Hello, Cyberfriends!
I’ve written about the place on the ‘net that I joined called Cagora. I also know that a lot of folks won’t just run over there and check it out due to time constraints, or whatever. There’s just so much to look at and try and determine whether it’s worth the time to check it out, if it’s worth your time to set up an account – there’s such an information overload, especially in the “make money on the internet” genre.
But I’d really like for you to make some time – schedule it, if you have to – and go over to the Cagora site and check it out. I think you’ll be surprised. Granted, there really is a great deal of information to ingest. But I think the creators of this place have it on the ball. I printed out their e-book that explains everything, and it IS a little complicated to get started, but I’m going to hang in there and see what transpires with this company.
Below is a copy of an e-mail I received from Cagora. They send out one of these every so often. While it may not sound really “professional”, it kind of explains an aspect of the community and how it works; what’s available there for members. It’s kind of long, but I think you’ll understand a little more about Cagora if you’ll take the time to read it.
Here you go:
As we get the prelaunch rolling at Cagora, we’ve had quite a few of you joining us but not really sure how Cagora is different to other things out there on the Net. So we wanted to explain how we’re going to be able to help you tap into the opportunities of Niche and Local Marketing whether you’re starting out or wanting to get more traffic to your existing niche business.
To help get the key messages across we’ve been working on a newseries of cartoon style videos with a crew of characters that will build the story of how you can benefit and how the Community Blueprint will rollout.
The animators still have quite a bit to do, but we’ll get those videos up and the Community Blueprint downloads out to you as soon as possible… in the meantime over the next 5 days meet some of the “The Community Crew” to see how it all works.
Today meet Dave the free affiliate:
Dave’s sells the latest electronic gadgets by day and earns some extra income as an Internet Marketer after hours. Even though Dave has made quite a few friends and some money from his blog, newsletter and some social networks he enjoys, he hasn’t yet hit a home run so he can go full time with his marketing.
Dave gets asked about the best way to make money online, and Dave used to respond, “Niche Marketing”, or “becoming a Local Offliner helping small business owners utilize the web to increase
business.”
Dave joins a seminar about an innovation in Internet Marketing called Community Marketing where you use the power of Community to build your business. Now Dave responds to questions about the
best way to make money online with, “Community Marketing.”
Dave explains Community Marketing to people like Fred–a list member–in this way:
“You choose a Niche or Local Market opportunity, but you don’t need to build a blog or a website. You don’t need to create content week in and week out. Instead, you leverage the web 2.0 way of user
participation just like how YouTube, Facebook and Wikipedia built their businesses.
The power of Community is that mainstream Internet users provide the content, create the traffic, and tell their friends, building a hungry marketplace for you for your niche or local products.”
Dave likes Community Marketing. Dave also likes Cagora, the company behind a new style of Community website – a network of over 25,000 Local and Special Interest Worlds, each acting as a one-stop Community for that topic (like the city of Denver or an interest like Rock Climbing.) Unlike Facebook groups, there is only one world per topic, which helps create an economy around that topic.
Dave can now earn extra streams of income and get free traffic to his blog without ever spending a cent just by using Cagora as part of his marketing strategy. Dave likes extra money.
Dave sends information to his contacts, who he knows will love a turnkey business to get their share of the action in this new internet economy.
Dave tells the readers of his newsletter that Cagora has Local and Special Interest Worlds. He lets them know how they can be part of The Community Land Rush as the Virtual Real Estate of these Worlds is up for grabs ….and that Cagora has only has one Community Partner for each world, on a first-in-first-served basis. He describes it as a chance to buy beachfront property at scrub prices.
Dave likes the fact he can earn ongoing income and nice upfront commissions when people on his list purchase Community Partnerships–a purchase that includes an advertising package with a share of the advertising from the network pages of that Partner’s Community World.
Dave thinks to himself–Cagora is a fun new way to build a list and a reputation and could just be the breakthrough that will earn him enough “extra” cash to allow him to quit his day job and focus on what he loves doing.
Out of the blue (as often happens in these videos) Dave gets a phone call from Sharon who’s on his list, so he shares with her what Cagora’s about…
You’re about to meet Sharon – our central character in the story of how Cagora’s Community Blueprint will rollout in her town of Hopeville to create a snowball of good things in their community and help Sharon make money online. You’ll also learn how she starts dominating her niche of Bonsai with the power of Community Marketing.
(Narrator) Meet Sharon. Sharon’s a keen Internet user. Sharon also loves her new hobby, Bonsai Gardening but she often has trouble finding Bonsai Gardening information online. Sharon likes wading in
her Pool, but she doesn’t like wading through countless pages of useless websites on the search engines, hundreds of social networking groups on Facebook and MySpace and multitudes of videos with inane and vulgar comments, to find stuff about Bonsai.
Yes that guy Mitch Kapor had it right when he said getting information off the Internet is like drinking water from a fire hydrant!
Sharon starts looking for supplies for her dog Rover. Sharon gets frustrated again. She realizes the Internet isn’t very good at helping her easily find the products, services, information and advice she wants about Bonsai, Bassett Hounds or her local town- Hopeville.
(Sharon) Goodness Me
(Narrator) says Sharon
(Sharon) The Internet has a GAPING HOLE!
So she rings Dave… Dave spends a lot of time online and has all the answers. Dave tells Sharon about Cagora and how they already know about the GAPING HOLE and are working on plugging it up. In fact
just the other day, he’d written about it in his email newsletter. Dave suggested to Sharon that she read it to get more information.
Aha! Sharon finds the email and starts to explore Cagora’s website where she finds ‘Bonsai World’:
Sharon can see that ‘Bonsai World’ will be a place where she can get advice from experts and regular folk, where she’ll be able to find local gardening businesses that stock Bonsai supplies and get instructions to drive there with interactive maps. Sharon can read fun articles, reviews and polls, listen to recorded seminars about Bonsai, watch informative videos and even book a meeting room to talk with people from around the world who are just as passionate about their Bonsai as she is….and the best part is that all of this IS IN THE ONE SPOT…what a relief! No more pages and pages of search
engine results or 100’s of groups to wade through.
Sharon’s now looking for ‘Bassett Hound World’ – Sure enough, there it is, with all the same kind of resources!
She finds out that every one of Cagora’s Worlds is kind of like a real world’ Expo Centre… You know like those Home and Garden Shows you’ve been to where businesses come together to showcase their
products and services and do business with the public….. where People can find the information and resources they want all at one venue, get advice and learn from the experts running seminars, AND
where they can meet up with others in a community atmosphere to share their interests… the difference being that Cagora’s worlds are online, so it means that Sharon can visit them 24/7 in the comfort and security of her own home!
Sharon is starting to like Cagora because it’s a one-stop Learning, Meeting and Marketplace. She likes the fact that Bonsai and Basset Hounds are just a small part of one huge ever growing online network
of more than 15,000 Worlds of Interest ……that means if she wants to, she can zoom around to other Gardening Worlds like Composting and Rock Gardens, or Dog Worlds like Poodles and Great Danes, really quickly and easily……
And just like the network of Worlds of Interest, there’s also over 10,000 Local Worlds including one for her own town of Hopeville. Sharon can now explore the world with her fingertips find exciting
destinations and meet interesting people from all over the globe.
Sharon also likes that Cagora is a family friendly website for her kids Max and Amy to use. Rick her husband will love Cagora because he can quickly get access to information about his rather…unusual hobbies!
But now Sharon notices something: Many of the Worlds on the current Cagora website do not have much information available and some of the ‘worlds’ haven’t even been ‘built’ yet!
Sharon rings Dave.
(Dave) “No Problem! YouTube, Facebook and MySpace were just like that in their early days. There was hardly anything on them either, until people came and started adding content and telling others.
Then as these companies grew, they almost totally rebuilt their websites.
Cagora’s current site is only an early stage prototype to help people get a feel for this whole new concept of Local and Special Interest Worlds…that are Community learning, meeting and marketplaces.
In fact, before Cagora starts the rebuild of the website soon, they’d love people like us to give input on how we’d like it to be. The plan with the new site is that you’ll still be able to navigate it as a normal website like the current prototype, but you’ll also have the option to zoom around to all the worlds within a MASSIVE 3D Virtual Expo Park. It’ll be so interactive that you’ll really feel like you’re “there.”
(Sharon) That sounds like a refreshing change to boring Search Engine results
(Dave) Indeed! and when they rebuild the site it will be a true Community Marketplace where you can pick up a bargain, get cash back rebates at leading retailers, get special deals and loyalty rewards by shopping locally and supporting small business and as the Cagora membership and its bulk buying power grows there will be even more savings. In this new Community marketplace, business owners will be able to tap into systems to get more customers and build relationships to get more sales. They’ll also have a new way to alert people to special deals and tap into the power of community and barter.
(Sharon) “Dave …I think I’ve just had a light bulb moment. This is going to be huge isn’t it??”
(Narrator) Sharon could hear Dave smile.
(Dave) “Yep, I reckon so Sharon…but hold onto your hat, did you realize that Cagora also shares a whopping 80% of what a company would normally keep as profits with their members AND charities
chosen by their members??”
(Sharon) “Heck no, I missed that.”
(Dave) “And you can also get a share of the sales as a free affiliate or you can be the community partner for one of the Local Worlds or Worlds of Interest and get an even bigger share of the advertising and other revenues.”
(Sharon) So why are they sharing so much of the profits and traffic with their members?
(Dave) Well, Cagora’s all about Sharing. It really goes to the core values of the people behind the company, they are committed to empowering people to be in a position to do good while doing well.
In fact the name of the Company says it all. The C in Cagora is for Community and the AGORA being the learning, meeting and marketplace of ancient Greece.
That massive Expo Park of Local and Special Interest Worlds will be one big Community learning, meeting and marketplace. Cagora has a Blueprint System to grow each of the Local and Special Interest Worlds by bringing together People, Businesses, Charities and Community Groups so they can all benefit.
(Sharon) “WOW, it all makes so much sense, and what a relief to find a company where people count!”
(Narrator) So Sharon immediately registers with Cagora for Free takes the welcome tour, and decides she’d better look into the Blueprints to see how she can benefit by being in so early and make some extra money online for herself and her favorite charities.
But that’s a whole other story… (For tomorrow)
So, there you have it. Just about anything you could want or need is either there already, or is just waiting on someone to take the bull by the horns and make it happen. That makes me feel like someone with special talents or knowledge could become a community partner and surely open up another avenue of income online. That possiblity alone seems important to me. When this site takes off, a person that takes advantage now will reap the benefits later on, after everybody and their dog signs on – an opportunity to get in on the ground floor doesn’t come that often…
I don’t do this often, but I really do urge you to at the very least to check into this, folks. You can go here to see what I’m talking about.
Keep smiling!
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