General -- beYou Ad Service

beYou Ads service allows you to publish beYou related ads on the ad boards at the beYou sim.

## Restrictions/Requirements

* Must be a registered beYou Citizen.
* No level requirement.
* Must maintain the life of your ad prim yourself.
* Must be clicked every five days to avoid expiration.
* Can only have one ad per category (Farming Markets, Medical, Law, Grocery,  Community,  Services - see below), per person.

## Warnings/Caution/Tips

**VERY IMPORTANT:** If your ad expires, you will have to buy a new one at the beYou sim.
* If the information displayed on the Ad is inappropriate, or the service is abused beyond its limitations, the owner may be banned from the Ad service and all the ads removed.
* Transparent images do not show very well, please use an image with a background.
* Because SL sometimes doesn't communicate with scripted items properly, you may not see your last day warning. It is best to click your ads every day or every other day.

## Buying the Ad Space

*Disclaimer*: By using the beYou Ad Service, you are agreeing to maintain your own ads. Adboard presence does not guarantee that people will visit your business. Just like in real life, this is a space to help promote but doesn’t ensure anything you aren’t putting the work for in yourself.

To get started, you will need to buy a beYou Ad prim.  These are located in the middle of the beYou Ad boards on the main beYou sim across from the CSR area next to the adboards on the ground sort of pushed into the wall.

Each ad board space is 25L.

You can buy as many ad prims as you like and rez them wherever. But as stated in the restrictions/requirements, you can only assign one ad per category.

**IMPORTANT**: You may have up to two adboards rezzed in each category, provided they are on different sims for each category. This means if you wanted to have two under law, each adboard has to be on its own sim. Same for all of the other categories.

## Ad Setup, Publishing & Maintenance

To become a visible registered beYou business on the adboard, you simply need to set up your ad prim.

### Setup & Publishing Instructions

1. Rez the ad prim at your place of business where you want visitors to land. Visitors will arrive 2 meters in front of the ad prim.
2. Click on the new rezzed ad prim and select from the following categories:
	* Farm Markets - for farmers’ markets and veggie stands you rent at farmers’ markets
	* Medical - for beYou Doctors & beYou Pharmacists
	* Law - for beYou Lawyers
	* Grocery - for beYou affiliate supermarkets & beYou co-ops
	* Community - for beYou residential/rp communities
	* Services - for all other beYou services (eg. crafting, lumber sales, restaurants, etc.)
3. In the text box type your business name for the ad and click the submit button.
4. Copy and paste the UUID of the texture that will be displayed on the Ad and click the submit button. You can get the UUID of your ad texture (must be a full perm texture) in two ways
	* Option 1 - open the texture and click the UUID button on the bottom left just above the OK button. NOTE: If there is no UUID button, then your photo isn’t full perm and you won’t be able to get it.
	* Option 2 - from your SL inventory, right-click the texture and click Copy Asset UUID (should be the 5th option from the top on the context menu)
5. Check all the details in local chat and confirm. If the information is not correct, cancel and the setup will be restarted.

Congratulations! You have just registered and published your ad on the ad boards!
Once published, people will be able to see (and do) the following based on the ad:

* The image used for the ad
* Teleport to the location of the ad
* Contact the ad owner directly from the displayed ad on the ad board on beYou sim
* See the ad owner’s online status

**IMPORTANT**: Once you've set up your ad, do NOT take it up. It will only work while rezzed. Leave it out.

### Ad Maintenance

Now that your ad is published on the adboards, it is up to you to keep it visible on the ad boards. To do this, simply click the ad image on your ad at your place of business within the 5 day threshold and your ad will remain active.

#### Ad Life

The 25L fee you pay for your ad goes a long way.  As long as you remember to click your ad's image at your place of business once every five days, your ad will remain visible at the beYou sim.  If you forget to do so, then you will have to pay another 25L for a new board.

If you haven't been clicking your ad, then the day before it expires, you will receive the following message:

```
*beYou Ad: You have 1 day left to check-in to prevent ad termination!*

```

Make sure you click your ad before the 5-day threshold expires or you will have to buy another ad.

**NOTE**: If you are not going to be around, someone who is in the same land group as your sign can click your ad for you to refresh it. They just need to wear the land group tag.

#### Making Changes

To change the name or the texture of the ad, click and hold for 2 seconds on the ad prim at your place of business and then you will follow steps 2 or 3 from the setup to make any needed changes.
Any changes may take up to 10 minutes to update on the Ad-board.

#### Ad Visibility

If you are online, your purchased ad board will have a green outline surrounding it. If you are offline, your purchased ad board will have a red outline surrounding it.

By clicking your ad once every 12 hours, your ad will move to the top bar of its designated ad board. If you try to click it more than once every twelve hours, it will tell you it's too soon...so don't try to spam click.

By clicking on the Available/Unavailable button you can change the visibility of the ad on the beYou sim Ad-board. This means you can keep your ad up without worrying about being contacted if you’re online!

## Contacting Businesses

When you click on an ad at the adboards at the main beYou sim, you will receive a message in nearby chat.

```
[13:52] beYou AdBoard:
Name of Business: Teleport to SLurl
or IM Person (firstname.lastname)

```

For example: let's say you are looking to contact beYou and they had an ad board on the ad boards at the sim. When you click their ad, it would read something like this:

```
[13:52] beYou AdBoard:
beYou World: Teleport to http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/beYou/80/133/30 (once clicked it will automatically teleport you)
or IM beYouSales Resident (when you click the link, it will open their personal IM window)

```

At that point you will be able to communicate with the person (or persons) whose services you need.

## Reminders

* The Ad will never expire if the owner is checking in at least once in 5 days. This means you must click on the ad at your place of business at least once every 5 days or the ad will get automatically removed.
* The owner can have only one Ad per ad category,  [Farming Markets, Medical, Law, Grocery,  Community,  Services]
* If the information displayed on the Ad is inappropriate, or the service is abused beyond its limitations, the owner may be banned from the Ad service and all the ads removed.
* You may have up to two adboards rezzed in each category, provided they are on different sims for each category.