There is now a new guest page for your uVme games-playing site, with a new link that you can give out to everyone!

Using this new link lets visitors see the uVme.com home page, with its game titles and images, before they register… just to give them a taste of what they are registering for!

There is a bright, fun new graphic on the page that says “HAVE FUN… AND CHALLENGE YOUR FRIENDS! Play for FREE on uVme”. When your visitors click this image, they are then taken to the player signup page to register.

The new link to use is:

www.uvme.com/uvmguest/g.aspx?m=  (+ENTER YOUR GUEST LOGIN AFTER THE EQUALS SIGN!)

Just insert your guest login at the end, right after the equals sign (with no spaces before it), and send to your friends and contacts!

The new business-building website, code-named “Project Black Diamond”, has been approved and is now in its final design stage. We will have more information for you about this next week.

Also coming to its final period of implementation is the new version of the uVme Instant Messenger (IM) for both the games platform website and the business-building website, as well as the downloadable version of the uVme IM. We will have more updates for you next week on the progress of all of these new developments.

We are now midway through the second uVme business cycle, and for many of our members the .biz business-building website licence fee is now due. This licence fee payment will be taken over the next few days from your uVme e-wallet, if it has sufficient funds in it (any remaining balance will be taken from your original payment method).

If you joined as an Associate in Cycle 1, you will remember that your first licence payment was (£$€)65, which is the fee for each 28-day business cycle. However, because the first cycle was a shortened 21-day cycle, you will have a “credit” of at least 7 days or more.

For example: if you joined on Day 1 of Cycle 1, you would have been be charged for 28 days, but as there were only 21 days in the cycle, 7 days will be credited to you in the next cycle… so in Cycle 2 you will be charged for just 14 days.

The process of taking the licence fee appears slightly more complicated than it actually is, because our first three business cycles are shortened 21-day cycles. In all cases, when a member first joins and subscribes to the business-building website, their first licence fee charge will always be (£$€)65; but this will then be balanced out in the member’s second cycle, to credit them with any “unused days ” in the previous 28-day fee period.

You can now view all of your uVme commissions and bonuses online, and see which person each of your Fast Start Bonuses (1 and 2) has come from!

Just log into your uVme.biz business-building website and click the “Bank” tab. Then select “Commission” from the drop-down list (the other drop-down options are “Player eWallet” and “Membership Fee”).

Once your list is displayed, click on a commission payment “COM” to see how much you’ve earned in Generation Bonus, Active Bonus, Matching Bonus etc., in Pounds, Dollars and Euros. Or click on any Fast Start Bonus 1 or 2 payment (”FSB1″ or “FSB2″) to see which person you earned it from!

In the next release of this feature, you will be able to see a more detailed breakdown of each individual part of the “COM” statement as well — showing you where each bonus has come from and what levels of your genealogy each covers, etc.

Great news… any uVme active Associates qualifying as a “Q3” or above this business cycle will automatically be paid at the next Q position up, for all business done in Cycle 2!

For example, if you qualify as a Q3 any time this cycle, you will be paid as a Q4 when it finishes – which means you will gain commission on an entire extra generation of your business! (Q3s get paid through four generations, while Q4s get paid through five.)

What will this mean to me?
Depending on the structure of your business, this could mean getting paid 3-4 times the amount you would as a Q3 in Active Bonus! That’s a great deal more in Pounds, Dollars and Euros.

What should I do now?
The current business cycle ends on Sunday, 9th March, so you have about two weeks in which to qualify as a Q3. You should focus on:

• • Get people registering, joining your group and gathering players so they achieve active status.
• • Structure your group to give you the maximum benefit of being paid through additional generations.

These are the rules for getting to Q3 (the third position in the Marketing Plan):
         1. Achieve “Active Status”
        2. Develop a group of three Associates who are qualified at the Q2 position, in separate legs; and a minimum of one of these must be personally sponsored at all times

Any Q2 that has been placed in your group must be placed on your front line to qualify you as a Q3.

Any personally sponsored Q2s can be placed anywhere within your first four “income-producing generations” to qualify you for the Q3 position.

Please see the uVme Marketing Plan for the rules for getting to positions Q3 to Q9.

Once your 14-day “cooling off” period is complete (after joining uVme as an Associate), you will receive any of the bonuses paid through INSTANT PAY – such as Fast Start Bonuses 1 and 2 – immediately into your e-wallet… And from then on, whenever you personally sponsor a new Associate who qualifies active within 28 days, you will receive these bonuses INSTANTLY.

No need to wait until after their cooling off period finishes… as soon as they register and become “active” by gathering players within their first 28 days, (£/$/€)100 FSB1 is transferred to your e-wallet INSTANTLY.

By the same token, for every person THEY personally sponsor who does the same, you will INSTANTLY receive (£/$/€)20 FSB2 in your e-wallet.

If for any reason your new Associate should cancel their uVme membership within their cooling off period after you have already been paid the FSB1, we would understandably “claw back” the FSB1 and FSB2s from your e-wallet or future commissions.

How can you make sure you keep any Fast Start Bonuses you are paid?

∙Help your new personally sponsored Associate get into profit as quickly as you can

∙Give them as much help and support as possible

∙Show them how to gather players and how to use the games website

∙Challenge them to some games

∙Teach them how to build a team of uVme Associates who in turn gather more players

∙Encourage them to attend the events and conferences, which can be found at http://www.uvmeevents.com/

We think you will agree… Instant Pay is an excellent “jewel” in the uVme Marketing Plan!

Over the past few weeks, there have been 90 new uVme badges added to the uVme business-building site for Members to download FREE!

These include 5 designs in 3 shapes and 6 colours, with fun slogans such as “U Bet It’s Fun”, and “Make Money on the Game”.

Look out for more great marketing tools… coming to your back office soon!

At about 15:30 hours GMT today (21st February), we will be implementing a new system release to your .com games site. The .com site will be taken down for around 20 minutes as this occurs. Please pass this information on to your team members and any players who you think might be online at that time.

We have now posted all Cycle 1 Bonuses and Commissions to member statements. That information is available to view now in your back office. More detailed reporting will be available in the statement area very soon.

We have just finished updating the database with the additional un-posted Fast Start Bonuses and now need to apply those additions to the Cycle 1 commission run. While we do this, members will not be able to see commissions in their statements. Once the commission run has completed, the statements will be available to view. We will confirm the completion of this process via the blog. Thank you for your patience.

We have become aware that certain statements are not displaying all FSB1 bonuses.  We have scheduled a “reconciliation payment run” to resolve this statement posting issue.
If you have any questions or concerns about this, please call us or email admin@uVme.com
Thank you for your patience.

All of our members of staff have been working very hard all day processing and checking through the first-ever uVme “commission run” after the first Business Cycle finished last night.

Being the first-ever run for uVme, these checks are taking longer than we had anticipated, and the first commission results are now expected to be posted to your statement tomorrow (Tuesday, 19th February 2008). We’re sure you will appreciate that it would not be fair to release any results until they were all complete and we can release them all at the same time.

We apologize for the slight delay, but on the other hand we’re pleased to announce that it is progressing very well so far.

The first 21-day business cycle for uVme ended at 23:59 hours (GMT) on the 17th February 2008.  We are now in the process of running the very first commission calculations for uVme cycle 1.

When this process is complete, we will be checking through it thoroughly, conducting final audits, and then releasing it to your “Bank” area in the uVme back office.

As soon as that release takes place, we will post another blog announcement.

uVme Conference and Business Opportunity Meeting - Lisbon, Portugal
Starts 10:00 local time, finishing approximately 18:00
Hosted by uVme Independent Associate Paulo Figueiredo, with guest speakers Eric Avery, Head of Development and Support for uVme, and other leading Associates.

This event is open to all uVme Associates and Guests.

For more information and how to book a place, please see http://www.uvmeevents.com/

Great NEWS!!!

Many “active” uVme Associates have now completed the “cooling off” period and have become among the first to access “Instant Pay”.  Hundreds of Pounds, Dollars and Euros have been paid TODAY in Fast Start Bonus 1 and 2.

Make sure that, after helping your Personally Sponsored Associates to gather players, they understand the “active status” process, so you and your team members have full access to the uVme Marketing Plan.

If you have any questions about Instant Pay, Fast Start Bonus or becoming Active… please do call or email Member Support.