The failure of AGLOCO is something we’ve known for months now ever since we learned about their absurd payment plan and…well, the fact that it took freakin’ forever for them to get the toolbar to the public. Many of us, including myself and the Dot Com Pho crowd, had high hopes for AGLOCO. John Chow, in particular, promoted it like crazy and has tens of thousands of referals.
The sad thing is it could’ve been extremely successful but going public before they were ready was probably the biggest factor in AGLOCO’s death. I mean, the toolbar was delayed for months and when it finally did come out, it didn’t work.
Dear Ed,
We would like to update you on the status of AGLOCO’s operations. We continue to believe in the AGLOCO concept, but our revenue is currently not sufficient to give Members a meaningful distribution. And though there are increases in membership, the resulting revenue is not enough to support operating costs. As a development team we are unable to continue to use our savings to fund the operations. If any Member would like to pursue continuing the operations of AGLOCO, you may contact us at agloco1@live.com .
We would like to thank every Member for supporting our effort to bring a piece of the Internet directly to the user. We hope that we can find a way to keep the operations going.
AGLOCO Development Team
And that’s that. It’s a shame, really but that’s what happens when you’re ambitious…but rubbish.
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As I said on Stephen’s blog, this program was destined for failure. All they had was an idea for all these people to MAKE MONEY, but no actual product. They focused so much on the marketing program, that they totally forgot about the END USER.
Contrary to what they and their biggest 2 or 3 affiliates told you, the end user is YOU. If you weren’t on the top 2 tiers (the top being the owners, the 2nd tier being the big affiliates like John) there was no way you were going to make anything whatsoever. Instead, you would be viewing ads, for NOTHING. Well, if anything, for those 2 top tiers.
How would it sound if you bypassed all the hype and marketing crap, and offered it strictly as a product. This is what you get!
-A toolbar that displays ads
-Also, displays some other crap
And that’s it!
Would you pay for that? Would you even bother downloading it?
Nope. And nobody else did either. Hence, Agloco was a failure to begin with.
It seriously was ill fated from the get go.
i agree that it could’ve been something really great. i attribute it to poor project leadership. everyone knew how it was supposed to operate, and i think it could’ve been possible to get the range of advertisers they were looking for. tsk tsk…..
It was a great idea, but managed and excuted poorly. This little joke here probably describes what happened in Agloco:
There was an important job to be done and Everybody (in Agloco) was sure that Somebody would do it.
Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it.
Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody’s job.
Everybody thought that Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it.
It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.
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