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2007-08-07T08:48:00.000-04:00

August 3, 2007 at 9:05 am · Filed under News & Updates

Revenue – We are near completion with one of two improved revenue agreements. These should be implemented in August. They should greatly enhance September’s revenue in search and North American ad revenue. We are also in negotiations with one European network, to improve revenue there. We are in need of better networks in China, Brazil, India, Korea and Japan. We also need a network in the Middle East. If any Member has any leads on those, please post your ideas in the comment section.

Tech Update The tech team reported that the fix to the August hours will be occurring on Thursday the 9th. Until that time the display will not show correct August hours. The last three weeks have consumed our tech team with server improvements – this did not go as the team had anticipated with load balancing problems at the ISP. This should be resolved shortly and they can get back to the other pressing needs of AGLOCO. As we change to improved servers the AGLOCO website will be down for a period of time (the amount of time will depend on where in the world the Member is that is trying to reach the site). People will see a notice page saying we are doing maintenance. Projects like updating the website and emails to all Members will then be attended to.

Media – As reported earlier, Brian recently gave a recorded interview. In it, he talked about the AGLOCO Vision and he answered some questions about the company’s current progress and trajectory. Click here to listen to the interview. Click here for written transcript

Member distributions – If you missed the post on this, you can read it at Member distributions

Thanks for your continued efforts for AGLOCO.

The AGLOCO Development Team

Comments or questions for Brian please send to bgreenwald@agloco.com

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Past Articles on AGLOCO:
Thursday, July 19, 2007 Latest News From AGLOCO

Tuesday, June 12, 2007 AGLOCO Viewbar Update

Thursday, May 24, 2007 AGLOCO Viewbar Update

Tuesday, May 15, 2007 AGLOCO: Own the Internet

Latest News From AGLOCO

2007-07-19T11:25:00.000-04:00

July Update
July 18, 2007 at 11:14 pm · Filed under News & Updates

As Brian mentioned in his recorded interview last week (described below), he is spending more time on the revenue team and will be focusing more on getting money for the community and less on this blog. So to pick up the slack, various members of the AGLOCO Development Team will write some of the posts going forward. The blog will still be Brian’s so if you have comments or questions about it, please continue to address them with him at bgreenwald@agloco.com.

Updating the website - We let this slide (too far) as we worked first on the Viewbar and then on revenue. We are currently moving and upgrading the site servers and this should be done in a week. After this is complete the tech team will change the website.

Another update email to Members – This is ready to go out and should also be done when the new servers are finished.

Media – As some Members have noted, Brian recently gave a recorded interview. In it, he talked about the AGLOCO Vision and he answered some questions about the company’s current progress and trajectory. Click here to listen to the interview. Also, the French newspaper “Le Monde” wrote about us, and you can read the article by clicking here.

Windows 98 – We are investigating some quick workarounds for Viewbar compatibility with older versions of Windows. If they work we will report this to all Members.

Viewbar Update and Member distributions – If you missed the previous post on this, you can read it at http://blog.agloco.com/index.php/post68/

Thanks for your continued efforts for AGLOCO.
The AGLOCO Development Team

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Past Articles on AGLOCO:

Tuesday, June 12, 2007 AGLOCO Viewbar Update

Thursday, May 24, 2007 AGLOCO Viewbar Update

Tuesday, May 15, 2007 AGLOCO: Own the Internet

2007-07-11T16:10:00.000-04:00

What You Need to Know BEFORE You Get Started on eBay

2007-07-03T10:38:00.000-04:00

So you've decided that you want to get started as a seller on eBay. There are a few things that you really need to know before you go and throw yourself in at the deep end.

What to Sell.

First off, you need to know what it is you're going to sell: what's your speciality? You'll do far better on eBay if you become a great source for certain kind of products, as people who are interested in those products will come back to you again and again. You won't get any loyalty or real reputation if you just sell rubbish at random.

When you think about what to sell, there are a few things to consider. The most important of these is to always sell what you know. If you try to sell something that you just don't know anything about then you'll never write a good description and sell it for a good price.

You might think you're not especially interested in anything, but if you think about what kind of things you usually buy and which websites you go to most often, I'm sure you'll discover some kind of interest. If all else fails mention it to your friends and family: they'll almost certainly say "Oh, well why don't you sell…", and you'll slap your forehead.

Out of the things you know enough about, you should then consider which things you could actually get for a good enough price to resell, and how suitable they would be for posting. If you can think of something of that you're knowledgeable about and it's small and light enough for postage to be relatively cheap, then that's great!

Don't worry if you think the thing you're selling is too obscure - it isn't. There's a market for almost everything on eBay, even things that wouldn't sell once in a year if you stocked them in a shop. You'll probably do even better if you fill a niche than if you sell something common.

Tax and Legal Matters.

If you earn enough money, you should be aware that you're going to have to start paying tax - this won't be done for you. If you decide to sell on eBay on a full-time basis, you should probably register as a business.

Prepare Yourself.

There are going to be ups and downs when you sell on eBay. Don't pack it in if something goes a little wrong in your first few sales: the sellers who are successful on eBay are the ones who enjoy it, and stick at it whatever happens.

Anyone can sell on eBay, if they believe in themselves - and if you do decide it's not for you, then the start-up costs are so low that you won't really have lost anything.

If you're ready to start selling, then the next thing you need to know is the different auction types, so you can decide which ones you will use to sell your items. Our next post about eBay will give you a guide.

Past Articles on eBay:
Monday, June 18, 2007 eBay Income Possibilities
Sunday, June 10, 2007 eBay: The First 12 Years

eBay Income Possibilities

2007-06-18T14:02:00.000-04:00

If you've ever read an article about eBay, you will have seen the kinds of incomes people make - it isn't unusual to hear of people making thousands of dollars per month on eBay.

Next time you're on eBay, take a look at how many PowerSellers there are: you'll find quite a few. Now consider that every single one of one of them must be making at least $1,000 per month, as that's eBay's requirement for becoming a PowerSeller. Silver PowerSellers make at least $3,000 each month, while Gold PowerSellers make more than $10,000, and the Platinum level is $25,000. The top ranking is Titanium PowerSeller, and to qualify you must make at least $150,000 in sales every month!

The fact that these people exist gives you come idea of the income possibilities here. Most of them never set out to even set up a business on eBay - they simply started selling a few things, and then kept going. There are plenty of people whose full-time job is selling things on eBay, and some of them have been doing it for years now. Can you imagine that? Once they've bought the stock, everything else is pretty much pure profit for these people - they don't need to pay for any business premises, staff, or anything else. There are multi-million pound businesses making less in actual profit than eBay PowerSellers do.

Even if you don't want to quit your job and really go for it, you can still use eBay to make a significant second income. You can pack up orders during the week and take them down to the post office for delivery each Saturday. There are few other things you could be doing with your spare time that have anywhere near that kind of earning potential.

What's more, eBay doesn't care who you are, where you live, or what you look like: some PowerSellers are very old, or very young. Some live out in the middle of nowhere where selling on eBay is one of the few alternatives to farming or being very poor. eBay tears down the barriers to earning that the real world constantly puts up. There's no job interview and no commuting involved - if you can post things, you can do it.

Put it this way: if you know where to get something reasonably cheaply that you could sell, then you can sell it on eBay - and since you can always get discounts for bulk at wholesale, that's not exactly difficult. Buy a job lot of something in-demand cheaply, sell it on eBay, and you're making money already, with no set-up costs.

If you want to dip your toe in the water before you commit to actually buying anything, then you can just sell things that you've got lying around in the house. Search through that cupboard of stuff you never use, and you'll probably find you've got a few hundred dollars' worth of stuff lying around in there! This is the power of eBay: there is always someone who wants what you're selling, whatever it might be, and since they've come looking for you, you don't even need to do anything to get them to buy it.

So you want to get started on eBay? Well, that's great! There are only a few little things you need to learn to get started. Our next post will give you the lowdown.

>Become An eBay PowerSeller<

Past Articles on eBay:

Sunday, June 10, 2007 eBay: The First 12 Years

AGLOCO Viewbar Update

2007-06-12T16:54:00.000-04:00

Ad rotation, Viewbar and Website stability...the following are addressed on the AGLOCO Company Blog. >

Walk Before Running

Now that AGLOCO has launched the Viewbar (we released it on June 4th so we are 8 days “old”), we should start to make steady progress. Here’s a big picture view of where we’re going over the next few months. I see things in three major phases, with some overlap between them.

The first order of business is to get the Viewbar (and our website) stable – with rotating ads.

*Viewbar Stability: We will be releasing an updated version of the Viewbar software within a week that will take care of some of the remaining ‘bugs’, and we will continue to stabilize the software. If you already have the Viewbar, you do not need to do anything to get this new version, as your Viewbar should automatically self-update with it. For the most part it seems these remaining ‘bugs’ appear minor and only affect a very limited number of members. This is good. This means we can put our primary emphasis on the next phase of the Viewbar while leaving a small team to work on the minor bugs.

*Website Stability: We will be making the Viewbar software available on one trusted alternate download site (we are picking it now and it will be all set up before we send a Viewbar download “reminder” email to the Membership). This should help our servers balance the website traffic with the stress of the download process. We will continue to make adjustments and improvements to our servers in order to improve performance for those browsing (so there are no disruptions to the sign-up process for new Members in the future).

*Ad rotation: We are working with the ad server people to optimize this process. The way they initially rotated the ads was crashing their servers with all the Viewbars asking for ads, so they have needed to improvise. Now it seems that some Members are getting rotating ads and others aren’t, depending on browser settings and computer environment. They are working on solutions so their ads show up on all Viewbars, regardless of computer environment or settings. I do not know how long this will take, but we have seen a steady improvement in the number of users who get rotating ads, so it seems progress is being made.

The next phase for AGLOCO is the maximizing of Viewbar revenue. This is an important goal, as we have fairly fixed costs so the more revenue we generate (especially more revenue per Viewbar), the more each Member will receive. There are lots of steps that will need to be taken in the coming months to improve AGLOCO’s revenue including:

1. Improving our search and ad revenue sources and sharing agreements. As more Members use the Viewbar, our bargaining power grows.
2. Start the Viewbar targeting system. One part of this system will focus ads based on your searches and surfing. Another part of this system will focus ads based on where you live (of course, AGLOCO will need to have a contract with ad networks in each of these countries to provide local ads in local countries).
3. Better inform Members of the revenue generating opportunities on the Viewbar.
4. Continue to work with existing Members who have not yet activated their Viewbars. We expect that after the initial spike of downloads this process will be one of gradual adoption. New Members signing up will have access to the Viewbar right away.
5. Continue to make improvements to encourage continued viral growth of the AGLOCO Membership. This includes website improvements, increased Viewbar functionality, and an opt-in Member-to-Member communication system.

Maximizing revenue is extremely important to AGLOCO, since cash distributions will come from AGLOCO’s positive earnings (revenue exceeding expenses). There is some information available on the AGLOCO website and in previous posts to this blog, but I will talk more about this important stage of AGLOCO’s future in my next post. I won’t be giving exact payment dates nor a fixed hourly rate prediction (as AGLOCO cannot predict future revenues per Member), but I will talk more about how the distributions will work.

Brian Greenwald
AGLOCO Development Team

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Past Articles on AGLOCO:
Thursday, May 24, 2007 AGLOCO Viewbar Update
Tuesday, May 15, 2007 AGLOCO: Own the Internet

eBay: The First 12 Years

2007-06-10T13:37:00.000-04:00

Yes, you read that correctly: twelve years. eBay was created in September 1995, by a man called Pierre Omidyar, who was living in San Jose. He wanted his site - then called 'AuctionWeb' - to be an online marketplace, and wrote the first code for it in one weekend. It was one of the first websites of its kind in the world. The name 'eBay' comes from the domain Omidyar used for his site. His company's name was Echo Bay, and the 'eBay AuctionWeb' was originally just one part of Echo Bay's website at ebay.com. The first thing ever sold on the site was Omidyar's broken laser pointer, which he got $14 for.

The site quickly became massively popular, as sellers came to list all sorts of odd things and buyers actually bought them. Relying on trust seemed to work remarkably well, and meant that the site could almost be left alone to run itself. The site had been designed from the start to collect a small fee on each sale, and it was this money that Omidyar used to pay for AuctionWeb's expansion. The fees quickly added up to more than his current salary, and so he decided to quit his job and work on the site full-time. It was at this point, in 1996, that he added the feedback facilities, to let buyers and sellers rate each other and make buying and selling safer.

In 1997, Omidyar changed AuctionWeb's - and his company's - name to 'eBay', which is what people had been calling the site for a long time. He began to spend a lot of money on advertising, and had the eBay logo designed. It was in this year that the one-millionth item was sold (it was a toy version of Big Bird from Sesame Street).

Then, in 1998 - the peak of the dotcom boom - eBay became big business, and the investment in Internet businesses at the time allowed it to bring in senior managers and business strategists, who took in public on the stock market. It started to encourage people to sell more than just collectibles, and quickly became a massive site where you could sell anything, large or small. Unlike other sites, though, eBay survived the end of the boom, and is still going strong today.

1999 saw eBay go worldwide, launching sites in the UK, Australia and Germany. eBay bought half.com, an Amazon-like online retailer, in the year 2000 - the same year it introduced Buy it Now - and bought PayPal, an online payment service, in 2002.

Pierre Omidyar has now earned an estimated $3 billion from eBay, and still serves as Chairman of the Board. Oddly enough, he keeps a personal weblog at http://pierre.typepad.com/. There are now literally millions of items bought and sold every day on eBay, all over the world. For every $100 spent online worldwide, it is estimated that $14 is spent on eBay - that's a lot of laser pointers.

Now that you know the history of eBay, perhaps you'd like to know how it could work for you? Our next post will give you an idea of the possibilities.

AGLOCO Viewbar Prepared To Launch

2007-06-02T15:28:00.000-04:00

At long last a positive update from the AGLOCO front, the Viewbar will be released this coming Monday, June-4, 2007. The following was posted on the AGLOCO Company Blog. >

Viewbar release this Monday (Tuesday in Asia)

June 2, 2007 at 9:56 am

Sorry to be so long between posts. There was no meaningful news to give you until today.

We have made a workaround regarding the ad server problem and we will finally be launching the Viewbar. Some, but not all, of our ad networks will be connected. These networks have enough ads on them, so we are comfortable releasing the software as we continue to work on the outstanding issues that remain with the other networks. All of the preliminary Viewbar functions are there, but with the ad problems we will not be initially launching with the personalized ad targeting. We will continue to develop this capability after we have launched and when it is available the new version of the software will be incorporated into your viewbar automatically.

Remember that this is the first version of the Viewbar (v1.0), and with the Viewbar being automatically self-updating software, gradual improvement (both aesthetically and functionally) will appear seamlessly (you also have an option to turn off this feature and ask for updates manually, though we recommend leaving the auto-updating feature active so that you always have the latest software as improvements are made).

This weekend the Viewbar download is being moved from the test servers to the main servers. We will NOT need to temporarily take down the web site as we had thought, so we will not be sending out an email warning on that. If the transfer goes smoothly, the first download emails will be going out Monday morning California time (early Tuesday in Asia).

Please remember:

If you have a Norton firewall you may be asked to allow access to “viewbar.exe” and “update.exe” (please check “Permit Access Always” for proper installation of the Viewbar).

The Viewbar is currently available for Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Vista and will work with IE (Internet Explorer) or Firefox browsers.

I’m sure you are all just as ready for the Viewbar release as we are!

Brian Greenwald

AGLOCO Development Team

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What Is Google Adsense?

2007-05-28T12:17:00.000-04:00

When someone wants to promote something on the internet, one thing they can do is to put ads on other websites such as banner ads or classified ads. It usually work like this, the person who wants to promote (the advertiser) give some money to the website owner (the publisher) and in return, the publisher shows the advertiser's ads on their website. Hoping that the visitor of the publisher's website will click the ads and visit the advertiser's website. Win-win solutions, advertisers get traffic, publishers get money.

In order to get good quality of traffic, the advertisers need to find good quality websites that related to the products / services they are selling. When an advertiser wants maximum exposures, it is a lot of work to find such websites and to deal with payments and everything. As for the publishers, it is also not easy to find advertisers who wants to advertise on their websites. So then, come Google to the rescue.

Google offers services to accomodate both advertisers and publishers needs. It work like this, the advertisers pay google some money to advertise in google networks (which they claimed to reach more than 80% of Internet users), this service is called Google Adwords (Pay Per Click). Then google pay some money to the publishers that show the ads on their website, this service is called Google Adsense. Even more win-win solutions, right?

The advertisers only need to deal with google, only pay to google, while the publishers do not need to find people to advertise on their website, they simply just need to put Google Adsense code in their website.

In conclusion, the diagram will be like this:Advertisers ----> Google Adwords ----> Google System ----> Google Adsense ----> Publishers

In order to send quality traffic to the advertisers websites, the ads should be related to the topic of the websites. Google use a very smart system that scan keywords through the pages of the publishers websites, and then decide which ads should show , depending on the keywords found. For example, the site www.needed-info.com/quit-smoking/ that have articles about how to quit smoking, will show ads that are related to the term 'quit smoking'. The website owner will then earn some money when visitor click on any of the Google Adsense links.

If you want to earn money from the internet, you should consider to deploy Google Adsense box in your websites. For fact, more and more webmaster are making very good living from Google Adsense alone.

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AGLOCO Viewbar Update

2007-05-24T14:21:00.000-04:00

The AGLOCO Viewbar should be released by June, but recently they decided to give a Member who is not on the development team a chance to use and test it. John Chow of JohnChow.com was kind enough to videotape a demonstration of the working Viewbar.

>The Real Agloco ViewBar By John Chow<

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Marketing Pond

2007-05-21T12:13:00.001-04:00

Okay guys, Marketing Pond is one of the best free sites I have found yet. It's a revolutionary new opportunity based on getting you referrals for free money and advertising sites. This is great for those with little or no Internet marketing experience, the programs listed are very easy to use and some are totally autopilot. When you sign up go the 'Programs' list and click on the name of the program, join the program and return to your Marketing Pond, enter your id for the program. Be sure to scroll down the program page and click 'Update' to save/lock in your program ID. It is wise to join every program in the list because the members that you sponsor to Marketing Pond will also click the programs and land on your referral sites. The great thing about this program is that half of the sites will make you free money while the other half will get you free advertising that you can use to promote Marketing Pond as well as any other business opportunities you are working.

>Learn more about Marketing Pond here<

2007-05-15T16:45:00.000-04:00

When YouTube launched, the first most active users were on the site when the software was buggy and there were few videos available, but their Membership (and referrals to others) made the site a huge success. Yet when it was sold for $1.65 billion these first active users that helped build the YouTube Network recieved absolutely NOTHING! AGLOCO is 100% member owned, so with the AGLOCO referral system members like you and me will be rewarded for building the network. I really don't think that many understand the magnitude of this opportunity. The last time such an opportunity existed, people made over $120 million in under 2 years, when far less people had Internet access and conditions weren't yet right for such a company to go public. Now, with record spending on advertising and calls from all sides for less irrelevant advertising and a better business/customer connection, the world is more than ready for an economic network that gives back to its users. AGLOCO offers us an incredible opportunity to grow our own Internet business and earn money along the way. Where else do we have the chance to get on the ground floor of a budding Internet business...FOR FREE!

>Learn more about AGLOCO here<

A Day In The Life Of An Affiliate Marketer

2007-05-13T11:00:00.000-04:00

Being in the affiliate marketing business is not that hard now with the internet at your disposable. It is much easier now compared to the days when people have to make use of the telephones and other mediums of information just to get the latest updates on the way their program is coming along.So with technology at hand, and assuming that the affiliate is working from home, a day in his or her life would sound something like this…Upon waking up and after having breakfast, the computer is turned on to check out new developments in the network. As far as the marketer is concerned there might be new things to update and statistics to keep track on.The site design has to be revised. The marketer knows that a well-designed site can increase sign ups from visitors. It can also help in the affiliate’s conversion rates.That done, it is time to submit the affiliate program to directories that lists affiliate programs. These directories are means to attract people in joining your affiliate program. A sure way of promoting the affiliate program.Time to track down the sales you are getting from your affiliates fairly and accurately. There are phone orders and mails to track down. See if they are new clients checking the products out. Noting down the contact information that might be a viable source in the future.There are lots of resources to sort out. Ads, banners, button ads and sample recommendations to give out because the marketer knows that this is one way of ensuring more sales. Best to stay visible and accessible too.The affiliate marketer remembered that there are questions to answer from the visitors. This has to be done quickly. Nothing can turn off a customer than an unanswered email.To prove that the affiliate is working effectively and efficiently, inquiries would have to be paid more attention on. Nobody wants to be ignored and customers are not always the most patient of all people. Quick answer that should appear professional yet friendly too.In the process of doing all the necessities, the marketer is logged on to a chat room where he or she interacts with other affiliates and those under that same program. This is where they can discuss things on how to best promote their products.There are things to be learned and it is a continuous process. Sharing tips and advices is a good way of showing support. There may be others out there wanting to join and may be enticed by the discussion that is going on. There is no harm in assuming what opportunities ahead.The newsletters and ezines were updated days ago, so it is time for the affiliate marketer to see if there are some new things happening in the market. This will be written about in the marketer’s publication to be distributed to the old and new customers.These same publications are also an important tool in keeping up to date with the newly introduced products. The marketer has put up a sale and promotion that customers may want to know about. Besides, they have to keep up with the deadline of these sales written in the publications.It is that time to show some appreciation to those who have helped the marketer in the promotions and sale increase. Nothing like mentioning the persons, their sites and the process they have done that made everything worked.Of course, this will be published in the newsletters. Among the more important information that have been written already.The marketer still has time to write out recommendations to those who want credible sources for the products being promoted. There is also time to post some comments on how to be a successful affiliate marketer on a site where there are lots of wannabees.Two objectives done at the same time. The marketer gets to promote the product as well as the program they are in. Who knows, someone may be inclined to join.Time flies. Missed lunch but is quite contented with the tasks done. Bed time….Ok, so this may not be all done in a day. But then, this gives you an idea of how an affiliate marketer, a dedicated one that is, spends the marketing day.Is that success looming in the distance or what?