Feedback from your family, friends, and loved ones can be gold.

byAlexEvans

11.9K followers

4 years ago

I have noticed that quite a few are a little reticent about sharing that they are involved in or with online marketing. At some phases, until you come out of your shell and claim the mantle, it is almost as if one is ashamed to say it; most of us went through that stage when we lacked confidence.

I am a writer hear my words' roar!

Not.

I guess as we immerse, our confidence grows, definitely boosted by that sales trickle that forebodes a tsunami.

It is a journey, is it not?

Reasons for going the opposite way!

The beginning years can be problematic. Talking to people who have given up, it comes down to a few reasons.

We talk ourselves out of it.

We let others talk us out of it.

We let the journey talk us out of it.

You may agree or disagree or add more validations—experience and asking those who have given up qualify the reasoning.

Don't get me wrong, living under a rock is a very comfortable lifestyle. Trouble is that you don't get to see much of the world, and we could call it just another lonely day.

At some point, the world beckons, yet we can still have that reluctance to share. A different story when the money flows. Those around us can be our most powerful amplifiers and want in on the action.

In the beginning, the harshest critics can be those around us, not to be mean just because they care? A complex subject and situation; diving deep 400k words' of exploration.

The most challenging words' we will ever write are the first fifty or so. For the first time, we are writing for ourselves, creating content to share with ourselves and others, not some taskmaster who delights in assigning essays in the name of education.

Writing for yourself may not fit any of the amendments of the " blogging constitution;" I mean, it has to be for the audience, does it not?

It can be so easy to get trapped in the eternal audience-first mindset. The reality is that we have to derive pleasure from the words' that we craft.

If we don't get a sense of satisfaction from word crafting, we are just creating another job.

Are we not?

Who wants that? One is a journey to self-fulfillment, and one ends up down the bottom of lonely street, at the heartbreak lost words' hotel. Initially, it can be a love-hate relationship, one where we have to invest energy to develop our writing sense.

You know when you have reached the zone, push the publish button read your piece back, and scare yourself.

It's very good, mighty fine, you don't have to think about it; you just know and feel it. Your words' resonate, you are propagating and promoting an angle when you own your words', there is a watertight guarantee that others will want to rent them from you for a little while.

May even pay for the privilege, they may even take out an extended lease.

Family friends and loved one's may be challenged initially. Once you start on this journey, it doesn't take long before you are looking at the world with a different set of glasses. It can be a case of managing the people around you until they come on board. Once there is a buy-in, they will become your biggest supporters. This, in turn, frees you to explore and adventure.

So forget about the why, and the audience; just craft hard out, go your own way, and scare yourself daily. The rest will take care of its self, trust me, thousands don't, some do and shine.

Alex Evans