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Salacity History Part 10...

As I mentioned before, I began to have bloggers approaching me about working directly with Salacity to promote my creations. I was familiar with the idea of have a team of bloggers, but I knew nothing about how to do it. I started off with a small in-world group to manage them, using it for distribution of new releases as well as communications.

Soon, though, it became clear that I needed help with it—at very least because I had no idea what "managing bloggers" was supposed to entail. I decided to advertise for a blogger manager, and my friend Scotty, who (in addition to being a patron of sorts, and a silent partner) functioned as something of a business advisor to me, and we interviewed the applicants together.

Two of them stood out, for very different reasons, and in the end we hired both! But for very different jobs. Lawrence D. Pryce, who has gone on to do great things in the world of SL, was my very first blogger manager for Salacity. Unfortunately, he didn't last too long in that role because of some miscommunications and tensions with other members of the Salacity team. In retrospect, I regret that things ended with Law the way that they did.

The other candidate that we'd hired (to function in more of a promotional and developmental role), Quiggles, took over blogger management soon after Law left the team. She managed our bloggers for about six months, before RL demands forced her to step away from all responsibilities with Salacity.

With that I was at a loss! I didn't know what to do about it, so I turned to one of our bloggers—with whom I had begun to develop a friendship—who also happened to work with some other brands and groups as a blogger manager, asking for advice. I'd hoped she might give me the name of another good candidate for the job, but as we talked then it soon became clear to both of us that she would be ideal for the position! LauraGenia Viper took over immediately as Salacity's blogger manager, and held that role until I shut it down in April 2020.

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