Brian Hale, AgSearch Founder and President
We are working hard at AgSearch.us to assemble the best team possible to be responsible for daily operations of a nationwide search engine that represents 10% of the U.S. GDP. It's a bigger task that some of us may realize. The marketing dollars spent by the ag businesses that make up that 10% chunk of the Gross Domestic Product is over $10 Billion annually.
What does that mean? It means we are in a fantastic strategic marketing position. Did you know that across all sectors, Internet Marketing dollars spent surpassed TV advertising for the first time in history?
Like it's non-ag counterparts, Agricultural businesses are also spending money online and we have a search engine that is exclusively U.S. Agricultural. That's good news for AgSearch.us.
However, there is one thing to remember, something I learned from Coach Calipari... You can have the best plans in the world, but if you don't have the right team, things don't click. Putting the right TEAM together is just as important as the plan. With the right players sharing a common passion and willingness to use their unique abilities together is unified Vision.
At AgSearch our Team is the Vision. We see this project defined by the TEAM, rather than a computer algorithm that performs searches. Here's why; Other search engines are run by bots that go out into the night and scrape the internet while some of you sleep. (I am usually up at all hours, but I promise, I am human.) We do not employ, nor deploy neither spiders, nor bots at AgSearch.us.
AgSearch is different because we would rather put money into human effort and our ability to see things as only humans can on the web. Our human Research Team is busy every day and night now inspecting websites and facebook pages from agricultural businesses to see if they qualify for inclusion in our Ag Search Engine. While the other search engines gather EVERYTHING and present their results on one boring white page, we gather QUALITY sites then reach out to each business we list and offer to personally work with them to maximize their free listing.
AgSearch is also different because we have a Team comprised of people from all walks of life, not a bunch of Silicon Valley techies trapped in a cubicle, that's for sure. Nope, our Team is made up of both young and old city dwellers and country folk and each have their own unique talents and experience to contribute. I am proud and equally humbled by the faith and effort of the management and research team put together thus far.
The team is constantly growing, but at this moment we have a total of 6 Directors in the company; Roy VanPelt, Monica VanPelt, Brian Hale, Andi Hale, Tim Krantz, and Cordelle Elsener as well as a Research Team of 9 active Research Assistants - for a total of 15 on the TEAM at AgSearch.us. We look forward to bringing you updates on the Team as it grows!