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New and revamped Gluto.com is now alive and kicking!

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

As you may well have seen, yesterday saw the official launch of the new and revamped Gluto.com website. Below is a copy of the Press Release:

LONDON, UK – March 4th 2010 – Joining the global movement towards giving power back to the consumer through collective action, Gluto.com today announced the launch of its revamped and redesigned lottery service – an online syndicate manager for the prestigious EuroMillions lottery.

Gluto.com has been designed to not only respond to the heightened discontent and insecurity surrounding other online lottery services, but also provide members with a platform to increase their chances of winning the weekly lottery. Furthermore, its ‘democratic’ and ‘collective’ approach means the members themselves select the numbers played, unlike other lottery sites where members have no say in the matter. “Power to the People” says Jens Gregersen, Gluto’s Co-founder. “The market today for playing lotteries online lacks quality and commitment, thus resulting in the consumer suffering. Our goal was to develop a fun, yet secure system that provides lottery players with the necessary tools to help increase their chances of winning more, more often. This is Gluto.com’s premise and offering.”

Gluto.com provides four key benefits for members playing the EuroMillions lottery:
• Increased chance of winning by 3600%, Gluto.com guarantees the two Lucky Star Numbers
• A 50% cash prize bonus playing with the Beta Syndicate
• Up to 6 times more cash to be won compared to playing as an individual
• Hassle free service – customers relieved of purchasing lottery tickets and collecting prizes

Two main syndicates are available as of today, Beta and Alpha, while a third, Gamma, is offered periodically. Members also have access to a range of ‘Lotto Insights’, which are analytical tools providing statistics from all the previous EuroMillions draws since it began in 2004, enabling more informed decisions to be made on the numbers played. Gluto.com rewards those members’ who help to build the Gluto.com ‘network’, whereby those who refer two or more ‘friends’ begin gaining extra syndicate shares, effectively helping them play for free.

An alternative to Gluto.com’s Lotto Insights? Not really

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

A new creative form of ‘Lotto Insight’ was performed for the mass the other day. Illusionist Derren Brown performed a ‘miracle’ on television the other night, predicting the results of the upcoming National Lottery.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/2630337/Derrens-lottery-miracle.html

Now while Derren may be able to fill his pockets with his personal methods, all other punters may want to stick to Gluto.com’s Lotto Insights function to predict the upcoming EuroMillions draw.

Happy Winnings!

 

 

The New Revolution: Gluto.com

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

As we put the final touches to the revamped and redesigned Gluto.com, our heads continue to shake in disbelief about the lackluster, mundane and untrustworthy lottery service websites that exist today.

Time for change

For research purposes, we signed up to a number of the more well known lottery services, which offer EuroMillions syndicates, in order to benchmark our own service and see what customers were experiencing. My own personal experience can only be described as that of cattle and herd – in other words, I was treated as a number and bombarded with generic information, none of which was relevant to me. It wasn’t fun or interactive at all, and thus it comes as no surprise that I didn’t win even 1 euro.

These websites seem to have been developed in order to make a quick ‘buck’ and leave the customer hanging. Email responses to queries never came, while updates of how my syndicates were performing were confusing. Lets be honest, the service that they intend to offer, similar to Gluto.com, is appealing and in demand from today’s lottery players – however, they aren’t practicing what they preach. Unfortunately, whereas Gluto.com intends to revitalize the sector, the sad truth is that they (the cowboys) are the mass, thus customers continue to be disappointed and the reputation of online lottery services has been tarnished.

This blog entry isn’t meant to become a bashing exercise against these ‘cowboy’ run websites. Rather, it is a chance for Gluto.com to express where we feel changes are necessary, and what we have focused on to ensure that fun, quality and superior customer service is restored to the lottery service market.

1.  Customer Service

Yep, that ambiguous term that is flashed around more than customers care to hear. Yet, this is incredibly important. Gluto.com is built around being able to deliver a personalized lottery experience, where we respond to enquiries within 24 hours, provide concise and relevant information, all of which is made available on an easy to use and interactive website. Ironic as it may be, but we have to thank all those poor quality competitors with disgraceful customer service, as they have demonstrated to us how a lottery service shouldn’t be!

2.  Quality

From the design of the website to the corporate identity, the software and security implemented, to the team that has been built to ensure a superior service offering, quality is found at every level at Gluto.com. International designers were brought in at an early stage to help create the site, in order to reflect the Gluto.com brand values.  Leading technology specialist Magic Mo has developed a system ensuring usability and interactivity. The list goes on. In other words, not only is the evidence visual when comparing Gluto.com to the others, but the quality of the service runs far deeper. The second rate, redundant and broken down alternatives should take a leaf from our book.

3.  Fun

Fun and excitement is the best way to describe the EuroMillions lottery. Jackpots reaching well over 15 million Euro provides us all with potential to win life changing prizes every week. Gluto.com mirrors the EuroMillions in that the site brings back the fun and excitement to online lottery services.  With the likes of the Lotto Insights helping you get nearer to that huge jackpot, while by having your friends join gives you the chance to win even more cash prizes, Gluto.com will not only guarantee customer satisfaction, but will keep you on the edge of your seat each week. That’s what an online lottery service should do.

A breath of freash air is what Gluto.com offers today’s lottery players and how the cowboys from the past will be put to rest.

Cracking the lottery code

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Millions of heads dropped in disappointment last week after not winning the dumbfounding EuroMillions lottery jackpot of €125 million. With unemployment soaring and households looking for extra income, many have turned to the likes of weekly lotteries in an attempt to turn around their misfortune. But how many of these people really thought about the numbers they selected? How do you choose the correct lottery combination? Had these people strategically selected numbers, based on statistical analysis, how many would have turned around their misfortune?

A calculated guess?

Part of the fun and excitement of the lottery is being the underdog. As many already know before even buying the EuroMillions ticket, the odds are heavily stacked against you (1 in over 76 million). However, if lotteries are games of numbers and combinations, then surely statistics can give us all a better chance of guessing correctly the upcoming number combination. Furthermore, the theory of probability states that all numbers in a lottery will be drawn on an equal number of times over an infinite period of time. Albeit a long time to wait, it does give us more insight into how to crack the code.

Tools at your disposal

In order to find this information aggregated and in a user-friendly format, players choose Gluto.com, as it is designed to do precisely this. Gluto.com has developed a number of tools called ‘Lotto Insights’ that provide lottery players with the ability to look at what numbers are hot and cold, which numbers are most frequently drawn together, while also determining the level of luck for each upcoming draw. Graphs and benchmarks enable the user to see for themselves which numbers are more ‘lucky’. This is possible, as Gluto.com has analysed all the numbers and combinations drawn since the EuroMillions began, back in 2004.

The Lotto Insights are part of the overall service, which is designed to help its members win more often, as opposed to waiting for infinity to come around.  So much so that members play as part of a syndicate, which in itself increases their chance of winning. Therefore, in Gluto.com’s eyes, a collective effort is the key to cracking the code, which lotto authorities tend to agree with, claiming that syndicates win 1 in 4 lottery jackpots.

The way forward

It has to be said that while these tools present great opportunity to improve players chances of cracking the code, the excitement and adrenaline that come with pure luck, or winning being ‘written in the stars’, is enough to keep many going back for more, week after week. However, should the current state of the economy continue to wreak havoc on people’s livelihood, out will go the romantic idea of looking to the stars, and more time may be spent using tools like these.

Days away from the big re-launch

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Morning all,

So yes, we can now see the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel – we are days away from re-launching. The usual last minute obstacles are holding us up, as well as some external bureaucratic issues. 

We are all incredibly happy with the progress that has been made, as well as the improvements post beta testing. Thank you all by the way for sharing your thoughts on what works best. So what are these new improvements – well for one, check out the new graphs that have been implemented on the Lotto Insights function. They do indeed look awesome. We have also aesthetically improved the site, as on a number of pages you will see they are more consistent visually.

Magic Mo, as he is known to the office, has been working his wizardry on making Gluto.com the most user friendly site around. Meanwhile the rest of us have been adding the necessary press centre for those lovely media people, and putting in place all the tools needed for a successful launch. I am still in shock that something called ‘Twitter’ can become our saviour, apart from Magic Mo that is :-)

Until next time