We all get confused at WA - sometimes.

byDmk71152

2.8K followers

8 years ago

Many people now are telling me they are lost at Wealthy Affiliate or getting frustrated. I got lost at Wealthy Affiliate. Why is that?

There is a good moral to this story. A very strong teachable moral moment. A way to solve it.

Let tell you my story – I jumped right in at WA – started the training – I immediately tried to build a Website – I had already tried elsewhere – a friend and myself worked on a site for a long time – It looked like crap. He was supposed to know what he was doing and I had no idea. He did not know what he was doing. The site still sits out there hosted next to my new one – that one still needs lots of work.

Now I was excited to get into WA - I just knew it was the answer. I jumped right in – and low and behold another poor looking site – pages or post just did not go where I wanted. There were not visible and certainly not on the home page where I was trying to put them. I just could not figure out WordPress – nor how to move around pages or posts – or what the hell is the difference anyway???? What is a page and what is a post?

I went to college – I am not dumb – but I went to school when you used paper, pens and pencils. A computer was the equivalent of a calculator and a filing system and it took up floors of a building. The words - terms for what we are trying to do now did not exist yet.

Now again - why am I bringing this up.

If you start here at WA and you encounter a word or a function and it does not exist in your vocabulary – you are stuck. If you start in and make a page or post and have NO IDEA which is which or why - you are stuck.

There was a famous book written - Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus.

(By the way I am from Mars – no really – I am – Mars, Pennslyvania – born and raised there - so this author right here is really from Mars – so that makes me a bit of an expert about the book – not WA.)

Actual picture of downtown Mars. PA..

Many of you may have read that book – it was a relationship book and it discussed how women and men are from different worlds – when they say the same word - their brains and thought processes force a different meaning for the same word - much like you are speaking a differently language - a man and women do interpret (think) differently. The interpretation and expected results from a word or sentence or thought is not interpreted the same by a women as a man. It is confusing and frustrating.

You would have to read the book – if you have not – in order to understand the differences. But they are real and each person/sex hears one word and each naturally understands a different meaning -usually 180 degrees from the other. It causes problems until you learn – if you ever do. You must learn the opposite sex’s definition of a word in order to react as they expect - not as you do.

Now the book goes through how you learn to understand. How you learn the other’s language so you can react in the appropriate way. So. the other can understand and accept it. Men vs women language.

And in that - there is part of the moral – with WA - everything is available to learn – if and when you learn the language - and where to find the answers.

The day you start there is excitement and you begin – then all of a sudden many of use encounter a foreign language of techy talk and confusion – many of us go off and look ahead or around - or try to work past a word or words - we have NO IDEA what they mean. People get mad and frustrated and disillusioned but mostly STUCK.

ere STUCK - and most every day I get stuck again – but finally - I am learning how to use the site – find what I need - ask the right questions – KNOW ENOUGH VOCABULARY WORDS TO ASK THE QUESTION USING THE RIGHT WORDS. Not feel stupid for not knowing - or just be too confused to even know what to ask.

Again, why do I bring this up? I did not find a vocabulary video to explain the hundred or so words that are techy in nature and us, non-techy people, have no clue. I looked on line and printed a vocabulary list and studied them. I had to do that before I even began to understand the sentences. And - in my not having a clue/vocabulary – the instructions for the course are in a foreign language to me.

Next, I really looked around and found people who would be patient enough to help – I searched the data and looked for training essays or videos to explain what I did not know. I was too naïve to even know what to ask for a while.

Once again – why do I bring this up? Now that I have a bunch of “follows” those people are talking to me – they express their frustration. They are in the same boat I was in – that I am still in sometimes. I realize - there are two types of people here. Some can write and find niches and have creative ideas that would monetize – but they have no clue about techy stuff – it gets them lost. They get stuck in the first few lessons and may not find their way out to where they get their answers.

By the way a Marion Black has a lot of “simple” – understandable- training with directions on how to use WA - very, very informative. Plus, lots of good training to questions we, non-techy people, will ask. – us - none techy people all get stuck. And, Marion Black presents answers in a way us, non-techy people, can follow along and not get lost. One day a light bulb goes off in our head - we say – “okay I am finally comprehending the vocabulary of Techy and it’s beginning to make sense.” The advantage is - if and when we get some control of techy stuff – we are the creative writers who can write and write and write.

Now - my theory is - many non-techy people get stuck in the very beginning. Many of us never find our way out. So, we need a vocabulary lesson in the beginning and then some simple explanation of how to use WordPress in a way we understand. So many get stuck somewhere upfront and have frustration and problems getting past it. Some never do…maybe many never do.

Now I can’t speak for the techy minded people. I am not sure how to offer them advice. They build nice sites that work - but a lot of their writing gets lost on the rest of us - either too technical and “big” words - or not so interesting to us non-techy types. Maybe the rapid writer tool can help them. I have not looked at – have not needed it.

So, Wealthy Affiliate IS for everyone – but maybe - just maybe – WA should have a pre-start vocabulary video with pictures that explains the techy words and how they are used - also a printable PDF - for us non-techy’s to learn the language before we begin. Then - send us to a Marion Black type training to explain the functions of the dashboard and how to use it. And most importantly - how to use it to get answers we will need every day to keep going.

Wealthy Affiliate was put together by techy people. It’s good for techy people. But non-techy people show up also. WE need a little pre- training – training. We need the Berlitz Language Training for computer techy language - we need a road map video to use the dashboard and all that is available there - we need a more simple explanation to use WordPress the first few times – as most people you lose can’t put a page or post where it is supposed to go nor move it after it gets in the wrong place.

I have talked to people In England - Spain – South Africa – Canada today alone. All because I found my way here. We are exchanging ideas and working on marketing and sales ideas. I am also talking to many people frustrated here at WA. I hope I have been able to guide them to a vocabulary list and some upfront preparation to use WA. That would make it much more user friendly for non-techy’s like me.