Being Accountable. A Look Back at the Last 3 Months.

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One thing that I recommend that you do with regularity is "check in" on your business and have a look back at what you accomplished in the past 3-4 months. This is something that I do regularity and I find that is good for giving me a pulse as to where my business is at, and also the areas that I can improve (or that I have been procrastinating....we all do it!!).

So today I want you to take a moment and be accountable as to the following 4 items.

Take a moment and leave your responses to these 4 questions below.

  • How did your first three months go?
  • What are some of the achievements you are proud of?
  • Where did you find the most "wasted time" took place?
  • What day to day activities are you going to focus on improving?

Please leave your responses to these questions below.

It is this kind of honest self reflection that will lead to your own personal growth and improvement. Sometimes it is OK to be hard on yourself and offer constructive criticism on our own businesses, where we feel we are lacking and where we could definitely see some improvements.

Just as important though (and I dont' want you to forget this), is to celebrate your achievements and accomplishments.

You have done a lot thus far and you are making some really good progress. If you haven't done every task, that is fine. It happens to the best of us and sometimes we have more productive months than others. The key is realizing this and improving upon your process.

Here is to a productive, exciting, and high achieving 3 months ahead!

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Hi Kyle!

Thanks for being part of SAC!

In general, the first three months went well. I have accomplished all the tasks except during the third-month social media accounts registration. Somehow I am still focusing just on building up my website and organic traffic.

I am proud of being able to create more than 100 posts on my site. And other things I became familiar and comfortable related to activities online.

Not all of the articles mentioned above were created during the last three months, but SAC is a great "motivator" because setting writing goals on SiteContent platform helps to stay focused and productive.

I am wasting most time in doing researches and checking other programs and materials online. I need to reduce that activity.

I need to focus more on writing articles, setting up social media accounts and creating videos. Generally, I need to focus more on starting proper promotional campaigns soon.

I hope I will be able to do it.

Thanks,
Best regards,

Igor

I am thankful for the opportunity to participate in the Super Affiliate Challenge. And it is a challenge.

1. The first three months went well. The start was slow, but I gained momentum over time. I am happy with the results as they show steady gains, particularly organic traffic.
2. I am proud of meeting and exceeding my writing goals in the number of words and posts. Each month I have increased the monthly goal and have increased the numbers for month 4.
3, I feel I have wasted more time looking and waiting to comment on members' posts. I wish I could have offered feedback instead of comments on posts that were not ready for "prime time."
I also spend too much time trying to write "perfect" posts.
4. I will focus on revisiting and updating old posts to improve search engine ranking. I will also expand my interests to increase the number of member posts available for comment.

Thanks Kyle for offering this opportunity to share our views.

1. First 3 months of SAC, was very productive and I really feel good that this way I stay consistent with my writing schedule, and I am happy that am able to create a good amount of content. But most of the time I write product reviews, and I find it hard to write them beyond 1200 words.

2. I am getting really comfortable with the SEO part of content creation and I feel really great about it:)

3. I will not say that I am wasting my time but I take way more time to research a topic.

4. There is a huge scope of improvement especially writing WA blog post, live chat, am not good in these fields. But particularly I would like to focus on email marketing.

Regards



1) Last 3 months were a rollercoaster. From writing a post per day to not writing for the entire week. And I do feel guilty about not writing, but I am trying to leave it behind and learn a lesson from it.

2) I am very proud that I see how my writing skills improved and that my articles are getting longer and longer. Implementing SEO guidelines in all of my new posts and adjusting old ones to meet the same criteria.

I am also proud how I can notice when something is not SEO friendly and I am glad if I could help fellow WA members to adjust it.

3)FOCUS! Once I start researching something, I can go too wide and occupied myself with a different topic. Sometimes I come across something interesting and I forget what I should be doing :P

4)I don't want to be satisfied with "just" doing research on a daily basis. I will strive toward writing at least something each day and from there will work forward.

Thanks for the opportunity to share our progress thus far.

1. The past 3 months was though and challenging to me at first but with time i embraced the challenge and i am really enjoying myself with it.

2. I have not be able to achieve much like i thought initially but I discovered the following changes since the SAC started:

a. Increase in my content ranking speed.
b. Increase in the posting frequency and the content size too.
c. I've also been able to increase my website traffic to a reasonable amount since the challenge started.

3. I discovered that my most wasted time time took place during the keyword research and also at the site comment area. I often get carried away while at this two and end up doing things outside the focus.

4. Creating the WA blog post. I've have not been doing well in this area but i plan to improve in it moving forward.

Questions 1, 2, 3, don't apply to me yet, since I just started. However, I do agree that we all need to be accountable by moniting our websites and other company activities and announcements.

1. The first three months have been challenging in every area because of trying to keep up with the pressure of the SAC challenge. Nevertheless, the period has offered an exciting venture in terms of acquiring knowledge and experiences.
2. I am proud of having had my site comments being approved and then having some of my posts being ranked on page one number one on all three search engines.
3. The "most wasted" time took place in trying to constantly check on offering site comments, but finding out that they all had been exhausted.
4. Day to day activities will include trying to write more postings and see if I can maintain the SAC requirement of more than three posts per week.

I am amazed at how much I've learned. That was brought home to me yesterday, when a friend came over to help me figure out how to fix dead links. I still have more to learn, but his instruction certainly helped.

The thing that really pleased me was his reaction to what I had learned in a year. I understood what he was talking about! I knew the meaning and where to find several things he discussed. The conversation was enlightening,because it showed me I am gaining some understanding of this whole process.

He was impressed with my knowledge and also with the training process at WA. He thinks it is quite good.

My first three months were not easy, but they were rewarding, because the whole SAC thing keeps me motivated to move forward. I can tell that it has enhanced my whole learning process.

Reviews are getting easier to write. That's something that pleases me. I do have a question, though -- my reviews are, for the most part, reviews of companies. Should I be adding more product reviews?

My posts are divided into categories, of course, but they focus on two things: product reviews and motivational posts. The division is about 50% for each. Is that an okay thing?

The most "wasted time" took place for me in trying to keep up with emails. I found I cannot answer them all and still keep up with other tasks, especially writing. I've had to cut down on the number I answer.

I've also changed my schedule for my "cats" website. Instead of posting every three days, I'm doing so every four, and the extra day has helped a great deal.

I have most trouble keeping up with daily tasks. Time saved by not doing so many emails will be spent doing site comments, as those seem to slow me down. I'll be working on streamlining that process.s

Ready for month four! I will be travelling for 2 1/2 months of this SAC period, so will be taking my laptop and enough research material to write six articles while I'm traveling. Wish me luck!



II looked like writing contest.

To answer the last question first; I am trying to pay it forward as much as possible by helping in classrooms and offering site comments, several times when a little time was reserved for site comments, I see the notice- Opps we have delivered all requests for comments.
I was happy to work my way back to the top 2 hundred, but could not maintain it; time is a factor; with no more employees, I am having to work long hours between the gallery and the studio.
To be honest there is no time to waste, just choices.

1. The first 3 months have been full of triumphs and failures.
2. I managed to get all the content assigned done. I'm at around 500 users with both websites, for the last 90 days. Is that good?
3. My wasted time is time I just wasn't ready to write. Forcing the writing was something that didn't really work. I have to find another way to use my time to WRITE, instead of finding ways to get out of it.
4. Writing FIRST.

Well said here, sometimes you are not ready to write. You have to be in a state where you are ready to write and you will be much more efficient this way. If you are not prepared, then you will find yourself looking at a blank screen or writing content without much substance.

That is why I suggest breaking down several articles at once, and then writing them out. Break out the topics that you are going to write about in each of them, and then put in a good writing session.

And yes, nice work on your traffic, that will only continue to scale as you move forward and establish more authority in the industry. ;)

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