Hi Sharon, Thanks for the follow back! It's great to finally meet you, I see you've been here for awhile too. I'm honored to be a part of your network here at WA and I hope to "hear" more from you in the future.

I agree with you on the subject of video...I seem to learn much better if I can watch how something is done. I find it a bit easier than trying to understand from just reading it...it helps to clear up the little details I think.

Anyways, it's nice to meet you! Hope all is going well with you and your family...sounds like you have a houseful at times!
Best wishes :) ~Sherry

Hi Sharon.....forgive me.........I failed to respond to your greeting, so I am now. Looked at "Bloggers Refuge".......it looks like a wonderful website, and I hope it is getting traffic for you. I have yet to launch my site(s). Still working through the tutorials trying to understand the technical side of things. Since you have website design experience, I'm wondering if I could get your thoughts on my idea for a family of sites. May I PM you with it?

Wayne

Hey, Lady May! I'm back. It's been a long while but FINALLY I have a niche I want to explore. Now a couple of weird questions for you.

Do you use WordPress exclusively? I was wondering a bit about SquareSpace, but I suspect WP is easier with WA. Also ... and I suspect this will be in the training as I get back into it ... where do you register you domain name?

I know, I know. Basic questions that will be revealed as I resume training! :)

Thanks.

Derek

Hi Sharon, thanks for the follow and your kind words of support. I agree with you about the vegan thing being very hard...too many yummy things to have to live without :). Looks like never a dull moment at the homestead, ah those wonderful teenage years! I hope things have been working out well for you lately and your internet business is doing great. I plan on upgrading to premium and feeling things out so looks like I'll be here for a bit...hope to see you around :).
Cheers,
Laws

Hello Sharon, thank you for follow, I am now following you! It is good to see you here at Wealthy Affiliate, you have came to a great place to learn about Internet marketing and from reading your profile, I'm sure that you will enjoy being here. I wish you every success in what you're doing and I look forward to reading your blog posts and networking with you.

All the best to you Sharon, Roy.

Man you are awesome. I just looked at your bloggersrefuge. You did a great job. It's funny too that Nathaneil was your reviewer. He was one of the first people I met here at WA and he is a clone of my brother-in-law right down to the voice. Man I want to be your best friend in the whole wide world.

Hi!
Thank you very much for following me. Best of luck to you in your endeavors.
Regards,
Shawn - Yearly Premium Member

P.S. Please check out my websites on my profile page to get an idea of what the Wealthy Affiliate training can do for you. Any feedback or comments would be greatly appreciated.

Lady May, you have a lovely profile picture...Don't worry; I'm not a stalker...:-) I followed you because you have the experience I'm trying to get I enjoyed reading your bio. I would love to have a bio like that! :-) Though, I have had many setbacks as well...see I'm already on my way to achieving a bio like yours! :-)

Hi Sharon.

Looks like I'll be upgrading to Premium as there is so much info here that I need to absorb and learn from! I do have a quick question for you.

I was just watching the Lesson 3 video on choosing a niche. It does make finding a niche seem relatively easy. Back in SBI, that's one of the things that really bogged me down. They seem to make a big deal of their Brainstormer system with vertical this and horizontal that. It kind of made it seem like determining a niche was a really challenging task.

Using that tool, I wasn't having much luck in determining the viability of niche I've been considering. Are you familiar with SBI's Brainstormer? Does it have to be as difficult as they make it seem?

What did you do to find a niche? Or two?

As a member of the Boomer generation who likes animals, I'm looking at trying to cater to boomers and their pets. I think there are a lot of empty-nesters out there who partially fill their time with pets. When asked to think about interests and hobbies for a niche, I keep coming back to this one. I've been an animal nut since I was kid and it's the one consistency about my life.

Do you think this makes sense as a niche? I wonder if boomers and pets is too broad a niche. I did narrow it down, starting with 'pets' overall. But that's a huge niche with excessive competition.

What do you think?

Derek

Greetings Lady May. I've signed up for WA after reading about your experience. I liked what you had to say and I appreciate that you have some life experience!

I'm currently with SBI, of which I believe you have some knowledge. On SBI, I've sort of hit that point where i'm trying to use their tools to determine a niche. I'm finding it frustrating and, in fact, haven't done anything with it for a couple of months.

So, I'm exploring WA and looking to see if making a switch makes sense.

Hope we get to chat.

Dear Sharon, how are you?) Hope you are fine and everything is great with your business progress ). I've recently followed you in WA.

My site is about technology and since I've started to build my network, I would like to have you in my network and your following back )
Here is my links and I would be happy to have you in my social networks too (If you like of course : ) ). Also if you leave me your social network links; I'll be able to following you back.

Here is mine:
Google: https://plus.google.com/+AliMonajemi
Facebook: http://goo.gl/Plbnhj
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ali_monajemi

Wish you great success in your online business,

Best,
Ali

Hi Sharon,

It's very nice of you to add me to your network :)

How wonderful is this community, it's a great place to meet and interact with like-minded people like yourself.

If you ever feel stuck or need help with anything eg feedback on your website, and any sort of assistance, don't hesitate to contact me.

I wish you much success on your journey forward, and may all of your hard work pay off!

Hello Sharon !

Would you mind helping me boost my youtube channel? Either by subscribing to it or maybe sharing a video or just liking them? = )

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpVZPdYPkw47GLBKf6wCIAA

It would mean a lot to me. This channel is my dream job : makeup artist (I do every day makeup but mostly crazy halloween makeup and artistic makeup)

If you don't mind checking it out and subscribing, I would appreciate it a lot! But only if you like it and want to help lol. No offense if you don't want to =)

Then let me know if you need me to return the favor, by subscribing to your channel or anything that can help your business =) I will be happy to do it! :D

Many thanks!!!
Sarah

I was so glad to see people talking about this difficult topic and to think that there might be a solution. I just tried it and got an error message like this after a connection was made through FileZilla (successful connection, but then this).

Insecure server, it does not support FTP over TLS

Any suggestions anyone? Seems odd to me that support in this area seems so weak. I suppose it is intended to protect SiteRubix servers but ...... can anyone help?

Hi Lady May, just quickly here I was about to leave you a comment for your website but I couldn't as it is down. I wasn't sure if you realized it was down or not so I thought I would pop by just to let you know! Have a great day! I hope you get it back up and working again soon! All the best!

Hi Lady May. Thank you for following me and I will follow you as well. Going to have a look at some of your trainings an website. I can relate to the setbacks 100 fold. I just keep putting one foot in front of the other. Wow, that is one awesome website you have for bloggersrefuge. What wordpress theme is that or did you do use something else? I think you will be very successful.