Virtual Thoughts

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What is Affairs in Order?

AffairsInOrder.com provides a revolutionary method of organizing all your personal, financial, and end of life plans in our ultra-secure off-line storage infrastructure.

Why Join AffairsInOrder

Organize all the important information of your life in one central secure location, and make it easy for your family, loved ones, or heirs to sort out the details of your life should you become incapacitated or pass away. The highest level of security available today, convenient and easy to use, we help you become and stay organized both during and at the end of your life.

Assign a Personal Representative

One of the most important features of an AffairsInOrder account is the ability to assign one or more Personal Representatives. These trusted friends or family members can gain access to your account should you pass away or become otherwise incapacitated and unable to act for yourself. Your designated Personal Representative can only gain access to your account upon having your attending physician sign the Consent to Release Information form, and faxing that form to AffairsInOrder staff.

Create a Healthcare Directive (Living Will)

A Health Care Directive is a legal document that lets you name a health care agent to make health care decisions for you if you are unable to make decisions for yourself in the future. You also have the option of listing specific health care wishes. This is one of the most important aspects of your AffairsInOrder account, and we offer a state-specific Healthcare Directive for all 50 states. Simply download the form, fill out the information, have it signed and notarized, and then upload the completed form into the document storage section of your account.

Peace of Mind

Getting your affairs in order provides peace of mind not only for you, but also for your family and loved ones, who will have a much easier time organizing your affairs in the event of your death or incapacitation. Where is your will, who is your attorney, who is your designated Personal Representative, what special medical conditions do you have, what type of funeral service do you want? These are just some of the many questions that, if documented ahead of time, makes for a vastly easier time for your heirs and loved ones to sort matters out after you pass away, especially if they can do so from any place in the world with Internet access. It also creates a vastly more organized and simple life for yourself while you are alive and well, having all your important information organized in one secure, always-accessible location.

Convenient

Access your data from any Internet connection with total security. Store your Will, Healthcare Directive, along with any other important information. Assign a Personal Representative who will gain access to your account only when your attending physician deems you incapacitated. Need to access your home security information while on vacation, need to know your blood type or medical records in a time of emergency? This is why we all need AffairsInOrder.

Secure

AffairsInOrder utilizes the highest available security methods available today. We encrypt your data at the highest level allowed by US law, which means that even if a hacker was able to access the data you are uploading, that data would be meaningless. We employ a full-time team of security experts who constantly monitor our infrastructure. Utilizing an undocumented security protocol, it is basically impossible for our systems to be compromised, keeping you and your data safe from online identity theft, phishing, pharming, keystroke logging, Trojan horses, and other nefarious hacking attempts.

Easy

Our comprehensive set of online forms makes it easy to organize all your affairs. Document your personal, financial, and end of life plans in a central location for your heirs to access at the appropriate time. Store or print out your Will and Attached List, create a state-specific Healthcare Directive for proper signature by witnesses and/or a Notary Public.

Source: http://www.affairsinorder.com/pages/New_Visitor.php

April 30, 2008 Posted by virtualthoughts | Business Opps | | No Comments

When Replying to Craigslist Ads

Sure, almost everybody who is looking for a job or is looking for an employee knows about Craigslist. So recently a client of mine asks me to post several available jobs for website designer, graphic designer and other stuff, I got to experience first hand at receiving resumes. I was surprised at how casual a lot of job applicants are in applying for a job.

When I apply, usually I create a cover letter or an introduction letter about myself and my experiences, then I include the entire body of the resume in the body of the email as a lot of employers do not like to receive attachments.

But a lot of those application emails I received don’t have any cover letter, some instead of putting in their resumes, puts in a lot of questions ( I haven’t even seen their resume to know they are qualified or not and I am bombarded with questions ), others just listed their website, no introduction or anything, in short just go to their website and figure out what they do and what are their skills. Worst, others just attached their resume and put the body of the email Blank.

If I were an employer looking for employees, I wouldn’t want to bother with those that just sent in their website or just attach their resume, cause they are by far too lax and therefore wouldn’t make a diligent employee specially if we are talking virtual where there is a very minimal supervision involved.

So as an advice to all job applicants specially the virtual ones, If you want to be taken seriously as a job applicant, then please do the proper thing when applying for a job position - write a cover letter or introduction letter and include your resume. You will have a bigger chance of being hired.

April 26, 2008 Posted by virtualthoughts | Uncategorized | | No Comments

An Alert to Writers in PI

To all aspiring writers in the Philippines, the truth of the matter is, those writing jobs posted in Craigslist pays peanuts. I mean, they are paying way lower than what a writer can actually by submitting articles to local magazines. This has been my complain before that is why I don’t accept writing jobs.

To all those looking for writers, be guided that Writing is a special skill and takes a lot of talent, not everybody can write, therefore it doesn’t come cheap either.

I once wrote a paper for a nursing post-grad in California and it got her an A! But did she pay me? Nope, she didn’t, must have thought that it was easy, and to think that I am not a medical graduate and I was only able to finish college and not graduate school.

Check one of the alerts by a fellow writer posted at

http://manila.craigslist.com.ph/wri/657481467.html

Another writing agency posted a job offer that pays P8,000 monthly to homebased writers. It seemed OK when you look at it. But a closer examination reveal that the ad was designed to fool writers again.

It pays P8000 a month. Since there are 30 days in a month, that means
8000 divided by 30 = P266

You will be given P266 a day. Bun without your knowing it, you will be required to complete 3 to 4 articles in a day.

That means you divide P266 into four articles and you get P66.50. In other words, this job poster will trick you into believing that you are getting a good offer when in fact,it’s deception in disguise.

You will be paid P66.50 for each 500-word article. Can you believe that?

Many methods of trickery are being used by these shameless posters just to deceive us writers into accepting such deplorable fee.If you were deceived into applying for these writing agencies,please reconsider. Let’s prove them once and for all that their long years of exploitation agains the writers are over.If they will not give us competitive rates which is around P350 per 500-word article, ignore their posts.

My fellow writers, always be vigilant.

http://manila.craigslist.com.ph/wri/641226259.html

This poster requires 5 posts a day and he promises P6,000 a month.

That means 150 articles a month.

If you compute the pay per article offer, it only amounts to P40 per article.

That’s right.

P40/article.

Can you believe that?

This job poster attempts to take advantage of writers.

Just an alert for all Philippine writers out there.

April 26, 2008 Posted by virtualthoughts | Online jobs | | 2 Comments

My New Affiliate - Affairsinorder.com

I just signed up for the affiliate program of www.affairsinorder.com. Why? because I really believe in the product.

Nowadays, death is just a second away, you’ll never know when you get hit by a car, or a sudden disease may take you to meet your creator, or a continuous intake of medication may just render you in a comatose stage. So I think that everyone should put their Affairs in Order to prepare for the unexpected. One thing that is so sad to see is having our children or relatives fighting over our assets or estate. It’s so sad that nobody is fighting on who’s going to pay our leftover “debts” lol.

Famous celebrities like Heath Ledger and Anna Nicole Smith are fine examples. They were young so whoever would have thought that their life would end so tragically? But then age is not an issue with death.

Therefore in order to secure our children’s future, and to make sure our affairs are well taken cared off when we’re gone, we have to make sure they are well taken cared of while we are yet alive.

So do check this site and get your affairs in order now.

April 24, 2008 Posted by virtualthoughts | Anything Virtual | | No Comments

Boracay - A New Investment Opportunity

If you are looking to invest here in the Philippines, Boracay is a good place to invest. Every year there are thousand of tourist there. Do contact me if you are interested to learn more about this investment.


April 24, 2008 Posted by virtualthoughts | Business Opps | | 2 Comments