All About Online Gaming or Skill Gaming & Networking

The online games sector has been identified as the next step in the evolution of online entertainment, and people of all ages, from all over the world, play in their millions. And within this sector, “casual skill-based games” rank as one of the most popular pastimes.

Industry experts are saying that this area of the Internet is like television was 50 years ago and in 5 years will be like television is today. The growth expectation is absolutely massive!

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 to whatever amount is set for the tornament, makes them even more exciting and rewarding than you would have thought!

What does all of this mean? It means that online games are where the money is. ot only of you play and win but now even if you don't play you can make money. People are willing to pay to play, and they are doing it already. By the millions and growing by the minute. Interesting fact?

…It’s much more than that. When you are challenging a friend to a game, “u V me”, IS YOUR BUSINESS. The more fun people have, the more money they spend, the bigger your profit. You don’t have to worry about stocks, overheads, selling, in fact, we’ve knocked down every barrier and erased every stigma attached, replacing it only with simplicity, fun, money and status. So WIN or LOSE, you will always be a winner when you get a share of the revenue!

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But why online games?

That’s easy, the online games sector is growing FOUR TIMES faster than the Internet overall. And just think, it has grown as massive and as rapidly as it has WITH NO TRADITIONAL ADVERTISING! Online games are not advertised on TV, in newspapers, in cinemas or on billboards, or anywhere else really, yet the audience is getting bigger and bigger.

In fact, there is almost no one that is not included in this market. Worldwide, it is forecasted to grow from USD$5.2 billion in 2007 to over USD$13 billion in 2011...

In other words, USD$412 per SECOND... every minute, every hour of every day.

All of this, just by the power of word of mouth. Your online business will do the same.

Game networks have grown due to word of mouth. Players want to play a game with a friend or the players are recommending games to other players, who in turn do the same. It’s viral.

If online games are growing this fast WITHOUT advertising, just imagine how widespread they will become now that big “Fortune 500”, blue-chip and major TV networks are getting involved.

Who’s playing these games?

Is it teenagers playing at home? Far from it. Consider this fact: the International Game Developers Association’s “Casual Games Market Overview” reported that casual gamers tend to be BOTH WOMEN AND MEN between the ages of 35 and 65, with a slight demographic skew towards women.

Why Social Networking?

Integrating social networking gives your business the power to spread virally, around the world.

You can see on the “Why Instant Messaging?” and “Why Online Games?” pages just how huge this market is, and how fast it is growing. But there’s another powerful hook in your new business: its social networking aspect.

What is social networking? It's online communities such as “MySpace” and “Facebook”, where people add their friends, post photos and entries in the form of a blog, “network” based on shared interests or likes/dislikes, and interact with each other. This phenomenon is also growing staggeringly popular. MySpace currently has 176 million users. And Facebook, now the 18th-most-visited web site in the world, did not even exist until three years ago!

Social networking has been called “The reality TV of the Internet”; and analysts predict it will continue to grow massively rather than being just a passing fad.

A Nielsen//NetRatings report in May 2006 stated that social networking sites were already last year being used by 45% of web users, and traffic to these sites increased 87% over the last year.

Plus, the interactive nature of social networking sites keeps visitors coming back again and again. You can probably begin to see what kind of effect a combined social networking and a global games network might achieve…it’s like a huge arena filled with millions of people in one place, all wanting to play! Imagine being able to harness this powerful medium, and even better, using it to fuel your new online games business...

Well that is exactly what you will be able to do! Not only that, but you can also automatically add all of your current contacts from MSN, Google, AIM and Yahoo! Messenger. THAT’S RIGHT … we are talking about a web-based instant communicator that allows you to send instant messages, view all of your contacts’ online status, social network, AND play games, all at the same time, in the same place.

Instant messaging is the crowning genius of this business, channeling the massive potential of the fastest-growing communication medium in history — that’s how big instant messaging has become!

Integrating social networking into your games site gives your business the power to spread virally. Players passing on links to your games website though their blogs and messenger will give your business enormous potential to grow rapidly as more and more players continually challenge new friends.

Your players and Associates will be able to use their own uVme blog to share experiences and communicate to all their friends. Players can earn more loyalty points to unlock even more functionality in their blog, from larger storage capacity, to RSS feeds, plus lots more. These elements usually cost on other social networking sites, but your players can access these for free simply by playing more and more games and having fun!

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Why Instant Messaging?

You’ve seen how exciting and massive the online games and social networking markets are... now add into the mix the delivery of these platforms through a web-based instant messenger (IM)!

The benefit of IMS is the ability to list all of your contacts, see when they are online, and send them short “chat” messages that pop up on their screen INSTANTLY, as soon as you send them. So it’s like having a text-based, live conversation.

More than half the UK population regularly uses an IM to stay in touch with friends...

In a business sense, the advantage instant messaging has over e-mail is that you can see when contacts are online, and you can get a message to them immediately. With e-mail, they have to be running their e-mail application, and even then there may be delivery delays, or they may not check their email very often. You never know whether somebody has got your message. There are also all the junk-mail and “spam” filters that make delivery of your email unreliable!

Because of all of its advantages, instant messaging is set to be the fastest-growing communication medium in history; it is growing twice as fast as email did.

With uVme, you not only get an IM, but also it can automatically collate all of your contacts from various programs such as Yahoo! Messenger or Windows Live Messenger, AIM (AOL’s IM) and Google Talk, that you may be using...

...AND IT IS WEB-BASED!

That means that instead of being a standalone application that people have to download and install, this IM runs live on your uVme web page. Instant messaging has never been used like this before.

How will it all work?

As soon as anybody goes to your web site, they will automatically be logged in to your IM. Even if they are not a member, they will be logged in as a “guest”, and will appear to you as an online guest who is looking around your site. You can then instantly greet them and offer to answer any questions they may have…and challenge them to play a game, which helps them to fully understand the business!

And because all of your existing contacts from other IM clients are added, you have a ready-made rolodex of potential business partners that you can invite to play games, instantly!

Real People, Real Money, Right NOW! It’s your turn to get a piece of the action... Position yourself in front of the merging of the three fastest-growing business trends in history!

Do not miss out on this outstanding business, money making opportunity!