Sabrina’s Money Matters

For those unfamiliar with internet marketing, how ads generate revenue for people who place them, why they make money and how they make those ads appealing enough to get you to click on them, this is my short answer to the question you forgot to ask.

Driving to work this morning, do you know how many billboards you saw? Did you laugh at one? If you did, the guy that paid for that ad, just accomplished his goal. He put the ad in such a place as to get attention, so that you’ll hopefully think of that brand next time you go looking for that particular type of product.

Ever hear a commercial on the radio and the jingle just would not leave your head? Somebody got paid for that jingle. Somebody got paid for the airtime for that jingle to be on for you to hear it. Advertising is big business, targeted ads, even bigger.

When you go to the store, your kids ask for a certain product because either you introduced it to them, or an ad did.

Honestly.

Don’t you want a piece of that advertising pie? Agloco offers a viewbar that you download and open in your desktop and when you’re on the internet it runs. Agloco keeps 10% of the revenue (they gotta pay bills too) and the rest my friend goes to you.

Get your slice here.

Any questions, feel free to ask!

Earlier I posted the email from Agloco letting everyone know the viewbar would be released in a month.

Last weekend, my impatience got the best of me, and I took Agloco off my blogroll, I decided that I hadn’t seen enough to prove it was legit, so I wasn’t going to encourage anyone else to sign up, I will never support something I don’t believe in.

BUT THEN- I watched this video, and decided I was a damned fool.

Yes, that was John Chow, THE JOHN CHOW. I read the blog everyday, feel like I should comment more because every post is a good one. Anyways, so it’s back on my blogroll, sign up and make some dough for nothing - TRULY money for nothing.

So the point is this, the video shows you the viewbar, so we know it’s almost ready, they just don’t want to release a faulty viewbar, I can digg it. LOL.

Sign up today…

When you’re looking for financial advice and you don’t want to ask your parents or your friends for it because you don’t want them to know about your finances, of course - it’s none of their business. Right? So who do you turn to? I searched “personal finance”, and this was my result.

I don’t know about you but I hesitate to trust CNN for my personal finance advice, not because I don’t think they know what their talking about, but they talk about people making money on a level I’m not. Millionaires and the like, I’m not there YET so I need advice that applies to me.

This is where The Finance Forums, Personal Finance Discussion forums become an incredible resource.

I registered on the site to gain access to the forums and glanced through the topics available for discussion on the main board for a moment. There were several headings that interested me such as: General Finance, Personal Loans, Mortgages, Credit Ratings, Insurance, in addition to this, under each topic are subheadings you can cherry pick through, I found subtopics that I was personally interested in and read quite a few of them. The Senior Members are knowledgeable, helpful and respond quickly, the community responds as well in quick fashion.

Not only are the Senior Members knowledgeable and responsive, they go above and beyond simply answering questions. I read a very good post about drop shipping and different resources to monetize your site, as well as learned that a senior member is very supportive of his brothers. Which is good to know, because who’s gonna steer their family with bad advice? No one. You can trust the advice you’re given.

You’re not responded to in an automated fashion, the advice you receive is based on personal experience, which is encouraging, I like to know what works for everyday people, not the reporters that are reading a report written by someone else. Where’s the personal touch?

Money matters are very personal matters, not to be discussed with just anyone, the anonymity provides a security when speaking about money that you don’t have with people close to you. If you go spouting about your finances to anyone that will listen, you’re laying yourself out there for con artists and people to borrow money from you all the time because they know your situation, good or bad.

Keep that business to yourself, The Finance Forums provide you any advice you could possibly need, if the topic isn’t already there, you can create it and get answers. Best of all, these people can’t call you tomorrow and say hey, instead of putting your $3000 in a money market account, would you like to invest in the business I’m starting?

Save yourself the pitches from family members, keep it close to the vest and go to a trustworthy, knowledgeable and responsive personal resource. Kind of like a family friend, but without the angle.

Productivity Tips

I read a post at SmartWealthyRich.com about choices you make affecting your future productivity. He compares this theory to dieting in that, when you decide to go on a diet you make a decision not to eat unhealthy foods, etc. So when someone walks up to a person dieting and offers a piece of cake, or some other kind of sweets, that person will decline because of a decision made previously. You can decide to be successful in life and in doing so, your future decisions will be based on the level of success you’ve decided you expect of yourself.

There is a point in our lives where we must realize it’s time to get serious and stop acting like we have all the time in the world. I reached that point and I looked myself in the mirror and told myself it was time to stop behaving as if life owed me something and get out there and take what was mine.

It was time to drop the dead weight I had been carrying and chart my own path and chuck the suggestions/demands everyone else was making on me that were only productive for them. At that time that meant a lot of changes to my life, A LOT! I’ve come through tough things, but so have you, we all have, but it really does make you tougher.

Fortunately I was 20 years old when I made the decision to take charge of my life and literally take what was mine, if I worked for it, I thought, I deserved it and no one gets to tell me different. My next step was to enroll in business classes, among other things.

Sadly some of us live our whole lives and never realize that it’s okay to take what’s yours when you’ve earn it. Some of us live our entire lives thinking that we always have to follow the path we’re shown by others because it worked for them, or someone they knew.

That blog got me thinking about the tips I’ve given you here that you can apply to your financial outlook if you so choose. It’s hard to be assertive and responsible about saving money when you see bills coming in and you don’t have any money to pay them or to just have fun. But the attitude you have about it can change everything.

Your lifestyle and the way you live will never change if you don’t have a proverbial “lightbulb moment” and decide that only you can change your situation. I can tell you how to save money, compounded times 1000 and that you can be a millionaire, but you would have to decide to do it for it to work for you.

Whether your problem is that you only have enough money to pay your bills and no extra or you find yourself spending hundreds in extra income every month without saving a dime. Both are equally desperate situations, both have solutions that begin with you.

If you find yourself not having enough money, examine your bills, there is something there you can cut out and save. If you spend too much, put yourself on an allowance. Either way, you have to make that decision to take charge - not of your money - not of your life, of yourself.

It’s self discipline. That is the key to productivity. To be productive, you have to be motivated, to be motivated you have to have goals. Make some goals. I think what I’m trying to say is that it’s all in your frame of mind, you decide that there’s something you want out of life and it doesn’t seem like a sacrifice if you have to give something up to meet that goal.

This is the only tip I have for you, you have to get real with yourself and know it’s you that makes it happen, and no one else.

I read a blog a few days ago at Disjointed Intelligence that explains this perfectly from a more personal perspective.

Everything you want out of life is out there for you, you just have to decide that you want it, and then go get it.