Questallia

I got this question from one reader, who wanted to know if I trusted this new paid-to-surf company.

Well, the honest answer is that I don’t know. All I know is that Agloco is the successor of AllAdvantage, a site that paid you for the hours that you and your referrals spent to surf the Internet. That site no longer exists; it disappeared some years ago, with the dot com crash.

The new system, called AGLOCO (an acronym for A Global Community) is founded by the same people who owned AllAdvantage. For the moment, the system is in beta testing, but people can sign in and start building their referrals network. All I can say is: the sooner, the better. Why not jump in and be one of the pioneers?

What if it does not work? It is completely free, it takes only two minutes to sign in and this is all the investment you have to make so far. Plus one more minute to validate the link in your confirmation e-mail (don’t forget to check also the bulk folder).

How it works: You get paid an hourly rate for surfing the net while having the viewbar installed, as well as for the people you reffered into the program and for those referred by them, down to 4 levels of referrals.

When you tell other people to join AGLOCO after you, do the following trick, in order to make sure they don’t forget to put your ID in: in all the links you send people to the sign up page, build the URL like this: http://www.agloco.com/r/BBBB3857, but replace my ID, which is BBBB3857 with yours (you’ll know it when you first log in AGLOCO after receiving the confirmation mail).

I hope this was clear enough. I wish all my readers to make a lot of money out of this.

Update: AGLOCO has failed in keeping its promises, so I no longer endorse it.

I heard this request every single working morning for about one year. My colleague was eager to work, but she needed precision. My precision. And my precision tasks for her were there, day after day. 

Then, there was the afternoon time, when a second line was breaking the silence: “Done! Let’s go!”

I was never able to comment on her “Done! Let’s go!”, although I always felt that something was missing there. It was unbelievable how she got me to tell her what to do, then she did all the tasks sharp and careful; briefly, she barely did any mistakes, yet I was not happy with her, nor I was able to express that in words. I remembered this period today, when reading in Seth Godin’s blog a post named Done. I know what I should have been unconsciously thinking of my robo-colleague:  

“The challenge is NOT to empty your inbox. The challenge is not to get your boss to tell you what to do. 

The challenge is to ask a two part question: What next? What now?  Asking is the hard part.” 

Now imagine the challenge of having such a robo-type boss. I had this pleasure once: every Monday morning, he spread tasks all over us, then all he wanted was to see those things done and to see us all coming on time to the office and laying there for 8 hours. No questions, no exceptions, no thinking. 

One day, I asked myself “What next? What now?” and the answer was there: “I quit!”. Why did I have to wait two months until doing this? Because, as Seth says, asking is the hard part.