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You’ve probably seen this banner to the left while surfing the internet, about a “Beach Bum” who is making millions of dollars with his laptop.If you’re an avid internet marketer or entrepeneur there’s no way you could overlook the latest “Big Program”. In two short months, Ty Coughlin’s Reverse Funnel System has invaded the internet by storm, taking up ground in every corner of the internet imaginable. From Myspace to Squidoo to Facebook to YouTube, invading ever marketing blog, popping up in every traffic exchange, autosurf, PPC advertising program, every nook and cranny, there’s no where you can go to escape it. The reach of this program is highly remniscent of 12DailyPro’s saturation in 2005, when you couldn’t spend more than a half hour on the internet without seeing a 12DailyPro banner or advertisment somewhere.

Is The Reverse Funnel System an MLM ?

From what I’ve seen of the Reverse Funnel System, it doesn’t seem like there is an actual product that is being promoted but the general idea is to promote and encourage new members into the program. While many conventional MLM’s have an element of roping in new members to earn from the program, they also have some sort of product they are promoting as well. When I think of MLM’s, the first thing that comes to mind is Amway and Herbalife, both of which have useless products that are horribly overpriced. Both Amway and Herbalife are the scourge of the working world and anybody who has ever worked in a large office has experienced that terribly over-zealous co-worker who tries to push the products on everybody in the work enviornment much like Jehova Witnesses knock on doors seeking to convert people.

Enter the Kool-Aid Drinking

For those who are unaware what the term “Kool-Aid Drinking” means, it’s a reference to the Rev. Jim Jones and his infamous Peoples Temple that left the United States citing religious persecution and relocated to Jonestown, Guyana in the 1970’s. Eventually, the cult commit mass suicide by drinking poisoned Kool-Aid resulting in one of the most bizzare and tragic genocidal incedents in modern times. The reference to “Kool-Aid Drinking” in today’s internet marketing community refers to any cultish group of people who follow through blind devotion with a dollar bill dangling in front of their face and a whip being cracked across their back. A good example of “Kool-Aid Drinking” is the marketing flop Agolco. When Agloco debuted, thousands upon thousands of people flocked to the new messiah and proclaimed Agloco to be “the answer”, yet almost a full year later, Agloco is all but washed up and burnt out with nobody having earned a dime for all their hard work. As if people haven’t wised up yet, I’m seeing the same people who praised and hailed Agloco now hailing Ty Coughlin as the second coming of Christ and The Reverse Funnel System as the answer to all their prayers.

So What About all Those People With Expensive Cars and Big Houses on Ty’s Site?

I have to admit, in one respect it makes me want to laugh and in another respect it makes me want to cry when I see the affiliate pages for the Reverse Funnel System. The testimonials are what interest me the most because for a program that’s not even two months old yet, it’s quite impossible for those people with the fancy cars and big houses to have profited enough from Ty’s program to make those high dollar purchases. Intrinsicly, the advertising is false and misleading and although most entrepeneurs are intelligent enough to see through the thinly veiled disguise, the fact remains that many, many stupid people will fall for the bling bling and part with their hard earned money and part with their time only to make the people at the top of the food chain fatten their wallets.

Reverse Funnel or Reverse Psychology?

The thing that turns me off the most to The Reverse Funnel System is the high pressure sales pitch. Especially when the dialogue goes into a rant about potential associates needing several thousand dollars to get started and then it switches into the minimal $50 fee, then back again into the principle that “it takes money to make money”. I had to take a dramamine pill for motion sickness after reading halfway through the sales pitch. For all the hullaballoo and hot air, there was still nothing I found tangible or concrete about the offer. There was no honest and open disclosure of how the system really works, just a whole lot of promising doubletalk and typical marketing fluff I’ve seen a thousand times over.

Is There Any Hope for an Average Person to Make Money With RFS?

If you haven’t been suckered into this clever little game yet and are still contemplating joining, do yourself a favor and first check out how saturated this program is in Google Adwords and realize that the pyramid has already been built several layers already by the professional hustlers and marketing players.

The Mother Theresa of Making Money

There’s one particular point that needs to be addressed whenever somebody tells you they’re going to share their “secret for success” for a price. If the secret recipe were really so lucrative, why on earth would somebody water down their business earnings by selling their ideas to others? From a business perspective that just doesn’t make sense. All great companies and corporations protect their secrets at all costs so as not to dilute their income streams. There are no “Good Samaratin’s” in the business world and anybody who would try to tell you otherwise has a vested interest in your pocketbook. While believing in dreams is a positive thing, believing in somebody else’s dreams will only cause you to lose sleep.

Trickle Down Economics and the Funnel Spill-Over

Every single one of these “systems” claims there is a “trickle down” cashflow, meaning when your upline’s referrals max out, further referrals will “spill over” into your account. As many times as I’ve heard these claims made by the system managers and promoters, I’ve never heard a single person state that they had earned from “spill over”. Considering the nature of these programs and how people get hyped, surely there would be some evidence that this trickle down theory actually exists as anything more as another marketing ploy.

Closing Comments

While at Code4Gold, we do not pretend to be an authority or a legal organization, we are here to merely offer a differing opinion to the cheerleaders and promoters. The final decision to join or not to join “The Reverse Funnel System” is yours and yours alone. I have personally submitted my email to this program for more information as promised on the homepage but all I’ve received is a daily does of spam email with different pitches all leading back to the same old marketing page. So, if you do decide to take a shot with this, one thing I do recommend is signing up a free email account with Yahoo or Gmail for this program alone, because like “Death of Adsense” or any of these marketing extravaganzas, you will receive spam for years to come if you give an email address you care about.

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We’ve been tracking the progress of Agloco since the very beginnng and although we are not promoting Agloco nor recommendng it, we still are receiving the updates from them on a regular basis. Although Agloco was virally marketed and caught the attention of hundreds of thousands of people, it still seems like a snow job to us. Beside the fact that the toolbar is packed with spyware and left a virus on the computer we installed it on and beside the fact nobody has seen a single dime in earnings, suddenly we’re beginning to wonder how low can Agloco go. On Monday we received the following email from Agloco Member Coordinator Danny Jorgensen which appears to be a case of Aglogo encouraging “click+fraud“. Here’s the email.

While I’m not exactly sure how Ask.com handles their advertising program (honestly, I wasn’t aware they had one) but I know that Google Adsense and Yahoo Publisher Network strictly prohibit publishers from encouraging people to click on ads. Apparently Ask.com doesn’t have such rules in place or Agloco is blatantly ingnoring them by pushing this emailto members and enticing them to click on more ads to make the program more revenue. Either way, it once again shows the lack of fundamental principles of internet affiliate publishing and throws more egg on Agloco’s already sullied face.

The much anticipated and highly awaited Agloco Toolbar has finally been made pubic for download. Granted that it is only 6 months behind schedule, I must say that there is a sense of shock in the Agloco community as to what the “big boys” have been up to all this time.

—— begin time machine quantuum leap ——

I worked for a company in the 1990’s who was pioneering a high level client/server application to compete with the infamous Bloomberg Terminal in the arena of data dissemintion. The company was one of 11 US Firms to hold a contract with the SEC to do a manual data dump of all SEC filings into our databases for processing. We were working with DEC Unix running on GS140 Supercomputers, Oracle 7 Database for the backend server with an MFC (Windows) client application on the frontend.

I really liked working for that company because it had an intensive core group of well salaried renegade softwre developers. We had all come from a Unix background and were all well aware of the power of using native linux and shell commands to accomplish tasks was essential for speed, relibilty and monitoring in applications. Back in those days, we didn’t use third party or fourth party solutions that were sold as “toolkits” that were really what any good programmer would have in his/her bag of tricks from experience. For example, our “client pull” from the SEC each day, was a one timed data pull (the app had to be synced with the government’s computers or the pull would be denied). The application was written in Python using an old protocol called Kermit to retrieve the data. I hacked the running of all the system scripts into a TCL/TK interface one day when I was bored at work once the system was in place and most of the other original engineers were looking for new contracts because they didn’t wan to stick around through the support phase. While that may seem funny to current PHP/MySQL developers and scripters, the reality is secure protocols have been around since the birth of Unix. So has the ability to manipulate data, regardless of the GUI (Graphical User Interface).

—— end time machine quantuum leap ——-

Now, before I digress further down memory lane, back to Agloco and the newly launched toolbar. Here is my review…

Installation

The installer is an often overlooked aspect of launching a software product and creating the installer is the cycle most software vendors are not prepared for when the time comes. Professionaly, Agloco has provided a very intuitive and industry standard installer. In terms of dollars and sense, installer software starts around $2000 for the license. A lot of software development companies outsource this work for much larger amounts. To distribute an application on such a large scale as Agloco, it is obvious they spent quite a bit of money on this technical phase, otherwise, their biggest critics would be the first to announce that Agloco had used pirated software to create the installer. This is a “technical” stage of software development and is not to be considered in the overall functionality of the product, however Agloco has done a very good job with the installer.

The Software

Initially I was impressed with the look and feel of the Agloco Toolbar. I wasn’t too happy about the fact that it resizes the other windows, which is a Windows developer “no-no”. You NEVER, EVER resize the other windows because it shows that the programmers of this toolbar are focusing on appearance and the ability to grab API “hooks” to the other windows on your desktop. It doesn’t even have to take Spybot or any other spyware application to realize this is BAD. However, the fact that the toolbar doesn’t recoginze your “default” browser (from the registry) and instead calls a cheap API (OnNavigate) function to IE every time a member clicks a link in the Toolbar suggests a novice approach especially considering that the “resizing all windows” code which is freely available from CodeProject has been under debate for years. So, as far as “sinister intentions” operating inside the Agloco Toolbar, it’s highly unlikely, and anythng seen as sinister can be warded off to amateur software development.

The principals of Agloco obviously have a miscomprehension regarding the use of the word “toolbar” in the development community. A “Toolbar” represents a sub-application or plugin to an existing application, in this case, we were to believe Agloco was to be an IE and Firefox plugin or “Toolbar”, such as the Alexa toolbar, Google Toolbar or Yahoo Toolbar. I’m not seeing that, what I’m seeing is an application that looks like it was written by a bunch of teenage hackers with a professional installer that is pulling links from Commission Junction. How anybody is compensated for having this application open on their desktops is a mystery because Agloco is very slight on user documentation. God knows, while they were waiting for the software to be released they could have come up with some sort of user documention.

Weaknesses

What if somebody is surfing on their iPhone ? Agloco is totally useless at that point. It is also useless to the percentage of people who are not using IE or do not have it installed on their computers. Currently, the Agloco Toolbar is using CJ affiliate links. I’m not sure how happy the owners of the CJ affiliate sites are to be receiving the extra useless clicks on their sites that Agloco is delivering at the moment. In this business “targeted hits” is the name of the game. Again, I see Agloco founders floundering with the most basic of conecpts. Had they taken their downtime to encourage members to add their own links for the beta release for testing, they would have had real time, real world experience on how that particular aspect of the software package was to function. Instead, I forsee major problems and issues in the future because of the way this was setup. It was setup from a marketing perspective, to bring the customers in with no product and once we have them, come up with a product. So far, Agloco has failed to meet up to any members expectations or deadlines and I fear they will continue down that road.

One gets the feeling that the creators of Agloco are not listening to the members and are taking a very old school approach to developing a product which is the definite wrong road. Remember that company I mentioned loving to work for? Well, they went out of business and stranded over 60 employees. The reason why they went out of business was that other entities beat them to the punch and solved the client/server, security, spyware issues by going “web-based” instead of application based. Eventually our biggest competitor ended up getting bought out by Yahoo and everyone in that development team were millionaires.

Agloco is trying to reinvent the wheel, but they do have a hell of a marketing team. Then again, attracting people who are looking to make money on the internet is as easy as throwing a piece of london broil in your backyard and waiting for the flies. Honey, forget it. Those flies are attraced to rotting meat.