thanks for the advice and follow Pete! Much appreciated

Thank you Robert. Yes I am in the very early stages of training and using my current niche and first website as a training one. I'm used to academic writing so I am training myself to adapt for the world of internet.

Any little pieces of advice (like yours), are greatly received!


Many Thanks for the follow.

No probs Sara and when you read my blogs make sure you choose the ones that will help you in conjunction with whatever training you are currently taking.
Have a great day.
Robert

Thank you so much. I have found everyone incredibly friendly and generous. Thanks for the kind offer of help. I'll shout out is I need you lol

Karin, that it so kind, thank you. I will definitely shout out to you for help if I need it

Many Thanks
Sara

Thank you so much! I am so overwhelmed by the support which has been offered within the group. I am so excited for the future. I look forward from learning from you all!

You are welcome 🙂

Hi, how are you today?

Thank you so much Chris for your Prayers!. I also wish you much luck and inspiration on your adventure! please keep in touch and let me know how you are doing.

Hi Paul

Thank you so much for your kind offer of help. I abandoned ship and deleted it and decided to continue to the end of level two training without it.

In the end I realised I was not working to my best learning style. I don't do well learning on technology or with step by step. I need it written down and need to know the bigger picture and endgame. Once I had that and knew that, I had a simple website up and running in minutes!

Many Thanks for reaching out it is much appreciated
Sara

I am pleased that you had the patience and tenacity to figure it out your way.

When faced with a challenge it is easy to give up and say I can’t do it!

It takes inner strength too look for a different path. One path is no better than another. The best path is the one that gets you where you want to go.

Well done! I salute you!

Good Morning Nathaniell

(not sure what time it is where you are but here in uk it is early!!)

Having a Niche is not my problem, I have 9 Niches that I would happily, passionately research, write about and promote. So I have decided for my first website to go with organic baby products.


My first problem is the website, I have tried to build it, but there are not images in the media library. Is this because I am not a premium member? Or do I have to source and pay for any images myself?


Also I am based in the UK so should I make my website UK based with Uk companies and affiliates or USA? Or Both? How do I generate traffic to my site depending on which route I go?


I have many more questions but they go beyond where I am at, in the process and training so i'll stick with those two for now.


I look forward to getting your advice, but for now...Coffee.


Sara

I'm going to be honest Nathaniell, After waking up at 5am all motivated and raring to build my website and then over the course of four hours being driven to despair and my soul slowly dying, i'm not doing too great.

I am finding the technical aspect of building my first website impossible.

Heres where I am at... I chose a Niche Organic baby Products - Check
Chose a Name - Check
Chose a theme - check
clicked on theme and hated it - check
tried to amend theme - nope
tried to amend theme another way - nope
went into customise and then amend theme and was given an option of four. Found one I loved (Twenty Seventy Theme)

So then I clicked on it, thought I was amending it. It let me amend the Home page. Uploaded a picture and changed the text easily. Then there was no amend options available for the other sections?
I then spent two hours trying different things and thought I'd ask a question, but couldn't find anywhere the 'ask a question tab'?!?

Tried to message you, but of course I have to upgrade to premium for that. Tried to write a blog to get help, but only alowed one blog a day. So I reached out on live chat, only to be directed to youtube!! or some very complicated technical training.

So Is Twenty seventeen available or do I have to be a premium member to use it?

How do I amend my theme once chosen and hated? because at the moment it just directs me to a white error screen?

My son just came downstairs and said Mum I don't think you should do this. It is taking all your time and making you upset and angry. So here I am...

I'm sure in a years time and I have multiple websites, I will laugh and revel in today and its dismay and challenges, but for now, a break!

Hope you can help?
Many Thanks
Sara

So there are 10,000+ themes out there, which is why Live Chat directed you to YouTube. Theme customizations aren't really necessary to make money, and would be impossible to track all of them and provide training, so most people will direct you to theme-maker resources for stuff like that.

Changing a theme is easy though. WordPress Dashboard Tutorial - Themes There is no "best" theme out there - it's all a matter of taste. That being said, I always recommend you start with something simple. White background with black text is the way to go. Choose a simple homepage that displays your blog roll, a top menu, and the sidebar. That's it!

Everything else is pretty much a distraction at this point.

Here's just a few simple themes I found that I like, but there are thousands more out there. 7 Simple Free Wordpress Themes For Newbies Let me know if that works for you Sara!

Yeah I'm going to be honest I abandoned and deleted the whole website in the end and concentrated on watching the training to the end. Think I misunderstood the whole point of the first website building, and thought it was going to be my actual website, wanting beautiful pictures and great content etc. I then got to the end and realised it was just a dummy practice run. So I'll go back now and do a very simple one.

I have some questions about Premium membership. In the training it mentioned there were 'different levels of membership'. So will premium membership see me through to releasing a website that is able to make me money, or am I at training level 3, 4, 5 etc going to be upsold to have to pay extra or for another level in order to reach that goal?

As a ex sales person i'd rather know up front. What is the cancelation policy? Am I tied in for a set period of time or have to give a certain notice period?

I've got to be honest it has been a very stressful 24 hours. I have found the training style and technical jargon difficult. But now I know this I can adapt it to my learning style. I will also take your very good advice to keep things simple.

I have been impressed by the network and the support I have received from them.

Thank you for your advice and time I'm sure it is very precious and I thank you for taking some of it to reply to my despair!

Sara

The Premium payment is only one level. $49/month or $359/year. There are not extra levels of payment or restricted content.

The "levels" just refers to the topic of the training. Level 1 is basics. Level 2 is traffic. Level 3 is monetization, etc.

For canceling, you can cancel at any time. If you want to keep your websites live though, you will have to move them to a new host.

Premiums can cancel their subscription at any time in account settings. Do so at least a few days before the expiry date of that monthly or yearly subscription because otherwise it will auto bill.

Click "Account Settings", then "Membership". You will see the Cancel Billing Link under your avatar and details.

A Premium member can cancel and return to WA by logging in to their cancelled account, making the payment from that point on, which will re-activate the subscription, and continue where they left off. If they had an owned domain website and did not move it out, Site Support will recover it on request for up to 6 months after leaving.

Alternatively, if you want to leave, you can choose to host your website somewhere else, and you can still keep your domain at WA. You can choose to move that as well if you want.

If the website is on a paid domain, you will have 30 days after canceling to back it up and/or move it to another hosting service. If it is on Siterubix dot com, best to use the WP import/export tool to backup the content because free sub domains cannot be moved to other hosting but the content can be uploaded elsewhere.

Regarding your website, it's not a "dummy" site at all. You can move your *exact website* to a full .com domain name once you get to that part of the training.

You can change your theme at any point as well, so if you are not happy with your theme, you can swap it out later.

Let me know if you have any more questions!

Hi Nathaniell
Thank you so much for your thorough and transparent answer.

I upgraded to premium and I am incredibly happy and excited!


Many Thanks
Sara

Awesome! Looking forward to working with you Sara!

Thank you so much for your lovely welcome and best wishes for my journey. It is much appreciated.

I love that you refer to it as an adventure! and so it begins...

Thanks Justin

Hi Nathaniell

Yes decided to take the leap for a change, instead of second guessing and waiting and then regretting. I figure its worth at least seeing what you guys have to offer. I have looked at many affiliate marketing gurus and coaching, in particular six figure mentors but my instinct did not feel comfortable with their philosophy. (If you are connected to them I sincerely apologise). Your blog 'just one more coffee' really resonated with me.

I have spent most my working life as a financial advisor working within a banking environment but decided 5 years ago to return to university. After graduating my degree with first class honours, I decided to only work school hours and term time because I got used to spending time with my children. Due to this, I am currently employed on a zero hours contract, which has not given me work for 4 weeks and I went self employed to have more freedom, but now end up working twice as long for half as much money and if the client cancels I get paid nothing, If me or my children are sick, I get paid nothing and this has caused me to run up debts just to survive and pay for the basics. Don't get me wrong I am truly grateful we have a home and do scrape the money together for food etc, however most nights I would say 'There has got to be a better way?'

Then two days ago I found your blog. and here I am.

Since university I have grown to love research and writing and had been looking for an outlet for that love. Whilst listening to an audio book about 'Having a love affair with my money' I was introduced to the concept of affiliate marketing and multi level marketing. This completely spoke to me as I just want to sit with my laptop on my travels and adventures earning passive income!.

Having tried many network marketing schemes in Weight Loss with Herbalife, Avon, Forever Living Aloe Products, and another brand of protein shakes I can't remember because it was such a failure and I ended up living on protein shakes for 3 months just to not waste stock!. I hated flogging my new marketing to a death to my friends and family.


So here I am with a desire to clear my debt and hopefully take my family back to Portugal next year. I then hope that within 3 years I can give up trading my time and energy for money. To be able to be financially free but still 'work' only school hours in term time. I am willing to work hard, and through university I was used to writing 3000 words a week. I have a passion for self help, healing, nutrition and vitamins, love beauty products, hiking, camping, climbing mountains and traveling so I have plenty of niches I am truly passionate about and it would be a pleasure researching. I also have 44 years of life experience and the 3 years of research into theatre, acting and mindfulness I conducted at university.

I have researched lots of affiliate programs in the UK which would connect to the above niches. So I suppose I should get on with it!!!

I look forward to learning from you and any advice will be greatly received!

many Thanks
Sara

I'm curious how you found my blog Sara! Glad you did though. I can tell you are ready to make some big changes to your life, and not afraid to work to achieve them. The good news is that you won't need to sell protein shakes to family to get there :)

You can definitely leverage your experience in finance or weight loss to start a website though. Those are both evergreen topics, so will never go out of style. The main thing to focus on at this time would be what "niche" you want to focus on within those broader industries (if that's the direction you choose to go).

Have you started the training here yet?

Hi Theresa (and John)

Thank you for the welcome!

I am very excited that I have finally taken the leap. I am usually very suspicious of schemes like this, but it just got to the point where every night I was shouting 'there has got to be a better way?!' and I was led here.


Good luck with your journey and I look forward to exchanging feedback

Sara
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