Not that lonely!

bypatrickdwyer

142 followers

5 years ago

I recently read a blog about pros and cons of WA ranking.
This is my personal take on it:
We all have different personal circumstances .
Mine; I am in the hospitality trade. Who knows what the future holds?
I had to make plan B. "work from home" just in case.

As you all have might have discovered, one cannot even watch a movie on YouTube without being bombarded with ads for affiliate marketing schemes. They too see a widening gap and many promise overnight riches.
I was lucky, stumbled upon WA and could not be happier.

I think that the concept of internal ranking is excellent. More senior members helping others with their superior experience and so forth.
But it's also, kind of like the more you blog, the more you help, the higher you go.

If this forum provides members with a kind of social family group, well that's fine.
We all need some kind of family to share our thoughts, concerns and hopes.
It seems though that some might take this route only to gain popularity.

For me, and once again this is personal, I have no desire to gain any popularity contest.
I do respond to some blogs that I think have relevance for me (and many are), but I do think that if I spend valuable time on submitting blog content of the "Hi family, my cats woke me up this morning with excessive meowing" type, just to further my ranking position, I feel that I would be heading in a time-wasting direction,

I am spending 10 hours per day on writing content. Some blogs take me a whole day or more.
Whatever I am promoting or writing about is original and is always based on my own personal experience.

I am lucky enough to have over 250 of my thousands of FB friends within my own niche so I am cultivating a business FB page as well as my own FB group.

One day after launching my FB page group, and obviously inviting all of my niche contacts to join, 60% joined so far and a further 60 or so strangers requested to join. These are people that I do not even know!

So this is how I feel is a more constructive way to build my future.
Sadly to say, climbing the list of WA rankings is at the very bottom of my personal to do list

I have helped people all my life. I will certainly contribute every effort if in the future, should arrive at a successful business position through WA, to contribute to the community. But not to gain any brownie points.
Now I have nothing to offer so I am "making my own hay while the sun shines"

Lord Krisha put it this way "work for the love of work and not for the fruits thereof"
My dad was a bit more cynical;
When I said "dad but you have to take a side" he replied "but I do my son, I am on my side"
Seems that I am destined to remain at rank 32,194.

Have a good day all