Thoughts after talking with Brian Greenwald Today

I just spoke with Brian Greenwald. He'll be sharing his comments in the Official Blog soon.

In our conversation, he reiterated that we're at an important and critical point with the Ask.com deal. That deal is the first big step in creating revenue for the community.

Remember, the revenue hasn’t started yet so the money we get for June, July and August is a GIFT from Agloco. They didn’t have pay anything for those months because there was no positive cash flow yet!

So Brian and I agreed that the present payment plan announcement for June, July and August is just a starting point.

I want to repeat something very important here that many members haven’t considered:

The payments for June, July and August were announced before Agloco has gotten into a profitable position.

Since Agloco's entire model for paying members is based upon bringing in positive cash flow, it is VERY premature to expect making any kind of worthwhile compensation for our hours in June, July and August.

I think that most people may not understand the payment distribution announcement.

They could have just as easily announced that we would make NOTHING for June, July and August because Agloco made nothing. In actuality that is what they could have done and completely remained in integrity.

They had always stated Agloco will not pay the members until they have the positive cash flow to do it. They are being EXTREMELY generous to be offering any form of compensation for June, July and August at all. I think there are a lot of people who don't understand this very important point. People are angry when they should be saying ‘Thank You!’

Agloco is basically giving us money, as little as it may be, when they didn't have to. They are giving us money in anticipation of revenues from Ask.com. They'll be paying us for June, July and August 2007 hours using money they make AFTER October 2007. I want to repeat because it’s so important to understand: They did NOT have to do this.

They are giving us EXTRA money to show good faith.

I created the Leader Blog (and called it The Leader Blog), and I talked a lot of the importance of Vision---because I knew that the founding members in this community had a very unique and special role if Agloco was to succeed.

I have always thought of Agloco was an experiment with no guarantees, but because it did not require an investment I chose to promote it. When I decide to do something I put my entire heart into it. I liked the opportunity and potential over the long-run. I liked the uniqueness of it. I liked the challenge I could take on to try to do my part to help people through the hard times that I knew would come in these early stages.

When I chose to promote Agloco I didn't decide to do it half-way. And I didn't only decide to promote it. In fact, I have done VERY LITTLE of promoting Agloco for my own gain. Most of the energy I have put into Agloco has been for the entire community. At my blog, for example, there has never been a link to my Agloco sign up page. All referrals go to people who have contributed to the blog.

Of course I have promoted my blog and myself along the way--that's what business and networking is all about. If your intention is to provide value to others this is a positive thing that everyone should consider. It’s something you must do if you’re going to be very successful in business.

I decided that I would do my best to remind the community to apply long-term vision and to follow through during the early stages of the company, which we are still in right now.

Until Agloco is in a positive cash flow situation it is vulnerable. The quality of people in the community will determine, more than anything else, what happens next.

This is the most critical and exciting time of all for us as a community. More than ever we need to be calm and see this through so that Agloco can have time to get into a profitable position.

I have been surprised to see Agloco attract so many great members who have positive natures and leadership skills. Typically, when an opportunity requires no investment it doesn’t attract these types of people. But the uniqueness and potential of Agloco has clearly grabbed the curiosity and interest of some great people.

There will always be the people on the other side of the fence who focus on all the reasons why something won't work. We needn't put any energy into them. There is no need to even address them, or respond to them directly. But don’t misunderstand what I just wrote to mean you can’t share your opinions when you disagree with something or have concerns. That’s different than being here to sabotage the community.

Agloco could fail. So what. I am here to play a part in making it succeed. I wouldn't have typed one post if I wasn't here to make a positive contribution.

When you read someone's post just ask yourself, "Why are they here?" Are they here to make a positive contribution or is it something else. Maybe a member who has supported Agloco will get upset. That’s OK. But I’m talking about the people who are consistently here to sabotage the community.

Some people here will misunderstand what I have written and think I said that you can't discuss something negative in nature about Agloco's decisions. I didn't say that.

Nothing is perfect and Agloco is no exception. If you feel something needs to be addressed or changed, I agree, of course, talk about it!

It may even seem negative at times. That is fine. You may get upset. That is understandable.

What I am suggesting, however, is to ask yourself what the overall intentions are when others post here --- are they contributing overall in a positive way to Agloco and our community? If so, let's collaborate with them. If they are down, help lift them up or help them see another side of things.

If they are NOT here to benefit the community overall, I suggest we dismiss them and do not give power to them by responding in any way directly.

You can always respond to the issues they raise by addressing the entire community, as you'll notice I started doing months ago. For example, if someone who is clearly not contributing positively to Agloco makes rude comments about me or others, I will never reply directly to them. But if they raised questions or issues in other posts I might address those issues to the community (but not by addressing them).

It is important that we work together to create a constructive flow in this blog as much as possible and these are some suggestions that I offer. If you have any other suggestions about how we can work together to create a positive and constructive environment here please share them as well!

So let's continue forward. Let's see how well Ask.com does for us. If it doesn’t do well I hope we have enough leadership here in the community to give Agloco even more time. All we have to do is use the view bar and encourage others to do the same. Our role is quite simple. If we can hold it together as leaders Agloco will have enough time to create positive cash flow. Then we will deserve the reward.

If Agloco doesn’t succeed, we will be as much a part of it as Agloco, if not more. Our job is so easy.

Let's not get too caught up in the discussion about the payment plan right now. It was a gift from Agloco to the community because they didn't have to pay us for June, July and August (since those were not positive cash flow months). It was free money. I'll take free money over 100 years if it's free.

Let's look forward to the future and see if Agloco can become a sustainable positive cash flow company. If it can we will expect to see real money paid in real time! Until then, keep those viewbars up!

Partners in success,

Mike Klingler

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