Are you wondering what the big picture is for Tagvillage?  Tonight I participated in a webinar given by David Ruebush.  You ought to get to one in the next few days.  Tagvillage will be absolutely amazing and we have the opportunity to participate in it’s growth, and to profit from it right now.

I took notes during the webinar and am sharing them here.  They are totally inadequate and I can’t guarantee their accuracy, but they may help you understand why you should listen in personally.

Recorded Webinar from 9/27/2011 on YouTube

9/28/2011 Webinar

Notes from 7pm CT webinar, Sept 27, 2011:

CEO Dave Ruebush:

Many have been with the site for quite a while.  I’m going to
review a lot of the basics.

TV is a community that we are building where people can connect
and share and win prizes in the bazaar.   Fundamental thing about
TV is that we are building an income tool  for the average person
and we want to impact the world.

Google and FB are 2 of the biggest companies.  Google is a search
engine.  It is free to use.  They give away their primary product
for free.  FB is a social network and it doesn’t cost anything to
use it.  Both are given away free.  Both make money because of
keywords.  They have learned how to make money using media.  They
are serving content to you, the viewers.  As they serve the
content, they also serve advertisements.  That’s how they make
money.  The ads shown are based on keywords.

We wondered, what would happen if the normal person could own the
keywords.  That’s what TV is.  People can own the keywords and
when an advertiser places an ad, the person who owns the targeted
KWs will benefit.

TV goes beyond KWs to use Tags.

Our goal:  How can we change the world by donating to charities?
If G and FB gave just 10% of their revenue to charities, they
could change the world.  That’s what we are here to do.  We want
to create a system that generates as much revenue as they do but
we want normal people and charities to benefit.

How can we do that?  It has to be more powerful than KW targeting
and advertising.

For G to show you an ad, they have to associate the ad with the
content of the ad and with the content of the targeted page.
When they serve their ads, they want to know what you search for,
the ad, and the content of the page.

We want something more relevant to the person receiving the
advertising.  We are using a Tag graph (like a social graph).
This is a method of associating words, thoughts, emotions,
services, entertainment,….

On a KW based ad system, the only thing that can happen is a
“right now” response.

With a tag based system.  Say a person is having a really bad
day.  On the way home they get a speeding ticket,  then there is
a problem at home.  They log into FB and post about their day.

With TV TagWire – you’ll post it there.  With TV, we will start
associating things.   Later a friend comes over and you have Ice
cream and started having a good day.  Then you post about it and
TV starts associating what caused you to have a good day.  1)
friend came over, 2) had great dinner, 3) had ice cream.   Weeks
later he posts again that he’s having a bad day.  TV delivers
email to friends about you having a bad day.  He also gets a
coupon for 20% ice cream.  A very targeted ad.

Say you have a teenage daughter.  You are leaving for home.  TV
sends you a message that your daughter’s birthday is coming up,
and her friends are all posting about this new type of jeans they
all want.  You now know what to get your daughter.

This is a massive endeavor to program it all.  What we are
building will take years and years to complete.  We will have to
build a massive database of associations.

We are building 6 platforms to work together.  Referral, Tag
Trading, Bazaar, social, Search, Tagvertising.

Referral platform.  The basis for how our members and causes
will make money.  If you are looking for something to make
income, you need to focus on referrals.  Referrals pay
immediately on Activity Points, Bazaar wins, tag trading.

Tag trading:  We must build a tag database so we can associate
trends.  We aren’t just watching what words are being added.  We
could dump in dictionaries and form phrases.  We are building a
tag DB and a tag Graph.  How the words relate to people’s
emotions, thoughts, trends, products, services, other websites,
news.   We need the tags to come in so we form associations.

Bazaar:  gives us a new dimension, a new market on TV.

Social, search and Tvertising:  we are now focusing on them and
building them.
Social – similar to FB or G+ but also has cause platform built
in.  Cause and social platforms will be very powerful.

While we build them – we need members to be building our DB so we
can build associations.

Search engine – will be completely different from Google, Bing….
It will blow people away.

Tagvertising – this is where the long term investment comes to
play.  Tag trading is investing for tomorrow.  It’s like your
401K.  The payoff will become really big when Tvertising comes
into play.  Advertisers will be placing ads on millions of web
sites, not just TV – and the tag owners will benefit.  This will
be an entire ad platform that will distribute ads across the
internet based on tag graphs.

Members have lost focus.  Average member aren’t buying tags and
referring members in the volume we need.  We haven’t been staying
in touch with our members to ensure you know what we are doing
and where we are going.

We are building something amazing and revolutionary that will
take years of release and enhancement.  If you are building your
tag inventories, you are working for your future.

Tag Guru Contest.  We aren’t getting the level of tag volume that we need
to build the associations we need.  We want to help our members
achieve their goals and help TV right now.

Tag Guru contest – a referral contest based on tag trading
activity.  5 categories of prizes.
1 category – anyone can earn this by trading tags.  1000 points
and you share in $100K in prizes.  1 point for each tag you buy.
You can use this to generate referrals.  Have someone join and
buy 200 ten cent tags.  Trade them up with them so they get 1000.

Journeyman – you get 3500 points.  Help your referrals and you
get more shares.

Master – 7500 points.  Referrals moving up give you more shares.
You help your referrals and you move up.

By trading and helping your referrals move you up.

Top 5 Masters each get $20,000.   #1 top Master will get $100,000
= Tag Guru.

Tag Guru gets own landing page and 1 year dedicated referring
system built into TV.

If you refer a person to TV and help them get to Apprentice pool.
Average referral will make you $20.  You will make more by
moving them up to Journeyman and Master.   This will help you
generate immediate income in addition to whatever you win in the
contest.  Get 20 referrals to Apprentice and you earn $400.

We need more people on the site and more tag associations built.
This contest is a roadmap to get us to the launch point for the
social and tagvertising platforms.

Tools on TV:
Generate your referral link.
Refer people to a page, scroll to bottom of the page and click on
Refer to this Page.  Link pops up and you copy and paste it.
You can do this for any page that you can see when you aren’t
logged in.

www.tagvillage.com/introduction is a great page to refer people
to.

Q: do we have something coming for a Pay it forward program.
Yes – 2 products, ready to go live.  Coming soon.
1) Pay it forward.   Beta3.tagvillage.com
Total PIF:  This will help you generate more referrals.  Get PIF
and share PIF credits buttons will be available.
Share – type in username

If not a member – Share with non-member via email.   System
creates a message you can send to people.  When they join – they
get the credits.

This might be a way for a member to get inactive referrals
active.

TV will run some specials where we give away free PIF credits.

2) Reporting page for your status in the Contest.
Show you how many point and stars you have and all your
referrals and what rank they have.

3) Bazaar – people who want TV credits instead of the item – we
will make it possible to convert the item into TV credits.

Attorneys haven’t signed off on these yet, so we can’t release
them.  Have to get all the terms and conditions wording correct.

This isn’t a fly by night, get rich scam type of website.  We are
a long term, forward thinking business.  We have to make sure all
the legal stuff is taken care of before we can launch new
capabilities.

www.tagvillage.com/guru-contest-simple  summary of the contest
ranks, points, and stars.

Note that points reset when you reach each level.

For those who have well researched tags and 1000′s of them, when
will we start earning on them?   Right now it’s only the bazaar
with it’s Product oriented tags.  Each platform from now on will
launch with some advertising.   Social will have more.  Search
will have lots.

Big $$$ will come when tagvertising platform is built and we get
webmasters and others plugging them in to their pages.

Q: how does all this work with the causes.  When social platform
comes out – the website will change.  It won’t be as cumbersome
as FB – will fit on TagWire tab.   Charities will be able to
build their profile in the social network.  You will be able to
“like” it and when you click on it, under your my Causes page it
will list your causes.  When you gain Activity points, we will
match them to your charities.  You can specify the % of your AP
going to each charity.  Everything you do will generate AP for
you and to your charities.  Charities will get daily profit
sharing based on APs earned.

10% of money made on advertising will go to charities.

Note: Vince is recording this session and plans to post it to FB.
Alisa plans to record a session tomorrow for those who can’t
make it to a live session.

Post a comment and let me know what I missed or misrepresented
in these notes. Or just let me know what you think of TagVillage.
I hope someone finds these notes helpful.