Where I am today

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Two weeks ago...

I was searching. I had just downloaded a ton of free books from Amazon onto my Kindle reader. Some were children's books to read to my granddaughter, some were on the Ketogenic diet. Some were on making money online.

I don't know what made me choose to open the book titled "The Beginner's Affiliate Marketing Blueprint—How to get started for free and earn your first $10,000 in Commissions Fast" by Alex M., but I did.

I kind of thought this was going to be just another joke on me. You know, you read the book, it tells you all this great stuff you can learn and get for "free" and it will only cost you $$$$ and your arm and leg! Many of us have been there.

I honestly only read this book until the third page of the introduction...

On that page was a link to this:

By inserting my e-mail address, I was then taken to another page with this:

Well, by then I was a little suspicious. I hate links that take you to links within links... plus the fact that the book was written by someone with the name Alex M. no last name... I was beginning to have reservations.

Well, clicking on "sign up to the course!" (which also kind of rubbed me the wrong way...shouldn't it be "sign up for the course!") I hesitantly clicked this link, as well. And it took me here:

Well, to Wealthy Affiliate anyway... This info is from one of my websites I am creating about grandparents raising their grandchildren.

After I started the course and was so warmly welcomed, I think it took me about 2 days (maybe 3) to sign up for the Premium course. It only took me that long because I was trying to think of how I would tell me spouse what I was doing. I didn't want this to be just another disappointment that cost a lot of money.

After that, I paid the year's cost because I am all about saving money!

I have NOT been disappointed, let me assure you!

My Progress

With this blog post, I will have completed Level 2 of the training and have accomplished more in two weeks than I did in two years through another program I tried and, incidently, cost me more than this one!

What I'm enjoying

I am enjoying everything about Wealthy Affiliate so far! I have enjoyed the connections I have made and especially the superb training. It is broken down into very easy to digest "chunks" which makes it so easy to do one in a day or two.

I am enjoying writing my posts. I am enjoying sharing with others here.

What I find difficult

The hardest part of all of this is slowing down! I want to rush through the training. I want to have my website up and producing a multi-figure income RIGHT NOW! Because I have some experience in writing other websites using different WYSIWYG programs, learning Word Press is a bit of a challenge, but if I carefully follow Kyle's training, I find it much easier.

My plans and goals for the next 3 months

This is a bit of a harder one for me. Because I want things to be happening RIGHT NOW, I have to adjust my sails abit when I think about my future goals.

In the next 3 months:

My plans and goals for the next 6 months

Even looking out over the next six months is a bit of a challenge for me, because I honestly would love to be retired from my current job by then. I would love it, but I know I have to be a realist, as well, after all, I have a grandchild I am raising who depends on me for her clothing, housing, food, education and everything, so I can't just quit my job, but I think realistically, I may be able to cut back my hours a bit at my "day" job within six months.

In the next 6 months:

  • I plan to have at least 100 individual pages/posts on my site.
  • I plan to move my website: greatsmalltownliving.com to WA hosting.
  • I plan to work on all three sites because the other two are already well-started, so they won't take a lot of extra time (and if I am able to cut down on the hours from my "day" job I will have more home time to devote to what I really want to do)
  • I plan to be making at minimum $200 a month from my sites.

I think these are all within the realm of possibility. And this is where I am today!

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Looks like a good plan Karin!

Thanks. I will work toward making it a reality.

Karin

Hello Karin :) such a great post and planning goal, but I'm little curious. You set the goal for in next 3 months, your website would have at least 50 posts. Let's break it down into a week-> so let's say you publish one post every 3 days-> with 30 days of a month, it would be 10 posts per month time with 3 months-> it would be 30 posts only. And I say based on 1k-words for each post. I say every 3 days for one post, that would include doing research keywords, research info, start to write, little design, etc.

I'm curious how you break it down in detail with goal 50 posts in next 3 months. One post every 2 days? or one post per day? can you share your method and time management? I would like to learn more since right now I'm trying to write one post every 3 days only -.- and I just barely meet the goal which is one post every 3 days (just starting last week of June)

I guess I didn't think about it that way. I just was going on the premise that I know I can write 50 posts in 3 months only because I have been doing that for years now. I have to set myself a goal otherwise I aim too low...

Each person should write what they feel they can which I think it was suggested that one post every three days was a good goal.

Once I am focused, writing a 1000 word post is very easy for me.

One of the people I connected with said that she will be spending a day or two writing multiple posts and then having them scheduled to post for her on different days... That might be a good way for me to go, too! :)

Karin

whoa O.O then I'm sorry for hold you back since the professional writer can write that much within a day.....-> suddenly feel nothing comparing to pro writer who can write multiple posts just within one or two days

Thank you for sharing :)

I meant no harm in my reply. I hope it didn’t come across that way. I am sorry if it did.

Karin

:) you are fine since I'm newbie almost every sub-area with this affiliate online business so I usually keep the mind openly :)

I knew it was a WA redirect Karin!

Well, I am just glad that it didn't turn out to be another "fly by night" operation! :)

Karin

Karin, you got for it. Make it happen!

Thanks!

Karin

Those are ambitious goals. I wish you all the best. If you set your mind to it then you can achieve it!!!

Tried and True

Elaine

Thanks, Elaine! I have set my mind to it, now if I can just get my body to follow!

Thanks for your well-wishes!

Karin

Awesome! I hope this venture proves fruitful for you and beneficial for your grandchild.

Thank you. I believe that it will!

Karin

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