Feeling a Little Confused
As I continue through affiliate bootcamp trying to follow everything by the book, I read other member's blogs and realize there are things I'm missing that I don't recall being mentioned in the lessons I've done so far. These are things that look pretty important to me and make me want to delete my website and start all over.
What am I talking about? Well let's see for instance I'm sure I'm not the first beginner to do this but I've been going along here using the publish button quite frequently thinking that's how you save everything. I read in other member's blogs you shouldn't publish anything until everything on the page is as you want it. I'm not through with these pages yet, as I haven't even put any pictures on the pages other than the about me page.
I was hoping Kyle was going to go into future detail about inserting the pictures and banners in a future lesson because I haven't seen this so far. I'm on course 1 lesson 7. I've also seen where it's not a good idea to change post titles, but as I continue to learn more I see where changes are necessary.
I know the foundation of your website is pretty important if you start off on the wrong foot it could mean disaster in the future. I have read several times where people will say just follow the lessons, but as I'm following the lessons and I'm reading other people's blogs my mind is going well is Kyle going to cover that in a future lesson or is that something I should have already done or not done?
I'm sure others have been where I am or are there right now. If I'm going to promote WA I want to steer people right. As I learn the do's and don'ts I want to be able to offer beginners good sound advice to get off on the right start. If telling them to just follow the lessons is good advice, then fine but if there are gaps that need to be filled in then I want to be able to do that. I hope all this makes sense. As stated in the title I'm just feeling a little confused right now. Maybe someone can clear things up.
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Hi Leann, You might find this article to be helpful by one of our fellow members. He has given me a lot of in-site and helped with some of my confusion. I am on Course 1, Lesson 3, trying to get my pages all completed. So we are almost on the same track. Vegas Here I Come! As to answer your questions of placing banners and pictures on the pages, it was something covered in one of the videos. It is up to you what you want to place on your blog page. You can place banners, links or just use it to post information. As for pictures, you might want to place pictures. At least to me, reading gets a bit boring and if I have an image in my reading, it just makes my reading much more appealing.
Don't get overwhelmed. Take each step at a time and if you have to, go back and watch the training videos again. We are all learning. Ask questions and someone will come along and answer it for you.
But the worst advise to me is: "just follow the lessons". That doesn't answer the question. We all read something and miss it at some point and someone needs to point it out. If everyone says "just follow the lessons" what is the point of asking the questions. When you go to school, I know your teacher doesn't say "just follow the lesson". They help you and guide you back on the right path.
Sorry for the long post, but hope it helps.
Thank you for your reply. I read the blog you mentioned and that helped a lot. I did have teachers that instead of saying" just follow the lesson;" they would say "work it out on your own," which was equally as frustrating. I'm not giving up, just working my way through all this. I will get there. Thanks again for the response.
Hey, if I can help answer any other questions, please feel free in sending me a message. I will do my best to help out. Great Fortunes to you.
There is lots of training on this sort of thing as you move forward and if you ever are unsure of anything, you can do a search. How to Find & Add Images to Your Website There are 10,000's of discussions, training resources, live classes, blogs that make up WA platform here (outside of your training), but do know that this will all be covered in detail.
When you publish your content, it goes live (just so you know). When you Save Draft, it doesn't. As you are working on your content, you save as draft and when you are ready for the world to see it, publish it. ;)
Thank you Kyle for your response. I know you are very busy, but I'm glad you are approachable and let people know you're here to help and not just sit at the top and collect all the profits like many CEO's do.
Yes, things can be very confusing at times when you are trying to follow the lessons and copy what you see other members doing.
Just hang in there and don't despair. Things have a habit if working themselves out.
We have had a peak at Bootcamp, but have found it a bit daunting in addition with working on our site at the moment. But generally speaking, Kyle does cover things like adding pictures and banners in later lessons.
About the 'publish button' comment,
You might like to set up a free test website in SiteRubix, where you can experiment with different things like themes, post titles, fonts (sizes), colours etc, and chop and change anything you want as much as you want. Then when you are satisfied with everything (or even with little bits at a time) you can Copy and Paste them into your main site.
In our website, http://cheekychihuahuaproducts.com , I use a test website all the time to play around with all the pages and posts before I copy and paste them into the main site. Then when I'm satisfied with what I've done, I delete the "content" of the test site so that I don't mix them up with each other.
I hope this hasn't confused you even more.
Please feel free to check out our site if you think it might help.
Wait until you have finished the page until you hit the publish butto. You can save your post as a draft until you have fnished it. But seriously, follow the training because it has been designed that way for a reason. I wish you every success for the future and GOOD LUCK
Patience, grasshopper ... all will be revealed. Make sure you start with "Get Started Here, Course 1 Lesson 1". If this is what you've done, then please, please, please pay attention to the training provided by Kyle. It is that training that will be your foundation. Once you have the basics down, all the posts you'll read will make much sense. Hope this helps and God Bless!
I actually started with "Get Started Here, Course 1 Lesson 1," but at some point Kyle tells you if you're going to promote WA then just jump to the Affiliate Bootcamp which is what I did. Cathy your "Patience grasshopper," just made me laugh. I was in the process of reading your divorceyourdoctor.com website and really like what I've read so far. Thank you for your input.
You know what? --- I do indeed vaguely remember Kyle saying something like that. But heck, I didn't listen and just kept plowing through. Actually stopped on Course 4, Lesson 4 and am in the process of getting back on the saddle. Thank you for checking out DYD ... I'm about to revamp that whole thing and start over! Let's keep in touch so we can help each other and God Bless!
Leann, Remember, Follow the lessons first.
Other peoples post are great, save them for
later in your journey.
This will help diminish the confusion.
Just be sure and ask questions for each of these. There is a place to ask in the top bar of your backoffice!
Leann, I too get pretty confused at times here with creating my website. But I started with "Get Started HERE" and not the "Affiliate Bootcamp"....so I don't know the difference in the two training...but I am like you I published before my website is complete ....I think that is ok but others that have been here longer may have a different pitch on this subject...
Hi Leann
i think you are on the right path. How to insert pictures, etc will be covered in courses 2-3-4. But basically once in your post that you are writing you have to click on Insert media in the top left corner. You can then download pictures to insert.
And yes you should only click on publish once the page is finished. Click on save to save it so you can continue working on it later on
Emily
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Trust me....I spent the last three months dithering about this, so result is everything's just saved for future addition blah blah.
So if in doubt, just save it. Take your time Leann, unless you absolutely know what to do. Blessings.....
Shirley