5 Key Lessons I learned Rekindling An Old Dead Blog And Getting 108 Followers In 3 Days

byjayaffiliate

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Updated 10 years ago

Progress Post #1 - Month 1 of WA membership.

[Journaling my progress from day 1 on Wealthy Affiliate]

So I started a personal blog years ago, tinkering around on the internet (actually I created several). As usual, this blog got absolutely no attention and I eventually abandoned it.

Recently, it dawned on me that the reason I abandon blogs is because I have unrealistic expectations going into it. I'm writing with the hopes that someone reads it. I mean, naturally, you don't speak to a crowded room and feel good when the entire room ignores you. But I didn't do anything to get there attention, I basically started talking to myself in the corner or a crowded room.

I learned a few valuable lessons that I thought were worth sharing.

1. Traffic doesn't just happen because you write

2. Focus on ONE traffic source, not all of them

3. Expect to slowly build, don't expect some influx of activity

4. Stop focusing on the tools and start focusing on the trade

5. Create an actual relationship with your followers, learn from them

"Like any carpenter, it's not the saw, it's the wisdom of the individual."

I was 'SOLD' the saws for a while... now I know better.

So I dusted off and rekindled this old blog this month, since I joined WA and something odd happened.

It was a free blog, so I upgraded, added some plugins, changed the url and decided that Facebook would be my sole traffic provider that I'm going to focus on first. I cleaned it up a lot [that was key, more on that later].

I've tried to do everything at once and overwhelm always sets me back and discourages me.

Facebook:

Since I'm short on time, I'll just say that buying facebook promo's was crazy awesome, completely worth it. I am looking right into the living rooms of my followers. I can see HOW to sell to them. What they're talking about. I can even switch over to my personal account and become real friends with them. Talk about rapport building!

I've got 108 followers as of this morning and I started with 14 on Monday morning, today is Wednesday. That's less than 3 full days. I can barely keep up. I'm writing this at 10:45am Wed and I bought the url on Monday morning at 5am...(I'm writing from my day job desktop, oops, sshhh)

This is definitely a sign of improvement.

...I'll add more soon....stay tuned. Gotta go...

Check out my other post on Niching and branding yourself... my measly failed attempts and lessons learned.