A Fork In The Road Decision With My Mentor - It Was Like GOLD!

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You may have seen previous blogs of mine here where I referenced my mentor who I often go to for advice.

It is not the function of a mentor to be a tutor or coach. A mentor is there for help when you need to. It is up to you to use their time wisely as they are very busy indeed.

My mentor joined Wealthy Affiliate, and decided to promote the Wealthy Affiliate Program right from the beginning. He joined in 2015 and within three years was earning around $8000 a month consistently. Now, after five years he earns around $10,000 a month. Not shabby at all.

Advice At The Start Of My Membership

When I was new here his advice was invaluable. I contacted him a lot. As I got more experience, I only asked for advice when my question was more related to strategy than education.

That is exactly what I did a couple of days ago when I needed advice regarding a fork in the road decision I felt I had to make.

His answers were like GOLD. Hence, I want to share them with you as it could be of help to you too.

Like my mentor my website is devoted to promoting Weathy Affiliate. I have 91 posts and one static home page right now, In a couple of weeks I hope to have reached 100 posts. My concern was related to my poor performance regarding attracting referrals.

I felt I should be doing better.

Advice At An Advanced Phase

Here are 3 direct questions I asked. I got 3 direct and clear answers below.

Q1) Is the website you are earning $10K a month now your first one? Or did you make a change?

A1) My current website was my first site in the MMO niche. But it did take time for me to start getting traffic and making decent sales. So the aim of the game is persistence. In time, you will begin to see more easily what is working and what is not, dial in the part that's working more and scale up your results. So keep moving forward and keep learning. It can seem frustrating at times, I know, but if you keep at it you WILL succeed.

Q2) If I am doing the same thing over and over again and getting the same results, only one click per day, should I change?

A2) Sounds like you are on the right track and your site/content is looking good too. So personally my advice would be to stay the course. It is true that you don't want to do the same thing over and over and expect a different result, but when it comes to creating content for your site, it's a slow burn, so you do kind of have to persistently create content before seeing the results.

It's not necessarily that what you're doing isn't working, it's probably that you need to give it more time. You need to give yourself time to develop your skill set, and your site time to get traffic. If you were still getting 1 click p/d in 6 months from now, after having 200 plus posts on your site, then I'd say maybe something isn't right. But it's still relatively early days in my mind

Also, as a suggestion, if a post is ranking well (according to Jaaxy or in an incognito window - very important) and not bringing you traffic, then you may be targeting the wrong keywords. I didn't look at all your posts but from what I can see you are targeting good keywords, so it's likely just time.

Q3) Would it make sense to add products like computers and phones to see if I can generate those kinds of sales. My logic was, it may take me less time for decent product sales compared to Wealthy Affiliate subscriptions. Then I could use these results to show that WA works.

A3) You could do that but personally I wouldn't. Simply because most people you target are likely not even working from home yet and even if they are, I like to keep my site very SIMPLE and targeted. So focused on promoting one thing, in the simplest way possible. Of course, it does depend on the niche/site but that's how I promote WA.

Moving Forward

WOW! I am going to follow his advice. I feel fortunate I have such a mentor. So happy he found me lost online and helped me find my way to Wealthy Affiliate.

One of the lessons learned was the effort I have made so far was not good enough. I should have written 240 posts on my MMO website, not 91.

If I had written 240 quaity posts, maybe I would not have had to ask for advice.

It is uncanny that since I wrote the Think and Grow Rich Blog Series here I have been averaging 3 posts a week on my website. And my rankings have been getting higher.

Maybe I just need to keep doing what I am doing using a little help from Google Search Console and Analytics to understand which posts are at the top. And then write more like those.

What do you think? Have you been in my situation where you had to make a decision moving forward? If so, what was your decision?

Looking forward to hearing from you in the discussion area below.

Cheers!

Edwin

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Wanted to tell you that I was driving this week and listened to an audio book called Think and Grow Rich for Women based on the original book but explains a few differences between men/women. I forgot I had it. So good! I tell you this in case you know any women that can benefit. I will do a post tomorrow referencing it too.

Sounds like you got some good advice from your mentor. Thanks for sharing. Not everyone has a mentor. I have NO doubt that you will be successful.

~Debbi

Hi Debbi,

I am glad that there is a TAGR version out for women. When Napoleon Hill wrote the book, women entrepreneurs and especially, company executives were a rarity. But he did mention that the lessons were applicable to women as an after thought.

Please do share what you find out in the book you are reading.

Thanks for your comments.

Edwin

Thanks so much for sharing the advice and motivating words exchanged between you and your mentor, reading it has been really helpful to me (and my mindset).

You are lucky to have such a mentor. I have never had any contact with my referrer besides one automated welcome message when I first joined WA. I have often wondered if I might have chosen a different direction for my business if this hadn't been so.

Hi Shannon,

In the long run it doesn't matter what direction you take, as long as you become the best you can be in that niche.

Do you watch the weekly live webinars by Jay? If you do, great. If not I highly recommend them as you can ask Jay questions in real time and get very helpful answers.

All the best to you.

Edwin

Hi Edwin ... yes I do try to catch all of Jay's webinars. They are wonderful and so very helpful. When I am unable to actually watch them live, I do go in sometime the next week to view them.

What you have shared is highly appreciated. I mean you did the hard work of asking and writing the conversation, all we do is to read. You're such a generous man. I admire you're unselfish attitude. Instead of keeping these valuable information to yourself you go the extra mile to share.
Thank you very much my friend. It's like having two mentors while reading your insightful article.

*** Super clear support from your marvelous mentor! ...

Lucky YOU! .... and having the wisdom to know when to ask and of how to ask!

Excellent, Edwin .... you're at the Top of the Summit already! ...

keep at it ..... all the very best, cheerio .... :) ***

Hi Keisha,

I appreciate your sentiments more than you will ever know. Thanks so much.

I wish you much success in your affiliate marketing journey.

Edwin

Edwin those are great words of advice from your mentor. You're so blessed to have somebody that cared for your success as well as his own. I'm taking his advice, and I feel I'm on the right track based on his comments. We all need to promote WA because there's value on their premium membership. I got an advice from a software developer reference Money Sites (Product Review Pages) and it was a golden advice for me. I checked my Google Search Console and visitors are swarming to my WA Review page. Like I said there's value in Wealthy Affiliate. Thanks so much for this post. I'll heed to this advice.

Thanks for your comments Eugene. And good for you in the traffic to your WA Review post. I wish you get many new referrals from that.

All the best to you.

Edwin

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