Discouraged and having trouble starting again
I work 2 jobs that require 12 hours a day for a total of 60 hours a week. The one that i do for 36 of those hours gives me time to work on things like my site. My other exhausts and runs me into the ground. After working that one and the next day sitting at my other job, i was having trouble making myself even pull WA up on my computer. I know I have done a lot of work and have set myself up with a great layout. But when I finally did pull up WA, i was so frustrated with how long it is taking to get traffic. I realized I was being impatient but that doesnt change the urgency I feel towards quitting the job that takes so much out of me.
Now it has been 2 weeks since I have posted anything on my site. I am struggling to even think of topics to write about. I have one of the biggest cases of writer's block. I may have picked the wrong niche. I keep telling myself I need to keep going. I need to have discipline. I need to make this work.
For today, I am taking a big step in writing this. I did complete a couple of trainings that I was waiting on until I was able to purchase my own domain, which I did last week! And the site has already been indexed by google!
While that should put a fire under my butt and get me moving, I am still not so excited and have to force mysellf to work.
I will be back tomorrow and will write another post for my website. Today, I thank everyone for all the inspiration and insight they offer. I am grateful for this community. Bless you!
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Our enthusiasm is like anything. It ebbs and flows. Try not to put too much pressure on yourself. Sounds like you have a lot on your plate already. Maybe take a little time to regroup. I learned the hard way (for me anyway) I don't do well under pressure. Just do what you can do when you can do it. I'm sure you'll find that eventually, you'll get back into your rhythm.
Hi Katy, Please don't let this get you down. I have been there, many, many times. Stopping for a while is not the end of the world. You will come back. If you think you may be in the wrong niche you should try to figure that out sooner rather than later though. It really isn't hard to start over on another site since you can just do all the same steps you did with your first site. If that second site is in a niche that you are really interested in then it should be much easier to add content.
If you tell me your niche I might be able to help. I feel like I run out of things to write about on my primary site as well but then I realized I can write multiple posts on the same topics as long as I am using different keywords/angles. My primary site is on cat health and behavior. I can do a review of a supplement for that keeps cat and dog teeth clean in multiple ways. I can use the name of the product as the title and keyword for one post and then do another one using the problem as the title "How to Keep Dog and Cat Teeth Clean" or something like that. Then just recently I added another post about the brand that makes the supplement where I discuss that supplement as well as others in the line. So, there are three posts instead of one.
You can also do "Best Of...", "Top 10..." and other angles for posts as you know.
I have stopped and started many times. Don't let that worry you.
So what is your niche?
My website is accumulateprosperity.com. the idea is to write about earning financial freedom through passive income as i work my way towards it myself.
I don't have a WA promotion/work online site yet so I might not be the best one to address this. From what I have heard it is a very competitive niche. If you don't want to write a lot of content it will be hard to keep good rankings and therefore have people find your site.
If you have a unique angle on this then it might be easier since there would be less competition on those keywords. I plan to start a site to get WA referrals but I will be coming at it from a unique angle. It is not a topic I have enough interest in to write about constantly. I don't want to have to check out all the subpar programs out there and write reviews of them. It just sounds boring to me.
There are members here who have been massively successful doing this however and those who have become successful with other niche sites that don't focus on work from home.
The upside to getting WA referrals is you can get a source of passive income if those members upgrade to premium and stick around. I have a few premium referrals even though I don't have a website for that. These referrals produce more income for me so far than my niche sites.
That is why I want to pursue a WA promotion site. It just makes me more money to get referrals to WA. That is partly because I don't review big ticket items. If you have only smaller items that don't make much in commission then obviously you need to sell a whole lot of them to make good money.
You could make it work either way, WA or switching to a different niche.
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I understand where you are for I was there recently and has not fully broken away yet. This is the time when you have to dig in your heals and decide that what has to be done must be done, now. Then push yourself to write even if you don't feel it. Concerning topics, brainstorm, ask friends what they think you should write about. It's what helped me to begin to move again.
Thank you...