The trade channel is your window of advertising your own WoW business. One of the best ways you can do this is to create your own trade chat macro that you can easily edit to help create a reputation for yourself. For a profession like Enchanting, it is doubly important to advertise in trade because you will be able to also offer enchants for the customer materials and a tip. That means you don’t need to have the gold to begin with to buy the materials, this is also done by engineers advertising to build you your very own Mechano-Hog, just mats plus a tip.
If you want to advertise your professions easily in trade chat, your might want to use a very simple macro that will link your professions, say where you are and that tips are appreciated..
Step 1: Open Your Macro Window
This can be done either by typing /macro into the chat window, or by hitting Escape and clicking on Macros in the options panel.
Step 2: Name and Icon Selection
Every time you make a macro you will have to give it a name and an icon. Any time I make a macro for something other than my primary attacks I try to give it a unique icon that my character wouldn’t normally have available to him and try to name is appropriately so it is easy to know that the macro is.
Step 3: Write the Trade Channel macro
This is where we are going to write the actual code to advertise in trade chat. Since this post is about advertising your professions, that is exactly what we will do.
The part in Red is where you will put the name of the profession that you want to show up, in this example we are using Enchanting, but really it can be whatever you have (Engineering, Leatherworking, Tailoring, etc). This must be wrapped in double quotes, ie: “Enchanting”.
The part in Green is where you will type whatever message you want to appear with the link. This message also needs to be wrapped in double quotes. In my example below I say I have “+15 Agil, Berserking, Mongoose. Your mats or mine! Tips appreciated..”
/script CastSpellByName(”Enchanting“);SendChatMessage(”Mongoose, Crusader, Surefooted and more “..GetTradeSkillListLink(),”CHANNEL”,nil,GetChannelName(”Trade – City”));CloseTradeSkill();
You can copy/paste that right into your own macro, just make sure you change the Profession (if needed) and the message to whatever you want to say.
Step 4: Drag the Icon to your Action Bar
Place the icon wherever you would like on your action bars, just make sure not to accidently type anything while you still have mouse focus on the Macro text window or you may accidently cause errors in the macro.
Step 5: Advertise Away!
Now all you have to do is click the macro on your bars when you want to use it. This Trade Chat macro is setup to only broadcast into Trade, and that’s really the only place it belongs.
If you try to use this macro where Trade chat is unavailable, it will give you an error. You will also receive an error if your profession book is already open. These errors will not cause any damage or freeze your client, the macro just wont work and it will give you an error message.
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