Newbie advice from a newbie
There is so much fun and things to learn here. Where do you get started? My best advice, make friends. They will help you, motivate you and teach you. Follow people and look at their sites and blogs. Pull up your rankings page, on there you will see the top 200 affiliates. Pull up their profiles and follow the ones you like or that have the same interests. Start a conversation with them on their profile. These are the best people on this site. I could list 15 of the top 25 that have personally helped me already in the 3 1/2 weeks I've been here. They are quick in response, very knowledgeable and THEY want to help. Once you go Premium, you can build your own personal folder of great resources through personal messaging. I have my network, but I have my brains and friends on speed dial in my personal folder. Find your niche, mine is Loes, LynneHuy and UPSgirl to name a few.
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Awesome Greg,
Great advice my Friend.
WA is certainly full of very helpful & knowledgeable Friends.
Thank You for sharing & caring Greg,
Tony
Thanks, hope you return my personal conversation, so when you need me (kidding), when I need help, I can get to you quickly and personally. Thanks again, I love the help here!!!!
Great Advice and Thank You so much for it. I will absolutely take your advice. Talk with you soon and I will continue to look for your blogs.
That is great advice Greg. I'm a newbie and the help that I have received from the experienced people of WA is not only invaluable but I fear that I may not have lasted this long as I have been lost and frustrated a couple of times until someone came to the rescue. I have also benefited from your blogs and questions in addition to your support and advice. I am grateful for everything that I have learned here and all the support and help along the way.
Thank you.
AAAWWW...that's very kind!
You mention good tips for many not knowing whom to contact. When I started, I hopped on Live Chat, where I met many and 2 years later...we're even better for helping others!
Keep up the good work and while your list cannot possibly mention everyone, each knows how good it feels to help! It doesn't need to be mentioned...
Until next time, pal...
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I really liked your encouragement and decided to visit your site. I never went through AA but I have gone for counseling before. I seriously thought about going into counseling for that after doing it for several months. I think it's great that you put together a site to help. Someone may have developed some poor habits or made a bad decision and need to be reminded of all the horrible things that could have happened because of lack of responsibility and forethought. I know what its like to almost lose a group position because of a stupid decision made in horrible conditions. I made the wrong choice. It took me quite a long time to recover from it. I missed out on opportunities before it that I know about and many others that probably didn't. I hope many people see your site. Recovery and consequences can be rough. Better to nip something early; Never know when it might catch up with ya. Everyone thinks its always the other guy. Until it starts happening to acquaintances and then a few close friends and then finally you. Thank you for all your doing and deciding to step there and do something. Even if 99% of the time you're responsible. If 1% of 1% your not that is a whole lot of people. It only takes a few minutes of not thinking clearly and the consequences take quite a while. You take that stat with just the US alone and its a lot of potential damage for a brief period of time. I'm not saying don't have fun I'm just saying being reasonably prudent and put safeguards in place. And then follow and listen if you think it could be clouded at all. Thanks again for choosing to build a site around it.
Wow, thank you immensely. It's not finished and my about me page is only to age 20 and I'm almost 50. I've been sober three months. And have lost a lot in those three months. It is very therapeutic to work on and I do want to help others with it. I was out of control in my 20's, still an animal in my 30's and relatively tame in my 40's. But my bad habits and years of mistrust caught up with me big time. I've slowed down on that site debating on advertising on it. I contacted AA and they are alright with it after I made a few changes. I have the go to put ads on there and I will get back to it. Again, Thank you, your reaction gives me the resolve to get back there and finish it cause that was my first goal, to help other, while understanding more about myself. Thanks, G