The Blog of Oussama MESSAOUD

AGLOCO going out of business?

hasshouss — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:59:00 +0000

The problems for AGLOCO, one of the latest internet biggest buzzes, don’t seem close to come to end. With an original concept of a global company where every user has a share relative to the amount of time spent using the ViewBar (a bar that displays ads for the user while surfing the web), and after a tremendous and explosive start, with thousands of people joining the program (me included), the issue of revenue distribution started to arise as the development team continued to argue that no benefit was generated yet and that they were still putting money from their pockets to keep the program alive.
A partnership with Ask.com (a search engine), appeared to bring an end to the trouble. It was presented as a great opportunity, and members of AGLOCO were encouraged to use it for their searches.
Unfortunately, the crash was apparently inevitable. In fact, yesterday I received this email from the development team :

Dear Oussama,

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[at]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

This email is, to me, nothing more and nothing less than a farewell email. I still don’t get the “we continue to believe in the AGLOCO concept” thing. It’s not what the experience showed and it’s not what this email is telling.
I am not sure if any members would like to continue pursuing the experience. However, the future may bring new elements.

Why did AGLOCO fail? This might be the subject of a future post…

A new look for a new start

hasshouss — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 03:33:00 +0000

The previous period was for me a time of evaluation as far as my blogging activity was concerned. I was totally reconsidering my way of using this blog and its future direction. I must admit that it was a total mess during the last months with a lot of “try and test”.

I decided that it was time for a new beginning. I sorted out (and am still doing it) what I wanted to keep in my blog and what wasn’t necessary, and I thought that a great way of emphasizing the new direction is to start over with a new look/template.

I spent the whole night transferring from the old to the new template and I think a big part of the work is done, although I think I will finish sometime tomorrow since I need some sleep and that it’s 4:45 AM local time.
It already looks prettier. Moreover, the problems I used to have with Internet Explorer are now solved.

I am looking forward for a great new blogging adventure.

Stay tuned !

Who wants $20 in free clicks ?

hasshouss — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:16:00 +0000

You may not need to take your breakfast every morning. You may not need to sleep enough every night. But who doesn’t need some free clicks to promote his/her website or blog? Will $20 do? Then get yours at BidVertiser.

Depending on the keywords you need to bid on to promote your site, you will get more or less clicks with those $20, but you can expect to have a descent amount of traffic driven towards you anyway. They could even help you do some sales.

Enjoy the gift and use it wisely!

First Sale while sleeping :)

hasshouss — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:29:00 +0000

Yesterday was made my first sale through my income4beginners free e-book. And it was literally made while I was sleeping

I made the purchase of the rebranded E-book on Oct 29th and my first sale was made Nov 20th. That rounds up to 22 days between the investment and the first income.

>> Click the image to enlarge

I guess it’s fair given the fact that I didn’t spend a dime on promotion. I relied on free promotion using two major means :
- TrafficSwarm : One of the most efficient traffic exchange systems.
- Wjob.eu : An autosurf tool.
In addition to that, I put a link on the blog and talked about it in a facebook group.

This said, and with this first sale only, I got my investment back and any other sale will start bringing benefits out of this income opportunity.

I am excited to see how it’ll goe in the near future.

Zlio announces the release of V3 shortly

hasshouss — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:14:00 +0000

Zlio announced in its members newsletter #32 and on its blog, the release of a faster, more intuitive and user-friendly version of its system.
Zlio allows people to create online shops and sell products chosen from their huge database (around 3 million products).
What I think is that this announced V3 comes mainly in response to the feedback of users concerning the way products were added to the storefront (One at a time), which was very time consuming and boring.
Shop owners earn commissions on their sales and on their downline’s. They can also activate the pay-per-click option and get paid on clicks generated on certain links on their shop(s).
They lately added Adsense. Shops’ owners can place AdSense units on their shop(s) and get 60% of the revenue generated.
As far as I am concerned, I generated one sale since I started using Zlio. 2 of my downline also generated sales. So I got commissions on them. All the rest came from Pay-Per-Click. PPC works easier than sales but generates a lot less at the same time.
I must admit that I didn’t commit enough time on promoting and updating my shops, anyway! I think the potential of Zlio is real. I just need to focus more.
Finally, let me tell you what I like about Zlio : There is NO MINIMUM PAYOUT! I love that part. The less happy part is that it takes time for commissions to get validated, especially those generated through sales. But as soon as they are approved, you can cash them in your Paypal. And for small amounts, no fees are charged in Paypal. How about that ?

AWSurveys is most likely a scam

hasshouss — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 12:05:00 +0000

You remember I talked about AWsurveys and how I was trying it and being impressed by the money it generated in less than 2 days. Well! It seems that this site is a scam.
Actually, I started doubting when after I finished all the surveys that were available for me, no new survey ever appeared. I googled it and it looks like many people have been scammed by this service, although some still argue they received their money when they reached $75.
The thing is, we never know who these guys are, and even if it was true, they seem to be too few.
I would conclude that the site is a scam.
The good thing is that I never paid them something, so nothing was lost apart of some minutes of my precious time. But still!
So I am inviting any of my readers who had either a positive or a negative experience with AWsurveys, to share with us, so that we can have a clearer idea.
At the same time, I am keeping my account and will try to reach the $75 through referrals and have my own experience.
I hope we can contribute in clarifying things to our fellow online income seekers.

Sponsor my blog for unlimited impressions throughout the day

hasshouss — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:32:00 +0000

I am experiencing a new way of monetizing my blog. I am offering the possibility for those interested to sponsor the blog for a chosen day. The sponsor of that given day will see his/her link posted right after every post title (like what you see after the title of this post).
The sponsorship fees will be : 15 pennies / day payable through paypal.

Every sunday, I will put the payment links for the days of the next week in this very post (To which you will see a permanent link right after the sponsor’s). As soon as a day is booked, its payment link will be removed. If it happens that 2 or more payments have been made, I will serve the first for the chosen date, the 2nd on the next available day and so on. If no days are left, the paid amounts will be refunded.

So here’s how to proceed :
1. Choose the available date you want to sponsor
2. Pay the sponsorship fees through the payment button.
3. Once the payment done, send me an email on oussama.messaoud[at]gmail.com, containing the transaction id, the display text and the url of the link.

You can sponsor all the available days if you want by adding all of them to the cart. The maximum number of day purchased allowed is whatever is left.

Please note that no inappropriate content will be tolerated. Adult, obscene, violent, racist, and any other kind of similar links will be refused and no refund can be asked. So please, choose carefully.

So here you go with the links :
- Monday Nov 5th, 2007 :