Not alone

byRidefree850

252 followers

8 years ago

I've read with great interest over the last 2-3 weeks those that are marking 12-14 months with WA. The struggle to keep finding things to write about. The lack of hoped for income and a perceived lack of progress.

These caught my attention because, as I read, I was going through the same issues. 1 year as a premium member and not experiencing the success I had hoped/ thought I would have.

Struggling to write new content a couple of times a week, I hit the proverbial wall. No ideas, nothing inspired, nothing written. But reading that others were having the same issues gave me hope. I have had businesses and I never expected those to take off in a year (okay, I really wanted them to).

I decided to take stock of my travels here. I am in a very competitive niche and the initial goal was not money, but the dissemination of correct information. Before I came to WA I had tried other sites with little success. It wasn't the sites fault (trying to be gracious here) but the fact that I knew absolutely zero about internet marketing or website building. The information on how to do a web business/blog was so scattered and diverse. It boggled the mind to try and get some training that was easy to digest and not feel like you were throwing money out the door and being more confused than when you started.

I had no greater expectation coming to WA, but I had a friend who said try it out because you can get a feel of it for free. And free is always good (most of the time). In my 14 months here I went from having no idea on how to build a website. I learned about different themes and what might work. How to organize ( with help from many here at WA) my blog. Insert pictures, videos,web links, squeeze pages, promote other products with affiliate links, ask for comments, get all the proper disclosures up, review products and more. I went from having no visitors to about 400- 600 a month (and that's with no writing in 3 weeks), no subscribers to currently 100 ( I'm sure they're wondering where I went). I've also made a few bucks, not a great deal, but some. For me to believe I have had no success here was a misinterpretation caused by looking at it in the wrong perspective.

So I wanted to thank all of you who posted your struggles here for me to read as it made me take a look and realize that I am more successful than I realized and I just need to hang in a while longer. Now that I have a solid basis of how to's and a new perspective I can fine tune what I have and see what the next year brings.