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/

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

I went above 6,500 referrals yesterday – I seem to be averaging about 100 new referrals a day at this point. I am somewhat amazed by this as I have only picked up one direct referral in the last two weeks (I haven’t asked anyone). So my 59 direct referrals on average have over 100 referrals each.

I have been asked many times what I did to get my 59 direct people. And why do I seem to have such a large number of extended referrals. (Please note – if you are just interested in getting a few referrals and have limited time skip down to the third bullet point on blog…)

• First, I read three pages of AGLOCO website info (how it works page, viewbar page, and FAQ page) to get ready to explain AGLOCO to people I was recruiting and to be ready for their questions
• I personally called (or met at work) the 10 best people I knew for AGLOCO
• These were people who I thought would get excited about changing the way the Internet is run and would be willing to go out and stick their necks out and invite their friends to join AGLOCO
• I can not stress enough how important it is to go after the best people you know and to do it personally. And to tell them this is not a ‘get rich quick scheme’ – most people do not believe that anyway – and if they do they will not be good recruiters for AGLOCO.
• I told the people I personally recruited that I picked them, because I thought they would be very good at recruiting and that in order to leverage this early opportunity they would have to actively recruit.
• Also, tell your recruits that at least half of the people will turn them down
• I was lucky – I got all 10 to join AGLOCO and I am pretty sure at least 6 of them have actively done recruiting like I did (the others did some emails and have said they will do more… “soon”.)
• I emailed to almost all of the people in my email address book (about 400 people) – even those I had not talked to in more than a year.
• I used an email like the ones AGLOCO shows as samples – BUT on each one I added at the top a personal message – it takes time but I think it is very important – and a side benefit was that I got lots of personal emails back from friends and contacts I had not talked to in a while.
• Actual signups from this was just over 10% (49 people to be exact). (Given the result, if I were to do this over again I should have called at least the top 20-25.) - About 20 of the 49 have told me they signed up -  the other 29 - I am not sure who they are.
• I will be sending a repeat email to 400 people (minus the known signups) with an update on the AGLOCO opportunity to see if I can get 5 or 10 more.
• To stimulate the ‘extended’ referrals, I talk and email to the 30 direct referrals I know and give them ideas and encouragement – BUT what I mainly do is answer questions that get when they are recruiting –or  they get from people they have recruited doing their recruiting – see how this works… What is nice about AGLOCO is that you are not ‘selling’ a product for cash- just the opposite, you are helping people get money they already deserve. Most people hate selling anything – but they are happy to give other people’s money away J .

I see this was a long post – but to give a decent answer I needed to put in some details. As I see it, there are three groups of members of AGLOCO and they are all part of the old 80 / 20 rule (20% of the people in any group do 80% of the work/and get 80% of the results). So out of 100 AGLOCO members I think:

·         80 will do no recruiting and will be happy to get their share of the Internet as a regular member

·         20 will do all the building and of that 20:

   o       80% or 16 will do simple email recruiting and do pretty well with it – given how easy that is.

   o       20% or 4 will do what I did and take the extra time to really sit their necks out for AGLOCO

Just make sure that among the people you get that you recruit those 4 and you will do real well….