It would appear that after 5 weeks of no new posts from Agloco management on their company Blog that Agloco has finally died. What started off as a great idea has been let down (yet again) by poor management. The same management team were behind previous Internet flop AllAdvantage. This raises one real question? Are the guys behind these two companies taking us for a ride? They seem to have got poor management down to a art-form. With just over a year passing since they launched the Viewbar: the 'epitome' of Agloco, this darn thing has just never lived up to expectations. I really do not want to waste too much more time & effort promoting Agloco, instead my last post will be to demote Agloco. Agloco has let all their members down with poor communication, we have all been VERY patient with them. How hard is it to put up a update on the official Agloco blog? Something has gone very wrong with Agloco & I think they are too ashamed/embarrassed to tell us. R.I.P Agloco it was fun while it lasted (kind of)
My referalls have been very erratic recently - Last month I had 1 sign up! This month I have had over 50?.. I can't fathom why this is exactly, but I could do with more of my sign-ups to download the viewbar as this is the key to Agloco's success & as you can see from my referall stats only approx 1-2 people have used the viewbar for over 5 hours (or 10 people using it only very briefly etc. etc.)
All AGLOCO members should have opened their inbox this morning & seen a email from Danny Jorgensen the member coordinator. This was really uplifting & it's good to see that the AGLOCO model is actually paying off. It also indicates what we should expect in terms of monthly payments just on the basis of 4-5 searched ads a day & just one click from those searches....This is what it read.
"Dear XXXXXX,
Our first data points are in with our AGLOCO/Ask search system. Average net revenue for AGLOCO per click is already over US$0.20 – the average Member click through rate on ads on the Ask search page - 20% to 25% of the time the ad is clicked on (one ad click for every 4 to 5 searches). If every AGLOCO Member did 4 to 5 Ask searches a day and they clicked on average just one ad, the revenue generated for the AGLOCO community would be US$6.00 per month per Member. This would be a great start to building revenue for Member distributions.
AGLOCO’s challenge is to get every Member to have the Viewbar open all the time and to use the Ask search box to make their searches. If you haven’t used the Viewbar to do an Ask search. We implore you to do it now. Member feedback on the Ask search results has been extremely favorable (most Members reporting they rate Ask results as good as Google’s or better.) If you have had problems with getting a download of the new Viewbar, we added CNET’s Download.com Click here to go to their site to have fast download: http://www.download.com/Viewbar/3000-2381-10753362.html?part=dl-Viewbar&subj=uo&tag=button AGLOCO UPDATE 15th OCTOBER 2007
It's been a while since I last posted on AGLOCO but it was nice to see on the official company blog a long post answering all the members questions that have arised over the last few months.
The lengthy & detailed post covers the following subjects:
"First – for those of you who have given some thoughtful ideas, questions and opinions on our posts during the last two weeks – thank you.
At this point, we would like to give some feedback on some of the ideas and thoughts given.
Is the payment plan posted last month a permanent plan? No – as noted in a comment we made this is a plan we wanted to implement now to show Members that even though AGLOCO is currently losing money the hours they are putting in now would be compensated. Our website states that we will make no distributions until profitable. We could have considered a plan that the June, July, and August hours would be paid zero since no profits were forthcoming. We felt that would be an unfair plan to those Members who were supporting AGLOCO in its startup period. That is the purpose of this initial plan.
This morning I received the following email from AGLOCO detailing the updates that have been preformed & also what is happening with the ad revenue etc.
All AGLOCO members should have received the following email today:
"Dear XXXXXX, Viewbar – We continue to be pleased with Member activation of the AGLOCO Viewbar. To download your Viewbar click here. (Goes to tucows.com download site.)Revenue – We are excited that we have signed one of our major revenue partnerships for North America last week. We will be making the formal announcement later. Getting a major company to work with their own internal system to start to take advantage of the Viewbar’s capabilities is very exciting to us. It will take our partner’s tech team 3 to 5 weeks to complete their work, so you should see changes occurring after that time. We are still looking for meaningful partners in Europe and Asia. If any of you works in an ad network company, please contact us at partners@AGLOCO.com to see if we can work on a partnership.Tech Update The tech team reported that our move to new servers was completed last week. Early reports are faster downloading for most locations. Also, all Member accounts have been updated for total hours accumulated. To check your account Click here. Media – We have received a lot of positive emails about Mike Klingler’s interview with Brian Greenwald. In it, Brian talked about the AGLOCO Vision and he answered some questions about the company’s current progress and trajectory. Mike and other Members have worked to make this available to all Members at: Click here to listen to the interview. Click here for written transcript Member distributions – If you missed the AGLOCO blog post on this, you can read it at Member distributions. Thanks for all of your efforts for AGLOCO Danny JorgensenMember Coordinator "
