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March 15 Report Card - How is the AGLOCO community doing? (me - 22,000+)I have posted several times before, that AGLOCO’s success is totally dependant on the AGLOCO Members – especially the early active ones (and if you are reading this, odds are that you are one of those people.)
It has been 100 days --- How is our community Report Card looking?
Building – I would give us an A+. I think AGLOCO is a lot bigger and growing a lot faster than most people thought an idea like this could. And it is still just an idea, a pre-launch company.
I realized how true this A+ was when I spent a few minutes looking at the AGLOCO Top Gun site. http://agloco-top-gun.spaces.live.com/ The Top Gun site is two months old. A couple of interesting facts caught my eye when I compared January 15th to March 14th. The #1 person in March has twice as many people (25,000) as the #1 person on January 15th. (12,000). More interesting is that #10 in March was 1500% higher than #10 in January. As a matter of fact, #50 in March is 300% higher than #10 in January. The number of new Top Guns (especially the Hot Shots category) shows a high degree of new people coming into the AGLOCO network and helping to build it. But something even more telling caught my eye. --- Top Gun #10 on January 15th was Paul of AGLOCOtest http://www.aglocotest.com/ (I like his site). I have blogged a lot about what has worked for me in recruiting. And I get lots of notes of thanks and congratulations. My March 14 AGLOCO numbers are about 250% of my January 15 numbers (and I have been impressed with how well this has all turned out.) --- Well, Paul is no longer on the Top Gun list, but he keeps his site up to date including his network numbers. Paul is up 350% during the same time period. --- His growth rate has been higher than mine the past two months. It is stories like Paul’s which show the building strength that is already in the AGLOCO community.
Supportive – I would give us a B. I see a lot of sharing of thoughts and how to’s etc. I think we have the right attitude on sharing (community ‘culture’ is key), but in order to get an A I would think the sharing would be more wide spread. Also I read too many people expecting AGLOCO to do most of the work. Well let me see. The management company gets 10% of the revenue and the members get 90%, who should do most of the work. The members – you and me. It really is our company, not just our benefits and someone else does all the work. I would like to see even more support of other members and of the people working at the center. And not so much whining. AGLOCO is a pre-launch idea. Soon it will be a startup. Then after a year of that it will be a young company. Mistakes and tests and trials are all part of that process. Perfection is not on the list. Get used to it. Be constructive.
Value Creation - I would give us an Incomplete. I am being charitable (an F could have been used). I think almost 100% of the value creation has been done by the originators and we as members have not put our thinking caps on yet. The AGLOCO team page has 14 names on it. There are 300,000 or so members. I think we can come up with ten times as much value creation as they can. Just recruiting is not enough. We should be thinking about the viewbar software (what will make it totally ‘cool’ to have) – we need to think of people AGLOCO should be in business with. We need to think of businesses which our network could help support and flourish. I as a guilty as membership as a whole. Sitting back and waiting for someone else to make the value and just give it to me.
Oh - and yes, I am thrilled to have over 22,000 referrals already – with my new goal of 40,000 by December 31, 2007, I need to keep ‘the petal to the metal.’
RZ
PS - for my referral advice blogs click here March 05 I Made it - 20,000 AGLOCO ReferralsI MADE IT.
I can not believe I actually made 20,000 – for those of you who are new to this blog, on December 13th last year, I made a goal of 20,000 AGLOCO referrals by the end of 2007. Well it is just 65 days into the year and I made it already.
I just had my third AGLOCO celebration dinner with my wife and some friends. (Not bad for a company that has not launched yet.)
As the wine flowed, we ended up making like the Academy Awards acceptance speeches, with me trying to figure out who to thank.
Here was my thank you list as best as I can remember.
Now to my next goal – can I get to 40,000 by the end of the year? February 21 How I got to 17,000 AGLOCO referrals - and you can copy it for free - really, nothing to buy :)I crossed over 17,000 referrals a couple of days ago. How did I get there? Quite simple; I have recruited 110 people so far and they recruited 17,000 more.
I have blogged more than once on this and recently I sent out an informational email to my direct recruits (I know about 80 of them). I listed all the resources I use to recruit with and give answers to questions I often get asked when recruiting.
Here is that email ---
Dear Francis,
Below are links to many of the places I use to learn or update myself on AGLOCO and where I send potential new members to go read about AGLOCO.
My suggestion is that you use this as best you can and more importantly you send it on to the AGLOCO referrals you personally know and let them use it and send it on.
Here goes:
Are there sites to send potential new members to read about why to join AGLOCO?
Is it really happening?
Is it too late to join and do well?
Do you have a good referral plan I can read?
AGLOCO economics spelled out (how much money can I make
Is it spyware?
Can you give me a good email to send to friends?
Can you tell me what to say to someone in person?
I want to create a blog to send people to – do you have some good samples?
Success Stories?
Please read as many as you have time for. And try to remember to forward on to you direct AGLOCO team.
RZ February 17 AGLOCO Wants YOU - (and I now have 16,000 referrals)I want to be a Founder of YouTube.
I know it is too late, but I just read Harold’s post on this. Wow.
But I am a Founding Member in AGLOCO and so can you be one. I assume most (but not all) people who get to this blog have already joined AGLOCO (if not - do it now - takes less than two minutes – then come back and finish this).
Being a member of AGLOCO is a good start, but to be a true Founder, you have to ‘stick your neck out’. (It is like registering to vote – it is a start, but to really influence the world you have to not only vote, but talk to people about the issues you really care about.)
AGLOCO is the same way. To really be a Founding Member, you have to talk to your friends about AGLOCO. And not just about joining. But about them really becoming Founding Members as well and ‘sticking their necks out’. It is the only way AGLOCO will grow effectively – by organic growth – member to new member.
People often ask how I got so many referrals. Well I only found 100. That 100 found the other 16,000. The AGLOCO system works. But you have to make it work. (oh some day it will be easy to recruit for AGLOCO, but that day is not here yet and in my opinion it will not be easy until sometime in 2008.)
You want a clear message on how to get to 16,000 in the next 90 days?
This week get 10 friends (I know that you have more than ten people you know that the AGLOCO Revolution is right for). AND most importantly convince them to each get 10 referrals the next week (and check in with them to ‘help’ them get their ten - and it will quickly multipy). Tell them they are causing the revolution. Yes, you and they could end up making lots of money too. But for me, I did not join AGLOCO for the money and I do not write this blog for it either.
Harold says I will make more than $1 million from AGLOCO – I will be excited with a great dinner out with my wife. I believe the AGLOCO revolution is the right thing to happen to the Internet. Looking at all the YouTube money just convinced me more.
So, I agree with Harold that AGLOCO is an Internet Revolution. But it NEEDS YOU to be the revolutionary. February 12 The time to Join AGLOCO is Now – I passed 15,000 AGLOCO referrals.Went over 15,000 AGLOCO referrals yesterday and when I was getting ready to blog about it, I read a couple of comments on my last post. Some of the commenters, seemed to think it was already ‘too late’ to make a big splash as an AGLOCO recruiter. I think the opposite is true.
The Time to Join AGLOCO is Now
Why do I think that? I think this is a great time to join, because the AGLOCO membership is now growing at a geometric pace. (More people will join AGLOCO this week than last week and next week will be higher again.) This means AGLOCO will grow to hit a “tipping point” – that is the point at which there is a ‘mad dash’ to sign up and to sign up everyone in the world…. (OK – maybe “everyone in the world” was too high, but you get the picture.)
Where are we now?
I get various reports that AGLOCO is somewhere between 200,000 and 250,000 members right now. There are 700,000,000 Internet users out there. This means AGLOCO has less than 0.03% market penetration – or just 3 out of every 10,000 Internet users have joined AGLOCO so far – leaving 699,750,000 left to recruit.
As much as I and other Members like to get excited about AGLOCO’s growth and accomplishments so far, it has just started.
How big will AGLOCO have to get to see a “tipping point”?
I would guess somewhere between 10,000,000 and 20,000,0000 members. Even growing at a geometric rate 10,000,000 is still many months away. I am guessing that AGLOCO will hit 1,000,000 will be in April or May and 10,000,000 not until the end of 2007.
This gives a new AGLOCO member over 10 months to build a network before the huge numbers start rolling in (if AGLOCO hits 10,000,000 by the end of 2007, I believe it will hit 100,000,000 by the end of 2008. )
I look at Top Gun’s charts and see many people recruiting more direct referrals than I have. (My favorite of those is John Chow . He gives great recruiting advice to all people, especially those of you with a blog or website to promote. I think before the end of the year John will have more AGLOCO referrals than I have because he is recruiting more and faster than I am right now.
I also crossed over 100 direct referrals this past week (17 new people in February).
I am very excited about this. I went back to original people (people who did not sign up when I first told them about AGLOCO) with new updates and some of them signed up this time. Now I will work to get them to start promoting AGLOCO to their friends. It only with this constant adding of new directs that I have any change to stay in the AGLOCO Top Gun
One more thing
I just searched AGLOCO on Google (1,510,000 page results) – AGLOCO passed up two of my favorites “Warren Buffett” and “Berkshire Hathaway” – But last night’s Grammy winning “Dixie Chicks” are at 2,520,000, so still al long road ahead. February 06 Crossed over 14,000 – AGLOCO Increasing at a Geometric RateWow – if you are reading this and you have been an AGLOCO member for more than a month then you have been part of an amazing process. First - My small part of AGLOCO grew so fast this week that in less than 5 days it was up by more than 1,000 people – I am going up by 200 a day right now – I know this will slow down, but it is simply amazing to me right now. A month ago I was lucky to get 100 in a day – this means my network is increasing at an increasing rate – thus my casual use of the term Geometric Rate. Second - Members are getting very active in recruiting. Top Gun has had a whole slew of new people show up. A new Top Gun #1 with 19,118 referrals (950 direct referrals – now that is a referring machine). Plus a new member who has 369 direct referrals in the first 6 days of February (wish I had found him). Third - My post of four days ago (just four, you can use only one hand to count that out if you wish) was about Google search results and Internet popularity. I had great fun with it. AGLOCO had risen to 1,110,000 Google page results in its first 90 days of exposure (actual start of the website was November 22nd a mere 73 days then). Last - AGLOCO is taking its first steps to becoming a household name. I saw a blog last week about Super Bowl Ads, “Don’t Watch the Super Bowl Just for the Ads”, in which the author says people watch too many ads, “not just during the Super Bowl, but in other areas of their life too (AGLOCO comes to mind).” Again, this amazes me. A reporter is using AGLOCO as a reference about advertising in an article about Super Bowl ads - and the Viewbar isn’t even available yet. I wonder how powerful this concept will grow to a year from now. AGLOCO increasing at a Geometric Rate – What does it mean to You and Me? I think to you and me it quite simply means – we joined a winner. We (the members) have made it this winner and we (the members) need to keep working right now to push AGLOCO to the tipping point of success. I read Harold’s great post yesterday http://haroldbbbg1619.wordpress.com/ . An inspiring description of the revolution that the AGLOCO members are starting today. You and I. We are starting an Internet revolution. And we are just starting to win. Geometric increases. They will not happen all the time – not every day or every week or every month. But, some will be leaps like the last four days. Some people say to me “Hey, take it easy McCall. You have so many referrals you are an automatic winner.” I am taking the opposite view. I am increasing my recruiting efforts. (I am a great believer along with Julie - and many others of you - that NOW before the Viewbar is out is the best time to take advantage of the AGLOCO opportunity. I have sent out more emails again this month. I have called people who have turned me down before. I have 9 new directs among my 1,000 new people and I am very proud of that. The take away of today’s post – You joined a winner. Be proud. - And now… - increase your efforts and double your referrals. (I am a fan of Warren Buffett - #2 in Net Worth behind Bill Gates in the US. He writes that you only get a handful of potential BIG winners in your life. When you see one, “Give it everything you can”. I am doing that with AGLOCO.) February 02 Now at 13,000 AGLOCO Referrals – Just how popular is AGLOCO
Earlier today, I went over 13,000 AGLOCO referrals. The referral pace at AGLOCO remains very fast at this point. I noticed a blog today by John Chow on his crossing 4,000 referrals in which he noted that his referral pace was picking up as well. In my opinion, this is not time to ‘slack off’. This is the pre-launch period for AGLOCO. This is the time you can be a founder and get ‘founders returns’. Try recruiting all your friends six months from now. Maybe most of them will still not be AGLOCO members – But I bet the “good” ones will be ‘gone’. You know – the GOOD ones - the ones with 1,000 people in their outlook contacts who can double your total referrals if they get active. Everybody will be after those people. That is exactly what I recommend you do in my referral advice posts. Go after the ‘good’ ones first. Call the good ones. Get them signed up and then get them motivated to go out and recruit. I have only 88 direct referrals in AGLOCO my 13,000 referrals come from them. That is the power of AGLOCO and it is right now that it is most effective. So, how popular is AGLOCO? I just did a Google search on “AGLOCO” and got 1,110,000 pages of results (– (Note Google results can very by as much as 100,000 from one minute to the next I have noticed.) What does 1,110,000 Google search pages mean? – That is what I decided to think about. The first mention of AGLOCO on the Internet was on November 3, 2006 (by a blog called GigaOM) – exactly 3 months ago – just 90 days ago. So it has been growing 10,000+ new pages a day more or less. But that does not really tell too much of a story. So I decided to o some ‘comparative shopping’. I put “Kobe Bryant” in Google – got 1,880,000 – that is more than AGLOCO, but then he has been an NBA superstar for 10 years now. Give AGLOCO another 90 days and it will be bigger than Kobe on the Internet. (I tried Wilt Chamberlain too - 694,000 so AGLOCO has already passed up Wilt.) I decided to try some more famous people: Queen Victoria 1,650,000 – you remember Queen of England for 68 years – long enough and powerful enough to have a moral standard after her “Victorian Era” and an architectural style “Victorian Houses” – AGLOCO should pass her on the Internet by May. I tried a few more famous people just for fun: “Tiger Woods” – 3,490,000 (but “Arnold Palmer” only 1,270,000 – AGLOCO might get near him by Valentines Day), “Theodore Roosevelt” – 1,530,000 and “Lyndon Johnson” – 1,160,000 (“John F Kennedy” came in at 4,930,000 – right next to “Tom Cruise” at 4,720,000) - "Britney Spears" was at 17,800,000, so what does that tell you about the world? I stayed with entertainment for a minute “CSI: Miami” was at 2,080,000 (that is after 5 years as a top ten show.) or “Top Gun” - 2,080,000 – and the words “Top Gun” are used for many more things than just the Tom Cruise move – the AGLOCO Top Gun site for example. I tried a couple of simple products with made up words as names; Windex – 1,060,000, Ziploc – 1,110,000 – both have been around for more than 15 years – and ‘everyone’ knows about them. Then, I decided to try some company names – after all AGLOCO is a company name. I first tried Geico – I love their ads – 3,810,000. Geico is owned by Berkshire Hathaway the 13th biggest company on the Fortune 500 list – only 1,350,000 pages on Google (Berkshire Hathaway is majority owned by Bill Gates’ good friend, Warren Buffet, who is the second richest person in America according to Forbes. Too bad when AGLOCO hits 1,350,000 in a few weeks it isn’t worth the $46 billion that Warren Buffet has. #3 on the Fortune 500 list is “General Motors” - 14,400,000 pages. So I moved down to #100 “General Dynamics” - $21 billion in sales last year and has $19 billion in assets – Google score was only 1,510,000. So I slipped down to #500 on the list, still $4 billion in sales and $3.6 billion in assets, “LandAmerica Financial” – Google score 192,000. Now, what did I learn from all this? Well a lot more respect for the active AGLOCO community that already exists. In 90 days, they have already built the foundation for what might be the ‘next big thing’. Yes, it is fun to ‘beat up on’ an old golfer or an ex-president. But my thoughts go to the fact that AGLOCO is still in pre-launch. No product, no advertising. Nothing is pushing this company forward besides You and Me – the founding members. What will it grow to? Well if I am right “the sky’s the limit.” YouTube - 123,000,000 (two years), eBay 390,000,000, (eleven years), and Google 892,000,000 (nine years). Wow, 892,000,000 in nine years – that is 100,000,000 new pages a year or about 300,000 pages a day 12,000 an hour. I better get this blog posted to add my one more page for Google – and one more for AGLOCO as well – 1,110,001 and growing. January 31 You can be an AGLOCO Founder - Now - for FreeI have been an AGLOCO since late November. I have been active and interested in its progress (really interested because as an AGLOCO member I am also an owner.) I have watched AGLOCO grow from an infant with nothing into a thriving community. I have blogged about the important of the AGLOCO Members and the AGLOCO community to the success of AGLOCO. (I have watched my personal account grow from 1 to over 12,500 in those same two months.. – We are growing together.) AGLOCO is designed as a Member driven (Member owned) community. AGLOCO in pre-launch has in two months built a very exciting community. I was reading the AGLOCO Official Blog today and saw these two member comments. The excitement these two women display for AGLOCO is the same as it was for early people at eBay when it was small. This is what will make AGLOCO win. Julie at http://usjulie.spaces.live.com/ and Valerie at http://www.aglocopromo.com are the kinds of members who will cheer and fight for what is right and they are cheering and fighting for AGLOCO. Here are their two comments to Brian Greenwald's latest post on the AGLOCO Company Blog. First Julie's
January 29 12,000 AGLOCO Referrals - Sounds Good to MeI 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 13th when I made the prediction).
Many people have asked – How did you get so many total referrals when you only have 82 direct people you recruited? I have been giving advice in many of my previous posts (click here to get the referral advice posts )
Today, I want to show the math of the 12,000 referrals as I se them.
Line 1 – My Direct recruits = 82
Since I know most of them and talk frequently to some of the more active ones for AGLOCO, I know something about this group.
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”.
Line 2 – My Direct recruits’ Direct recruits – I am guessing around a 7 to 8 recruit average for a total of about 600 members on that line.
The next three lines are even more guesswork, but it is fun to think about how the set up looks and how can I make adjustments accordingly.
Line 3 – If the 600 second line members average 3 to 4 recruits each then this line is about 2,000. They are newer to the system and have not had as much time to get motivated etc.
Line 4 - If the third line members average just 2 to 3 recruits each then this line is about 5,000. They are even newer to the system this group represents a huge potential to me. If I can get this group to average the 7 to 8 that Line 2 appears to be doing then this group can supply 25,000 to 30,000 more people in my network.
Line 5 - If the third line members average just 1 recruit each then this line is about 5,000.
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.
Second and maybe more importantly, I am going to work with my Directs to get them to double their Directs (or in some cases just start recruiting). http://mccallsnotes.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!9F2891B66EBAA762!427.entry
This effort includes giving them emails to send to people who have not yet signed up plus advice on how to get their Directs to recruit. Here is a link to the sample email I use for second attempts. http://mccallsnotes.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!9F2891B66EBAA762!427.entry
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.
RZ January 26 Now at 11,500 - and still giving advice :)Things have continued to pick up in AGLOCO referrals – (went over 11,500 yesterday) A couple of weeks ago I was averaging 100 referrals a day, then last week about 125 and now near 150 a day. (Must be some of the new recruits signing up all their friends.) And since there seem to be so many new AGLOCO members (over 5,000 people visited this blog so far this week... most ever), I decided to ‘repeat’ an old post – many people do not dig into old blog posts because they think they are ‘old news’ – so I decided to make it ‘new’ again. This post is my 4 point plan for AGLOCO recruiting. I should point out here that this is a 'friends and family' rollout plan (you get your F&F and then they get their F&F and so forth). It is not a ‘blog your way to a fortune plan’ – for tips on that read my favorite, John Chow. - http://www.johnchow.com/3000-agloco-sign-ups . But, remember you can be a fabulous blogger and still do a friends program - it is lots of fun – Hey, just because you blog, it does not mean that you do not have friends. *** I want to explain a couple of things I believe that help me organize my AGLOCO recruiting effort:
Point #1 – Know why "Every Internet user should join AGLOCO" - (here are the reasons I use)
Point #2 – Know why "All AGLOCO members should recruit new members."
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