Are You New to Blogging? Scared of the Get Started Here? Don't be!
The way in which I found Wealthy Affiliate is interesting. It was through watching a webinar for another company that promoted a form of generating an income through ad marketing. Throughout the course of the webinar and through reading the chat forum, I discovered terms such as Freelance Marketer and Digital Marketer. I've heard these names before but needed to know more so while the webinar was playing in one window, I opened another and did quick searches to learn what they meant. Somehow it lead me to Wealthy Affiliates. There was nothing to lose by joining or exploring the content here in Wealthy Affiliates so I signed up for free!
Even though I'm not a new blogger, I've found a wealth of information in the Get Started Here section. If only I had known about this resource when I first started my home decor blog four-years ago! I can't begin to imagine the amount of time it could have saved me with endless Google searches, not to mention having a cluttered inbox full with vague surface content ending with hard sales pitches to hurry up and buy yet another e-course that promised the world and under delivered.
I'm a fairly experienced blogger but by no means am an expert in all things blogging and I'm definitely not a guru with affiliate marketing. I've sat through at least 15 e-courses pertaining to blogging, watched endless paid and free webinars, taken down notes that fill four separate binders. If anything, I'm an expert in taking e-courses and probably expert in self-education.
That experience alone trained me to know a great platform when I see one! Wealthy Affiliates is the BEST platform for newbie aspiring bloggers. The Get Started Here section is excellent as it walks a person through setting up their first website. All those funny words like SEO and keyword research are broken down for beginners. Even though I have experience with everything covered in Get Started here I learned a few new things and discovered some useful resources.
With full confidence, I can say Wealthy Affiliates will benefit all bloggers and marketers!
Regardless of popularity or whether it's positive or negative, I call it like I see it. I'm not one to mince words or sugar coat anything. Ever!
If you are new to blogging or thinking about it, follow the step-by-step guides for setting up your website. Everything in there is on point and 100% accurate. You won't mess anything up, break anything, or fail. You will have an excellent foundation for sharing your stories and message online and ultimately generating an income, which is my goal.
In the beginning, don't worry about perfection. Get that word out of your vocabulary now! Lets replace perfect with fine-tune because there is no such thing as a perfect website or a perfect blogger.
As you move along you will fine tune everything from A-Z but first you have to start. Just tackle one thing at at a time and go. Don't wait to learn more or try to get more training before beginning your first website or publishing your first blog post. That doesn't work.
Don't be scared. You gotta just grab the bull by it's horns and go!
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Way to go, Olivia really like your take on things, in the very beginning many of us couldn't write our way out of wet paper bags to save ourselves, as you say just grab the bull by the horns and go. Welcome aboard the WA train.
Ha ha, that's funny! Writing is like anything else- the more a person does it they better they become. Shoot, I still find some big typo doozies in posts that I've proofed 15 times.
I always tell folks who are thinking about starting a blog and who are worried about grammar they need to remember they are a blogger sharing ideas, not an English professor. Ha ha.
One the best sources that I still use for checking punctuation and sentence structure is Grammarly. Even the free version is super helpful.
Usually, I start out in Google Docs because it's distraction free writing. It's easy to dump thoughts onto the proverbial paper so-to-speak, without corrections poppin up.
There are some other sources online to help new bloggers out. Grammar Girl- Quick and Dirty Tips is great blog for a number of things like trying to figure out weather, wether, and whether. Lord help us all. For years, I typed wether instead of whether. SMH. Ha!
Have a great day, Evan.
That is awesome Olivia, there are some really good resources out there for sure, Grammarly and Google Docs certainly are top of the range. Finding my way with GD really like how you can take things on the road with you.
The English language certainly has its challenges, it is so easy to make blunders, the cringe factor and I are quite good friends.
Just checked out that blog very good thanks for sharing.
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