Such excellent goals and work plan here... excited to watch them roll out for you!
To your success :)

Hi Allison,

Some of us need that extra boost to keep motivated and focused in life and our businesses. Life itself can become a major hurdle for business owners to overcome.

So staying focused can become a vital aspect as to whether your business fails or succeeds, I think you are on the right track, by holding yourself accountable to the members here at WA.

As you stated in our conversations with each other, you do better in a classroom full of people than off by yourself.

I also think that this is something you need to try to overcome because, in reality, a business owner is accountable to only those they feel accountable to. Mostly to themselves and their immediate family.

While a mastermind group does have its benefits with learning different techniques, styles, methods, and generalized strategies. Sailing solo is what makes our businesses unique they become a reflection of ourselves, especially for those offbeat niche websites.

I guess what I am trying to say here, is each website is different and geared toward different customers. What works for Joe's woodworking website might not work for Jill's jewelry designing website and Vise Versa. Even though both are related in many ways they both will have completely different customers or readers interested in what the website has to offer them.

If your niche is geared toward a younger crowd like generation X (let's say gaming) Facebook advertising might not be a good form of advertising for that niche type of a website.

At the same token Facebook, advertising might help draw in traffic for a quilting website which is geared toward the baby boomers generation or those that have retired (not saying everyone that does quilting is over 40, but most are).

Not all strategies work for all websites it is a trial and error attitude that sometimes works best to find out where your website fits in the market you are involved in.

I personally have found that I can hold myself very accountable to me, and I do not have a stronger critic of my work than myself. I have been known to stir the kettle up a bit from time to time. But I know it was in the interest of making things better and not so much as ranting.

Regardless I hope you find what works best for you and your business. If we don't try new things we stop growing and learning: when that happens everything around us suffers.

Learn more, earn more, but earn while you learn is the greatest.

Always move forward.

I hope it all works out for the best in the long run for you!!

As always here to help when and if you need it.

Living Life Large, Calvin

Hi Allison
Within the community here in WA, there are a lot of experts and really awesome people who offer support, encourage and offer great answers to questions. It is a huge mastermind group here in WA.

Many members are so busy growing, learning and building online and some of us have accountability partners we have formed a connection with here and I hope you find a great person to do this with along the way.

I also think once you do the training step by step, you will feel less of a need for a group as you too will have direction and more focus as you go through all the lessons and completre each task
I hope this helps a little for you
Go well and learn it all
Vicki

Hey Alli... I think an accountability partner would be awesome! I'm new to the group. Arrived on Friday. If you're still open to the idea then let me know.

Either way, I'm going to use this idea.