2,5 months in - Loving WA - And Setting Some Goals
Here's my first blog here on WA to let everyone know how I'm doing so far.
I joined WA 2,5 months ago and have been working hard since to get my online busyness started! I love it very much and spend a lot of time absorbing and digesting the training and building my site accordingly. I'm at course 2 lesson 7 right now.
I feel I have learned so much already and I love how everyone on WA tries his/her best to help everyone. Also trying to help where I can myself. Even if I don't know the answer to a question I can always help searching for the answer!
I love the trainings, the video's, the discussions, the blogs, the webinars... ;-)
At the same time I feel I'm not going very fast, because English isn't my first language, it's my third actually :) Although I understand the training pretty quickly, writing content takes ages!
I also get distracted by the seemingly indefinite possibilities of affiliate marketing. I even built the basics of 4 websites, but had to stop, realizing that this way it would take me forever to see any results in money. So now I try to take notes when I have new ideas and leave it at that.
So my goals, wishes and focus for the near future are:
- Continue and finish the training while working on www.woodworkingwithsandra.com.
This site will be my number one focus for now.
- Only work on my "old" dutch blog www.tijdomweergezondtezijn.blogspot.nl when I managed to post 1 or more new posts on the woodworking site within the past week.
- Better my English through writing content.
Feel free to have a look at my site, I appreciate any feedback.
I wish everyone loads of success, keep the good work up!
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Hi landgenoot. Het is ook mijn ervaring dat je door meer-taligheid wat meer tijd nodig hebt om te schrijven. What is your third language?
To have more than one language has also big advantages!
I discovered also that writing content is a very good method of improving "ons-nederlands soort engels". What works for me also is learning words and so on from Dutch into English.
Je bent heel goed bezig! Succes in the future!
Your website and blog looks to me very good!
Hoi Warner :)
Thank you for your encouragement! My second language is French ;-)
I like your view on writing content with a multilingual background, I read what you commented yesterday on your own first blog, that we will one day produce a different kind of english, even maybe best-selling content ;-)
Google Translate has become one of my best friends lately lol
I know exactly what you´re feeling about writing content....:-D...but i tend to get better. You´re english is pretty decent, dutch is your first language, may i ask, what your second is? I admire your perseverance...greetings from germany !
BTW, i like your page.
Thanks for your comment neighbor ;-)
My second language is French because I lived in France for about 15 years...
Have you ever considered building a German website?
Oh yes, thought of it and maybe will some day, but the german have a different mentality, i will have to find something interesting, fresh and new, with an old fashioned touch....:-D...maybe better some cpa offer in german. But i get distracted too easy, so i try to work on my 2 sites in english for the moment. French, hu ? Well, that´s an interesting combination...:-)
I'm thinking of building a dutch WA affiliate website while going through bootcamp, after the regular training, the dutch definitely like to earn some extra money ;-) But I'm not sure if I'll have to use a different approach...
Just had a peak at you skinny-me site, I like it :) It's coming along very nicely! Left you a comment :)
Thank you so much for the comment, Sandra, i will check out your site later, and leave you some thoughts....:-)...have a wonderful day !
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Hi Sanda
Glad you're making such great progress.
I had a look at your site and you have the foundations of a very nice site. Interesting to see a gender specific one.
Here are a couple of thoughts
1. Would be really nice to see a couple of photos of your work. I think this is important when you're trying to convince girls and women to have a go. Just show them what's possible.
2. Beware of excess information - eg Black and Decker Drill review. You have some great information here - which is really useful to the reader but the post could easily be cut by a quarter - probably a third. (Not suggesting you do that). You tend to include information that really doesn't matter and doesn't add value to the reader. eg sentences like this " To help you find the right cordless drill for you, I started an extensive search sifting through the different features, sized and voltages." As a reader I don't care what process you went through to find me the information. It's unnecessary.
A second example "While researching this drill I was very surprised by the number of positive customer reviews on the web. For my reviews I tend to dig all the way down to the bad experiences but there just weren’t many to find. And the ones I found were contradicted by numerous other customer reviews." You've told me clearly that you haven't used it - so I probably wouldn't buy it anyway.
Giving all this information about how you carry out your research is just a waste of space and detracts from the really good stuff that you are writing about. It's a judgement call on whether you do a straight review and tell people whether or not you have used it or not - plenty of people never mention it - but I don't think your current way of doing it works and it certainly takes up too many words.
3. Links. You have a link at the bottom of your page to Amazon to enable the reader to buy the tool - but they might not get that far. I would put a link under the picture at the top of the page. Just put something like "Visit website" and link it to Amazon.
Sorry - you probably weren't expecting all that. You write well - feel free to ignore anything I've said. :) Beverley
Hi Beverley,
Thank you for your long comment ;)
Don't worry about it, I agree with everything you said... I think... :D and will adjust things later today.
Thank you for your encouragement also, I appreciate it!
What do you think about the site being gender specific? I'm not sure if the theme and colors are appealing enough to women right now. Will add a logo later, but not sure what I want it to look like yet. I would like that when women see the site, they immediately know that it's made for them... any ideas?
Greets, Sandra :)