I'm Back! - Update On My Research Goal
Published on June 11, 2015
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So, not quite finished with my research goal of doing six reviews but I am proud to announce that I did get FOUR done! I learned a lot from this experience. Below are some of the things I realized:
1) The amount of time and effort needed to research
I really got to understand how much time and effort needed to be put in for the research step. Knowing this was the most important result of this experiment. Now, I can say with confidence that if I were to do a review of an affiliate program, it would take longer than doing a review of a book as an example.
2) How important it was to really plan ahead
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I found myself spinning in confusion until I realized that although I had a general outline of a plan, I didn't name out exactly what reviews I would do. For example, I would say that I would do a review on a book about motivation but I didn't find out the exact title of the book I would do a review for. This added time to the overall planning stage but it got much easier once I actually NAMED what I would review.
3) How I really needed to take a break from the WA community for a bit to focus
I did not realize how I was using the fact that I was helping to keep me from focusing on my goal to finish all the reviews on time. Really what had happened was that I was not confronting the actual time and effort involved with the cycle. This changed once I realized that it would take a bit more time to do the reviews and after I applied what I discovered with number 2 ) above.
4) That I'm now excited to do future research!
This was a result I expected to happen once I really got my feet wet with doing research. I know we were tasked to do this once or twice in the certification courses and at least once for WA on the Affiliate Bootcamp in Course 1 but this really took some confronting of doing the things necessary to get the job done.
Although I did not make my target, I am still excited for the future of my websites now that I have this new-found confidence in .making reviews and still consider it a success that I got this much done.
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