Authority Isn't Claimed - It's Earned: Branding And Authority Building.

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Authority Isn't Claimed - It's Earned: Branding And Authority Building.

You donโ€™t become an authority by saying you are one.
You become an authority when people trust your work.

Consistency earns trust.
Honesty earns respect.
Showing your journey, the wins and the struggles, earns connection.

Real is rare

Every tutorial you writeโ€ฆ
Every tip you shareโ€ฆ
Every personal experience you open up aboutโ€ฆ
โ€ฆbuilds your authority brick by brick.

Authority grows quietly, but once it is built, it becomes the foundation of your entire affiliate business.

Earn it through authenticity.

Keep building, keep learning, and keep believing in yourself. Your website is your story unfolding online.
โ€“ Paul

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Hello Paul

Being an authority in your niche is an honor as much as a financial bonus. It would be awesome if there was a magic formula to become an authority in your niche, I have created three websites all focusing on helping senior citizens in hopes to be seen as an authority one day.

Jeff

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I wish the same, Jeff. If we know the formula, things would be so much easier and success would be much easier to achieve.
I believe than your niche will become an authority one day as you continue to add content to it. Google algorithm has its own way of treating our content.

Paul.

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I thank you for such high success with my niche. Funny all my websites are technically educational websites, but each one is a unique niche from the others.

What connects my website is my target audience, older adults like myself.

Google will always be a mystery to me,

Jeff

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Jeff, you are making google more easier and happier to crawl your websites. You may not know the details of how your sites work together but search engines does.

Paul.

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Hello Paul

How is the family and you doing today?

Google has been very kind to my websites this time around, it is a mystery and a miracle how Google knows so much about our websites that we don't understand.

Any news on your own websites

Jeff

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Hey, Jeff.
Only three of us living now. We have a wonderful time yesterday.
My daughter requested me to prepare a dish that she likes in Thailand. I tried and it came out well and we all enjoyed together.

Algorithm works intensivley in the background, which we will never understand. We only have to appreciate that date sent to us in report forms.

I am not touch on any of my website this Christmas season.
I don't have enough time to get into it.

Paul.

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Christmas is coming extremely fast now it seems, we are having a warm spell today and tomorrow that has improved everyones Christmas spirit. My mom seems to be in a better mood today than she has been with the extreme cold days, even my dog seems to have more energy and not sleeping most of the day.

AI informed me you can publish one article per week and still be in good with search engines. I was surprised to hear that.

Time is our worse enemy most of the time,

Jeff

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Sounds like a very good day for you all. Many families will be enjoying their Christmas outings and shopping. Glad to hear about your mom's in better mood.

AI can become a good advisor too.

Paul.

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Today was a very nice day to go out and do some errands this afternoon, I had put off going out almost an entire week being so cold and the roads have been pretty bad.

It is amazing how the weather can make such a diffrence in how we feel both physically and emotionally

AI does seem to give pretty good advice most of the time

Jeff

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Weather seems to understand the needs of the people.
We did some clean up in the house and I realized that there are more to do.
Most of my questions are answered by AI.

Paul.

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AI has been an amazing asset to me with starting my websites, I would not be where I am without the assistance of AI.

I am happy with the paid version and its well worth the price for all it has done for me. It is the best investment I have ever made after WA.

Clean up in the house seems like a neverending battle for me, I somehow always end up with closets and cabinets with things I never use, today I did some cleaning out to get rid of the things I never use. Now that I got rid of them, I suppose I will need some of them.

That is how it always seems to work for me

Jeff

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Truly it is, Jeff. We can't be grateful enough to AI for how far and great it has helped us to accomplish so much in a short period of time.

Within a week I generated 5 short Bible story books for children age 6-12 with Image Studio AI inside WA. I am amazed at the outcome. I will complete 5 more this week and generate into a complete book of ten bible stories book.

Part of the cleaning is left undone and we will pickup after Christmas celebration.

Paul.

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Its awesome that you was able to create bibile stories for children with AI. Great idea combining them into a book, so how do you plan to publish your book?

Cleaning is always a never ending job it seems for me here, I do have a lady who does my laundry for me which helps me a lot. I don't have to carry my laundry out to the car and drive to the laundry place since she does that for me.

No fun getting old
Jeff

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I am planning to publish on amazon as well as local Christian printing press .

I used to have a good washing machine that does most of the washing in Thailand. Here I am yet to buy one. Today I manually wash all out clothes. It's always a tiring job to do with heavy and more clothes.

Paul.

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How much will Amazon and Christian printing press charge you, how long did it take you to write a book.

My apartment building has a laundry room which is convenient, but its hard for me to do laundry with my neck and shoulder pain in the winter months.

It would be a hard job washing clothes by hand, i have done that before myself.

Jeff

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I published few books as KDP on Amazon, that's where I will focus first.
I am yet to do research on the local printing press.

I prefer washing maching over handwash but I have to adjust with it for now.

Paul.

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Publishing books on KDP is one of my long-term income plans. I have never written a book before, so it will more likely take me some time to learn how.

I have thought about putting all my articles into a book in the future, well more likely the best ones anyway.

I also thought I could use my articles for an online course maybe later on.

Yes, machine washing is much better than handwashing but we must do what we have to. I have also had to handwash clothes before, its no fun I know from my own experience

Jeff

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I have published few devotional books but no sales yet. I would like to give another try again with a different approach this time.

My daughter and I are doing handing washing. She is helping me to hang the clothes and do the folding.

Paul.

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Is your lack of sales from the competition of devotionals do you think, Paul?

I would think there is enough demand for them, its awesome that you are not giving up with writing books.

Jeff

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I think the audience is great but with competitive marketing. May be I didn't strategise my marketing enough.
With Kids bible story book I have a plan and I am working towards it. I will spend more time by Jan 2026 onwards.

Paul.

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Hey Paul

I do feel there is a good demand for kids bibile story books as well. I know I shopped for them for my sons when they were boys, so why wouldn't other parents do the same.

That is a good goal for the new year.

I was thinking of using Ice Gram plugin on my business niche website, what do you think about that?

Jeff

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I also thought the same, Jeff.
I need a good marketing strategy to grow it consistently.

Hope you have tried Icegram already by now.

Paul.

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Hello Paul

A good marketing strategy is a must to get your ebooks in front of the right people, Christian parents would be my target if I was promoting a bible story book for kids.

I have been planning on installing the plugin, since the new year began I have been having sinus issues limiting my time online the past several days

Jeff

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Yes, Jeff. A good marketing strategy will make a lot of difference. Christian Parenting is definitely worth considering.

Hope and pray you get well from sinus problem to continue with some of those important work.

Paul.

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Hello Paul

My sinus issues are a little better last night and today. With the weather bouncing around so much it has them going crazy. One day it can be 20 degrees and the next in the 50s, too much of a change in a short period for the body to adjust to.

Jeff

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Jeff.

Weather is so unpredictable these days. Hope your body adjust to it.
We stay indoors most times and I feel so much safe. Going out is not good because the place is dusty and unhealthy to walk around.

Paul.

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Hello Paul

The weather is unpredictable everywhere now it seems, one thing I can be thankful for here is we have not experienced severe natural disasters like many other places. Its relatively safe weatherwise here, its just the winters are hard on you when you are older in age.

If the weather would stablize my body would adjust, but so far this winter it is changing constantly.

The bright side, only about 2 more months until spring will begin to arrive once again.

Jeff

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Hi, Jeff.
We can't control nor can adjust it but we have to appreciate it and live with it. I agree with you that as we age, weather will have effect on our health. It must have been very challenging for your mother as well.
Hope things will improve at your end as we approach the spring season.

Paul.

Hello Paul

Usually about April or May my health flare-ups are much less severe again. This week I am getting some relief since its not nearly as cold, but Sunday it is suppose to become very cold again.

My mother is in pain most of the time now, but it is much more severe during the winter months. She has autoimmune diseases along with arthritis, so she deals with chronic flare-ups from time to time.

Sometimes I wonder if living to be such an old age is worth the pain people endure

Jeff

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Jeff,

It must be very challenging for you as well as your mother.
Hoping and praying that both of you would become better in few months.

Someday we will be reaching this stage in life and experience it ourselves.

Paul.

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Growing elderly is not something i am looking forward to experiencing, Paul.

I see everyday the tenants in my apartment building who struggle walking and needing mobility aids. That is very distrubing for me to think that could be me one day, I just thank God everyday for my health to be as well as it is.

How is your daughter's health and your health, Paul

Jeff

This is a solid reminder.
Real authority shows up quietly โ€” through consistency, restraint, and time doing the work.
You canโ€™t shortcut trust, and people always feel it when you try.

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Very true, Jeffery. When we become real, authentic and consistent, overtime it builds up trust and earns authority.

Paul.

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I think true Authority show you the real you. deep down in side. As when you believe you can do something, and you think it's going to be easy and fast, by to find out you have to pull in more work than you thought, but it is up to you if you start or finish.

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Very true, MrBig. Thank you for your insighful comment adding value to the dicussion.

Paul.

Thanks Paul, this really speaks truth.
That part about โ€œ authority grows quietly โ€œ I felt that. Itโ€™s not about shouting, itโ€™s about showing up, sharing real stuff, and thatโ€™s what people connect with.

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You are welcome, Raymond. That is so true and your are right. Thanks for the value added comment.

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How are you progressing with you website, Raymond.

Paul.

Need agent upgrade, the website was published, but yet to launch business.

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Okay, hope you can earn enough WA Cash credits through your actively engagement and you can use them to upgarade to premium.

Paul.

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Thank you for your hands,

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You are welcome, Raymond.
Hope you know how to use your credits to subscribe to premium membership here.

Paul.

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Truisms are Paul's language.

JD

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Thank you, JD.
My top supporter.

Paul.

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Always, Paul.

JD

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Always grateful this, JD.

Paul.

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