Ok, I'm struggling with the "About me" part of Affiliate Bootcamp

bybuckycore

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Updated 10 years ago

I'm just putting this out here with my thoughts on the matter for who ever wants to join in helping me think out loud on the subject. I'm struggling with my "About me" task for the Affiliate Bootcamp. It's by no means because I'm at a loss for words, or struggle with writing. (As some may know, I love to comment and chitter chat). It's obvious that I'm struggling with my angle, and approach to how I want to promote WA to potential recruits.

• I'm still new at this, and I can't claim any authority on the matter. I could talk about the technical and creative side of web sites. I could talk about how to promote a site if you created the product. But I can't claim "I'm a definitive marketer with enough experience to encourage you to go to WA"

1. Really, it's about shifting my own identity and role in all this. While I'm a masterful researching on line, as well as the king of being "self taught", I have a hard time conveying what I know on a practical level. I can sit around, and riff with people on a casual level at a cafe. It tends to overwhelm people what I do know, and what experiences i have. But to sit down and say "I'm the authority on a subject. So you will now listen" is more formal than I've ever done. Even though this is the about section of my site, as I've not posted any official content to promote WA offers yet, it's still serves as a mission statement, and a summary of intent.
2. Even if I take the time to sharpen my game, and say "I AM AN AUTHORITY", I still have a dilemma claiming an authority on marketing, especially affiliate marketing. As I said, I'm still learning, and haven't taken a first-step-proper yet. So I have no experience. I could always say that. And from my own experience as a potential user, I question the judgment of some one who is "just learning" if I'm anxiously hunting down information to understand affiliate marketing, or a means to earn a passive/residual income so I don't have to deal with working for some one else any longer. What would happen is, I'd read some of the posts, and think "well, I dunno..." and then check, and check other resources. I'd most likely come across some one else in the same program, yet with more of an authoritative, confident tone. Blam...I gave them the action step and opportunity, and the first person (me, the newbe who is honest) lost that chance.
3. But let's say I get past this hesitation, after looking in the mirror and affirming "YOU ARE A WEB MARKETING GURU! YOU CAN PROMOTE WA SINCERELY AND AUTHORITATIVELY! YOU WILL MAKE MONEY FROM THIS!" (which...I plan on doing after I type this blog, actually)...the final factor is HOW/WHY/WHAT affiliated marketing serves for me, and how it's currently jumbled up along side other things which are of equal importance for the good, empowered life.
   1. Which is...I'm not singularity focused on "Gotta make the big money, man...god, I'm desperate....gotta do this web hustle". I did start off with that mind set, but it was a very anxious, counterproductive mind set. And even though I learned some technical stuff in that step, I wasn't taking in the larger picture of "ME" as a system. My financial situation was falling apart because I was falling apart. I neglected my physical health, my emotional health, and I was severely imbalanced with focusing too much on "work/skills/gotta make moneys".
   2. I had learned a very critical piece of information from Eben Pagan which is: You can't just single out and fix a component in your life and think everything will work magically. You have to look at the whole, and treat it like a system. While you need to spend time daily working on things, you need to be aware of behavior towards frustrations and obstacles. My MAIN obstacles was self identity, and self confidence. I was always the creative/technical guy who was obsessed with the nitty-gritty details of a project or production. While I had a general sense of market and audience, I mostly focused on what I thought was good. I have high standards, and I only wanted "the best"...It wasn't practical all the time, particularly in a time frame sense. Many times, I would need to go research, and practice things just to take care of some details that *may or may not be important*. It wasn't so much perfectionism, but just some one who LOVED the details of web design and web development. However, that LOVE separated me from the business people. The marketing people. The ones who actually took action, and did it quickly. They didn't have time for details...they outsourced things (to me, and sometimes to larger teams over seas) While the economy was great, I made lots of money with this mind set and behavior. But when the economy grew crummy, I didn't have the practical skills of moving faster. I only knew how to work "harder"...which made me feel frustrated, and my physical and emotional health deteriorated. When realizing I needed to switch gears on a career path, I still took that overly thinking strategy, and found I wasn't getting fast enough results.
      
   3. Taking this in mind (if you actually read #2), things started to change for me the moment I let go of the financial anxiety for a while, and focused on my health and mind set. While I'm still in the process of working on all that, I can tell you, I wouldn't have even been able to admit nor write a coherent blog about what was holding me back, nor why I've not been able to publish an affiliate marketing site properly yet. The one thing I saw clearly as to why I want to do affiliate marketing is because...it build YOU internally. it helps you break things down to micro-steps, working towards micro goals, and it allows you to see how/what the world is thinking and what it wants or needs better. It takes me out of my mind set, and places it in others. Being able to create such value for others builds confidence as the end result of your quality efforts == moneys.
   4. So...I can't easily take out the web marketing component as it's deeply integrated in the whole process I'm doing for my self in rebuilding my personal system known as "me"
4. Knowing all the long winded details of my thinking, I have to commit to either a larger authority site, or to learn how to just focus on pure affiliate marketing authority.
   1. One is natural in my thinking, but it will take a lot longer
   2. One will be more expedient, but I feel I will end up repeating what others are saying, and that won't provide me any competitive advantage nor opportunity.