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 their 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.
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You will probably have heard of some of these:
- Windows Live Messenger: 155 million total users (April 2005)
- Yahoo! Messenger: 22 million users (September 2006)
- AIM: over 100 million total users (January 2006)
- Jabber: 90 million users (September 2006)
- ICQ: 4 million active users (September 2006)
- meebo: 1 million users (October 2006)
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 email is that you can see when contacts are online, and you can get a message to them immediately. With email, they have to be running their email 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.
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With uVme, you not only get an IM, but also it can automatically collate all of your contacts from various programmes such as Jabber and Google Talk that you may be using...
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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 uVme 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 online rolodex of potential business partners that you can invite to play games, instantly!
Even better, you will be able to use this tool wherever you login, from anywhere in the world — on any computer in your office, Internet café or a friend's PC — and so can all of your business partners! Because it is web-based, it bypasses pitfalls such as not being able to download or install software on public/office computers. Wherever the web can be accessed, so can your business!
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