Dear Friends,
Many of you have experienced 📝Topia at our wedding and/or through the 20+ weekly gatherings hosted by One Inc Cooperative. Topia is a 📝Spatial Media platform that combines encrypted video/audio chat with playful world building tools. I'm writing this 📝memo to share an opportunity with trusted friends and extend an invitation to co-creation that we've been deeply present within.
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Opportunity
Struggling to connect through quarantine and seeing the burden of widespread 📝Zoom Fatigue, 40+ spatial media platforms have emerged since March 2020. Of these, Topia is the only platform to build a 📝Creator Economy and 📝Partner Program, a profit sharing program that pays out 30%+ of revenue generated. Moreover, thanks to its 📝WebRTC architecture, it is P2P in nature and, as such, Topia's server costs are 150x less than centralized platforms like Zoom, 📝Gather Town, etc.
Advantages
📝One Inc Cooperative is currently stewarding and equity stake in Topia. All 📝Citizens of One have the ability to earn a share in the proceeds of this equity and are supported in building worlds on the platform with our 📝Citizen Kit — a collection of interactive objects making any world immediately immersive.
Our marketing agency, 📝One Studio, is one of Topia's first Certified Agency Partners and — in just the last few months — has provided white-glove world-building services to billion-dollar companies, high net worth individuals, and non-profits. We also own and are stewarding 50+ Topia worlds. I am currently acting as their Interim Chief Marketing Officer and growth hacking on their behalf.
Our financial agency, 📝One Financial, is providing financial engineering to Topia and — led by 📝John Zdanowski, former CFO of 📝Second Life — acting as their Interim Chief Financial Advisor.
Topia and One are separate companies, but — in many ways — symbiotic organisms.
Traction
We have been experimenting with, and developing for, Topia since May 2020. We began taking on clients in November and have just passed the threshold of profitability — employing a team of five artists, two world builders, and myself. We have stepped lightly with our marketing as we look for ways that we will be able to scale our approach to the opportunities detailed previously.
Below is a 14-day snapshot of our dashboard from Topia's partner program. The large spike in clicks is — having learned what works — a result of us scaling up our efforts quite dramatically.
Timing
While we've been privately beta testing Topia's Partner Program since October and, on February 18th, Topia officially launched its creator economy and, with it, a 'Discover Public Worlds' page.
The Discover page is features the world with the most people at the top of the page and — since few world owners have submitted theirs — the competition is minimal. The opportunity to generate a profit with Topia is ripe and that's just what I can presently share, but I'll just leave this here...
Invitation
If you feel drawn to the opportunity of creating an income or a business by creating community and space, we welcome you to join our Cooperative and would love to co-create worlds with you.
Feel free to email me with questions, [email protected].