What is uVme ?
uVme.biz is a social networking site,somewhat like MySpace, FaceBook, Yuwie, Orkut etc. uVme is quite a bit different in a lot of areas too though. The site itself has been 'in the making' for a little over two years now, but it is drawing near to it's final launch date which is "soon" but still unknown. The features the site has to offer, includes online video games, referral based payout and instant communication with your favorite instant messenger such as Yahoo, AOL, Google and MSN, along with the usual blogs, pictures and messaging of friends.
The owners of uVme, and Tom Brodie Len Fitzgerald launced VWD in 2002 which is a U.K. based internet lottery website also known as www.virtualworlddirect.com and has proved to be very successful. The investment into the site itself has been slated as a 'seven digit figure' with no true number actually given. There is no doubt that VWD has helped to fuel the investment for uVme though I have not found anything stating this.
Tom Brodie: has been in the network marketing business since 1990 and has mastered the art of MLM based companies over the years। His experience in failure has excelled him to where he is today with VWD and uVme.biz.
Len Fitzgerald: became the pioneer of the 'video rental' stores in UK, if not the world back in the early 1980's. His experience in creating a 'franchise' if you will, helped him gain the understanding of how to grow and expand a business. But, in 2001, Len finally realized that 20 years of 9am - 9pm, 7 days a week at the video rental business was no longer the enjoyment he once thought of. He soon sold his business to his brothers and formed a partnership with Tom. Quoted directly from Len: "The principle of my work is to do everything today, nothing tomorrow. That’s especially the case in network marketing. You have to act now. Another thing networking has taught me is that listening to a few key people will usually produce far better insights than an exhaustive but impersonal market study will."
uVme is currently in a pre-signup beta form which gives the initial members the ability to advertise and begin marketing for referrals. I don't know how MLM's work throughout the world and I haven't specifically read anywhere that uVme is a MLM, but everything the site is about (including the previous experiences of the owners) proves that the site is a true Multi-Level Marketing company. The initial startup fee for uVme once it launches live, will be a whopping £199.97, €199.97, or $199.97 USD. But, if you are able to refer two members who become 'active' within the first 28 days of their sign-up, you will receive £100.00, €100.00 or $100.00 USD. This means the startup fee is covered. After that there is an additional £65, €65 or $65 USD 'license' fee (basically a membership fee) that is collected each month. Don't let that scare you though. uVme is designed around a product of providing a variety of video games that are a 'pay to play' system, running roughly £/€/$1 to play. uVme is designed to make money and then re-distribute that money to you, the member. Obviously, since uVme is a MLM company, the more people you have signed up and active, the more you will make.
Is Yuwie a Scam?
This is an excellent question! Is Yuwie real? or is Yuwie a Scam?
It's not for me to tell you one way or the other.
What I will tell you is this...
Yuwie makes their money off of advertising, just like MySpace
Yuwie requires a W-9 form to be filled out before getting paid (For the US Tax payers...) (how much more legit do they need to be?)
Since the dawn of Yuwie back toward the end of June, the site has reached over 85,000 members. 30,000 of them being in the second month, August. September has raked in over 45,000 members alone!
There are a LOT of people who have placed faith in Yuwe and truly believe in what the site has to offer. I personally have friends on Yuwie who are members but they don't pursue the monetary side of Yuwie. They are happy with the idea of meeting new people in a new place and sharing new ideas with new people :) I have even added people to my MySpace account, because I met them on Yuwie!
I personally joined Yuwie back around the first part of August. To date, I believe I have received only one e-mail from Yuwie to my main email address. In-fact, when I first signed up for Yuwie, I created a completely separate e-mail address just for yuwie to catch the spam. After about a week or so, I realized... "Yuwie doesn't spam with e-mail." So, I dropped that e-mail address and plugged in my personal one.
The "Y Guy" is Yuwie's Mascot if you will, whom can be compared to MySpace's Tom. (Tom Anderson is one of the founders of MySpace). The Y Guy presents earning reports for the month and any scheduled maintenance with the site. Nobody really knows who the "Y Guy" is... mainly because his picture looks like a "Y"... "Guy"... But hey, he's friendly!!
Like I said before। It's not for me to tell you whether Yuwie is a scam or not but I personally haven't seen a single aspect of the site throw up any 'red flags' to prove that Yuwie is a Scam. Unless proven otherwise, I am going to believe that Yuwie is 100% Legit!
"How Does Yuwie Make their Money?" The Million Dollar Question
Long Version:
Yuwie, like many other websites on the internet, display a series of optimized advertisements throughout the page. What I mean by 'optimized' is that a website administrator places the ads in different locations on the page, until they figure out where they can get the most money for the ad placement.
We have become so accustomed to online advertising, that we become oblivious to their existence. Or are we really oblivious? Advertising marketers have researched, studied and perfected the art of subliminal marketing. We may not 'think' we are paying attention to the ad, but that little thing in the back of our brains called the sub-conscience remembers a lot more than we realize!
Like I stated in the 'short version', Yuwie makes their money through advertisement. You might be thinking "How much could they possibly make? It can't be that much..."Quite the contrary!!
I maintain several websites that all utilize advertisements on them. One of the advertisement methods that I use is the Google AdSense. I make money based off of the 'click' to the advertisement, and the amount is all determined by how much the advertiser is willing to spend. Sometimes it is pennies. Other times, I have see $1.50 or more, for one click! I decided to see how much money I was making per click though so I averaged it out for one of my better sites for about three months. The payout? $0.39 / click. No, that doesn't sound like much...
So... Let me put it this way. How many members does MySpace have? Roughly 100 Million. Now... let's say that a very modest 1 million of those people were to click on a Google Ad, within one day. How much does that come out to at $0.40 / click? You guessed it! $400,000 and that's for one day! If you multiply that by the 30 days in a month, thats... what... $12 million dollars? And that's is for a measly million clicks! Now... if YOU could start up a website that generated over a million ad clicks per day, would you make it happen? The owners of Yuwie just did. This ties into the "why" Yuwie is trying to compete with MySpace, Facebook, Orkut and the others. As you can see, Yuwie is in the market of making money through online advertising and the only way they can emerge into a flooded market, is to provide something no one else has.
Why is Yuwie Paying thier Member?
A subject that doesn't get touched very often when browsing the different advertisements of Yuwie, is why they are paying their members. I thought about that myself when I first began researching Yuwie. Since I am in the website design business myself, I know what it takes to get a website up and running, ranked and a loyal following. I also knew that if there wasn't an incentive for the members, why sign up?
The internet is flooded with social networking sites like MySpace, Face Book, Orkut and many others. It becomes very difficult for a company to introduce a product to into a flooded market, unless they have something better to offer than the competition. Look at Chrystler. If you haven't heard, they are offering a Lifetime Guarentee on the power-train of some of their models. Why? By offering something the competition doesn't have, they can rise above the competition. Does that mean people are going to flock to Chrystler just because they offer this warranty? No... Does this mean households are going to exclusively buy Chrysler products? No... It just means Chrysler has something better to offer. Same thing with Yuwie। They are simply offering something better than the competition।
How Much You Can EarnThe model given below represents if each person reffers just 3 of his
LEVEL Refferal Impresion Earning
1 3 3000 $0.15
2 9 9000 $0.45
3 27 27000 $0.54
4 81 81000 $1.62
5 243 143000 $4.86
6 729 729000 $14.58
7 2187 2187000 $43.58
8 6561 6561000 $328.05
9 19683 19683000 $984.15
10 59049 59049000 $8857.15
TOTAL 88572 88572000 $10232.25
What are casual games of skill?Casual games are familiar, fun pastimes such as:
Board games like draughts, backgammon
Sports games like pool, golf and basketball
Puzzle games like jigsaws and word games
These are played online in a tournament format, with each player paying a cash entry fee to play, and with a cash or merchandise prize going to the winner or winners of the tournament. Skill-based games are named accordingly because the outcome of each competition is based on the players’ ability and performance, with any elements of luck eliminated. This is critical, in order to be legal and avoid falling under anti-gambling statutes.
People like to play these games on their computers for a fun challenge. Playing them online against someone else adds an extra social, competitive element; and playing for cash prizes between USD$1 and $1,000 upwards makes them even more exciting and rewarding!
What does all of this mean? It means that online games are where the money is. People are willing to pay to play, and they are doing it already. Interesting fact? …It’s much more than that. Challenging a friend to a game, “u V me”, IS YOUR BUSINESS. The more fun people have, the bigger your profit. You don’t have to worry about stocks, overheads,
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