www.imvu.com/catalog/web_mypage.php?user=115845511
Tonight I would like to introduce to you Season 3 Next Top Model Winner
TheBWitch
Congrats TheBWitch!
It is not offten that you find a guest model with everything it takes to be a pro model. Well, Rose Gem has broke the mold. When she first came to my runway I didn't think she was going to pull her weight, she sure proved me wrong. She have stuck in their with AshleyRay Runway Company for the last year. She is my top runway catalog model, and runway showcase model. I sat down to interview RoseGem. Go to my homepage to view the interview.
November 15, 2014 Up Date
We are hosting our second annual Small Business Saturday event for IMVU Creators on November 29! Last year’s event was a huge success, and we hope to make this year’s even bigger and better.
The IMVU Creator community truly makes the IMVU experience amazing, and to celebrate YOU we are promoting your catalogs and showrooms! It's as simple as this: you send us your chat room showrooms, and IMVU promotes them across our site on November 29th.
This event is completely optional, and we are giving you freedom to decorate and plan your customer's experience in your rooms on Small Business Saturday. We encourage you to gift items, make new friends, offer custom products, and more! This event is open to all Creators, regardless of Tier level.
How to Participate
--All Creators are welcome to participate in Small Business Saturday on IMVU
--Creators will put together individual public chat rooms that will show off their products, typically called a boutique or showroom. GA and AP catalogs are welcome!
--You can be present in your rooms to answer questions, gift items, etc. or you can hire models or take turns moderating your room with friends. It is up to you!
-- Groups can also submit their showrooms
Promotion
--IMVU will promote these showrooms on Saturday, November 29th; we will display promotional material leading up to that date throughout IMVU and on social media
--Rooms will be listed by category in our main forum post in the Events forum
How to Organize Your Showroom
Some ideas:
--Use Flash mannequins and Flash shop display items to display your items
--Ask friends to model your clothing while walking down a runway in your room
--If you are a room creator, use a chat room portal (like this one by Tidy) to show off multiple rooms at once
**Feel free to post any tips or products that can help others with their showrooms in this thread.
How to Submit Your Showroom
Submission begins today, November 14, 2014 and ends on November 25, 2014
Use the forum below to submit your showroom. There is no limit on how many showrooms you may send, but we will do our best to ensure that everyone has a fair chance of their showroom being seen on the list.
http://goo.gl/forms/BgNqPxC8qB
Members of IMVU staff will review all submissions for Small Business Saturday. Please put your best items in your rooms; don’t take a chance and add misrated items—we will rerate any unsuitable items.
FAQ is below. Feel free to post questions in this thread or send me messages. We're very excited for this event!
_________________
Katie --Online Community Engagement Manager, IMVU Inc.
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The IMVU Creator community truly makes the IMVU experience amazing, and to celebrate YOU we are promoting your catalogs and showrooms! It's as simple as this: you send us your chat room showrooms, and IMVU promotes them across our site on November 29th.
This event is completely optional, and we are giving you freedom to decorate and plan your customer's experience in your rooms on Small Business Saturday. We encourage you to gift items, make new friends, offer custom products, and more! This event is open to all Creators, regardless of Tier level.
How to Participate
--All Creators are welcome to participate in Small Business Saturday on IMVU
--Creators will put together individual public chat rooms that will show off their products, typically called a boutique or showroom. GA and AP catalogs are welcome!
--You can be present in your rooms to answer questions, gift items, etc. or you can hire models or take turns moderating your room with friends. It is up to you!
-- Groups can also submit their showrooms
Promotion
--IMVU will promote these showrooms on Saturday, November 29th; we will display promotional material leading up to that date throughout IMVU and on social media
--Rooms will be listed by category in our main forum post in the Events forum
How to Organize Your Showroom
Some ideas:
--Use Flash mannequins and Flash shop display items to display your items
--Ask friends to model your clothing while walking down a runway in your room
--If you are a room creator, use a chat room portal (like this one by Tidy) to show off multiple rooms at once
**Feel free to post any tips or products that can help others with their showrooms in this thread.
How to Submit Your Showroom
Submission begins today, November 14, 2014 and ends on November 25, 2014
Use the forum below to submit your showroom. There is no limit on how many showrooms you may send, but we will do our best to ensure that everyone has a fair chance of their showroom being seen on the list.
http://goo.gl/forms/BgNqPxC8qB
Members of IMVU staff will review all submissions for Small Business Saturday. Please put your best items in your rooms; don’t take a chance and add misrated items—we will rerate any unsuitable items.
FAQ is below. Feel free to post questions in this thread or send me messages. We're very excited for this event!
_________________
Katie --Online Community Engagement Manager, IMVU Inc.
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