A New Year and One Year at Wealthy Affiliate

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Happy New Year, WA! Welcome to a new decade as well! And in personal news, it is a new year at WA for me as well! My Wealthy Affiliate Anniversary passed a week or so ago.

I've officially been at WA for a year. I received my badge and everything.

It has definitely been a year of changes for me, a lot of learning, and a lot of challenges.

Accomplishments in 2019 (Business)

  • Built TWO websites
  • Bought three domains
  • Went through all 5 levels of Wealthy Affiliate OEC Training (2x actually, helping me remember everything for my 2nd website)
  • Made my first sale from Amazon Associates (and then some!)
  • Started getting organic traffic
  • Made the 1st page on Google, Bing and Yahoo (spot 1 too on a couple)
  • Made a couple UK sales on Amazon too, which kept that account open
  • Joined a few affiliate programs
  • Opened a FB, IG, Pinterest, and Twitter account for my website(s)
  • Made some connections!
  • Had my biggest month in sales in December, which was from my new website that is only 6 months old now. Pretty cool.
  • I had a post go mini-viral on Facebook
  • I had a post on Quora go a bit viral as well.
  • My IG account is the one going a lot more popular. Few hundred followers already. (And I'm not actively trying yet, I'm working on my website more)

Mistakes I've Made and Learned From

The biggest mistake in business I made was setting up a 'practice website' instead of just diving into my true passion. You cannot 'screw up' by practicing on your website permanently. Anything I did, the articles I wrote, I could go back and make them better, delete or replace them, change the themes or plugins, etc. If I screwed up bad trying to mess with code and broke my site, I have a back up both with WA and personally.

I was too afraid to ruin my 'dream', so I wanted to go through training with a practice website.

This learning experience set me back on my journey by around six months.

That's okay though.

I see a lot of people 'learning' their first year and setting themselves back a little bit, either by starting out with five websites, experimenting with traffic or articles or focus, etc. It can all set us back when these things fail.

I'm glad I chose to focus on one website for now, though. I do a lot of cat stuff on my own time and dime, and that's super important to me. My website is a huge part of that, too, definitely. But when I have a sick kitten, and lose one like I did this year, I put my site on hold for a couple weeks. Just no time.

I also realized I'm not quite as driven as I need to be to accomplish what some of my new friends at WA have accomplished! My goals are a bit more altruistic than most, what with cat rescue, but that doesn't mean I cannot be driven.

Goals for 2020

I plan on keeping my posting schedule for right now as I have a huge kitty emergency I'm fighting and just no time.

But I do plan on stepping it up a notch in 2020, getting way more organized and analytical about things. Since I foster kittens, sometimes my schedule is a little wonky, but I'm hoping to create my routine.

Without a routine, I flail a lot. And it's hard for me lately to get into my routine when things are always changing. My anxiety doesn't like not having a routine, it throws me completely off and then I end up researching bookends instead of cat crap because I'm all over the place.

Another goal for 2020 is to set up a database on my website for this cat stuff. (It's needed), but I am definitely having issues. I have a plugin I'm trying to use, but it's creating weird gaps in URLs for records. Plug-in creator says that is definitely not the plugin, so I've got to go through and deactivate my plugins one by one until I find the culprit. Sigh. It's either a database or a membership section of my site. I don't know which.

In any case, that's it in a nutshell.

Wishing You All a Happy New Year!

Stay safe, guys. Stay motivated. Wishing everyone a successful year! Oh! And spay and neuter your pets!

Lovies!

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Happy New Year. Best wishes! Way to go! Cheers. Keep it up. Congratulations!

Thank you!

Welcome! :)

Congrats! You are doing wonderful. I wish you continued success in 2020.
Happy New Year,
Mickey

Thank you!

'It is now 2020 which means we all can have a positive 20-20 vision for a quality leap into this year." Tom Short.

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Tom.

Thanks

Awesome accomplishments for 2019 and goals for 2020! Congrats on your 1 Year WAnniversary, Rochelle!

Jeff

Thank you!

Wow! I am dizzy from all your accomplishments and still going. more power to you my friend, much success to you as you jurney on.
Elizabeth

Thank you!

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