Where am I
Speed Humps
The idea that it was going to take me a month to get here to this lesson, did not enter my mind when I first started. I thought I was going to be miles ahead by this stage, earning money daily and living the high life. Unfortuntalet for me it did not happen like that because of a couple of speed humps.
1. I had my niche sorted out but I did not have any articles, I had dome research on the subjects and most were ok, I knew I had to knuckle down and write articles. Took me awhile to get into the writers groove, I discovered that I like writing afterw it was complete, I had in my mind about 6-8 articles, I ended up with 8. Then I had to edit, re-write and reading and correcting a number of times. They are finally finished. Towards the end writing became easier, this took time, I tried the easy way of getting someone from Elance to write the articles but it did not work because the articles did not sound like me and sounded different so, the best way for me is to write my own articles.
2. Building the website. This is not difficult with Wordpress, there are many types of page builders including Elementor, Customizer, Divi etc that are all drag and drop and all you need is a bit of time and you can actually build a website from scratch in 1 hour! The difficulty for me was the design of it. I needed it to look just so and I had a definite idea of what I wanted and that took time for me to fulfill. Where to put the Posts, the pages, the affiliate links how the side bar is going to look and what I want to advertise and where. Do I put links on all the pages or not. What I wanted was something different to the rest. It is a work in progress and I might change the design moving forward but for now it will have to do.
What is important
I believe the 2 subjects of Article writing and web building are very important in trying to get your business off the ground. You have to look professional AND sound proffesional with your articles. Getting traffic is easy but traffic i.e people who come to the website are there to be informed, entertained. Your product should be the tool that allows them to fix a problem they have. If it meets this criteria then your products will sell itself.
The most pleasing thing for me is that I am writing better and quicker, I don't have that mental block I had before. The learning experience I have so far has taught me that I need to be focused more on my goals every day and this I have been doing, this is invaluable.
Looking forward to 3 months, I will be achieving my goals, be able to look back and realize the path needed to be followed to get to where I hope to be and I will be here and be writing many more articles.
Looking forward to 6 months : I know I will be alot further and I will be achieving my goals consistently. I hope to be helping people as well giving advice and showing them the best way to get to where they want to get too.
I have learnt many invaluable lessons here I think the most important one is never give up and never give in. Have your goal and stick to it.
Recent Comments
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It sure sounds like wisdom is being built.