How to be a Successful Marketer.

This tutorial will be composed of tips, advice and practical examples on basic and advanced marketing. Post in this thread if you want something cleared. This tutorial will help you become a better marketer or make you one if you're new.
WARNING: Do not post in this thread for advice.


Gathering Toricredits
If you ask someone how you can earn easy toricredits they'll probably reply 'dueling and marketing'. These two terms refer to options you have open once toricredits are available to you. If you have enough toricredits, you have some to toss and play around with. First you will be needing to have them in the first place. This is what I'll be covering in this section.

A) Tourneys
Earning toricredits can be a bummer once it comes to tourneys. You'll have to reply on your skills and in-game experience if you are planning to earn toricredits in this way. This can prove easy if you're good at certain mods. The official tourney server offers tourney prize ranging from 500tc to 1,000tc. If you look at this from a different perspective. This is free money.
But this also can be a time-consumer, since you have to wait and spectate if you have been knocked out.
B) Texturing

Another way of earning 'free' toricredits is texturing. You could make texture sets or head textures which are often easy to sell. You will need to know how to use programmes such as Photoshop and GIMP in order to do so.

Now that we have toricredits, let's move on to the real deal. Marketing.

Buying your goods
Now, the target of this section will be teaching you how to buy goods at a profitable price. And in the next section - selling them. I'll be giving you some general knowledge on price checking. And later I'll lay out some tips. Having made myself clear, let's move on.

A) Planning it out
If you're going to start marketing, (i.e. buying goods and selling them at a profitable rate) you'll need to plan everything out initially.

First, you'll need to fix your budget. Never spend all your tc at once.. It's a very bad idea. if you go bankrupt, that's a disturbing thought. Having fixed your budget, we next have to target our profit.

Ex.
If we were to start out with 10,000 TC. We'd atleast think of making 5,000 more out of it. The ratio of planning depends on what you are willing to sell. If you willing to buy/sell a joint. Prices may drop/increase expeditiously without you even knowing it.

B) Selecting your item
You will want to select something that's available for an affordable price and easy to sell. Avoid high-qi items, unless you have friends who have high belts. So, what does that sum up to? You can start with textures and joints. Don't buy a flame unless it's not attractive. People tend to buy much attractive flames. Last time I've checked, 128 textures are sold for 1.5k each. So if you want to buy them, I wouldn't buy them for more than 1.2k each. And yes, it is possible to get such good deals. You have to target the people you want to buy from.

About dealing with flames
If you're new, avoid them. Once purchasing a flame (for marketing purposes) keep care of:

• Size of the flame - Don't let it be obnoxiously large or small. People want something humane, well most people do.
• Body parts - Where the flame belongs. Users tend to buy hand, head and feet flames, sometimes chest. A pec or a tricep flame would be a lot harder to sell.
• Colors of the flame - Judging from experience, most people like dark and moderate flames than light and huge ones.
• Forger - Keep care while selecting your Forger, famous forgers such as FNugget and gman80 are famous and their flames are easy to sell.

Dealing with Joints

• The color of the joint - If it's an attractive color. (Ex. Sphnix isn't attractive compared to gold and static.)
• QI Factor - Most buyers might not have the same QI. Avoid High QI joints.
• Outdated Market price - Check the market, sometimes they are not accurate. Use the price check megathread made by phail.

Selling your goods
Let's go for something practical.
Say, I want to sell a 512x512 Head Texture. The torishop/market price is around 20,000TC. If I were to buy it, I wouldn't buy it for more than 18,000TC. If I were to sell it, I wouldn't go below 19,500TC. If I were very desperate, I would go for 19,000TC, but never below.

Things to keep care.

• Make sure you aren't being scammed. Always take screenshots when dealing ingame.
• NEVER get involved with accounts. Never.
• Make sure you aren't headed for a loss. Wait if needed, there's no rush.
• Never give up, wait and put it up for market, prices will reduce, cheaper ones will get sold out. You can sell you item for a profit.

Repeating this process will hopefully give you a hefty amount of TC. Remember, never be cocky, and stick firm with your price. Show an attitude that you aren't dying for the item. This will allow the seller to ask for large sums of TC. Don't fall for it. Use your common sense and do what's right. You're good to go.