It cites the casual games market as being worth $2.25 billion last year, and growing phenomenally. The page includes a link to the accompanying TV show, “Click”, which claims games make more money than films! Move the media player time slider forward to 14:18 to watch the news about casual games.

Please pass this information on to the members of your Associate team and your players, so that everyone can plan ahead. The maintenance schedule for the next two months is as follows:

4am-6am BST, Tuesday, July 29, 2008
4am-6am BST, Tuesday, August 12, 2008
4am-6am BST, Tuesday, August 26, 2008
4am-6am BST, Tuesday, September 9, 2008
4am-6am BST, Tuesday …continues every 2 weeks…

“uVme opportunities are so great, like ocean space. Business with uVme is so wonderful, like this sunny day. The daily work with uVme is so pleasant, like this nice and wonderful see breeze. Let’s feel together what I feel with uVme.” —Sanya Sim, Russia

Two Blob Factory tournaments have also been launched - one which will last 7 days, and one which will last 24 hours! Get in there now while nobody else has any more practice than you! (Hint: Don’t play against any members of the uVme Support Team or Tom Brodie.)

Tom Brodie also announced that our new payment system has given us the confidence to pay bonuses DAILY rather than monthly from now on - so that as soon as you qualify for Fast Start Bonus, Group Fast Start, or the New Business Bonus, it will be paid into your e-wallet within 24 hours! This is really unheard of in this industry, and great news for everyone. Commission for the first “new” plan run will be posted to your e-wallet within the next few days, after being thoroughly checked for accuracy.

Eric Avery shared some Associates’ stories about how they did so well in this commission run - listen to the conference if you would like to hear some great tips! If you have some of your own you’d like to share, or if you’d like a copy of conference slides (two sets available), please email admin@uVme.com.

You can download the recorded conference by clicking here. If you have not listened to one of our conferences before, you will be asked to download the conference software first. This only takes a few minutes.

Here are uVme Independent Associates Tina & Dave (Butler) showing off their uVme pre-paid Visa debit card in front of the pyramids and Sphinx in Cairo, Egypt.

PPV generated in all tournaments is not posted to reports until that tournament has closed.

Just as a reminder, Active Status currently requires 20 “units” (£ pounds, $ dollars or € Euros) in PPV, and as of next cycle (which starts on Monday, 21st July) this will go up to 30 units as scheduled in the “phased approach” plan mentioned in previous Pioneers’ web conferences and other reports.

Please pass this information on to the members of your team!

Those of you who love a bit of darts action will be thrilled to know that uVme’s Jumper Darts game has been updated with a new, easier-to-see power indicator!

And better yet, you can now enter a Jumper Darts tournament with an estimated jackpot of £250! Of course, the final jackpot may be even bigger… it depends on how many people enter. The jackpot will be split between the top 25% of players based on their highest tournament score - and the closer you are to the top, the bigger your portion of the pot will be!

What makes this tournament different to the other progressive tournaments on uVme so far is that this one is going to actually consist of three different tournaments running at the same time, for three different skill levels! So, based on your previous scores on Jumper Darts, you will be placed into a beginner’s, intermediate, or advanced level tournament. This gives everyone a better chance at a prize because you will be playing against people of similar ability to your own.

Go on, even if you’ve never tried it before, challenge your mates to enter as well… and see which group you end up in! PLAY NOW…

Independent Associate Jonathan Hart, from Queensland, Australia, is promoting uVme through his breakfast radio show! He has added a link to uVme from the radio station’s website, and is running a competition offering a prize to the first person who beats him at a uVme game within three tries. He says he has been doing this for the past month, and nobody has managed to beat him so far! Well done, Jono!

You can now play your favourite uVme games in a progressive tournament, for larger cash prizes!

In these four great new uVme tournaments, with every entry, the jackpot will get bigger… and bigger… and BIGGER!

An email is being sent out to our entire database about these new tournaments, so tell your team to look for it in their inbox!

Speed Pool Est jackpot*: £550(USD $1,095)Closing date: 15/07/08 @ 11am BST*Will be shared between the top 25% of highest scorers – the higher your score, the bigger your share of the prize money!   PLAY NOW!

Fruit Frenzy Est jackpot*: £500(USD $986)Closing date: 16/07/08 @ 2pm BST*Will be shared between the top 33% of highest scorers – the higher your score, the bigger your share of the prize money!   PLAY NOW!

TetraBlock Est jackpot*: £250(USD $498)Closing date: 23/07/08 @ 2pm BST*Will be shared between the top 25% of highest scorers – the higher your score, the bigger your share of the prize money!   PLAY NOW!

Jigsaw War Est jackpot*: £200(USD $398)Closing date: 17/07/08 @ 3pm BST*Will be shared between the top 25% of highest scorers – the higher your score, the bigger your share of the prize money!   PLAY NOW!

Get ready for a bigger “prize pot”

At 12:00 hrs BST we will start a 24 hour Fruit Frenzy tournament in which only the top 10% highest scores will win prizes, making the prizes much bigger… and to make those prizes BIGGER still… the entry fee will be £2.50

So limber up… warm the keyboard, oil the mouse, calm the nerves… keep one eye on your uVme.com games site…

…and get ready for some serious bragging rights…!

• Live upline support
• Downloadable marketing materials
• Multi-lingual business promotional movie
• Hosted data-capture pages (age- and gender-specific)
• Player management tools
• Associate management tools
• e-wallet management, funds transfer and e-voucher system
• The uVme pre-paid Visa Debit Card ordering and reporting facility…

…and much more.

After their trial period ends, uVme Associates will be given the option to continue using these tools for £14.99 (plus VAT)/$26.95/€18.95 per Business Cycle.

Associates who joined in the first five Business Cycles
If you have been a uVme Associate since our Business Cycles 1 to 5 (meaning you paid your Associate Licence Fee between January 28 and 26 May 2008), then you will most likely still have “credit” allowing you to access the business-building website’s virtual tools and back office for free. For each of the Business Cycles 1 to 5 that you were an Associate, you will have one Business Cycle’s free access to the Black Diamond website virtual tools area. When you have exhausted your pre-paid credit, you can continue to have access to the virtual tools back office for £14.99 (plus VAT)/$26.95/€18.95 per Business Cycle, just like Associates who joined after May 26, 2008.

These are a powerful set of tools that make managing and building your uVme business so much easier!

“I am so excited because now I can do my two favorite things, promote uVme and go shopping!” —Kim Bostock, Aurora, Colorado […and note the car!]

However big the prize pot gets, the top 25% of players will all win a cash prize, and the faster you complete your puzzle the bigger your cash slice of the jackpot!

You can use Jigsaw War’s auto-tools such as “Edges Only” to help you put the jigsaw puzzle together as quickly as possible, beating all comers with your time score!

(Hint: if you need a bit of practice before entering the tournament, just play a few free games to warm you up!)

PLAY NOW!

uVme’s first tournament has ended, and the winners’ results are in! We had people from countries all over the world playing, including Russia, Singapore, India, France, The Netherlands, the USA, the UK, New Zealand, Australia, Malaysia, Germany, Poland, Belgium, Bermuda, Portugal, Hungary… and the list goes on. Many of the winners entered multiple times - which proves that if your first score isn’t good enough, just keep trying!

EIGHTY PEOPLE qualified for a prize in this tournament. Here are the top 25:

1. anq159
2. vilywong
3. pr2004
4. krishnakkkkk
5. Mike711
6. kittu
7. BayleyGames
8. Ramoji
9. ePLAYextra
10. kumbhakarna
11. MarkH
12. Cybrazz
13. krishnak3000
14. petanque
15. Foffy
16. lulus
17. uVmeMentor
18. Skua
19. mattrxcool
20. Davina
21. doudoune
22. susanJ
23. Julia
24. lollylight
25. Shani

Didn’t get a chance to play? Think you could do better? Or just want more?

Well, there are three other tournaments running RIGHT NOW on uVme.com which you can enter as well. They are:

Speed Pool - entry fee £1.00 - finishes 15/07/08 @ 11am BST
Fruit Frenzy - entry fee £0.95 - finishes 16/07/08 @ 2pm BST
Tetrablock - entry fee £0.50 - finishes 23/07/08 @ 2pm BST

The progressive tournament banner will soon be loaded to show which tournaments are currently running, so that you and your Players can easily click through to join whichever one you wish.

You can monitor your own tournaments by logging in to uVme.com and looking under “My Account”. There, within the left-hand menu, you will see a list of “Open Challenges”, “Finished Challenges” and “Finished Tournaments”. If a tournament you have entered is still ongoing, it will appear in the left-hand part of your uVme Home Page, under “My Tournaments”.

The simple answer is: whenever “your” players enter a progressive tournament, the entry fee is added to your PPV. It will show up there approximately 20-30 minutes after the tournament has finished.

The “Available Game Commission” for each progressive tournament will depend on the game parameters such as number of people entering and the apportionment of the prize fund.

Check your games site to see which progressive tournaments are currently active, and log into your business-building website and look under “Reports” to watch your PPV grow after each one closes!

“Well I got mine… Have you got yours? What a great marketing tool to show prospects about the business. From today, the G8 summit starts in my city [Hokkaido, Japan] and I wanted to let all know there is a uVme Associate active where the summit is taking place!” —Ioane Sileli (130057)