Breaking All the Rules!
Or at least a few! 😅
I confess... My blog has not been a priority in my life for the past 6 months or so... zero new blog posts since last March... nada! rien! OUCH! More than 6 months! Until today...
Yes, I was busy on my FB page. Yes, I was busy on my Youtube channel. Yes, I was busy in the "real" world. But my blog was like a desert... Not because I did not have ideas... just because I had other priorities...
But today was different. Last week, I promised 2 friends to give them the link to the book that I am currently reading and which I believe can help them successfully overcome the challenges they are currently facing in their life. My affiliate marketer's side naturally wanted to publish an article about it on my blog with an affiliate link to the book on Amazon and a nice 1500-word review of the book. But my "busy-with-other-priorities" part did not have the time for it...
So what did I do? I decided to break all the blogging and affiliate marketing rules I had learned so far... and published the smallest blog post ever (at least in MY history as a blogger)... a mere 192 words... 😲 with 2 links to the book on Amazon and 1 link to my Youtube channel.
Yup! That goes against everything I have learned about affiliate marketing and blogging so far... BUT I believe "rules" are here to help us, as an individual and as a group. When they don't, I just break them. What do I have to lose? It allowed me to publish an article after 6 months of silence AND help at least 2 people. So, I don't know about you, but for me, that's already good. 😅
What rules are stopping YOU from moving on? And what are you going to do about it?
To our Success, 💖
Nathalie
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That's right. Rules are there as a guide. Sometimes rules are made to be broken especially when you can help other people. That's a good thing.
Claudia
Sometimes breaking the rule is not breaking the rule per se.
We do it to resolve a situation. I do it, yes but rarely without hurting or affecting anyone in a bad way.
I'm sure there's logic flow chart somewhere full of 'If' 'Then'. In this case it applies, if you hadn't done your post then you wouldn't have helped two people.
It's nice to see you back! Size of articles is one rule that had the potential to hold me back. Once I decided that whatever size I wrote would be just fine, I've magically begun to write some of my longest articles to date...go figure!
We both know the answer to that is stress. I used to tell my students, in preparation for testing, that "stress makes you stupid." The understanding there is that you shut your brain down with too much stress. Let go of the stress and you can soar to great heights. Here's to greater and greater altitude.
Thanks so much for the reminder, I appreciate it!
Thank YOU, Nancy, for sharing your experience with the size of articles. I can totally relate!! 😊
And thank you for your kind words about me being back too. 😊
Nathalie
Well done. I think rules, most times are guides and that is why (in my thinking, there are exceptions to the rule sometime).
Best of luck to you and everyone.
Segun
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In every rule, there is an exemption.
Absolutely, Jimmy! 😊
Nathalie