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Urbanimmersive Launches New Website With Enriched Investors Section

LAVAL, Quebec, April 09, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – Urbanimmersive Inc. (“Urbanimmersive,” the “Company” or “UI”) (TSX VENTURE: UI) (OTC PINK: UBMRF), the industry leading real estate content marketing platform, is pleased to announce the launch of its new corporate website with an enriched investors section containing selected real time platform data.

The new website delivers a clearer and more precise message to the industry, investors, and all of the Corporation’s current and potential clients. In addition to new platform information, the Corporation’s new website now provides selected real-time key performance metrics as well as an investor newsletter.

Ghislain Lemire, CEO of Urbanimmersive stated, “As we are now the largest real estate content marketing platform in North America, clearly communicating who Urbanimmersive is, the features and scope of our platform, and the value we bring to the industry are the main drivers behind this effort. We are confident that our new website is a major step forward in achieving this objective. We view this as a milestone as it truly represents the ultimate phase of integrating Tourbuzz into Urbanimmersive, as the Tourbuzz website has now become part of the new web message. From now on, we will move forward as a single brand with a single identity. We encourage all investors interested in any Urbanimmersive website updates to sign up for the investor newsletter.”


Disons que ça peut pas nuire :slightly_smiling_face:

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*Cricket-sound

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Envoyé dans la lettre de nouvelles aux investisseurs. Ça peut aider à répondre à quelques questions :


Here is a phone call narrative script of a typical conversation between an investor and our CEO.
Hope you will find it usefull! Have a great long week end!

INVESTOR -> What does Urbanimmersive do and why should I be interested?

CEO -> We are providing a SAAS (Service as a Software) Enterprise Solution to SMB (Small and Medium Businesses). Our solution helps those businesses get more productive and competitive in their market.

INVESTOR -> Oh! SaaS Entreprise Solutions is a very crowded field? How do you expect to win market share?

CEO -> We’re targeting a niche and unoccupied market segment, real estate visual content merchants. Those merchants are photographers, visual tour providers, aerial photography and 3D artists serving real estate agents and home builders.

INVESTOR -> A niche market could be indeed a good strategy but it seems a pretty small market to interest investors! How do you expect to bring growth in such a small segment?

CEO -> First, with the digital advertising quality standards growing, the world-wide real estate visual content merchants market segment is organically growing by double digits year after year. Merchants who are rapidly growing need an Entreprise Solution specifically designed for their services. To date, we have the most complete Entreprise Solution for them.

Second, our SaaS Entreprise Solution enables merchants to up-sell their services with a growing number of integrated products and services such as ; single property web sites, writing services, Facebook and Google Advertising, lead generation tools, etc.

INVESTOR -> That’s interesting. But does it work? Does your merchants really resell those services?

CEO -> It is starting to work like we envisioned it. Keep in mind that visual content merchants are offering their services to real estate agents and home builders who are spending multi-billions dollars in advertising year after year. If we continue to succeed like we do right now, through our merchants, we will tap into one of the largest advertising segment in the industry; real estate.

Our vision is that photographers, who are an essential piece of real estate marketing will become the main hubs of all advertising products and services real estate agents and home builders can buy.

INVESTOR -> OK. I get it. You are targeting a niche market to tap into the advertising spending of the real estate industry. It seems quite a big challenge for you guys to bring growth in the short term though. It will take years before we see the results!

CEO -> It would have been, but we have positioned our company in a way to capitalize immediately on these opportunities. Last year, we have successfully acquired and integrated the largest real estate visual content merchants single web site solution in North America. This strategic position is already accelerating our SaaS Entreprise adoption.

INVESTOR -> Did you get already some interests from those merchants for your solution since the acquisition. Are they willing to resell your new products and services through your Entreprise Solution?

CEO -> Yes. Top merchants, who are often multi-million-dollar businesses have stated loud and clear their interest for our SaaS solution and the products and services they can resell with it.

INVESTOR -> How fast they can start using your Saas and start reselling with it. It seems also to me a big challenge?

CEO -> That is indeed one of our biggest challenges we have, decreasing our Saas implementation time. But we are getting better every day on this. The quicker we can get them up and running, the quicker we will bring growth. So this is our main priority.

INVESTOR -> Let\s talk about your financials. You are burning a lot of cash. Will you have the time to reach your goal or you will go back to the market to raise more money?

CEO -> The cash we have burned during the previous years has been serving us to developing and testing the most complete SaaS for this market segment. We have such a market edge right now in terms of technology assets! The cash we have burned during the last quarters has been mostly linked to the acquisition.

With the operational cost synergies linked to the acquisition that we have announced in some press releases already, it has bring us in a much more better situation in terms of cashflow. At this point, as we have told at our last AGM, we do not expect to back to the market to raise money.

INVESTOR -> So you are cashflow positive?
CEO -> Until the financial numbers will go out, I will only answer that we have the cash we need to run our business.

INVESTOR -> Fair enough! So now, let’s talk about your debt! Man! It’s massive!!!

CEO -> All depend of the angle you want to see it. This debt is the leverage to accelerate our growth as it’s linked to the acquisition of Tourbuzz.

INVESTOR -> Got it! But it is still a large amount of interest to pay. That brings dilution and affects your cashflow.

CEO -> In our plan, this is a short-term situation. We believe our growth will enable us to handle interest payment and payment the debt. On the other hand, our story is starting to gain attention and new alternatives are coming to us right now that make us believe we could get better terms on our debt. We continue to explore all our options and we believe our continued growth and financials will create great opportunities for us.

INVESTOR -> Interesting. I will certainly start looking your stock more closely.

CEO -> You can go on our new web site to get more information. Don\t forget to subscribe to our newsletter and tell your investor fellow to to the same.

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Honestly painful to read.

Les fautes, l’utilisation de « enterprise solution to SMB » (Enterprise software = logiciel pour grandes entreprises ou gouvernements), le manque de clarté sur ce qu’ils font et qui ils visent.

Je ne peux pas m’imaginer envoyer un tel message à mes investisseurs. J’exigerais d’eux qu’ils me roast si je leur envoyait ça.

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Lol ouin c’est cheesy par bout faut se le dire.

Ya des points pertinents et au moins il est “créatif” au lieu d’aller payer 5-10k$/mois pour de la promotion. Le site web avec les données en temps réel est un bel ajout mais pas sûr que ce texte va passer à l’histoire :sweat_smile:

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Urbanimmersive Announces Appointment Of A Chief Financial Officer

Oh intéressant :slight_smile:

Il y a quelques posts qui sont en lien ici: ATW.V -ATW Tech Inc

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Content pour Simon !

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Urbanimmersive Announces Record Revenue for Second Quarter 2019

Net earnings of $58,734 for the three-month period ended March 31, 2019

Oh oh, on dirait bien que UI a atteint la profitabilité. J’ai hâte de voir les états financiers lorsqu’ils seront publiés sur Sedar.

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Finalement la profitabilité est principalement due à un gain comptable au niveau de la valorisation des débentures convertibles.

Ceci étant dit, les flux de trésorerie des opérations, avant les mouvements du fonds de roulement, sont négatifs de seulement 20k $. Très belle progression à ce niveau et près du but de générer des flux de trésorerie positifs!

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Reçu via l’infolettre aux investisseurs:

Urbanimmersive SAAS Business Solution Live Webinar Recording

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Simon Bédard, le nouveau CFO, est entré en poste lundi et il ne perd pas de temps. Déjà des achats d’actions dans le marché!

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Urbanimmersive Announces a New Appointment to the Board of Directors

Scott est également un investisseur de microcaps et membre du MicroCap Club.

Il a joué un rôle important dans la transaction entre UI et Tourbuzz et il connait très bien l’entreprise. Selon Canadian Insider, il détient 1,2 million d’actions.

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French start-up Meero raises $230m for photography platform

Nos cousins français semblent très optimiste sur le potentiel de ce marché. Il est mention d’expansion géographique dans de nouveaux marchés…

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Urbanimmersive lance un nouveau service d’édition de photos intégrant l’apprentissage automatique (‘machine learning’)

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Suite à notre dernier 5à7, Ghislain m’a fait une démo de la technologie d’identification d’image par intelligence artificielle de UI et ça fonctionne déjà très bien, c’est impressionnant.

Ce fut décevant que le CFO ne soit pas disponible et que le CEO ait complètement évité de parler de chiffres , cela a jeté un sérieux doute dans mon esprit et vendu le titre à 0.06$. il est à 0.05$ aujourd’hui.

Dans quel contexte?

Tendance Monthly Gross Volume et projection des résultats Q3

Comme @pbergeronbelanger le mentionnait, Urbanimmersive publie maintenant son Monthly Gross Volume quotidiennement sur son site web. Lien. J’ai commencé à compiler les données depuis la mi-juin, le résultat est plus bas. Malgré un ralentissement de l’activité immobilière en juillet, Urbanimmersive se dirige vers un Monthly Gross Volume de $860k pour le mois soit 2.75x le Gross de 2018.

Avec le Gross Volume pour les mois d’avril à juin (Q3 2019) publié, on arrive à un Gross de $3.1M pour le Q3, un record pour UI. En utilisant le taux moyen de conversion du Gross en revenu pour la dernière année (55%), on peut déduire des revenus de $1.7M ce qui serait aussi un record et permettrait probablement un second trimestre de Free Cash Flow.

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Le monthly Gross Merchant Volume (GMV) est vraiment à prendre avec un grain de sel et je ne recommanderais pas de prendre des décisions d’investissement basées là dessus. Ghislain lui-même m’a déjà mentionné que la corrélation n’était pas très forte entre le GMV et les revenus, puisqu’une certaine partie du volume ne génère pas de revenus (et le % de GMV qui génère des revenus vs pas de revenus varie).

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Oui et non.

À une échelle macro, l’agrégation des comportements de chaque type d’utilisateur pourrait permettre d’arriver à un intervalle de confiance pour la conversion du GMV en revenus pour l’entreprise. Oui il pourrait y avoir des variations en fonction du nombre d’utilisateurs pour chaque type et selon les saisons/cycles, mais leur comportement est prévisible quand la loi des grands nombres s’appliquent.

Cela dit, on manque de données pour arriver à un niveau de confiance élevé, ce qui ajoute à l’incertitude du marché sur comment interpréter les données.

@Le-Stagiaire a eu le bon réflexe, chaque nouvelle donnée pourra permettre d’améliorer son modèle prévisionnel.

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