CONSUMER FAQS
Below are some frequently asked questions.
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What is the My World Platform?
The World2one My World Platform is a new model for advertising and communications between businesses and customers. It’s designed to enable all businesses (national and local) to use an advertising model that creates relationships with all interested customers, rather than just impressions. It accomplishes this by protecting the privacy and anonymity of the interested customer. This removes the principal barrier for creating business/customer relationships—the unwillingness of prospective customers to surrender personal information about themselves (which is understandable) or dislike in having it harvested by tracking technologies. The My World Platform changes this old model in that it provides a means for businesses to communicate directly to interested yet anonymous customers.
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What is the goal of the My World Platform?
The initial goal is to transform how advertising is done in the world (we have bigger plans once we get that done).
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How do you plan to change the world of advertising?
We believe that there is a great business model in protecting an individual’s privacy and anonymity with respect to advertisers, businesses and organizations—while permitting that individual to connect to and communicate with those advertisers, businesses and organizations. In establishing this new advertising model, we’ll transform advertising from something that simply makes impressions into something that makes relationships—between advertisers and individuals.
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How do I create my own World?
It’s simple. You just choose a username and password and you’ll be registered. You’ll then be able to view your own World that is populated with businesses or organizations you’ve invited “in” where they can show you their best offers or other information—all while you stay anonymous. And since we don’t require any personal information from you such as an email address, you’re anonymous to us also.
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Why can’t I sign up on the World2one website?
We are currently launching the My World Platform through partnerships with media companies (local television, radio and newspapers) in various communities. These media “sponsors” are bringing together local businesses and promoting it in their communities through their media services. Since we want to ensure that folks who sign up to create their own World have a great experience from the beginning, a media sponsor is not permitted to launch the My World Platform in their community unless dozens and dozens of merchants are participating in that community. Creating your own World wouldn’t be very useful if there were only one or two participating merchants in your community. So only those folks who reside in communities where we’ve established a critical base of participating merchants will be able to sign up for an account. If we haven’t established a media partner in your community along with a critical base of merchants we’ll just have to ask you to be patient.
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Am I really anonymous?
You are. Since we don’t require you to submit any personal information about yourself, such as an email address, we don’t know who you are. And, we don’t use tracking cookies that will follow you around the web to try and figure out who you are, after you’ve left your World.
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Will you share my information?
Nope. Since we don’t know who you are or place tracking cookies on you to follow you around the web, we don’t have any information to share. We like to think of it as a way to keep ourselves honest. If we never gather that information, then we won’t be tempted to use it for all sorts of less than great purposes--even if we’ve committed to Not Be Evil.
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Lots of companies say they’ll respect my privacy, but…
We know. Some say that they’ll never share your information, but when it comes down to way they can make more money, the temptation to go back on their founding principles is sometimes just too strong. So we feel it is best if we don’t put that temptation in front of ourselves—and therefore we just don’t gather it. We’ll probably miss out on gazillions of dollars that could be made if we’d simply follow folks all around the web, sell their data and email addresses to marketers, but we like to be able to sleep well at night knowing that we are showing respect for the people who trust us.
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What if I forget my username and password?
Unfortunately because we have no way of contacting you—since we don’t have your email, we can’t help you. That is why we encourage folks to keep their username and password in a safe place that they can get to it should they ever forget it. If that does happen, then you’ll have to start creating your own World all over again. But through the search function in the My World Platform, it should be easy to search for the businesses you had in your original World and add them into your new one.
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What is this going to cost me?
Zip. For individuals, the My World Platform is free.
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Who pays for all of this?
The businesses who wish to communicate their best offers and information with you.
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When will you launch in my community?
We will only launch once we have a “sponsor” in the local community and a certain number of businesses in that community signed up and ready to provide their best offers to that community. The reason for this is that we want users to have the best experience possible from the first moment that they sign up to create their own World. So, there needs to be significant choice among businesses in a community.
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Are you looking for folks to help market this?
While we are currently launching in communities through local media partners, we have begun opening up our distribution model to well-connected organizations and individuals in local communities who are not local television, radio or newspaper companies. The partner revenue program that we’ve developed makes it appealing to any well-connected organizations and individuals to consider launching the World platform in their community. If you are interested in inquiring (if we don’t already have a sponsor in your community) you can email us at sales@world2one.com.
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Do you have a mobile app?
We do indeed, and it’s pretty cool. You can get it at the Apple Store or Google Play.
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How does the mobile app work?
It’s pretty simple. When you sign in on the app (your username and password—since we still want you be remain anonymous) you’ll see an icon that says My World. When you click on that, you’ll see all the businesses you’ve invited into your World to show you their best offers. The app will also show you how far these businesses are from your current location (you’ll need to have your GPS/location services turned on for that to occur). There is also another icon that says Nearby. When you click on this icon and choose a particular category (Food and Drink for example) you’ll see the businesses that are in the World2one ecosystem within that category in order of distance from your current location. So, even if you haven’t invited some businesses into your World, you can still find them and their best offers and use them.
Using offers in the mobile app is different from using them from the browser version of your World (where you print your coupon when you want to use an offer). In the mobile app, when you click Use This Offer it will locate you at that business (you’ll need to have your GPS/location services turned on for that to occur) and once it finds you, it will then let you use the offer and tells you that you can show it to the merchant. If you aren’t yet at that location when you click the Use This Offer button, you’ll see a message that says the mobile app can’t locate you at that business, so once you arrive at the location you can then try again. This helps the merchant know that only customers that show up at their business can use their offers through the mobile app (this is especially important if the merchant has placed a limitation on the number of offers available, so that folks who actually show up are the only ones who can claim those offers).
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How can a merchant sign up for this?
Just as with users who want to sign up for their own World, we are currently launching the My World Platform through partnerships with media companies (local television, radio and newspapers) in various communities. These media “sponsors” are bringing together local businesses and promoting it in their communities through their media services. Since we want to ensure that folks who sign up to create their own World have a great experience from the beginning, a media sponsor is not permitted to launch the My World Platform in their community unless dozens and dozens of merchants are participating in that community. Of course, if you are a merchant in a community where we don’t yet have a media sponsor, and you have significant contacts within your merchant community that you feel you could bring together to launch your community’s My World, then contact us and we’d be interested in talking about possibilities.
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How does the My World Platform use QR Codes in a way that makes them useful to me?
folks who come into or pass by their businesses—without requiring any personal information from these folks (such as an email address). We think everyone wins in this.
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What if I don’t want to see offers from certain merchants anymore?
That’s where the beauty of being anonymous comes in. You simply click the “Remove” button next to that merchant in your World and they are gone (nothing will prevent you from adding them back into your World at a later time if you wish). Gone is that feeling of unease that we’ve all felt when we go through “unsubscribing” from an email list that we’ve somehow gotten on. Since the merchant never knew who you were when they were communicating with you through your World, you simple sever the link to your World (on your terms) by removing them.
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