Agloco - Is It Edible? February 6, 2007
Posted by The Probabilist in : [Articles], Business, Entrepreneurship, Assets, Investing , 2 commentsI guess I belong to a very small minority, because that’s the question that popped into my mind the first time I saw the word Agloco. Granted, I was reading a fine dining post at John’s site when the word hit my eye. 
Agloco is a company about three months old now and pays its users for surfing the web and using its toolbar. Signing up, downloading, installing the toolbar and referring others to join the network is completely without costs. In fact, the members of Agloco (A global community) are the shareholders of the system. The toolbar is currently at a beta phase and is expected to be available for download after a few weeks.
In order to get paid for browsing the web, both you and your contacts need to use the toolbar for a trivial 5 hours per month and it’s a button click away to minimize it if you so like. It consists of a search box, podcasts, video, broadcasting systems, ads, etc. Here’s what the toolbar looks like and some additional info from their site.
“The Viewbar™ is a small toolbar that rests on the bottom of your screen or browser window while you surf the Internet. The Viewbar™ software is what enables AGLOCO to collect the money you are earning while browsing the Internet.”
“The Viewbar™ keeps track of your online interests and preferences, and uses that information to deliver the most valuable message to you at the right time. Because privacy is a core principle of AGLOCO, the Viewbar™ communicates with our secure servers in an encrypted fashion to keep your information private.”
I strongly suggest that you make the leap and take this opportunity seriously and as soon as possible even before the toolbar hits the general public. Then the rush will grow even stronger. The global network has already grown to 180,000 members. I sent an email to ten of my contacts briefly explaining the deal and immediately saw my referral count grow both directly and extendedly through their actions. The best part about it is that you can’t lose anything for trying.
Join the network and have yourself a go.
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Acres of Diamonds January 29, 2007
Posted by The Probabilist in : [Books], Entrepreneurship, Financial Literacy, Commodities, Vision, Wealth, Assets, History , 2 commentsDr. Russell Conwell’s Acres of Diamonds is actually a lecture that he is recorded to have held over 6,000 times. Summing up at 40 pages, this book can also be found as a free e-book at various personal development internet sources.
It starts off with several stories where the main character is ignited with a spark of trying their luck to find wealthy lands filled with resources like gold, diamonds, oil or silver. In every single case, no matter from where this person starts out or where he ends up seeking treasures, he fails miserably. However, the successor who takes over the farm or homestead of the person that sold it all in order to leave and strike it rich, finds loads of the very same form of riches in that particular area of land that was left behind. The moral of these stories is that one should first take a look at what one has, because the acres of diamonds might be there right under our noses.
Continuing on, Conwell expresses his thoughts and responses to the common questions, objections and misconceptions about wealth. Among them he points out that:
While every word in the book is that of wisdom, I discovered something of a minor flaw in the introduced stories. Whenever a person went to seek a fortune and left behind a piece of land that turned out to be filled with riches, the successor that discovered the riches actually did the very same thing! They didn’t stay where they were, they were in the lookout for something better as well. They just happened to strike it rich just as the main characters envisioned for themselves. I don’t believe in hiding facts and exploiting opportunities by scheming, but there were nothing of the sorts involved in these stories. Nevertheless, I say wealth can be created anywhere, but there’s a great deal of experience to be gained if one travels the world a bit as well. AoD is a good read, although I suggest you try find this copy someplace for free.
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