Hehe, reading the various reactions in this thread is amusing.
Honestly (when it comes to this Agloco blog post), I'm only too happy to have the chance to raise my awareness, and if Steve gives me a free opportunity to do that while also giving me an opportunity to potentially earn some passive income and maybe even assist Steve by providing him with some passive income so he can further his life mission and provide me and many other people with more content (free or not) -- content that we may not otherwise be getting if Steve wasn’t getting that extra bit of income -- kudos to Steve. He's
playing to win for the benefit of all (whether or not that is his true intention), and shame on anyone who faults him for doing that.
As for whether or not Steve is doing the "right" thing by making a blog post about Agloco, I think the good old saying of “who cares?” works nicely. If that doesn’t work for you, you could instead try asking yourself, “why do I care?” and maybe work from that. Now before people start hunting me down with pitchforks and flaming torches, I’m not trying to get anybody riled up here. What I’m trying to do is point out that really, regardless of what this Agloco blog post may represent, it isn’t a big deal.
Now I may be bias in saying that since I’ve become much less reactive and much more “present” and accepting after implementing what I learnt from reading the book,
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle (great book
), but really, a blog post is a blog post. Steve could write a 3000 word article about why he enjoyed eating breakfast this morning and I’d be pretty much indifferent (although I may be questioning his sanity just a tad, although if I do that, I think I’d also have to question my own sanity for reading his articles
).
Seriously though, from what I know about Steve, a blog post such as the Agloco one is not out of character from him, and while his new
Kontera ads in combination with all the Agloco referral links may light up the Agloco blog post like a Christmas tree with (mildly distracting) links everywhere, I see no real harm in it. Steve has made it public knowledge that he is pursuing the goal of becoming a millionaire, and I think anyone with such a goal would be foolish to pass up a very low-risk opportunity to create a potentially lucrative passive stream of income.
Personally I took a look at Agloco a while back and decided against doing anything with it since A) I didn't want to pump my awareness with any more ads then what I was already getting (from just about everywhere... it’s pretty hard, although not impossible, to reasonably escape advertisements), and B) I was and still am experimenting with the Law of Attraction, so anything that influenced my thoughts in any way that hindered my experiments was undesirable. But now that I think about it, A) I do a pretty good job of filtering out most of the ads I encounter, so being paid to filter out a few more isn’t really going to be detrimental, and B) now that I have a better understanding of the LoA, I can see how my initial argument doesn’t really hold up anymore.
Now I’m not saying that I’m going to just jump on the Agloco bandwagon because Steve is doing it, but I will take the time to consciously consider whether or not it would be something worthwhile, fitting to my preferences and character attributes, and a generally intelligent course of action. I would suggest anybody reading this do the same. I would also suggest that, if for some reason you don’t like the Agloco thing, you simply ignore it... which reminds me of some quotes that will be a fitting, yet semi-random conclusion to my post:
“What you resist persists.”
“Energy flows where attention goes.”
“Leonidas: You, what is your profession?
Arcadian Soldier: I'm a potter, sir.
Leonidas: And you, Arcadian, what is your profession?
Arcadian Soldier: I'm a sculptor.
Leonidas: And you?
Arcadian Soldier: I'm a blacksmith.
Leonidas: [Turning towards the Spartans] Spartans! What is your profession?
Spartans: Harooh! Harooh! Harooh!”
~ A quote from the (bloody awesome) movie, '300'... a quote that people who haven't seen the movie will probably not understand, but oh well.
(I’ve no idea who to credit for the first quotes, so all credit goes to whoever initially came up with those sayings.)