Malok Has an Appology...

Meet Malok Mading Recently, he had an issue with Face Book and he wrote this article over at APSense to warn and apologize for not catching it sooner.

Recently this week,I login in to my Facebook account and the shocking thing was; I saw a message from one of my best friends.She was telling me how much she like a photo which I was tagged in with her.She did not know that I didn't tagged her in any of my photos and that I didn't sent it out to her or any of my friends.The claim was saying this message:
{Friend's name} I really love my new iPad2! playing angry birds on it is so fun haha! I received it today from fedex and I paid nothing which is pretty exciting :) They are only giving a limited supply in each area so I dont think this will last long. This is where I got it from, hopefully you can get one to http://tcrohngj.tcrohngj.a​cgb.info/?tcrohngj"
There was also a tagged photo of an Ipad 2 in which I have tagged all my friends including the recipient friend telling the named friend of mine to take actions and get it free.
Well,what I worry most is the trust my beloved friends who might think that I did such a thing to them but I am totally speechless over this.
The way it is so complicated that it even got my names, friends' names as well as accessing my Facebook profile left me with more questions than answers.Currently,I have more than 4 hundreds friends who have receive this same "Photo Tagging thing"
To make it short,if you as my friend on Facebook has received this "Photo Tag" saying that Malok has tagged you in his photo,kindly please help me by reporting this to Facebook or delete it completely.
I have my principles and morals which define how I interact,contact and share with people around me including my friends.
Otherwise,I would like to caution others too to be careful lest such things might happen to them.
Facebook in recent years has been trying to fight spam and hacking but still this crook guys are still destroying people's name and image with such things.
So please,to any annoyed friend/contact believe me that I never intended to do you anything as this.

Important Advice From Ron Magee

Ron is another valued TGRP member! Great advice here! There are many investment programs that will take your money and give you no return on your investment! 

 

Avoiding the Pitfalls

The challenge of Internet marketing, of choosing the right program to promote, avoiding the scams and the methods of marketing is possibly the biggest downfall of the majority of those seeking to find riches working from home on the computer today.

If you are just starting out, many of these challenges can be avoided by becoming members of different social sites like Apsense and then searching out someone they can trust, someone who has been successful that will take you  under their wing and teach you.

If you have been around for any length of time, you know what I am talking about. How many times have you heard "I wish I knew then what I know now". Or how many hours and hundreds or even thousands of dollars I have wasted on programs that did not work.

Knowing and trusting someone while not the only method of avoiding the pitfalls but it is the safest. Now that is not to say that you will get it right every time nor that the person that you choose will always lead you in the right direction but that is something that you will learn very quickly. I have learned that when someone screams "Scam" or what the "scam report sites" have to say, it can be misleading. I have seen programs branded as "scams" on this very site when in fact they turned out to be very good programs and a lot of people made a lot of money with these programs. Trust your gut and do not invest a lot of money until you are satisfied.

Some things work better for one than they will for others. In my case I have chosen to stay away from programs that require monthly autoships or monthly fees simply because these require an active downline and most who begin, drop out shortly there after when they are not making money. They simply cannot or will not duplicate and it becomes more than a job just having to replace those who drop out.

I choose to make my main program one that has a long track record of paying it's members, one that has been paying out for nearly 20 years. F5M-MC is and will remain my main focus and along with it comes TheGrandRetirement as well as ThePowerofOne.

But once in awhile something comes along that really attracts my
attention, something that jumps out at me and pulls me in. But that being said, it still must meet my criteria of a one time payment. And that program came along just a few days ago. I think you will get the same feeling if you take the time to listen to a recorded call from  June 20.

If you like what you hear and if you have that same attraction, come back here to become a part of this great new program. After all it is only $5, less than you spend of a hamburger and coke.

Thank you for your time and reading my article

Not AttendingTrainings-You ARE Missing Out.

Wow! There have been quite a few attending the Monday trainings! We would like to extend a HUGE THANK YOU! To everyone who has been attending and learning to work your business to a success!

Now, for those team members who don't, why?! You are cheating yourself! There is a lot to learn to be a successful marketer. We show you how to use many great tools and tips with our Monday trainings.

We have learned to use splash pages, auto responders, WidgetQuick, FaceBook, FanPages, post classified ads, AdLandPro, APSense, and many more tools available for you to market online and succeed.

Today, Brenda went deeper into FanPages and FaceBook promotion. You need to attend to learn!

Once again, I remind you to come to our blog, leave comments, testimonials, start or contribute to a Blog Frog conversation. These are just a few ways to drive traffic to you and your business!

That's it for now, remember, promote, and learn and you will earn!

Team Work in Action!

Hope everyone is ready for a great weekend! I have a request from our TGRP team members.

Our team blog has been getting more traffic lately we want to share that traffic with you! Our goal is to post 2 posts per week by our members.  Possibly more if we get some good response.

If you are a blogger, or article writer, learning SEO, send us your links so we can get you on there! This will result in more traffic and back links for all of us.

here is the link,
http://grandretirement.blogspot.com/

To make this work for everyone we all need to comment on any article you read, share it as well (face book, twitter) While you are there add your testimonial to that page too!

The more exposure the better for all of us.

Participate in the Blog Frog page as well.

Your business will not grow if you dont work it!!

Corey Blackmur, On Choices

Corey Blackmur is also a valued member of TGRP. He writes very interesting and thought provoking articles and posts, here is one I just read, great stuff Corey! Looks like you are on the right path!

 

Just a story of Choices

Read this LET IT REALLY SINK IN.......THEN CHOOSE .

John is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, 'If I were any better, I would be twins!'

He was a natural motivator.

If an employee was having a bad day, John was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.

Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up and asked him, 'I don't get it!'

'You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?'

He replied, 'Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or...you can choose to be in a bad mood I choose to be in a good mood.'

Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or...I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it.

Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or...I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life.

'Yeah, right, it's not that easy,' I protested.

'Yes, it is,' he said. 'Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people affect your mood.

You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live your life.'

I reflected on what he said. Soon hereafter, I left the Tower Industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it.

Several years later, I heard that he was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower.

After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, he was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back.

I saw him about six months after the accident.

When I asked him how he was, he replied, 'If I were any better, I'd be twins...Wanna see my scars?' I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place.

'The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my soon-to-be born daughter,' he replied. 'Then, as I lay on the ground, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or...I could choose to die. I chose to live.'

'Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?' I asked.

He continued, '...the paramedics were great.

They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read 'he's a dead man'. I knew I needed to take action.'

'What did you do?' I asked.

'Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me,' said John. 'She asked if I was allergic to anything 'Yes, I replied.' The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, 'Dying'

Over their laughter, I told them, 'I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.'

He lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude....I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully.

Attitude, after all, is everything.

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.'

After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

You now have two choices!

There’s NO Such Thing as Residual Income

Team mate Lonnie Niver wrote a very good article over at APSense. Make sure to go over and read the comments!  Here is the link!  http://www.apsense.com/article/theres-no-such-thing-as-residual-income.html

Did the heading get your attention?

Good, because this is what people tell us as children and we pass it on to our children (except for me NOW). It’s a never ending cycle that only a few have learned to break. It bugs the hell out of me that all of us have been taught this ridiculous propaganda.

My mom came to Michigan to visit. It is nice to see her again but even at 42 years old she is still pushing on me that “There is no such thing as residual income”. She came over last night to take us out for ice cream. When we return to my house to visit some more we got on the subject of making money. The conversation started out talking about my eldest son wanting to move out of the house but I don’t think he is ready. I want to teach him how to create residual income for himself at a young age but he doesn’t want to listen. Typical teen!

Mom makes a comment that there is no such thing as residual income. My son is best just to be educated and get a good job. My son is going to school to be a male nurse and that I am proud of him for. He wants to do something he loves and I don’t want to discourage him from that. But I also believe he should learn how to control the money he does make.

Dave Ramsey is right, our education system is all messed up. they teach our children everything except how to control money. I told my mom I was going to make residual income for my family. I looked over to my wife and she supported me by saying, “you do it baby”. We are fed that education is the best and that is the only way to success. I want to vomit every time I hear of this or think of it.

We live in a world where the rich get richer because the poor work for the rich. We have to get control of our lives, our finances and start thinking for ourselves. Learn how to invest in residual income systems. Make money work for us instead of us working to make money.

Thanks for reading,

Lonnie
Simple Solves Problems

A Good Explanation of the One Percenters

Explanation  of how the U.S. economy is self destructing....all the way down the food chain. The fat get fatter, and the poor get desperate!

"The upper 1 percent of Americans are now taking in nearly a quarter of the nation's income every year. In terms of wealth rather than income, the top 1 percent control 40 percent.
"Their lot in life has improved considerably. Twenty-five years ago, the corresponding figures were 12 percent and 33 percent."


So I discover in a piece by Joseph E. Stiglitz in the new issue of Vanity Fair. These facts confirm my impression that greed is now seen as a virtue in America. I'm not surprised by the greed of the One-Percenters. I'm mystified by the lack of indignation from so many of the rest of us.
Day after day I read stories that make me angry. Wanton consumption is glorified. Corruption is rewarded. Ordinary people see their real income dropping, their houses sold out from under them, their pensions plundered, their unions legislated against, their health care still under attack. Yes, people in Wisconsin and Ohio have risen up to protest these realities, but why has there not been more outrage?
The most visible centers of these crimes against the population are Wall Street and the financial industry in general. Although there are still many honest bankers, some seem to regard banking and trading as a license to steal. Outrageous acts are committed and go unpunished. Consider this case of money laundering by Wachovia Bank, now part of Wells Fargo. This Guardian article reports: "The authorities uncovered billions of dollars in wire transfers, traveler's checks and cash shipments through Mexican exchanges into Wachovia accounts."
The bank paid fines of less than 2% of its $12.2 billion profit in 2009. No individual was ever charged with a crime. We need not doubt that Wachovia executives received bonuses over the period of time when they were overseeing these illegal activities. Permit me to quote one more paragraph:
"More shocking, and more important, the bank was sanctioned for failing to apply the proper anti-laundering strictures to the transfer of $378.4 billion -- a sum equivalent to one-third of Mexico's gross national product -- into dollar accounts from so-called casas de cambio (CDCs) in Mexico, currency exchange houses with which the bank did business."
If a third of the Mexican GNP passes through your bank and you don't ask the questions required by law, you are either (1) a criminal, or (2) incompetent. I can't think of another possibility.
Stories like this have become commonplace. Two of the most common types of news stories about banks recently have involved their losses, and the size of their executive bonuses. Bloomberg News reports: "JPMorgan Chase & Co. gave Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon a 51 percent raise in 2010 as the bank resumed paying cash bonuses following two years of pressure from regulators and lawmakers to curb compensation."
And here's more, from the Wall Street journal: "$57,031. That's about what the average U.S. archaeologist made last year. It's also what J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon made every day of last year -- $20.8 million total, according to the firm's proxy filing this week. Anyone who has doubts about the resiliency of Wall Street banks and brokerages should ponder that figure for awhile. The J.P. Morgan board also spent about $421,500 to sell Dimon's Chicago home. And they brought back the big cash bonus, doling out $30.2 million in greenbacks to Dimon and his top six lieutenants."
The CEOs of the venerable trading firms that were forced into bankruptcy were all paid bonuses. In a small recent case, executives of Borders intended to pay themselves $8 million in bonuses until a U. S. Trustee objected. A company spokesperson said, "The proposed programs were designed to retain key executives at Borders as we proceed through the Chapter 11 reorganization process." In short, retain those whose management bankrupted the corporation.

Read the rest here...