Alright, so everyone read about AGLOCO on one of my previous entries and asked since it is an early start up program that has the potential to enable people to earn money without any financial risk just like All Advantage then why am I not pushing it harder yet? In most people’s view, assuming it does go very big then everyone who starts off early despite it being in a beta phase at this point will benefit enormously as all of the early adopters/promoters will have the advantage of having already built up a large network of users before it becomes something big. In general, it would be like owning a lot of shares in a company during its infancy and as the company becomes bigger your stocks will be worth so much more. I guess for most people they dream about investing in a company like Microsoft during its beginning as they know how much they would of made if they did so.

In short, I do have plans to promote it because as I mentioned just like All Advantage in the past no one seemed to have loss sleep or money over the program since it was free and people were actually making money out of it. On top of that, it definitely was not a scam of any sort, but as everyone saw it just had a bad business plan as it seemed like they were paying people more money than they were bringing in from advertisers. So yes, stay tune as I do plan to take advantage of it but thought that I would start it during the New Years with the Christmas holiday happening and all.

For all the eager beavers out there, I created a new topic section just for this as I think it will be an interesting journey to document it all as well regardless if it turns out to be a huge success or a bust. I’m expecting a bit of everything from both sides of the fence in terms of people who will promote it like there is no tomorrow to people who think AGLOCO is simply a scam.

I guess there is no harm in saying this now, but my plan is to try and build my own community of AGLOCO users where I will attempt to also help them to build up their own network as well. Like most things with online marketing, its usually a few people who can really capture a large portion of the market share while others are left in the dust. For all the people who sign up through myself personally or through my blog for example, since in this program you can still technically benefit from a new user sign up as long as they reside within your group/network, it is within one’s best interest to help everyone and that means trying to help others to get referrals as well. If that also means giving people referrals within my network then that’s what I would try to do.

Although I do have signups at this point, I first intend to invite friends and colleagues. If you are one of my readers or anyone else that has happen to sign up under me, feel free to contact me with the form above with your member ID code so that I can better keep track of the people in my network. The instructions again to sign up through me is to visit this link at http://www.agloco.com/r/BBBB2309 or simply click here and fill out the appropriate fields.

Word of advice ahead of time though, if you do sign up make sure that you intend to have some fun with this as in my opinion this isn’t something where people should start dropping their daytime work for. If everything goes as planned from a business point of view and you have a lot of fun doing it, I’m sure everyone can go a long way with it. Until then, I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas this week.

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While watching the news I saw this story about a mud slinging fest between Rosie O’Donnell and Donald Trump. In a nutshell, Donald Trump recently had a press release on how a Miss USA winner named Tara Connor received a second chance to keep her reign as Miss USA despite allegations of her doing things such as a drug abuse incident. Rosie basically blasted and criticized Trump about this on the show The View which created a fued between the two. Here is a video of the report I saw:

As you can see, Donald Trump intends to sue her as some harsh words were thrown back and fourth. There were some pretty snide remarks in her comments about Trump like how he apparently declared for bankruptcy and the way he got out of it was that he used money that came from his dad after he died and so he is not a self-made man. I’m personally not sure about the details specifically, but that comment sounds really wicked and it seems to me like she is a little bitter about his success for some reason. Or, maybe the fact that the topic was about a Miss USA winner which possibly makes her upset when she compares herself to them? We’ll never know I suppose, but it does seem like bitterness to me though.

I’m starting to think Rosie O’Donnell is also doing this for publicity as well as not too long ago she made some kind of comment that also outraged a lot of people on the same show. That is the price of success as well as being in the public eye opens you up to all sorts of attacks and scrutiny. For this particular incident though, I think I would be more incline to vouch for Trump and would rather see him successfully sue her than to let her comments go without any real consequences if her allegations about him are false. Should be interesting to see what happens.

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I’ve recently been reading a lot of articles and comments online from students graduating from some kind of program only to then complain that when they get out into the real world they can’t seem to find a job in their respective field or that if they do happen to find one it would be for a wage that is extremely below their expectation. Basically, in their minds there is no good employer and the whole world can’t seem to pay them fairly for their talents. I see these kinds of comment more often from people looking for jobs in a creative type of field.

One of the more outlandish comments that I read was how someone mentioned that he spent over $45,000 in his school education and for an employer to be offering him only $15/hour is ridiculous as he can’t even pay off his school debt. Am I the only one who thinks that is a bit absurd? I can understand if one justifies their worth to an employer by demonstrating their skills and accomplishments, but to imply that because you spent $45,000 in your education that it gives you some kind of ticket to automatically be worth a certain amount is ludicrous in my opinion.

While it may be hard for many to swallow, I personally believe that while obviously money plays a factor in deciding to take a job, it should come down to having the passion to do it regardless as well. If you truly love what you are doing, naturally you will always try your best and produce the best results which in turn will make others want to compensate you very generously as they would want to reward you for doing great work and you’ll have others fighting over you.

Another key thing that I think many people overlook in terms of questioning why someone would pay them less than what they think they are worth or overlook them entirely despite having a great portfolio and education is one’s attitude. I once heard a person say that when he was interviewing people, he could care less about one’s fancy education or background as if he felt he couldn’t work with you then you wouldn’t be worth a cent to him. Unless you truly offer something unique that no one else in the world can do for sure to justify your demands for a certain amount, in most cases the competition is very fierce.

This has often been very true for certain business owners as well from what I have seen. Often the people who start a business just for money with absolutely no real passion for what they do seem to have this get rich quickly mentality and complain endlessly on how annoying or stressful it is to run the business. They then constantly complain how the market is dying, people are crazy not to pay them their rates as they provide such a great service and so fourth. Similar to the above, I think too many times people overlook how one’s perceived attitude in their profession can actually play a big role in determining their worth.

For people in an artistic field, I was actually told once that one of your main focus in the beginning should be to try and build up your contacts and to do this it means you need to get experience. You need to throw out that mentality that there is this industry standard that people must pay everyone in your field as more often than enough that guy that you worked with in a small project will come to you again with even bigger things. Similarly, if there is a company that you feel really has the potential to grow and that you can be a big part of its growth, it can also mean as they grow bigger so will your pay. Even in both of these examples, it’s about having passion for what you do.

Of course you need to watch out as well as there are people who simply just try to get the most out of others for very little in return. But for the most part I think if people focus more in doing what they love and continually do an awesome job at it that it will naturally get you the offers that will meet your financial expectations.

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Wow was it ever windy today. I think it started at around 2:30am as the winds out here were just vicious. It knocked out the power in my whole block and you could even feel the house rumble by a little at times. Too bad it was too dark for me to take video clips as my digital camcorder isn’t that great without a light source (Maybe it’s time to upgrade). It was so windy that outside you could see what looked like a thunder and lightning storm when really it was the power lines going haywire. I did manage to sleep through the night afterwards as I figured it wasn’t going to be that bad.

When I woke up, the power was still gone from my entire block and outside there were a lot of branches along with some fences being completely knocked over. When I went to downtown Vancouver, it didn’t seem too bad except some trees did fall over. After reading the news, apparently the wind speeds were going over 157 kilometres an hour. It’s all over now and fortunately it doesn’t seem like anything extremely bad happened as a result of this aside from some minor nuisance like the traffic jams.

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I kid you not folks. That was the exact subject title of an e-mail that I received. I occasionally get these e-mails from the Consumer Research Panel where they want you to take surveys about various topics and in return they would enter you into a contest for a chance to win some money. Normally the topics are a bit more down to earth as it dealt with things such as your buying habits, but seeing a subject title with the word “Diarrhea” was a bit much. On top of that, while reading the description it indicated that you would have to view various audio-visual clips for the survey. As you may have guessed, I didn’t actually go through in doing the survey. It sounded like a bit too much for me only to be entered into chance to win a small amount of money. Here is a screenshot of the mail I got and also a copy and paste job of the e-mail minus the contact and url details:

Hello Alan Yu,

The Consumer Research Centre is currently conducting an online study on the topic of Traveler’s Health.

The study should take approximately 10 minutes to complete and all qualified completes will be entered into a draw to win one of three (3) $100 incentives. We will also have a draw for one early bird prize of $100 from those who complete the survey on or before December 11, 2006.

Please complete the survey as soon as possible as the study will close when we reach our required number of participants.

You will be asked to view several audio-visual clips for the survey. Please ensure that your browser has the compatible plug-ins. We recommend using Internet Explorer for this survey. To begin, simply copy and paste the English or French web address into the address bar of your internet browser.

Thank you in advance for your participation. Should you have any problems with the survey, please e-mail: xxxxxxx@consumerresearchpanel.ca. We look forward to hearing from you!

Best Regards,
The Consumer Research Panel

It’s not exactly my cup of tea in terms of making money, but I guess there must be others out there who would be interested in it.

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