Thoughts On My Success and Thank You WA

byBHaran

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Updated 9 years ago

I'm being given a chance to share my progress so far with everyone who wants to see how someone else is doing. I am a 67-year-old grandmother and I did not grow up in the internet age. I was of the generation that helped design and refine it into something that every generation after us can use and enjoy. I hope future generations make it a primary goal to use it wisely and responsibly.

I have always felt that I was too old to learn all the tricks of computer use and that I would be the vanguard for keeping alive the 'old ways' before the internet mania. I have always felt sad when we as a culture fail to remember where we came from. So many of our present woes are due to the fact that we do not read history and we do not remember its lessons. It is always good to know on whose shoulders we stand. Be that as it may and that understood, I have now been a grandmother for 3 years and there is nothing I want more than to know the world my beautiful little granddaughter is going to grow up in.

I have too often been in conversations with nieces and nephews and even my daughter who are polite and courteous, but who try not to feel embarrassed when my eyes glaze over as they explain all that they have been learning about computers and social media. I have so often wished I could hold my own in those conversations. Though I still try to explain to them the virtues of a pre-computing world, I am rapidly gaining an eager interest in this amazing method of reaching out to the entire world.

So, after jumping through a few hoops with companies who assumed that I knew more than I did about reaching out to the world through internet marketing, I, with great luck, was able to find Wealthy Affiliates. They were the program of step by step instruction that I was so very much looking for. I don't know how they do it. One of the most controversial topics, I think, about any kind of business ethics is, "do I sell the knowledge I have, or do I give it away?" I am of the philosophy that it should be given away. Wealthy Affiliates are the only internet marketing company who I believe feel that way too.

I have gotten farther along in creating the website of my dreams in one month with WA than I had in nearly a year with my previous marketing company and I paid a lot more for the privilege of learning nothing compared to what I have learned through WA. I think it is false to believe that our intellectual capacity for learning is limited. I think we are limitless in our ability to understand, make connections, apply what we learn. I really think it is limitless and the more we share what we learn with one another, I think, the faster we will progress as human beings needing to work and live together in a society. I think that the reason we have wars and gangs and violence of all kinds is because our individual creativity is locked up inside with very little places for it to go.

I think the internet marketplace is a wonderful way and place, even for a grandmother like me (with WA's help) to create, express and hopefully make a living at (because this is important) sharing what we experience and learn throughout our lives.

I have gone from having a seedling of an idea for a niche but completely unorganized about the process of getting it published and shared to:

1. setting up a website
2. deciding on a niche based on my passion
3. writing and refining the content of my niche's theme
4. getting feedback on that content
5. adding pictures to that content
6. learning how to get that content ranked on search engines
7. writing and refining some more
8. publishing the content
9. helping others even though I am just a newbie myself

And as I continue to use the techniques and tools, question and answer forums at my disposal I am on the precipice of learning how my own creativity, that comes from inside me, may be of some financial value to someone else. For most of my life, I have resisted the great emphasis the world puts on the financial value of something and have wanted to concentrate only on its artistic or social or cultural or religious value.

However, as I think of my granddaughter growing up I realize how much I want her to be financially comfortable and there is nothing wrong with that. In fact, there never has been anything wrong with discovering the financial worth of one's own hard work and creativity. And if, as I suspect, given the concerns of the possibility of corruption in the industry, as there is in any industry, internet marketing can help people to understand their creativity and work hard to get that creative work to the world, there is nothing wrong with receiving financial gain from the value that that creativity gives to someone else.

I am struggling with the social media side of WA, sharing in answering questions, finding the appropriate place to get my questions answered, but I am beginning to realize that is only because I have little or no previous experience with social media of any kind. It is not due to WA running of their social media sites. In fact, I am certain that WA will be the only way that I will be able to come out of my comfort zone and become fluent with the use of social media to help my business grow and to help me grow as a person.

I don't mind admitting that I am not fluent and comfortable with social media. I think it comes with a concern I have always had on how my actions are affecting other people. This is another thing that passion internet marketing can help us to learn about. Feedback on how what we put out there effects those who engage with it. This model should never be taken for granted. It is a potential world changing model.

Please use it wisely and responsibly. And thank you WA for making it so very accessible to so many of us who would never have access.

Peace.

Beth