Level 3 Now!

byJohnWALLACE1

68 followers

2 years ago

I have completed Level two of the Online Entrepreneur Certification once I submit this post.

What's surprising to me is that I came to WA out of frustration and was bored. My ADD brain wanted a shiny new object and I started at WA despite knowing from experience that is the worst reason to pursue a unique opportunity.

At the end of the month, the result is that I have had the most productive month of this young year. The money isn't there yet. (No ads or affiliate links will do that, lol) but I have done a lot.

I was tired of finding people to help me repair my non-WA website. So, I distracted myself. I clicked on Clickbank, read some reviews about them and came to WA (Thanks, VitalyG)

My primary goal is to get customers for my website, where I teach English online but I see now that WA and my website, Where English Works, are not competing interests but have synergy.

I used what I learned in training to improve the SEO of my website. I read here about faster loading themes that could solve my problem; turtles are running my website. I have learned to make blog posts look better, and I apply it to my Wealthy Affiliates website and my Where English Works website when I learn something. Now my posts have pictures inside the articles. At WA, I am indexed but at my site, Google is indexing my blog posts but not most of my site.

When people visit my website and ask for a PDF, they don't get it! I hope there is a solution for that in training. When clients pay for a lesson, they have to suffer through a drop-down menu with no marketing copy that spins around until it's good and ready to provide options. I want to find WordPress plugins I can use to schedule classes and collect payments via my Stripe account, and more.

I expect to have to find answers in other places, too, though. I would kill to ditch my web host and special plugin and the package that comes with it if I can find something better. I pay one price for using so many tools, but it is frustrating. I have not been able to get new clients outside of my warm market since I worked for a big Chinese company, which is not sustainable. I see promise with what I have learned, though.

The idea of Wealthy Affiliates is rekindling dreams and giving me new ideas like hiring teachers once my schedule fills up. Since coming to WA, I have wondered about the feasibility of using affiliates to get customers, and I am not ready for that, but I am intrigued. I can't wait to learn more!

I will focus on both of my websites in April. I am not afraid to rip apart the crappy copywritng on my website anymore.

April Goals

-5 WEW clients

-No money goal at WA. I recognize this is a month to try new things and experiment. There will be goals in May.

-Finish the Online Entrepreneur Training

- Write 10,000 words (this does not include blogging and other marketing at Where English Works)

-I will install the Ad tools and spruce up the existing web host to be more engaging and profitable if I don't or can't ditch them.

-I will leverage what I learn at WA to get many more visitors to my website

-I will get my homepage and other pages listed on Google (My blog and privacy policy are listed but not the homepage!)

That will rock my world. I will pay off the credit card that I have been carrying a balance on ever since my former employer cut my hours in half before disappearing due to changes in China.

Poof!

I can then close out a personal loan I took from American Express for marketing my business. I don't like debt but t's not like I run a website at WA called How To Get Out of Debt and Stay Out of Debt.

Doh! I do!

It would make me warm and fuzzy (and less hypocritical) to stop paying interest on the Green card and start saving money again.

I see good times ahead.