I was of course thrilled to hit 12,000 so early in the year. My stated goal of 20,000 by the end of 2007 seems closer every time I post an increase (seemed like a bit of a stretch back on December 13^th when I made the prediction).

 

 

Today, I want to show the math of the 12,000 referrals as I se them.

 

Line 1 – My Direct recruits = 82

 

Two of them have more than 1,000 people in their networks. A couple of them have more than 50 Direct recruits. And a few of them “still haven’t started”. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Final look (remember – just a guess)

 

Line #1        82

Line #2      600

Line #3   2,000

Line #4   5,000

Line #5   5,000

 

How do I leverage all this to exceed my goals?

 

I think my advice to myself would be the same to someone with 10 directs and only 100 total in their network.

First, over the next 6 months I am going to try to double my Directs (to 160). If the quality of the new recruits is as good as the original 80 then that effort alone should double my results.

 

 

 

The real “trick” to getting a huge referral network is getting your Directs motivated and then getting their Directs to do the same thing. This chain reaction can result in amazing results.

 

Good luck and ask what you need in the comments to this blog.

 

I did slip over 10,500 referrals last night. Nice to see life exists over 10,000. I am revving up my recruiting more now as AGLOCO seems to have entered an increased awareness stage. 

Below is the email I am using today to ‘re-recruit’ people I contacted a few weeks ago about AGLOCO. Several of you have asked about this so….. 

Subject: AGLOCO Update 

I sent you an email a couple of weeks ago about a new Internet company that is pre-launch right now. I do not know if you have had a chance to join yet, but if not here is link to do so www.agloco.com/r/aglo0868  - about two minutes is all it takes. 

The pre-launch phase of the company is going well. If you search “agloco” on Google, you get 800,000 pages talking about the company.  

Lots of people are starting to get in and from my point of few – this is what - MYSPACE, YOUTUBE, FACEBOOK, HOTMAIL and even EBAY – looked like when they were small. The users/members were excited about the company. AND that is what is now happening with AGLOCO.

 Established blogger John Chow has over 3,000 referrals. http://www.johnchow.com/category/agloco/

 The are serious discussion about the value of an economic network  http://haroldbbbg1619.wordpress.com/ 

 There is even an AGLOCO Top Gun page http://agloco-top-gun.spaces.live.com/ 

 There is no guarantee this will make you any money. BUT it is completely FREE so you will not go backwards J . Now is time for you to join. Use this for direct access to sign up. www.agloco.com/r/aglo0868 .

 Fondly,

RZ 

PS – I have started a blog about my efforts for AGLOCO – take a peek http://mccallsnotes.spaces.live.com/

 

I made my first major goal of 10,000 referrals in the AGLOCO network. My goal was to reach 10,000 by the end of February – it happened 6 weeks ahead of schedule. 

Thank you to all my direct recruits who went out on limb with me and have backed AGLOCO. – I have 73 direct referrals and 9,934 extended referrals. This means my direct referrals have an average of 130 referrals each (direct and extended)  . I have been aggressive in emailing and calling my friends to get them to sign up early for AGLOCO and I think many of them have done the same thing. This has been a big key for me. Recruit your friends and get them to do the same .It is that chain reaction which has given me so many referrals. 

This is a very a nice moment for me (even my wife toasted with wine at dinner). More than a couple of my friends said AGLOCO was a waste of time (and it still could be), but at least I have helped AGLOCO reach some of its size. 

There have been some great developments the last couple of weeks: 

The AGLOCO Official blog has become very active www.blog.agloco.com. 

The Simmons Report on AGLOCO http://simmonsreport.spaces.live.com is getting aired in many blogs. I see that Harold is doing a detailed study of the Simmons Report http://haroldbbbg1619.wordpress.com . 

This Simmons Report has inspired some speculation http://usjulie.spaces.live.com as to what it means financially to individual AGLOCO builders.  

It has even sponsored a Top Gun List http://agloco-top-gun.spaces.live.com  

I applaud all these efforts to build a vibrant AGLOCO community. This is what will ultimately make AGLOCO successful.  

It was a similar core of network builders that made eBay happen, MySpace happen, YouTube happen – and even Google happen to some extent. With AGLOCO, the network builders become the network owners and reap the rewards of their early support and efforts. 

I think these are all positive developments in order to set a good foundation for when the viewbar software is released. (Personally, I would like a couple more months to have all my ‘early’ recruiting in order before the viewbar onslaught starts.) 

My next stated goal has been 20,000 by the end of 2007 – so back out recruiting in the morning….

Things have picked up a bit in my referrals in 2007 from the holiday period at the end of 2006.

I am excited to get over 9,000 (my stated goals were 10,000 by the end of February and 20,000 by the end of 2007.

A couple of quick points --  I put a picture of my account summary on this blog (should have done this earlier).

First, as you can see I have been active with friends in adding some direct referrals in 2007 - five this year. I really recommend this to all – including you people with great blogs – to personally recruit people who you think will do great AGLOCO recruiting. These are the people that really produce results.

Second, as I have pointed out before. My 70 direct referrals have produced almost 9,000 extended referrals. That is more than 100 extended referrals per each direct. I know if you get referrals from a website or advertising you can not influence their referral ability (I read that AGLOCO will be adding an opt-in communication system to help a bit with that). But, by adding some people you do know to your direct referral list, you can help them to make more referrals – answer questions etc.

Really important – to get referrals you have to ‘stick your neck out’ and you have to ask people to join – and be prepared for more than half of them to tell you NO (and that you are crazy or stupid to work on this.) – Get over it. Most new ideas are rejected by most people. You are not asking anyone to part with any of their ‘hard earned’ money, so don’t be afraid to stick your neck out.

 Here is picture of my account summary: - Click on photo to enlarge it.

 I have blogged with my over all AGLOCO recruiting plan -  http://mccallsnotes.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!9F2891B66EBAA762!240.entry#comment

But to focus on a new recruiter I would say:

First recruit your friends – in person or phone call - and if that is not practical then with email.

All my success is due to recruiting a few people who then went out and recruited more. I have only 70 direct referrals and over 8,000 in total. That mean on average my recruits have led to over 100 referrals each. To do that you not only need to recruit them, but get them excited about recruiting more people.

As to email.  I was just sent an interesting one which I will put below here. It came from Julie at http://usjulie.spaces.live.com .

It looks like the start of something a new person could build from. I recommend a personal note in each email. It makes the reader more likely to read it and I personally got a lot of answers with notes from friends that I had not seen in years.

Remember that “sales is numbers” which means you will get lots of no’s so you need to contact lots of people to get a few yeses.  

Here is Julie's samlpe

My AGLOCO recruiting email

Here is what I am now sending out.

 Hey Cindy,

 This note is mainly to offer you a chance to help build AGLOCO – it is a Member-owned Internet community.

 Here is why I would like you to help. First – it is free. Second - it is quick and easy to join. Third – AGLOCO’s purpose is to get its members their share of the money generated on the Internet (i.e. you make money). And lastly – if you help build the AGLOCO network you can make much more.

 Here is a link to sign up (it automatically records me as referring you with my ID BBBK0695) www.agloco.com/r/bbbk0695

 AGLOCO works with a toolbar type software called a Viewbar. Privacy is very strict so no spyware, popups or spam.

 As to how much money you can make, there is a study which says the average user should get $5 to $15 a month. (But less at the beginning.) Click here to read the report. http://simmonsreport.spaces.live.com

 How much can you make helping to build the network? The Simmons Report predicts $30 per referral. I have 200, but a friend of mine RZ McCall has over 8,000. He has a great blog site http://mccallsnotes.spaces.live.com .

 AGLOCO is in their beta phase which is the best time to help them build out the network. So please join now and help build the network. Have questions? Their website has all the details so go there www.agloco.com/r/bbbk0695 or ask me.

 Go Girl,

 Julie

Yes, 8,000. And I am very pleased – Also, I have done some more personal recruiting and now have 69 direct referrals – remember I posted my goals in my December 13^th blog and it included saying I was hoping to reach 10,000 referrals by the end of February. I am looking pretty good on this.

 Just a couple of quick things on AGLOCO. --- I did a Google search for  “agloco” a minute ago – got 847,000 page hits – I guess they are moving on up to the big 1 with 9 zeros. This is always very encouraging to me as while I like having 8,000 referrals, AGLOCO needs to be very big for it to achieve its goals for its members. Very big would be 2,000,000 by the end of 2007 (another of my December 13 predictions.)

 I do read the AGLOCO Official blog and comments. I usually don’t comment myself as most of the points made are already covered in the FAQs etc. But I do think some of the members write excellent ideas for improvements. This is another reason that I think AGLOCO will be a huge winner. Because the members own AGLOCO, they will work hard to make it better. It is like Linux for the web, only better because the people doing all the work to improve it get most the benefits.

 Also, I think there are some legitimate complaints. My feeling on that has been one word “patience”.

 AGLOCO is a true Silicon Valley start up (including a solid Stanford University tie - like Cisco, Sun,  eBay,  Yahoo  and Google). Right now is when a startup is the weakest AND it is right now that the most money is made for the least effort (ask the founders of YouTube and their $1.6 billion about that thought).

 So I think this is ‘our’ risk as well. John Chow wrote a nice blog on November 30^th when he crossed over 1,000 referrals talking about the risk of failure. http://www.johnchow.com/1000-agloco-sign-ups/ .

 I agree with John. We are all taking a risk with our efforts (but our money is still in our wallets). This is a rare opportunity and as you can see I am trying to make the most of it.

 Recruiting tip. ----  In my recent recruiting I have been successful when I tell people I have 8,000 referrals. That impresses them with the fact that a lot of people are signing up and that I have been successful in recruiting my friends. People like to join a winner and like hearing success stories (and I am happy I am one of them).

Below is a report from an AGLOCO blogger I like to read - harold bbbg1619 - http://haroldbbbg1619.wordpress.com/2007/01/02/googles-profit-down-50/

 

This is up to his usual standards - While I agree that AGLOCO will get the billions when they have the large member base I am not sure that Google will actully make less money - they may develope ways to make even more money by partnering with AGLOCO in many other ways besides search. Just a thought.

 

I can see why Bill Gates likes AGLOCO's business model - it is at least very threatening to Google.

 

Here is harold's post

 

Quote -

 

Google’s profit down 50%