Trying to create a successful YouTube channel? Here are some tips I try to follow each day.

Hey, if you wanna amp up your YouTube game and get things done smoothly, check out these easy tips:1. **Know Your Goals:** Figure out what you want from your channel. Break it down into doable goals so you're clear on what's up.2. **Get Priorities Straight:** Highlight what tasks matter most for your channel's success. Make 'em your top to-dos every day.3. **Stick to a Plan:** Make a daily or weekly schedule that covers all the YouTube stuff - writing, shooting, editing, and promo. Stick to it

Make Money While You Sleep - Easiest Way with Low Startup Cost

Everything is impossible until it is done, then it is possible. When I started affiliate marketing, people I knew did not believe it was possible to make money in affiliate marketing, to make money while sleeping.Yet you find thousands and thousands of people blogging and making YouTube videos about making money online every day.Are they true or just a load of B.S?The Truth About Affiliate MarketingAffiliate marketing is easy. You probably heard of Amazon. One of the easiest affiliate marketing

My Wife Quit Her Job - Now What?

Have we lost our minds? When it seems we're finally returning to a little normalcy coming out of this pandemic, my wife quits her job!It may sound like a crazy thing to do at this time, it wasn't without in-depth planning and reaching specific goals that WE decided, that she should quit her job...at least for a year and then re-evaluate.We have planned this option for a couple of years and said we would follow through with the decision only if we met specific parameters.One of those parameters

Online Success May Not Come How You Expect

You probably signed up to Wealthy Affiliate with the expectation you will have a successful online business like the ones you hear about on Youtube or all those websites trying to grab your attention.To be fully transparent, my success did not come easily nor quickly. It takes a lot of work, time, and patience.That said, I am successful in creating a business that is profitable and is something I really enjoy.Newbies!When joining this platform you may read stories about people that have created

Free Online Training Courses. How it helped me through these challenging times.

So here we are a few weeks into something many, if any of us has ever experienced.It made me wonder where I would be today without the free training I received from Wealthy Affiliate.Did the free online courses here help me in any way to get through these challenging weeks?The simple answer is "Yes".When I started my journey here four and a half years ago, I didn't know anything about affiliate marketing or anything about all the other ways you can earn an income online from the comfort of your

5-Steps To Starting a Small Business

I struggled with the title for this one as most businesses will start out small. So the steps to starting a small business would be the natural progression to creating that big business, in most cases at least.So what are the steps?Well, all I can say, in my experience, it is a winding road where the future remains unknown but there are still steps one must take.First Step: StartIt's as easy as that one word, "Start".That's all you need to do in creating your business.Whether you are wanting to

How to start a blog in 2020

It may sound like we are getting a little ahead of ourselves is that we are still in 2019 but the truth is if you want to have a successful blog in 2020 you need to start NOW!You need to start now, in 2019.There are 6 simple steps to take to create a blog that will reach those goals that you will likely set for yourself in 2020.If you are a new member here at Wealthy Affiliate then this is the perfect time to take advantage of the Black Friday Yearly Premium membership. The Black Friday discou

Youtube Videos, Why We Waited So Long To Start

Youtube Video NewbieThe title of this blog can be interpreted as a statement or question.From our perspective it is a question. Why DID we wait so long? There were no obstacles stopping us from taking our smartphone out and hitting the record button.Yet here we are a few years into this online journey and we are only now starting to be serious about creating videos.I think the real reason is the fear that our peers would see us in a different way. What I think made us finally take the leap is

Website Progress Update

Hey all,It has been awhile since I've written a blog here and figured I would share where things are at this point.The last time I reported on my newest website it was showing some life. Take a look at that graph above. Since May it has continued to show steady growth.That said, I haven't touched that website since the beginning of April. You're probably wondering why haven't I worked on it since then.Well, it's because I have the attention span of a squirrel and decided to start another local

My New Website Is Alive

Following up from my February post where my website was starting to have a heartbeat.That heartbeat is getting stringer.You're looking at a 6 month snapshot for a website I opened back in the summer of 2018 but didn't put any content on it until mid-December 2018.I know that is a long time not putting anythng on there. I had great plans but sometimes life happens.I still worked on my older sites during that time just not as hard as I would have liked.Now though, the best part is seeing the res