Agloco’s August newsletter doesn’t instill much confidence that things are going well in that camp. I’d almost forgotten about Agloco until the email dropped in my inbox this week.

Agloco has just signed a partnership with a large company (no idea who). It’s taken them this long to get such a partnership, and Agloco is now saying it will take up to five weeks before everything is complete. In Agloco speech, that probably means about three months.

One telling sign of problems is that Agloco is asking users of its viewbar if they know anybody who works for an ad network company. Agloco has few partnerships and is asking the general public for help. I can’t believe that people are still promoting Agloco on their blogs. Has anybody made any money on this yet? No!

Agloco is looking more and more like a failure as time goes by. Agloco isn’t making money yet, which means that nobody else is going to for the foreseeable future. From the Agloco blog:

It depends on “when AGLOCO makes enough money to both pay Members and be a sustainable business”. But, by using the Viewbar you are accumulating credit towards the cash payments right now/

Anybody still have any faith in this?

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It’s always nice to make money online, but it’s even nicer if you don’t have to do anything to get that money. How would you like to win $100? Who wouldn’t, right? This is my first contest with a real prize. On Sunday September 30 I will pick a name at random from the list of all the entrants and that person will get a cool $100 sent to them by Paypal.

Not only will you be 100 bucks richer, but I will also write you a full review of your blog and include a permanent link to your blog in my sidebar; that’s a link for life on a blog that is expanding daily.

The rules

The rules for this contest are simple. All you have to do is write a short paragraph (minimum 50 words) in one of your blog posts telling people about this competition and that they can win $100. Link to this post with an anchor text of your choosing. Then, Stumble http://worldofangel.com/ and subscribe to my RSS feed. That’s it. There’s no real legwork involved and you could do the whole thing in about five minutes.

So that’s:

• 50+ words about this contest in one of your posts with a link to this post.
• Stumble http://worldofangel.com/
• Subscribe to the RSS feed.

Your pingback will be your entry ticket for this contest. If you have any queries then leave a comment here.

Rest assured folks, I will not be pulling an Ashwin. There is $100 sitting in my Paypal account waiting to be won. It couldn’t be easier to enter, so get involved.

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Anybody can make money online – that’s a fact. The difficulty comes in making large amounts of money. There’s something to be said for starting small and working your way up, but there are some methods of earning cash online that I just won’t touch. Filling out paid surveys is one.

Get paid to fill out forms

It sounds like easy money, and it is. But the amount of money you receive for the amount of effort put in doesn’t appeal to me. In my opinion, getting paid for filling out surveys is a waste of time because in the time you spend filling out surveys, you could be writing killer blog posts or promoting your own blog.

The appeal of making small amounts of money in short bursts is there, but it’s a way of earning money away from blogging, and I personally only want to consolidate my efforts on blogging-related tasks. If I’m filling out surveys then I’m not doing anything that helps my blog. I think that’s a mistake.

I read Harper’s Dad’s blog as often as I can to see how he’s going in his bid to make money online. Harper’s Dad and I don’t always agree about ways of making money, and it was through Harper’s Dad that I decided to try out two of the biggest online survey services around: Treasure Trooper and Cash Crate.

The sign up process was painless enough for both sites and the user interface was easy to manage; I could jump straight into filling out the surveys. The surveys on both sites start at about 50 cents, with an average payout of about $3. I started filling out a few surveys and found the monotonous process too tedious. It’s not fun, and hey; blogging is fun.

The higher-paid surveys require you to hand over credit card details, which I wasn’t keen on doing. Also, the surveys are sometimes region-sensitive, which for a blogger in Asia doesn’t help. I did complete one survey and earned $3. Some of the surveys require you to sign up for free trials. While you could make money, it’s a lot of effort to sign up for something and have to remember to end your free trial before you get billed.

I signed up for these online survey services a couple of weeks ago and then forgot about them. I was reminded about them when, to my surprise, I read a post on John Chow’s blog today. Somebody paid $400 for a review to promote that person’s using Cash Crate in a bid to get more referrals. That seems like a waste of money to me, because I don’t think John Chow’s readers will really go in for such minimal-return schemes.

I understand that little chunks of change add up, but in the time you spend acquiring those chunks of change you could be doing something far more productive that will lead to some real cash return. There is something to be said for signing up referrals, but in doing so you are again devoting time to the paid surveys.

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