Recently a friend of mine opened an account on Second Life so that he could set up a virtual office for his real world company. He has remote offices and workers and wanted to create an environment where they could all come together in more of an interactive manner. After hearing how he bought land, set up an office building, and furnished it, I decided to find out more about Second Life myself. In doing so I came across an article about a woman in Germany who has built a virtual property empire worth a real million dollars.
cnet News has published an article about this virtual world realtor that I found very interesting. In the article Anshe Chung discusses how she got started and built her business, as well as offering advice for other budding entrepeneurs interested in becoming virtual world tycoons.
My friend, who is in the mortgage business in the real world, has begun to trade property in the virtual world of Second Life. He has only made a handful of acquisitions and trades but can see the possibilities and has plans to scale up his operations as quickly as possible. We'll let you know how it goes.
