GatorPond - New Entertainment Group
GatorPond Entertainment Group, Inc. announced a new next-generation community-empowered Media Trading service that enables passionate Movie, Video Game and Music fans to easily trade the media they love with like-minded consumers, and best of all the media is yours to keep, unless you decide to trade it again for something else. GatorPond has pioneered a new consumer-driven retailing model that offers fans access, through the sale of a monthly membership, to an ever-growing catalog of media allowing them to trade the movies, games and CDs they already have for what they want. We market our program mainly through Affiliates.
The GatorPond service will be powered by iMustard.com who are headquartered in Farnham, Surrey, England. They are the company's software development/technology partners and shareholders.
GatorPond's service offers individual Sales Affiliates and Not-for-Profit organizations a unique opportunity to join the exciting entertainment industry either as a fun hobby, a part time income source or, a serious full-time money making venture.
In addition to the main operation in the United States, the GatorPond program will be entering Canada, The United Kingdom and South Africa by May of this year and will be operational in over 40 countries over the next 24 months. It is anticipated that by 2008, over 3 million families will be Members worldwide. The international expansion plans are both methodical and deliberate.
Founded by industry innovators, entrepreneurs and international business people Larry and Catherine Favalora, Deaven and Linda Butler, Paul and Liz Jones and Arthur Kendall, GatorPond draws on the power of peer relationships and shared interests of its seller community. With this "concentric" retail model, GatorPond provides families with the ability to save significantly on their entertainment purchases while at the same shifting a portion of the entertainment dollars already being spent by families to schools, youth groups, church groups, sports teams and community centered programs in their own area. Our tagline tells the story, "Trade what you have, for what you want. TM"
"We are introducing to the typical consumer who buys games, music and movies a store where they can earn money for themselves and for the Non-Profit Organizations they feel passionate about. We wanted to create a business model where people can save money and make money at the same time. The creation of GatorPond means a serious income stream for the average person and huge fundraising potential for local not-for-profit groups," said Larry Favalora, co-founder, Chairman and CEO of GatorPond. "This is a unique opportunity for anyone who has ever dreamed of becoming a part of the entertainment industry as well. GatorPond provides them with a platform to run a significant, international business and have fun being in the mix with their favorite bands, actors and artists."
"GatorPond has really defined a new marketing channel for the entertainment industry," said Deaven Butler, co-founder, president and CCO. "We are expanding the sphere of influence for these media and connecting people to it in a more meaningful way. The entertainment industry has spent years making entertainment for the marketplace, but GatorPond creates a marketplace for the entertainment."
Added GatorPond co-founder and president of iMustard.com, Arthur Kendall, "The entertainment industry has used street team marketing for years, encouraging passionate fans to personally endorse the entertainers and artists they love in their communities. We are taking it to the next level by enabling fans through our system and unique technology to complete the transaction by actually selling and trading their media as well."
"My heart is to empower people, and to create for them and for Not-for-Profit groups new sources of income by shifting money already spent in people's budgets while saving the family money as well," said Favalora, "this model of Affiliate Marketing has been proven successful by every web site selling products and services all over the world. Look at sites like Wal-Mart, Sharper Image, Brookstone, Lord&Taylor and others — they all sell millions and millions of dollars a year through Affiliate Marketing. We are going to increase entertainment sales while making a difference at the same time. I wake up every morning thanking God for such a great opportunity."
GatorPond offers an Affiliate URL (address) to the main GatorPond.com web site that allows each of our Affiliates to market and promote our memberships. It even facilitates the signing up of others to join as an Affiliate as well and become part of the GatorPond retailer community. Participants may join by getting on the GatorPond.com site and click the "Affiliate" button at the bottom of the page. There is NO CHARGE to become an Affiliate with GatorPond. They just sign-up, and they will immediately receive an e-mail that informs them of their own web site URL (address). The new business owner/Affiliate is ready to begin. Once an Affiliate receives their own URL they are able to become their own first customer and start selling memberships and trading immediately.
The GatorPond shared compensation model takes the best elements of the multi-billion dollar a year affiliate marketing model used by such technology and internet retail leaders as Amazon, eBay and Google, Wal-Mart, Target, Sharper Image and thousands of others, and combines them with the most effective strategies of the multi-trillion dollar entertainment industry to create a new concept we call "Shared Marketing". The GatorPond sales model is focused on promoting the sale of memberships to its service therefore enabling its retailers and Not-for-Profit Partners to receive compensation from creating multiple points of retail distribution.
GatorPond is also in negotiations with several of the top music downloading companies in the world where, very shortly, our members will also be able to download on to their iPod, or other digital music devises, all the music, music videos (and in the near future, movies as well) as they wish. There will be an earned revenue share on that product as well. We will also have the availability to purchase concert tickets, athletic event tickets, opera, ballet and other entertainment venue tickets from your GatorPond web site as well — all offering revenue sharing.
About GatorPond
GatorPond is the first, next-generation, community-empowered entertainment-focused company of its kind that enables fans to discover and enjoy their favorite artists and entertainers, as well as operate their own on-line entertainment stores and evangelize the music, movies and games they love. Through this innovative model, GatorPond provides entertainment production companies with a new fan-driven, "grassroots", loyal promotional channel.
Contact Jack Wheadon at 708-546-4401 or by e-mail at info@GatorPonds.com for more information on becoming an Affiliate, a Non-Profit Partner or an investor.
Resources:
http://www.GatorPonds.com
http://www.Fund-RaisingIdeas.us/Articles/GatorPond.html
Why Not An Internet Business?
The most common question I am often asked by some of my customers who are newbies is 'Is it too late to start an internet business?. My answer to that is an emphatic, No.
This is because I cannot think of a better business to do today.
Have you ever considered the alternatives and compared them with an Internet business?
Look at the newspapers and magazines classified ads where franchise opportunities are advertised. The cost of buying into a franchise business opportunity is prohibitive to say the least. The reason for this is that you are buying in to an established business that has hopefully tested many of its management and marketing variables and is now deemed profitable. The creator of the business idea has endured all the pain that naturally comes with starting a brand new business off the ground. He is now enjoying a moderate to high level of success in his enterprise, hence the franchise roll out.
The franchise roll out inevitably becomes another income stream for him. What is not guaranteed (and no one can give you any guarantee whatsoever in any business venture) is that you will enjoy the same level of success, when the business is moved in to your neighbourhood. Therein lies the risk after you have paid huge sums of money to the franchise owner. The advantage of a franchise business deal is the enterprise is essentially ready for take-off.
The other alternative is to be innovative and creative, such that you start an entirely new business with your own idea (which you can actually claim the copyright). Take the financial risks, put in the hours, sweat it out and may be, just may be you could become successful and who knows, you may just roll out your own franchise as well. This might just appeal to you if you've got plenty of time and money to spare.
Step forward the Internet.
I have never known a business enterprise where the start up cost can be so low so long as you are careful and don't get sucked in to 'get rich quick' schemes. Not very many people will argue with the fact that an internet business can be started with $1000 and under with careful planning and right tutoring.
What's more, you don't have to deal with employees, you certainly can run it from home (therefore no rentals), you can certainly work it part time at the start and become full time once you become comfortable with your earnings.
Other benefits of internet marketing include:
Pitching and selling directly to the world-wide market.
Automated sales and credit card payment making it possible to make sales 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Altering products prices and promotion to determine what the market wants.
Easy list building of your customers as they pass through your online store.
Operate your business from anywhere in the world as long as connection to the internet exists wherever you are.
Although to the newbies, the internet business might appear congested on the surface, the internet cake is a multi-billion dollar one and stretching into trillions shortly. It can only get bigger. Get in and get your own slice!
There are three ways to get in on the action.
Your idea for internet business could be competitive ( 'me too' model) or complementary to an existing idea or completely new and novel. If you have those three lines of thought, coming up with an internet business idea will surely pay dividends in the end with the right internet marketing strategies.
Don't forget too that with time, your income from your internet business will soar well above your efforts. I'm sure you heard about one of the top internet marketers who made one million dollar sales in 24 hours from one product. Every day, vast sums of money are being made on the internet legitimately by all sorts of internet marketers, some of whom have no significant educational qualifications. You will Work Less and Earn more as you learn the art of strategic internet marketing. A word of caution though – do not expect overnight success. It takes time to build your business to highly profitable levels. Choose a business niche that you have insatiable interest in and also reinforces your strength. This way you will have fun and make money at the same time. One trick I learnt much later to my cost is to do what the so-called Gurus are doing, not what they are saying ----- yes do what they do, not what they say!
To succeed, you will need to be very organized especially if you are running the business part-time, manage your time intensely, assemble the relevant marketing tools and acquire the required knowledge and skills. Get this right and you will be well on your way to a 6-figure income in the shortest possible time.
Fact: The internet has created more millionaires than any other business medium in history.
You just need to learn to do it the right way.
Joseph Amagada helps self-employed online newbies and small business owners make more profits in less time. To receive free marketing tips that will boost your profits send a blank email to: mailto:joe@BizPathfinder.net
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Leave the Herd
On the flight home last night from Boston, I sat beside a very nice IT salesman. He was charming, engaging, and quite polished. Though he was an Executive Platinum member with American, he willingly gave up his aisle seat for a young grad student that needed to walk around occasionally due to a medical condition.
He and I had a great conversation in which I showed him the Bubble Planner. He was impressed and offered some great insight for marketing on the internet. In addition to this, he offered such sage advice to the new Grad student beside him. It was so simple, yet, so profound that I thought that you would want to hear it as well.
What did he say?
He said that when she graduated she should consider a less popular industry for people with their MBA. Apparently, the majority of new MBA's choose industries such as Banking, Venture Capitalism, and Consulting. However, he asserted that there was greater promotion potential for people with their MBA in less popular industries. He said that if she selected an industry that has fewer MBA's that she could rise very quickly in the organization.
Why Would He Say That?
Since the herd is chasing the top companies for MBA's, the top companies are now taking advantage of this. Like the large public accounting firms in the 1980's, these companies are able to work these new graduates for 2-3 years 80-100 hours per week. Once this crop of graduates is burned out, they bring in the new crop. The best of the group move on to the next job as soon as a better opportunity presents itself. Eventually, the average of the group are let go as the company hires upper positions from the outside.
In the less popular industries, there would be less competition. It's simply a matter of applying the Law of Supply and Demand. Since there is less competition, it is easier to get hired. Additionally, promotion opportunities will come more quickly since she will have an edge over the other internal candidates. Furthermore, since the company values her talents, she will be treated much better, which will cause her to stay with the company. Her loyalty will pay huge dividends over time and propel her to the Executive Suite.
She was grateful for his advice and seemed to be genuinely interested in using his approach. This conversation made me wonder how I could apply the Law of Supply and Demand to the Bubble Planner. It reminded me of an illustration that my Macro-Economics professor used.
The Toll Booth Example
Have you ever noticed that when you are approaching a toll booth that some lines are longer than others? In fact, there are times when you can simply switch lanes and have no wait at all while the cars stuck in the longer lines. When a car approaches the toll booth, the driver is often attracted to the line with more cars. There are many reasons for this, i.e. they think there must be something wrong with the empty line, they were going too fast and couldn't change, or they weren't paying attention. In essence, this is the Law of the Herd. People are comfortable following other people because they think they know what they are doing.
The opportunity lies in doing something different. That's how this law applies to the Bubble Planner. There are dozens of planner companies that have essentially copied Franklin Covey. Did you know that our minds think in pictures? Of course, you know it and we know it. Why don't the planner companies know it? Bubble UP! decided to leave the herd and develop a planner that is based on the latest research. Finally, a planner that Thinks Like We Do!
Bubble UP! is dedicated to helping you make better choices. We believe choices are the currency that converts the present to the future. Since the Information Age is filled with a blizzard of requests for your attention, traditional time management tools are no longer adequate. That's why Bubble UP! creates tools that Think Like You Do!
Life Doesn't Give You One Thing at a Time, Why Does Your Planner?
Visit us on the web at http://www.BubblePlanner.com - Organize at the Speed of Thought!
