Challenges in developing my website

I am 3.5 months into WA now. And am just at level 2 of the OEC training working on developing my niche website using Wordpress. I must admit, it has been a challenge of finding time to sit down to plan and think and acting on what needs to be done. Which is, of course to develop the website. Much of the delay was on learning an unfamiliar new skill (wordpress!) and reflecting and evaluating the niche and if it is really what I wanted to focus on for the many months and years ahead. In the end, I stuck to my original niche idea and press on with the website development. It is so imperative that the niche is something you have an interest in and know how to find the resource for contents.

A lot of thought process and planning actually go into the development of the website! From how I wanted my website to look like (my perfectionist side is hampering this process a lot!), what contents (blogs) need to go in there to even deciding (again and again) on what menu and categories would make sense for my website. It seems that I am quite all over the place. I wonder if the rest of the WA community went through this perplexing process! I only have myself to blame for being all over!

I am used to creating websites retailing products (e-commerce website which are conversions from my brick and mortar businesses - so that was easy as contents, products etc are all there already including the customers!) using shopify and weebly platforms but affiliate marketing is a different ballgame altogether without having a need to stock up inventories. It is all about getting the niche that resonates with you (this is the most impt part I find), blogging, getting Google ranking and linking to affiliates like Amazon etc (I am not there yet in the training to do this!). As a bonus, the OEC training is useful even for my other current traditional ecommerce websites. Time to refresh it with a blog space too and naturally get the rankings in Google. Maybe I'll do that later - what's important now is to get my niche affiliate marketing website up and running.

Unfamiliarity has pushed me out of my comfort zone and I hope the early frustrations with the Wordpress development will vanish soon and that things will become easier! I look forward to a day that I am able to hopefully say, well, that wasn't too bad at all! Wordpress is cool.

~Rah