A New Route: Moving Forward With This Detour

byNurseAngela

674 followers

Updated 6 years ago

Sudden Detour

When I started out this journey with WA, I had my chosen niche, built out my website, began creating content, working with great keywords, & signed up for a few affiliate programs. The training was going great & I learned & implemented everthing I had learned.

Then life grabbed that big bright lighbulb above my head & said - HEY! I need those ideas over here.

Recalculating Route...

I put my niche & my website on hold to help my Husband with a much-needed, long-awaited project. He had desperately needed a website, proper online presence, & a way for people to contact him for over a decade, & we were possibly missing out on opportunities & valuable connections by not having these things in place.

When I put in just ONE day's work using my WA training to get his website up & running...BAM! Suddenly I was put in charge of all online content, marketing, social media outlets, email correspondence, contact list, order processing, content writing, & more.

One project turned into ten in a matter of HOURS. Before I knew it, I had abandoned my own starter project in order to delve into more training to meet the demands of this new project - youtube, facebook, twitter, list-building, email campaigns...in addition to the affiliate marketing training.

Checking the Rear View

During the past week, although I made enormous progress with my Husband's project, I had this sense of dread & anxiety when thinking about my own project. The project that had led me to WA & the thing that had started it all.

Admittedly, I felt a little selfish & a little jealous of how quickly his thing had surpassed what I had set out to do. I checked my intentions. I checked my selfishness. I checked the rearview one last time & I decided it was time to stop dragging extra weight & cut that other project loose.

When Doing Less Is Doing More

I've always been great at multi-tasking. As a matter of fact, I often feel more comfortable alternating between projects as opposed to being stuck with one continuous task. However, it's really easy to procrastinate when you juggle more than one project at a time. When you come to a not-so-fun task, it's easy to jump ship & start working on something more interesting somewhere else.
When that starts happening, it's wise to cut one loose, or at least move it to the back burner & concentrate your efforts.

What's Mine is His & What's His is Mine

Although it felt good to start something that I could be an expert in - something that would belong to me, I realized that it would be foolish to not give my Husband's project my full attention. His success is ultimately my success. And I wasn't building his from the ground up like mine - he had thousands of contacts already chomping at the bit for content & opportunities to engage. I knew what I needed to do.

I consider it an honor & a priviledge to do this work for him, because I know that no one else, given the task of representing him & looking out for his best interest, would do the kind of job that I will - because his best interest is my family's best interest. What's good for him is what's good for me. I will never compromise his integrity or have a special interest or alterior motive, as an outsider could.

So, I take this detour & continue down this new path, with him & his career as my new niche.

We'll explore new niche content related to his career & I'll be his "ghost writer." I think it will actually end up being a lot more fun & interesting, because I'm even more motivated out of my dedication to helping him.

What This Detour Taught Me About WA:

There is one other very important thing this detour showed me. It shed light on the immense value of my WA membership. Not only did it teach me, a complete newbie to

• build a website from the ground up
• to research & choose a niche
• to utilize keywords
  
• to implement SEO
• to get indexed by google
• to research & choose affiliate memberships
• to integrate affiliate links & products into my website
• to conduct & write product reviews
• to create keyword rich content
• to generate free website traffic, & more

I was then able to utilize everything I had already learned within the WA training & community to build out a website for a separate, existing business, perform SEO, create keyword rich content, set it up with affiliate links & ads, AND utilize the plethora of member-created trainings within WA to learn additional things I needed in order to take this business website to the next level. And I am still researching & utilizing more trainings as I go.

The value of this community is demonstrated more & more to me each day. I never could have accomplished this if I had not found WA. I'm rolling in gratitude.

Here's to detours & forging new paths.