Here we have Independent Associate Aleksander Maxytov, flashing his uVme pre-paid card outside the Kazah Theatre.

Aleksander says “uVme is developing in Kazahstan! I’m very glad that uVme creates such exciting games, which raise the mood and adrenalin”.

That’s right! Our programmers have been working hard to bring you this feature! It has been available on the business-building site for License Fee payments – and it’s now available on the games platform too. This could have a major impact on how you promote your business and games platform to prospects globally, as Associates can now use their commissions to buy vouchers for their players, who may not be able to make online purchases themselves. The vouchers could even be used as a marketing tool, to encourage your prospects to join, or to reward players for an achievement. There’s so much you could do.

Once you have purchased the voucher from your .biz site, you can pass on the voucher code to a player, who can then go to “Deposit Funds” and then “Voucher” in their games site, and enter the 15 digit code. Then, all that they need to do is refresh their web-browser – and the funds will be there for use on the games site!

Due to essential hardware and software maintenance the following websites will be temporarily offline, from 2:00am to 9:00am BST on Friday 26th September 2008:   uVme.biz    uVme.com   uVmeBlog

Normal operations for these services will be resumed by 9:00am Friday 26th September. Due to the nature of the maintenance it may not be possible to put up a holding page while the work is carried out.

In order to minimize any disruption this may cause, please pass this information on to your Players and Team Members.

On last night’s web conference Eric Avery announced some important and exciting developments for your uVme business: the Tell a Friend feature is nearly ready; vouchers will soon be available for your players to redeem on the games site; and there is also news about “group tournaments”. For more details and release dates, and to view the whole conference, please click here.

While Eric was describing the Manchester meeting, he refers to “Haydock” when he should be referring to the Holiday Inn in Manchester airport (as described on the slides). To confirm the addresses for any of the meetings mentioned, please keep checking uVme news and events.

 

To complete our featured family of Independent uVme Associates, we now have Kiran Kalsi and her younger brother, Mantej Kalsi. Both have been with uVme since the pre-launch period, and in fact, it was actually Kiran who introduced uVme to her dad, Mo! There is a real sense of teamwork with this family, and their uVme business is steadily growing. All three members of the family featured now have their uVme pre-paid cards activated and ready for use!

Here is uVme Independent Associate Mo Kalsi, proudly showing off his uVme pre-paid card in front of the famous “Cows of Milton Keynes”. Mo knows a good thing when he sees it, which is why he has his family involved in uVme too! Watch this space for the next instalment, where Mo will introduce his son, Mantej, and his daughter, Kiran!

For those “eagle eyed” Associates out there, you will be able to see that Mo is also wearing an exclusive uVme pin badge. If you want one too, send in your testimonial and a picture of you holding your uVme pre-paid card. If we use your testimonial and picture, for a limited time only we will send you one of these very special badges!

The uVme blog is one year old today! We’ve come a long way since the first blog entry was posted:

- The Black Diamond site was launched;
- New games were released, including the fantastically frantic Blob Factory;
- Tournaments were implemented, helping to increase Associates’ PPV;
- Launch of pre-paid Visa card.

Thanks to the Road Shows, first announced on the blog on 19th September 2007, and all YOUR efforts too, we’ve spread FUN and games globally… A BIG thank you to all of YOU for making it happen.

Lately, the public face of uVme has been a young, enthusiastic Russian named Valentin Savchenko. He has been featured on the blog, profiled in a web conference, interviewed and photographed. Most of the “Where Can u VISA?” photos sent in so far have been members of his team, encouraged by his promotion and leadership.

Such is his dedication to the business that Valentin flew over to the UK, and spent a day at the uVme offices as well as finding his way to the small village of Hanley Swan in Worcestershire to meet with UK “Pioneers” Neil Verlander, Gigi Field and Malcolm Horsey.

While he was here, Valentin shared some of his thoughts and tips on how he has built such a strong uVme business based mainly in a country with such difficult economic circumstances.

“The most important thing in life is time,” he said, in his serious and wise-beyond-his-18-years way. “So the best thing you can do is manage your time well, and a big part of that is spending time with the right people.”

“To be successful, you must be around successful people,” he notes. “Spending time with people with no goals and nothing big in their thinking will keep you at their level.”

Valentin gave an example of going home to St Petersburg and seeing his high school friends, who are all now at university. He still keeps in touch with them, but limits the amount of time he spends with them because they are not interested in business and do not share his varied experiences, such as travelling.

“It’s nice to meet people around the world with different attitudes. It helps you grow as a person as well as a businessman. Of course, if you speak other languages it also helps… especially in growing this business through social networks.”

Valentin himself uses a Russian social networking site with more than 15 million users. He can speak Russian, English and Spanish.

He says, “The first thing to ask yourself is, ‘What do you want?’ People without a goal are like a boat in the ocean during a storm. They drift this way, and that. When you have a goal, you can feel safe: you know exactly what to do.”

He added that the thing successful people, like Bill Gates and “Tom and Len”, have in common is a “vision of the future”.

So, exactly what does Valentin do to be such an effective leader?

“I create an atmosphere within my own team. For example, this promotion I ran to get my team’s pictures on the blog… part of that was to create relationships.”

“This business is based on relationships; that is so important. When I chat to people on Skype, I don’t talk to them about my business and try to get them to play games. I ask them about their lives. When they have shared with me and see my interest in them, they usually feel positive toward me and ask me about myself in return. Then, and only then, do I mention that I am involved in a fun games business. Only if they ask and want to play do I show them how to play!”

It’s all about relationships, and fun…

“The thing to remember is that this business is about FUN. So you should be having fun! Play games with your friends. Of course, I concentrate on the business, too; but I take 30 minutes to an hour each day to relax, chat and play games.”

For his daily half-hour “fun” session, Valentin says he picks one of his 500+ Skype contacts that is not involved with uVme, and challenges them to a game. He calls them on Skype and has a conversation with them about other things, meanwhile passing them the uVme link without comment. This generally arouses their curiousity and gets them asking about it. Sometimes, Valentin won’t even answer them immediately – he says, “Wait a minute, I will tell you about that later. First let me tell you…” and continues with other topics!

“If you leave people alone on the site,” Valentin points out, “that is not fun for them. You have got to be there with them, so you can laugh together and have an enjoyable experience.”

“Also, you must consider that the other person, when you contact them, may be tired, unhappy, etc. So it is important for that relationship just to talk and share.”

Ready for business?

He says that he can tell whether someone should just be left as a friend and a player, or is, as he says, “ready for business”. Only then does he mention the possibility of the person becoming an Associate. “I could convert anyone,” he admits, “but I prefer to work with serious people who have big goals for uVme. I can understand a person in five minutes. If they are not ready for business, they will run away if I mention it; so I just leave them to play games. I don’t break my relationship with anybody to try to make them my business partners.”

On his own life in Russia and the conditions there, Valentin dwells very little. He focuses on the positive, and what is happening now; and that is probably what draws people to him. His passion and enthusiasm are contagious. It shows just how much can be achieved in a short time with little resources, with just the right attitude and a bit of dedication.

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Here is Russian uVme Independent Associate Sanya Sim, who is now a P3, with his uVme pre-paid card in the centre of St. Petersburg, on the bank of the river Fontanka.

Sanya has written the following poem in Russian (please see the English translation that follows):

ЮВМИ Visa Debit Card получи и не стесняйся!
А для этого скорей к ЮВМИ присоединяйся!
От финансовых проблем вместе с ЮВМИ избавляйся!
К своей цели и мечте ты стремись и развивайся!

“Receive your uVme Visa Debit card and don’t be shy/ For that join uVme as soon as possible/ Get rid of financial problems with uVme/ To your goal and dream, strive and develop!”

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