The ZIP , an awesome Second Life style shop.

On ZIP`s devellopment this past year.
I rezzed my main av “denjobi odell” the first time on Januari 16th of 2007, about 1 month later i uploaded The ZIP`s first store logo.
Rented a shop at LakeVille Mall where i put up my noob-creator t-shirts and tattoo`s for sale. I think i never sold any. I was hangin out a lot with some fellow noobs at some noob hangouts where we dreamt about a brighter future. I started visiting Theta Sandbox where i build a braclet, put some bling script in it and then made another. They are simple yet clean designs and the only two items from that period that are still in the current collection. Selling the items (and only those two items) was a verry nice and i started building more. Becouse i did a shape for a chick av i needed shoes, so i build “Female Sneakers 1″, they didnt have colorscript in m and i hadn`t established the DBO brand yet also. I put them up in the shop and they sold (those were the days ..). After a while i build Male Sneakers 2. I was searching for the brandname and came up with NWO, which i later changed to DBO

They sold for 100 and 200L$ a pair so i made rent for my first shop pretty easy and i took the sneaks, the t-s and some belts i made by then to shop nr2. Some noob mallowner with a noob mall complete with camping pads and lots of garbage that was being sold there .. i fitted right in.

Still verry minimum use of textures. I also wanted to give people a way to customize some of the details on the sneaks.

So i went after a color script to upgrade the shoes .. also applied new textures to them while i was at it. I also build “Sneakers 3″

First i made them available in black leather and suede (tan) and later in 4 more colors. Finaly the product was finished and i had a more clear idea now of what dbo was gonna be like.

I started renting more shops and also did some new t-s .. the old ones i had thrown out by now.

This time i had put more effort in the ads and slowly there was getting some style in the presentation of the shop. Few days after putting up the shirts i redid the presentation of the sneaker collection. The style of ZIP itself was now finaly getting somewhere.

After a while i started building more sneaker models and since then i`ve build boots for both male and female, did more clothes, a jewellery collection, prefabs and animations. I bought some land on Thraki and build a main-store there. All with ZIP style now.

Now the search for style is rewarded .. residents have come up to me about setting up a franchise construction  :) ZIP now has affiliates with their own franchises.

It took me several months to find its style and ZIP was not allways looking as promesing as it does today.
But here it is .. Revamped , Restyled and .. Revisited lots of times a day now by quite a few people.
The ZIP is doing verrry nice ^_^