iFriends goes "All the Way": It'll forever be remembered as the year iFriends went "all the way".The year iFriends delivered the one feature chathosts like you demand above all else: 100% payouts from your own customers – across the entire iFriends platform – and an entire suite of new, easy-to-use tools to attract those customers, get credit for those customers, and retain those customers.

When you introduce a new customer to the most powerful and full-featured videochat community on earth, you deserve every penny that that customer spends with you. Not 50%. Not even 90%. 100 percent.

Recurring monthly fanclub membership (and optional MyiFriends website)? 100%.
All live videochat and pay-per-view minutes? 100%.
Live telephone chat revenues from the new FanClub GetCloser feature? 100%.
Personal merchandise items sold through your iFriends shopping cart? 100%.

And best of all, it couldn't be easier: Just give your prospective new members this direct link to join your own iFriends Fanclub, and the 100% payouts kick in automatically:

http://www.iFriends.net/JoinMe.htm?YourVCHscreenname

For example, if your VCH screenname (and fanclub name) is "AMANDA36C", then your "100% payouts" link is http://www.iFriends.net/JoinMe.htm?AMANDA36C. Alternatively, you'll also get full credit any time a new customer is introduced to the iFriends platform through the "Not an IFriends member?" link on your FanClub join page (see example screenshot; click here for a sample screenshot of how such 100%-payout customers appear in your Fanclub stats)

Summary of Changes for 2004:

Customers can now join your FanClub directly, without first having to join iFriends:

It's no longer a prerequisite that one be an iFriends member before joining your FanClub. (See details above)

100% Payouts on Fanclubs, Videochat, GetCloser and Shopping Cart (when it's your customer):

When you introduce a new customer to iFriends via your FanClub, you keep 100% of every penny that customer ever spends with you -- fanclub, videochat, GetCloser, and shopping cart! (See details at top)

New GetCloser Feature:

It's a powerful new way to generate additional income from the iFriends platform, even when you're not online! It's a privacy-protected call-forwarding service utilizing the iFriends FanClub hotline and TalkLive technologies. (Click here for detailed information about GetCloser). When you enable GetCloser in your FanClub manager (look under "long-term settings"), visitors to your FanClub "Private Telephone Number" page see the following language:

I support GetCloser™!, so you can call me toll-free on my private telephone anytime, even when I'm not live on iFriends!

It's just like the name says: GetCloser™ is an awesome way for us to get closer, and stay closer! With this awesome feature, you can call me toll-free anytime, day or night, even when I'm not online and not chathosting. Why toll-free? Because it protects both our privacy. No telephone charges will apear on your phone bill or my phone bill, so we can keep things private between us, and only between us. (Since GetCloser is based on the toll-free, one-on-one TalkLive telephone conferencing system, all calls are on iFriends' dime.)

How it works: Just dial the free iFriends FanClub Hotline, as described above. Shortly after you provide my six-digit Star number (######) and your membership number for my fanclub , you'll be given the option to connect to me immediately via the GetCloser feature. It's as easy as that!

(If you have elected to apply a pay-per-minute surcharge to the GetCloser call, that information is displayed here)

When a FanClub member tries to call you via GetCloser, you can screen the call. When your phone rings, you'll hear a message like this: "This is the iFriends Fanclub hotline system, attempting to connect a GetCloser call from your FanClub member number #######. To accept this call, and be connected with your fan now, please press '1'. To forward the Fan to your FanClub voice mail, please press '2'." (If you applied a per-minute surcharge to the call, your earnings will appear in your regular videochat stats report)

For more information about GetCloser™, please visit your FanClub manager, "long-term settings" page.

The MyiFriends.net free hosting platform is now integrated into FanClubs

If you know how to design web pages, and want to offer your fans that special custom touch that is unique to you, iFriends now integrates the free Myifriends.net hosting platform into your fanclub. Publish your site at VCHscreenname.MyiFriends.net, and a link to that site will appear within your fanclub. Example: See Amanda36c, under "eye candy". Only your FanClub members can access the special "members-only" area of your MyiFriends site.

Multiple-Camera Angles

iFriends now offers chathosts and customers the ability to host live videochat from up to four different webcams simultaneously, and from within the same videochat room. New to the EasyCam LiveStream featureset, it's a feast for the eyes! Click here for details.

3-D Videochat

iFriends videochat in "you-are-there" vivid 3-D? You've gotta be kidding! Guess what? We're not. If a chathost has the right camera gear, and the iFriends user has an inexpensive pair of PC 3-D goggles (popular with gamers, around $100 per pair), stand back -- iFriends' '"girl next door" is about to jump out of your computer monitor and into your lap! A new feature available under the ifCam software hosting option. Click here for details.

33% Clickcash Payout Increase

To keep traffic levels strong and healthy, the iFriends marketing arm ClickCash.com increased commissions paid on new iFriends customers from a minimum $30 per head to $40 per head (a 33% increase, and to as much as $80 per head on volume).

New Elite "Live Moments" FanClub Feature

Here's a new feature found only in your fanclub that'll help you recruit new 100%-payout customers like no other! "LiveMoments" content presents snapshots and videoclips taken during your most animated moments: As you were entertaining iFriends members. This content is available only to the very select few: Members of your fanclubs who are also members of iFriends' new ultra-exclusive "ClubElite" membership. (ClubElite includes all VIP features, plus additional Elite-only features, such as LiveMoments).

"A Time of Renewal" Amnesty Program (putting the 'Friends' back into 'iFriends')

iFriends recognizes that people sometimes make choices they later come to regret. We know that based on our own experience, because we confess to having made our own share of mistakes building this service over the years. Regrets are many! But we try to look forward, not backward. Speaking of .... Although it is very rare that iFriends is ever forced to ask a chathost to leave iFriends, it does happen on occasion. Even less often, iFriends receives heartfelt pleas for reinstatement from chathosts who, for one reason or another, were asked to leave iFriends. One recent plea even asked, "where is the 'Friends' in 'iFriends' if you won't consider giving a young single mother with two kids a second chance? Why did you choose the name 'iFriends' anyway?". The question stopped us cold in our tracks, and made us think. Our thoughts led to this: The beginning of a new year is a time of renewal. We're proud of the new enhancements to the iFriends platform, so proud, in fact, that we want to share them with every videochat expert or model from Albania to Zanzibar. So, if you're a former iFriends chathost who was terminated for a policy violation (other than an age-documentation violation or a customer-fraud violation), or even if you simply left the videochat world and are thinking of a "comeback", iFriends welcomes you back with open arms. Simply join iFriends under a new VCH screenname, as a full-fledged chathost, no-questions-asked. (Of course, we expect you to abide by all the rules, just as all chathosts do, but if you're open to a "new beginning", than so is iFriends.)