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There are two ways to earn from Agloco and two things you earn.

The two ways you earn are directly through using their Wiewbar and indirectly through referrals and referring others.

The two things you earn are cash and stock. The cash and stock is given in proportion to the hours you have accrued. Accrued hours come from the Viewbar and referrals as above. You can use the Viewbar as much as you like and you are credited up to 5 hours a month. You are then credited a portion of the hours that your referrals earn, referrals still get their 5 hours and you receive bonus hours as a percentage of what they earned.

Until recently Agloco did not discuss how much cash or stock you received per hour. However we posted their recent cash calculation from their corporate blog here. Therefore you receive around 50 cents per hour, soon they will let us know how much stock you receive. The payouts, see the same article here, are paid over 10 years. So your 50 cents will be paid monthly over 10 years, or over 120 months. They are trying to control their cash flow as they get up and running, which benefits us all as we will get paid and they will stay in business.

Here is an interesting note, they are considering allowing individuals to sell or otherwise transfer hours to others. In otherwords, instead of receive your payout over 10 years you could sell your hours to someone else. The seller receives instant cash and the buyer receives the payout over time. I go into detail, as well as post the Agloco corporate notice about the buying and selling here.

Agloco posted a notice about their payouts (distributions). They stated they will start with Agloco Monthly Residual Payments. The idea is that you will earn a monthly rate per hour of your calculated on a monthly basis, as well as a portion of your referrals earnings.

Per their notice here are the past monthly rates:

• June $0.48 per hour - ($0.0040 per month for 120 months)
• July $0.42 per hour - ($0.0035 per month for 120 months)
• August $0.54 per hour - ($0.0045 per month for 120 months)

It is interesting that they choose to make these payments which are paid out over 10 years. It may be a very conservative but smart method of payment. AllAdvantage (a company that many of the current Agloco founders/employees came from) paid out too much too fast. What I mean is they paid out the revenue faster than the income came in.

The idea of paying out over time while the company generates additional revenue and primes the cash flow pump is best for everyone. Agloco needs to assure at least a break even and hopefully a profitable model to stay in business.

If you did not know, currently their income comes from the search bar in their ViewBar. A partnership with Ask.com generates revenue when advertisements are clicked. That revenue is spread among the many users to generate the above payouts. Of course there should be overhead taken into account before the payout is generated but you get the idea.

As more information becomes available I will post here and explain.

Join Agloco here if you have not already.

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