3 Rookie Mistakes To Avoid in Achieving Your Big Dream

We have come to Wealthy Affiliate portal propelled by a dream. Be it the dream of securing a passive income, building a sustainable business or even that of living life on your own terms.

Some dreams are bigger than others, but they are still dreams waiting to be actualized.

These 3 missteps have the potential to rob you of the realization of your dreams.

Skimming through the OEC course

The Online Entrepreneurship Certification course is Wealthy Affiliate’s flagship course that covers everything you need to know about Affiliate Marketing.

It’s complete and sequentially put together.

Don’t be afraid you will be overwhelmed. It was a legitimate concern of mine when I first started

Kyle & Carson, however, have ensured the course is fed to you in bite sized pieces to eliminate the fear of overwhelm. Hands-on, skill building assignments have been thrown in to break the monotony of reading and allow you to try your hands on the practical side.

Come to think of it, building a website is a hands-on activity.

The mistake you are likely to make on the outset is to skim through the OEC course so you can finish fast. A second mistake is to avoid the assignments at the end of the modules. Big mistake! The expectation is that you will go through the course step by step with no step skipped.

Do not attempt to finish reading the course in one or two days. I have seen a few individuals attempt to do so. The problem is I simply stopped seeing them after they had ‘ supposedly’ finished the course.

You are required to do a deep dive and not skim through the certification course. When you are done, treat it as a go-to reference book that you constantly refer to while working on your site.

Avoid Inflated Expectations

Tamp down your expectations. Your earning comes from the sum total of the knowledge you have gained on the WA platform and used in building and monetizing your website/s.

Making money in Affiliate Marketing is not as easy as turning on a faucet and letting 'greenbacks' flush the bathroom floor! Forget all the phony promises the fake gurus made about money on autopilot in affiliate marketing. It’s just not true. They may want to sell you some shiny object and are trying to soften you up so you can part with your hard-earned money!

After all, even in a day job, you are expected to put in some work before you receive compensation. How come in Affiliate Marketing, you want to start making money even before you implement what you have learned?

Be invested for the long haul. Like any other enterprise, you will have your fair share of disappointments. Do not be discouraged and give up

Your earnings will start out as a trickle and as you persist in implementing what you have learned, the dam that separates you from your earnings will burst, prompted by the weight of your traffic and conversions and you will experience a torrent of passive earnings.

When that peak period will occur depends on many variables, some of which are outside of your control. But as long as you are consistent in your application, it is bound to happen.

One thing is clear: the more massively, you implement your newly acquired online marketing knowledge, the more massive will be your earnings.

Your Niche is not an X-Box!

Take some time in deciding on a niche. It’s like a rut. You will be in it for a long while so make sure you dig it well.

Pick a niche you are passionate about, so that on a day you are unmotivated and you don’t feel like working on your site, your passion will drive you through.

Do not make the rookie mistake I made of confusing a niche with a product like X-box or even an income source like Affiliate Marketing because it is not!

A niche is a group of people bound together by a bond or problem. The more you understand their problem, the more you can feel their pain, the better will be your ability to prescribe solutions. The better you get at doing this, the more they will gravitate towards you.

Look for your niche wherever they may be on the internet. If they belong to a forum, take some time and join so you can observe them as an insider and get to know them better.

Do not go looking for an amorphous group of people just because you want a large niche. The more specific you are in defining this group of individuals, the more effective you will be in helping your tribe.

What other missteps,newbie or otherwise do you think can withold one from realizing their big dream?

Please share it with the community.