Comments on: Agloco Dont Believe the Hype

By: Waiting for the Toolbar….. still » SiteLogic Web Development

Waiting for the Toolbar….. still » SiteLogic Web Development — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:11:30 +0000

[...] little over a month ago I wrote an article “Agloco Don’t Believe the Hype” in which I mentioned that Agloco had stated they would release the View-Bar by 16/04/07, so [...]

By: siteLogic

siteLogic — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:34:41 +0000

Ok that’s a fair point I havent seen the toolbar yet so it could be very good. But I have never seen one of these things that was nice, we’ll have to wait and see

Biased, Hmm I’m trying to keep an open mind on this, I suppose I have been more ‘anti’ as there is so much hype around this, a lot of people don’t seem to have thought too much about it, you have made some reasonable points though.

Joining something late is never as good as joining early, however, with a sustainable business model this is less of a risk joining late, in my opinion this is not a sustainable model.

With pyramid schemes it is very difficult to get in early, and if you don’t then forget it as often you will lose out.

What are they doing to help you? It is the network builders who are spending time and money promoting the service, and Agloco, what have they done in return, promised some shares the value of which no-one knows. Promised a toolbar no-one has seen. At the moment I see a lot of people doing things for Agloco, but not nearly enough coming back the other way.

I could be wrong about this, the first test will be the release of the toolbar in a few weeks, if that go’s well and people like it then it could work…

As for this site helping you, if you had a website of your own you would have got a backlink to it for being one of the top commentors

By: Chong Vue

Chong Vue — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:01:14 +0000

much less greater*

By: Chong Vue

Chong Vue — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:59:59 +0000

Heh, I already sense that this site is biased. Calling Agloco’s viewbar “nasty”? Hahaha. I’m sure to laugh and share this one, lols. But it is okay. At least they are doing something to help us, and this site? :D. LOL. I think the concept of pyramid scheme applies to many marketing things. If you join late on anything, your chances of success and beating the people/companies that came before you is much greater.

By: SiteLogic

SiteLogic — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:54:43 +0000

“Those people who surf the net all the time but do not really care if they get paid or not, it makes no difference to them”

This is where you are wrong, it makes a big difference to them, they have to use nasty software, and to get any benefit from that nasty software they have to CHANGE THEIR SURFING HABBITS.

“IT IS A MYTH, EVEN A FALSE IDEA THAT PEOPLE WHO GET RECRUITED WILL NOT MAKE AS MUCH AS THE PERSON WHO RECRUITED HIM/HER”

In a legitimate company perhaps, but this is a PYRAMID SCHEME engineered to keep the people at the top at the top, and the people at the bottom at the bottom.

By: Chong Vue

Chong Vue — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:59:05 +0000

Alright. I am going to discuss an idea that has been in my head for a while now. And it is an idea that deems Agloco shall be sustainable. Alright, it is like this. Pretend there was no Agloco, we would still be surfing, as according to our surfing habit. But if Agloco came along, there is only more to our surfing online. I learned in economics class that there is such a concept as being indifferent to something Who will be on the bottom? Those people who surf the net all the time but do not really care if they get paid or not, it makes no difference to them, so if we have them at the bottom, their indifference on this should solidify the bottom base. I have also learned that a Pyramid Scheme involves initial monetal investment, and also that the people on the top does not necessarily make more than the people they recruit - IT IS A MYTH, EVEN A FALSE IDEA THAT PEOPLE WHO GET RECRUITED WILL NOT MAKE AS MUCH AS THE PERSON WHO RECRUITED HIM/HER. Indeed, we shall see what happens

By: SiteLogic

SiteLogic — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:48:01 +0000

Hi Chong,

If you are a surfer and do not run a blog then there is no conflict, if you have a site and also push Agloco, then there is a conflict.

You are right about the adds on sites, we dont control where they lead…

The fact is though, Agloco IS a pyramid scheme, it is geared to those at the top making a lot from those at the bottom, and this is not a sustainable model, pyramid schemes always fail once the initial period of expansion reaches an end.

If you want to work for Agloco on this then do it, but I dont think it will last, I dont think advertisers will like it… its all spin and hot air as far as I am concerned, but you are right, we shall soon see

By: Chong Vue

Chong Vue — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:20:04 +0000

HAHAHAHA. If we are surfing on a blog or a website, of course the webmasters are still going to receive the cash they always generate. If the webmasters don’t like the idea, I would say that we did not get any of the profit the webmasters themselves made And now, if we work hard on getting referrals, it helps us. Everybody has to work for their share. Is it wrong for us regular surfers to make an effort to get something back for what we do? If you guys think Agloco won’t work…I would say that the ads about making money on your blogs and websites will not be any better. I am sure some of you are even linking scams on your blogs and websites, intentionally or not. We shall see what happens.

By: SiteLogic

SiteLogic — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:42:00 +0000

I wont be having anything to do with it, there is no way I would recommend a product like this to my friends or family, and on that basis would not recommend it to anyone else either

By: SiteLogic

SiteLogic — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:40:52 +0000

I wouldnt say its a gap, sharing revenue with browsers IS their business model.

They use this as an incentive to install the toolbar and click on adds.

This incentive will be a problem for advertisers who want targeted traffic, not randon clcks.

On another note, I have seen anti Microsoft sites that deliberately write their pages in a way that IE cannot render, if it is possible to detect the Agloco bar then I think there will be some sites that will try to do something similar with Agloco.