To sell or to outsource.?

Hello WA peeps!So after losing ground in my rankings, and not posting an article for the better part of 2 weeks, I have had to do some serious thinking.Here's the thing: Without beating a dead horse and reviewing my current financial situation yet again, suffice it to say that I am trying to make things better by continuing to work full time and redesign my web design/graphic design website, hosted here on WA. I also just picked up a new marketing project from a local law firm/financial servic

Two Worlds Collide!

Hiya -- I've been off the radar here for the past few weeks, as I started building another website for my marketing and web design business, but also because I picked up a pretty big law firm client, and have been hired as a consultant to write their marketing plan and then implement it. If all goes well, I will be on retainer, which will go a long way in helping my ailing financial situation.I am still working full time, so the prospect of working on this in the evenings is exhausting to me an

Down the social media rabbit hole

So while I was away from WA, I watched my rank go from 50 to 150, because I was busy watching all sorts of social media thought-leaders try to sell me their training. From Todd and Leah Rae Getts (Twitter and Facebook), to Melyssa Griffin (Pinterest), and everyone else in between. Their one-hour videos were all very compelling, drawing me in, telling me why I absolutely had to sign with them and plunk down $297 to learn their top secrets of getting a million leads a day, a week, a month, all l

My first deposit from Amazon!

Good morning! Good day!I woke up this morning to check my bank account balance and saw a deposit from Amazon for $12.65...! Woo Hoo...!Okay -- okay -- I know I can't retire on this, but it brings me some hope that it can only go up from here! A nice surprise for a Friday morning!/a.

My son is telling me to quit!

My son, a newly minted college grad, asked me about WA, and I took him through my profile, and showed him all about the training, support, community, classrooms, Jaxxy, etc. I explained all I could about affiliate marketing and how it has taken me 15 months to get to this place with my website.He then asked me what I pay to belong here and I told him, and knowing my financial situation, he freaked out, and asked me how I could pay out almost $600 a year, without even making back the monthly fee

Thoughts on a summer morning

Hiya friends,It's been awhile since I blogged here, and quite frankly, struggling with what to write about. I don't want to write about coffee or my trip to Florida or my son's graduation or any of those other personal experiences because I'm not sure that is really relevant here.I don't want to blog about how I am trying so desperately to get my site off the ground and ranked -- or how I am trying to gain traffic by any means possible -- or how exhausting this is, and how discouraged I am feel

When ice cream is the catalyst for change

Hiya WA-ers,I've been doing some serious thinking about the past 14 months with WA, and where I am going, and have been in a very difficult place with this. The amount of knowledge I have under my belt is amazing -- even to me -- yet I have so much more to go. I am enjoying the whole process of the training and learning all the "under the hood" stuff, so that's not the issue.The issue, and what sparked this "crisis" is that I had ice cream for dinner. A simple act, and rather innocuous, but it

Wait for me.!

Good morning!I'm running to get ready for work but noticed that my ranking went from 48 to 51, and while I'm more concerned about developing my site rather than my ranking number, I feel like saying, "wait a minute!!" I've been working and have other obligations in the evening this week and have not been able to work too much on WA or my site. I am behind on my articles as well.I keep saying that I will get up at 5:00 to start writing, but I don't sleep very well so when the alarm goes off, the

Amazon Heartache

Good morning,So, a friend of mine here at WA wanted to order an item from one of my posts - yay...! Would have been my FIRST real affiliate sale. She lives in Canada and I live in the USA.She clicked on the link on my post which took her to the Amazon.com site, but was unable to order the item because she was told that it was not available in Canada, and couldn't be shipped to her location. She then clicked around to other similar items and was told the same thing.We thought that maybe it was b

Give and take needs some give and take!

Hiya, to my creative companions!I wanted to talk about the Give and Take Comments Thread, which is a great way to get comments on posts we have written, which are not yet getting organic comments online. Yes, it skews the rankings, but if your site's keywords haven't ranked, like mine, it is a great way to fake it till you make it...!Here is the link: https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/authoring-writing-content/th...I have noticed that while I take the time to read through a post and leave a valua