In the clearing

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So... everyone here tends to be upbeat. It's all great, awesome and Good Luck. But I'm going to be honest about how I am doing.

I have started to build two websites here. I hate them both. They are clumsy, unprofessional and I have run out of things to say. I am ashamed of them. It's not where I want to be.

Dragging myself to the computer again I admit to myself I know what the problem is. The first website I started skirts around the subject most dear to my heart. I have a sketchbook full of clothes designs. Home is not conducive to making them, I realised I don't know the first thing about promoting them by social media and I am very tight for cash. So I thought affiliate marketing would get me a bit closer to where I want to be; to gather an audience of the sort of people who will buy my designs. It is frustrating and I got stuck.

So while I was stewing about that I thought to start a second website on a subject I care nothing about. It was easier to start and all Amazon Links. But again I ran dry very quickly even though, believe me, I can talk endlessly on things that I love. And then Amazon slashed their commission rates. Thanks for that.

I was kind of accusing myself of falling for the temptation of trying to make a quick buck and thinking this was easy money when I realised I could look at it differently. It's pretty clear what I've done. The message on WA is clear enough; you must follow your passion and you must be patient and persistent. I am avoiding the thing I love, or believe I am unable to get to it for practical reasons.

Beyond everything I do not want to be a person who has a dream but lets it go. I don't want to make a couple of bad websites, decide I am rubbish at this and slope off back to my dayjob. It would be death.

I hope that in a while I will read this post and smile. I hope I can look back and see that I was just at the painful point of reaching the end of trying to live the way I do. With two ugly futureless websites that I don't recognise as mine staring back at me, and everything standing still in the lockdown, my head has cleared and I know what I have to do. If home is not a place you can be creative and in control of your time and choices, then home needs sorting. Serious sorting.

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Hang in there, M--you'll eventually get there!

Jeff

The successful entrepreneurs usually say we have to work on one website at a time and our niche is something that we are passionate about or something that we know about.

Maybe you're overwhelmed working on 2 sites or in a hurry to earn something right away.

We need to be patient and persistent.

Good luck!

Marita

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