A Journey of Passion

byMelCo15

229 followers

7 years ago

I’m not usually much of one for lengthy posts, but I had to share my excitement, something wonderful has happened. First a little background; I arrived at WA at the beginning of March having stumbled upon this site while researching investment and passive income strategies, as I do a fair amount of ETF investing. I signed up – not my first foray into this online world but with days of drop-shipping behind me that just didn’t quite pan out, I was curious about this free training. I’ve thought about blogging for a long time but just didn’t know where to start.

I cruised through the training, soaking in every possible detail; when I start a new venture I go in hungry! This training was awesome and cleared up a lot of questions I’d had in my shopify days. This online community is super rad.

After 2 weeks with my 1st website I was finding writing posts to be like pulling teeth! I didn’t find the research fun (and I love research!), I was having a hard time coming up with topics, but my posts were getting ranked within 48 hours. It was a great feeling but just wasn’t the right fit…now that website sits until I’m ready to pick it up again because after those 2 weeks I was struck by sudden inspiration, I got excited and moved on to website number 2!

I have such a clear vision for this one of what I want it to be and the community for which I’m writing. I set up google alerts related to my topic which I highly recommend. I find the research interesting and fun. I stopped banging my head against a wall trying to hit 1k words and started mixing posts, I do a couple short 200-400-word news update type of posts and try once a week to write a longer one as well – which for me is only about 800 words. I find 1k to be a daunting task.

I have been doing a lot of product linking through amazon associates, my AdSense integration has been pending for like a week, but I think it was approved (unlike the almost immediate disapproval on my first site) and I have an account with media.net which I still don’t fully get…

I’ve been focusing mostly on amazon since it’s the mogul that it is and I’m an avid online shopper that frequents amazon at least weekly (yes, I may have a problem, but I’m sure bloggers everywhere love me 😉).

Yesterday I checked my media.net account and I made my first dollar! $1.55 USD to be precise, who would ever think they would get so excited about pocket change? I wanted to share this with you because of a few reasons. My excitement of course, but because I had read or watched something at some point that said it would probably take 6 months to make any money and then it’ll be like coffee money and will typically take over a year to make any real money. That may be true, but I just made my first dollar after 19 days.

Also, if what you have going is hard, be open to that sudden inspiration if it strikes, don’t be afraid to start a new journey, you just might find a passion, and with passion, this journey is so much more fulfilling.