December update
December update
Hi guys! I decided to write a litle catch up blog, to share my activity here at WA.
The biggest new is that I went yearly on Black Friday. It was a no brainer if you think about the cost, but at the same time it wasnt an easy decision to make, since I havent been able to make any profit since I joined in June.
The fact of not being able to make money is affecting me a lot. In good ways and bad ways. The bad side of course is the anxiety, wich leads one to make bad choices. For example, I went to fiver and bought some traffic, only to throw 5 bucks to the trash with low quality, 100% bounce rate traffic. My bad.
The good side is that I commited myself to training from scratch, and that is always positive.
Im not a structured guy, i get pretty anxious most of the time, and when that happens, I go for the shorcut, the quick route, so this experience at WA is not only anout business for me, It is also about personal development. Im also a very positive fellow, and I have the conviction that everything happens for a reason, so if now Im struggling with my business maybe it is the Universe way to teach me something :)
I have 3 sites at this point. One of them, is only flash games, my first site, Im thinking on dropping the courtain on it. When I began I thought that it was a good idea to monetize it through adsense, but that is not working at all.
My other two sites are a niche site and a project of an authority site for geeks like me :)
I have been able to rank them on page 2 of google for several keywords, but traffic is very low and conversions still a desire :)
One big thing that I have discovered, and if you were kind enough of reading till this point of the blog, Is that the fact of not having english as my mother tongue, leads me to typos and grammar errors that Im sure will hurt the eyes of english natural speakers.
I ask for your apologizes for that, and know that im working very hard in that issue, since im sure is one of the reasons of not having conversions.
Anyway, that is all for this update, Im also starting to participate a lot more in chat and comment sections, so I hope we will see each other guys hanging around!
All my best to you!!!
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Your english is a lot better than a lot of native language English speakers. Don't let your English skills stop you.
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Firstly, I wouldn't worry too much about your English......I'm as picky as they come regarding spelling and grammar and you don't have any real problem if this blog is anything to go by.
Secondly, the first thing I thought reading your post is, why do you have 3 sites?
One of my first questions when I joined WA was "is it best to have multiple sites or just one starting out"?
The unanimous answer from experienced marketers was build 1 site, concentrate all of your efforts on it, build it up with fresh content regularly and only expand to a further site if and when the first one starts to run smoothly and profitably.
Clearly, if you make a mistake with your first site's niche then start again, but don't have multiple sites on the go unless you are an experienced site builder and marketer.....way too much work, your efforts are dissipated and hopes often dashed.
Mark
Thanks for the encouragement on the english issue Mike!!! :) You made me very happy! And much more since I wrote the blog from my cellphone, with no grammar aids!!! :)
3 sites? Who said 3? 3 here only at WA I have 3 other domains purchased and I have plans to develop them!!!
That is result of the combination of the awesome WA training (my brain cant stop having new ideas after reading blogs from fellow WA, Jays trainings, etc) and my anxiety (once those ideas are in my mind, i have to take action)
But.... you are absolutely right, one step at a time would be a much more wise strategy. Now that I went yearly, no one is rushing me right?
Thanks a lot for your comment Mike, I will incorporate your advice, and will focus at one thing at a time :)
Multiple sites are definitely more work, but if like me you have multiple interests, multiple sites are inevitable. Further complicating life is when I start building and promoting sites for others. Like the mechanics car, my sites tend to suffer.
WA is worth the investment you are taking positive steps to building your business wish you every success
This is definitely a long term investment of item to make money but enjoyable along the way! I am a native English speaker and feel free to run anything by me if you like. Happy to help!
I don,t want to judge you but by the sound of this blog you are hoping for miracles.Remember you are building a long time business,you will not get rich quick,nobody does.It just does not happen on the internet,it takes a long time to get established.
Well, I think I presented a total different case, but is your interpretation and I respect that of course.
If I wanted to get rich or looking for miracles I wouldn't be spending a lot of hours in training, revisiting my sites, looking for help in the chat or via PM.
Of course, I have made mistakes, I have tried shortcuts, I don't hide that, but I feel that mistakes will be the foundation of my success.
I have the language problem with my two old websites.I am trying my best and working in a product revirew template that helps me to aoid it.
In addition, I just create my two WA training websites in my mother language.
Keep going
Carlos
You may want to look for an English Grammar plugin or something like Grammarly, but not sure that is in your financial sight right now.
I can understand your frustration, but we will succeed!
Sheila
Im starting to use grammarly, the free version, it is a great tool!
However, with tools like that, and the google docs there is no excuse for me for publishing posts with typos :)
Grammar is different, but I can avoid typos, that would be progress!
You touched on something I have been aware of, but haven't really delved into. That is the personal development aspect of WA. I'm sure it has improved all of us to some degree.
Of course It does!! Here we share a REAL comunity of REAL people! :)
That is the key point I believe.
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English is a second language to some of us. Don't make this stop you.
Keep moving forward.