1 Year At WA!

byFOta

395 followers

5 years ago

Hi guys,
I hope you are all doing great and working hard on your training and website.
Yesterday, 21st of June marks 1 year for my website with WA.
I usually enjoyed other members' milestone blogs in WA because it gives me an idea of my own progress.
So, this evening I will give you my progress so far.

Challenges

1. I have a 9-5 job so I worked on my blog at nights and weekends.
2. I also have 3 kids at home so I have to give my time to them as well.
3. I don't have anyone to assist me with research, proofreading, or writing. So I am the writer, the graphics guy, the product researcher, SEO consultant, and Wordpress expert. Like others in WA said, it can be a lonely business.

Having said that, I did make some progress.

Some Statistics & Progress

1. Posts: 61.
   1. About 15 "best of" posts
   2. 3 product reviews posts,
   3. The rest are guides and "how to" posts.
   4. About 4 posts never ranked.
2. Average words per post: 2000.
3. Traffic: 400 per month/10 per day (very low).
   1. Maybe due to the low traffic/QSR we are taught here
   2. and the low number of posts on my website.
4. My traffic dropped in November 2019 and it's recovering painfully slow.
   1. Google algorithm?
   2. The pandemic?
5. 1st Affiliate commission: 5 months after set up. It was a great motivation.
6. Commission from Amazon only.
   1. Low commission but I'll stick around while I am still learning.
7. ShareASale and CJ.com are very hard to make any sales. I'll keep trying though.
8. Total commisions combined so far: $90. Like I said, I am still learning it does not matter yet.
9. Pinterest: my analytics dropped around February and March. As of writing this post, it is still bad.
   1. Maybe the pandemic?
10. No videos yet

What I Learn So Far

1. Patience - this business requires patience, and a lot of it. I know my traffic sucks and the commissions are far and few in between but I also know I am building my business from scratch. So it will take time. My first few months were plagued with technical issues but I dont give.
2. Learn about anything you don't know. When am stuck with anything from Wordpress, content writing, SEO, graphics, plugins, etc I would go and learn from WA. There's ton of training here. This is also slowing down my progress but I am learning as I go.
3. Time management. Kyle just wrote a post about it a few weeks ago. While I try to be as productive as possible, staying up late at night can cause me disaster the next day. So I try to go to sleep around 9PM and get up at 3AM. That way I have good 6 or 7 hours of sleep also it is quiet around the house and good for writing and doing research.

Plans For Next 12 Months

1. Focus on my 1 website
2. I am trying to reach 100 posts in the next 6 months (39 more to go)
3. Fix my traffic - SEO, etc
4. Try and earn $100 per month rather than $15 in commissions
5. Keep learning in WA, especially Jay's webinars
6. Be more active in helping others on WA
7. Renew my WA membership of course

Thank You

After 1 year mark, I have no regrets for pursuing my dreams. I am grateful, actually.

I would like thank those who assisted me one way or the other.

I learn a lot from guys like Nathaniell, Jay of MagiStudios, boomergp08, dylanrieger, TDenise, and a lot more members, for taking your time to give back to the WA community.

Lastly, a big thank you to Kyle, Carson, and the WA team for this wonderful platform where I can learn and grow from.

Thank you for reading my post and I hope you learn something.

I also would appreciate any suggestions on how to improve on my progress.

Cheers,

Fred