How do I get two different Apple IDs to cooperate?

So, I've had my iPhone 5 for a little over a year now and just yesterday went out and bought my first Mac. When I got my phone I didn't anticipate getting a Mac and thus used my gmail account as my Apple ID. I was advised by a friend of mine that everything works wonderfully if I use an iCloud.com account, so I created one when setting up my Macbook. The end goal is to get everything across all my iDevices (iPhone, iPod, iPad, and now a Mac) to show up properly.
So here's my situation. I want to either:
     -make my two Apple IDs cooperate such that I can see all my contacts/main/messages on my Mac
     (or)
     -systematically transfer everything over from my gmail.com Apple ID to my iCloud.com account and then change which Apple ID I'm logged into in my iPhone
From what I've gathered so far, it's supposed to be awesomely easy to do on one account but it can be a pain in my situation.
I'd appreciate any help or advice given.

That's correct. I was led to believe (and perhaps misled) that the *@iCloud.com domain name on the account would give me different functionality.
Weird thing is, I was able to access and send messages on my Mac last night and now it won't communicate -- attempting to add the gmail account to the Messages app on my Mac yields a message that it can't verify the account because it's already in use by, you guessed it, another Apple ID.

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