AGLOCO Revolution

by Gregory Allen Butler

If you are wondering what I am doing promoting the AGLOCO revolution on a blog about holistic personal development, I have an answer for you: It's holistic to be compensated for what you do rather than be exploited. Or put another way, it is not fair to help build a $1.6 billion company and not see a penny of its profits. That is what happened (or didn't happen) to the users who made Utube such a success.

The art of allowing is a holistic principle. It is holistic to be liberated from a dead-end job or a job that doesn't utilize your talents adequately. It is holistic to be free from worrying about money. It's holistic to help other people find happiness. And it is holistic to be able to spend more time with your family.

Are these things guaranteed? No. But they become definite attainable possibilities. And the beauty of it is that no one pays even a dime to get it.

I am not selling you anything. I am giving you something. My intention is to assist you in having what you deserve in life. There is nothing to lose. Don't be a victim of the world wide syndrome called the fear of success.

As AGLOCO will tell you over and over: "Think big. It's your company. Have fun."

Here are some of the benefits of AGLOCO:

Totally Free.
Get paid for up to 5 hours you are online each month.
Get paid a percentage of all your direct and indirect referrals for the 5 hours each referral is online each month.
Get paid monthly for your referrals down 5 Levels.
Get free shares of stock when Agloco goes public on the London Stock Exchange.
Get lifetime discounts on your purchases at selected online retailers.
You get your own private member area so you can see your stats and always know how much money you have made and how many people you have helped.

AGLOCO on the founding of AGLOCO:

We started AGLOCO at a coffee shop near the Stanford campus. We sat down with a group of Stanford graduate students to design the next generation of the Internet enterprise using the infomediary as one of the foundation blocks.

We decided we wanted to build the economic network that enables individuals on the Web to share in the profits that their data and their actions help create. AGLOCO is more than a Web site and it is more than a Viewbar company. It is a network that links people, their information and their friends together to form something bigger.

Like all networks that have come before (from the Internet itself to MySpace), this one gets stronger as it gets bigger. AGLOCO with 1,000 or 10,000 members is not much more than the sum of its parts. But AGLOCO with 1 million or 10 million members starts to become important. It's important because it changes the consumer-company relationship online and changes the way everyone thinks about their online experience.

Why It Works. AGLOCO works because the network effects are self-perpetuating. It gets stronger as it gets bigger. With more members and stronger cash flows, the profits that the members share in increase - and this draws in more users and hence stronger cash flows. The incentive to join early and tell many friends is big, as early members who help build the network stand to benefit the most (similar to nearly all start-ups, where the early employees tend to share disproportionately in the success of the company).

As AGLOCO grows, the economic incentive continues to grow as it is able to offer more and more value for its members. Unlike AllAdvantage.com which incurred incremental costs for each additional member-hour, AGLOCO generates positive free cash flow from each additional member-hour and has virtually no incremental cash expenses for additional use of the Viewbar. AGLOCO will have standard operating costs (site maintenance, bandwidth, insurance, telephones, office space, sales and administration etc.), but like Google these costs should be very low compared to the revenue Members generate.

The Members Own the Company. That's right - 100% of the company is member-owned. Users make good ideas valuable. Good ideas are great, but without members, they are just that - ideas. Every decision is made by asking what is best for the members over the long-term. It's a new way of thinking, but it works because we are all in it together. So how do we make money?

We Own the Management Company. The employees and investors own the management company. The management company collects 10% of the revenues of AGLOCO (like Tom Cruise pays his agent 10%). This should be enough incentive to continue to attract a great team of highly talented people that AGLOCO needs to maximize the value to its Member/shareholders.

Trust is Everything. We lose your trust, and the network fails. We work on behalf of the members and everything we do must keep that in mind. Our members know what we are doing with their data and how we are using it for their benefit. Do you know how other Web sites are collecting your data or how they are using it? Chances are, you don't. Think about it.

No cost to a Member - Ever. AGLOCO never costs anything for Members. Ask former AllAdvantage.com members what it cost them to join and most will try to remember how much they were receiving in monthly checks (that's right - receiving).

Privacy is paramount. No spam, no pop-ups, no selling information, no emails from people you don't know, no emails to people you don't know, and no tricks. Period. Our track record is public - there are no hidden costs. The upside for members is potentially very large and the sky is the limit. The downside is essentially nil.

Be Patient. People always want everything right away. We do too. But things take time, so stick with us. It takes time, money and people to build everything, and we'll get there. Members at AllAdvantage.com complained that we were moving too slow, and then after the company was gone they realized how good it had been and complained that it had gone away! It takes time to be able to send checks for over $100 million to members. And so it will take time to set up an economic network to share the wealth of the Internet with millions of online users. However, you have a role to play and can help us speed up the process, even making some money along the way. Here's how:

Get Involved. Pitch in. Tell your friends and build your referral network. Design a Web site explaining the economic network (you can probably do it better than us). Email us your ideas. Design a cool Viewbar. Tell your company they should partner with us. Write about us on your blog. Ask yourself how you want to share in the value of the Internet. Think big. It's your company. Have fun.

Today's hottest Internet businesses are all about the power of social networks. Companies like MySpace, Facebook, and YouTube have become worth billions because businesses have realized that these social networks are generating huge advertising and marketing opportunities. As these social networks grow, the economic potential for its owners - and the advertisers who target the site's users - is remarkable.

At AGLOCO, we asked a simple question: The users created the community, where's their share of the profit?

If you have a question about this AGLOCO revolution, you can e-mail me via the contact page on this site and I will respond ASAP. To be part of this AGLOCO revolution on the internet and realize your share of the profit, join here.