Agloco Success

Referring friends in the offline world

2007-06-22T01:21:00.000-07:00

Talk to your friends about AGLOCO! Members are already putting their referral links on business cards, signs, bumper stickers and flyers. These promotion tactics must fall within the bounds of your local laws, rules, or regulations.

Accordingly, the distribution of flyers or handbills on private property or where prohibited in any fashion is a violation of the Membership Agreement. This includes but is not limited to, littering private or public property with flyers or cards, placing illegal road signs or plastering surfaces with posters or stickers.

If you wish to advertise your referral link in a local or wide coverage newsletter or newspaper, AGLOCO asks that you personalize your advertisement. Your ad must not make any misrepresentations to any of Your Referrals or potential Referrals with respect to compensation typically received by AGLOCO members or with respect to compensation that potential members are likely to receive.

Make sure the content you are presenting is consistent with AGLOCO’s family friendly policies and content guidelines.

Referring friends using chat and IM

2007-06-22T01:19:00.000-07:00

Each chat room and Instant Message service has its own sets of rules and regulations. Make sure you familiarize yourself with the guidelines of your chat room before entering. Chat rooms are often topic specific, and just as in message boards, you must make sure that any conversation about AGLOCO is appropriate and permissible under the rules of that forum. A chat room devoted to making money on the web is a perfect place for an AGLOCO discussion.

As always, keep your content honest and on point. Misleading your potential referrals is not only a violation of the AGLOCO membership agreement, but also a blow to the integrity of our company. Please refrain from associating AGLOCO or your account with material that AGLOCO considers objectionable. Techniques such as repeatedly sending referral URLs or other promotional messages are not permitted.

Referring friends through message boards

2007-06-22T01:17:00.000-07:00

Each type of posting and individual host will have their own regulations. Please review the guidelines set by the posting area to ensure that you are adhering to all of their guidelines. Although some postings may not be in violation of AGLOCO’s specific anti-spam policies, breaking someone else’s rules will get you in trouble, so be informed.

When posting on a message board or Usenet newsgroup, make sure you are posting on topic, and not posting to too many boards or too frequently. One posting about AGLOCO might draw referrals, but multiple postings become a nuisance. Please post your messages responsibly.

There are many message boards where messages about AGLOCO are appropriate, and many where they aren’t, so use good judgment. Keep your content honest and on point. Misleading your potential referrals is not only a violation of the AGLOCO membership agreement, but also a blow to the integrity of our company.

Referring friends through Blogs and Websites

2007-06-22T01:15:00.000-07:00

If you have your own Blog or Website, it’s a perfect place to advertise your AGLOCO membership and to encourage your readers to sign-up. The more you discuss AGLOCO on your blog, the more your blog will be indexed by search engines and the more visitors you may receive. Please note, however, that posting unsolicited comments to the blogs or websites of other people may be a violation of our anti-spam policy. So please use good judgment when including your AGLOCO referral information in comments on other people’s blogs.

Here are a few examples of Blogs and Websites that are successfully promoting AGLOCO:

English	http://www.johnchow.com/category/agloco/ http://aglocorocks.blogspot.com/ (Ideas for blogers)
	http://www.agloco-webmaster-bloggers.com
German	http://www.agloco.blog.de
Spanish	http://poseeinternet.blogspot.com
French	http://agloco.blogspot.com/
Japanese	http://aglocojp.blogspot.com
Korean	http://korean-agloco.blogspot.com
Chinese	http://getyourshare.blogspot.com

Referring friends through email

2007-06-22T01:10:00.000-07:00

Emails are a great way to tell your friends and family about your AGLOCO membership and to encourage them to join as your referral. There is a wealth of possible referrals all around you. You must however, keep in mind proper online messaging etiquette and the spirit of AGLOCO's Anti-Spam policy while making referrals.

You may email anyone you know to tell them about our program. This extends to friends and family, business associates and mailing lists where the recipients have opted-in for messages like this. Below is a sample email you can look at. And here are some links to others sample pages,

English	http://mccallsnotes.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!9F2891B66EBAA762!341.entry (second attempt email) http://mccallsnotes.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!9F2891B66EBAA762!427.entry
	http://www.agloco-emails.com
German	http://www.agloco.blog.de
Spanish	http://poseeinternet.blogspot.com
French	http://agloco.blogspot.com/
Japanese	http://aglocojp.blogspot.com
Korean	http://korean-agloco.blogspot.com
Chinese	http://getyourshare.blogspot.com

Please understand that AGLOCO has a more stringent policy regarding many kinds of spam than other sites on the Internet, and we enforce our anti-spam policy rigorously. We strongly recommend that you review it closely prior to sending out any quantity of emails.

When emailing people about AGLOCO, ensure that you have established a previous relationship with that individual. Making reference to your previous relationship will ensure that your referral email is received well. For example, “You are receiving this email from Business Today, the opt-in mailing list you have subscribed to for information on business opportunities.”

Many of our members include an AGLOCO referral link at the end of every email they send. Once you set up the link as an email "auto signature," it will be included at the end of all your email messages (until you choose to remove it.) The link can include your personal member ID number, so anyone who joins AGLOCO through your link will be credited as your referral.

What should I tell them?

If you're not sure what to tell your friends about AGLOCO, take a look at this sample email that one of our members sent.

Here are some sites with general recruiting information.

English	http://mccallsnotes.spaces.live.com/ http://www.johnchow.com/category/agloco/

German	http://www.agloco.blog.de
Spanish	http://poseeinternet.blogspot.com
French	http://agloco.blogspot.com/
Japanese	http://aglocojp.blogspot.com
Korean	http://korean-agloco.blogspot.com
Chinese	http://getyourshare.blogspot.com

Sample email

Dear ______,

I recently joined AGLOCO because of a friend recommended it to me. I am now promoting it to you because I like the idea and I want you to share in what I think will be an exciting new Internet concept.

AGLOCO’s story is simple:

Do you realize how valuable you are? Advertisers, search providers and online retailers are paying billions to reach you while you surf. How much of that money are you making? NONE!

AGLOCO thinks you deserve a piece of the action.

AGLOCO collects money from those companies on behalf of its members. (For example, Google currently pays AOL 10 cents for every Google search by an AOL user. And Google still has enough profit to pay $1.6 billion dollars for YouTube, an 18-month old site full of content that YouTube’s users did not get paid for!

AGLOCO will work to get its Members their share of this and more.

AGLOCO is building a new form of online community that they call an Economic Network. They are not only paying Members their fair share, but they’re building a community that will generate the kind of fortune that YouTube made. But instead of that wealth making only a few people rich, the entire community will get its share.

What's the catch? No catch - no spyware, no pop-ups and no spam - membership and software are free and AGLOCO is 100% member owned. Privacy is a core value and AGLOCO never sells or rents member information.

So do both of us a favor: Sign up for AGLOCO right now! If you use this link to sign up, I automatically get credit for referring you and helping to build AGLOCO. http://www.agloco.com/r/BBFG1165

Thanks

Referring friends face to face

2007-06-22T01:05:00.000-07:00

Talking to friends about joining AGLOCO face to face or on the telephone has the highest chance of getting a new referral. You get to hear the friends questions and answer them on the spot.

History of Agloco (AllAdvantage)

2007-06-22T00:47:00.000-07:00

AllAdvantage was an Internet advertising company that positioned itself as the world’s first “infomediary” by paying its users/members a portion of the advertising revenue generated by their online viewing habits. It became most well known for its slogan “Get Paid to Surf the Web,” a phrase that has since become synonymous with a wide array of online ad revenue sharing systems (see, e.g., Paid to Surf).

AllAdvantage was launched on March 31, 1999, by its four founders Jim Jorgensen, Johannes Pohle, Carl Anderson, and Oliver Brock. During its nearly 2 years of operation, it raised nearly $200 Million in venture capital and grew to more than 10 million members in its first 18 months of operation. Within six months of the launch it was among the most visited web properties according to Nielsen/NetRatings and other Internet traffic survey firms and stayed within the top 20 throughout much of its existence.

AllAdvantage contributed several concepts to the marketplace that continue to have impact today. For example, the company’s Viewbar software was one of the earliest desktop user tracking and ad targeting technologies. The Viewbar displayed advertisements in a narrow application window that could be docked to the bottom of the user’s screen, targeting those advertisements to the content being viewed by the user as they browsed websites. The same technologies, minus the permission of users or monetary compensation, became the basis of the Adware and Spyware industries.

The company also appointed the world’s first corporate Chief Privacy Officer, creating the role as a senior level executive responsible for protecting the privacy and security of user data and managing a variety of risks and threats to the integrity of the service. The company appointed privacy lawyer Ray Everett-Church to the newly created position in August 1999, starting a trend that quickly spread among major corporations, both offline and online. By 2001, the non-profit research organization Privacy and American Business reported that a significant number of Fortune 500 firms had appointed senior executives with the title or role of Chief Privacy Officer.
AllAdvantage is perhaps most remembered for its successful adaptation of the “viral marketing” concept, a term first coined by the venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson. In viral marketing, members of the service promote it to their friends and acquaintances, which AllAdvantage enhanced by adding a compensation component, rewarding users for the number of members they successfully referred. In a May 2000 article for Red Herring Magazine, Steve Jurvetson cited AllAdvantage as a prime example of viral marketing success.

AllAdvantage ultimately fell victim to the sharp decline in advertising spending as the dotcom bubble burst and the U.S. economy entered a recessionary period in mid-2000. AllAdvantage planned an initial public offering of stock in early 2000, underwritten by legendary investment banker Frank Quattrone and his firm Credit Suisse First Boston. As the IPO market continued to sour through mid-2000, the offering plans were cancelled. The company continued to seek new sources of revenue and expanded its offerings to include sweepstakes. But the company finally halted consumer-facing operations in February 2001. By the time it closed its doors, the company had paid out over $120 million to its members.