Sales, Sales, Sales, and More Sales

For everyone who's interacted with me on WA, you all know I actually have created several niche website right off the bat. While it goes against conventional wisdom and is sort of "breaking the rules of blogging," I'm a personal trainer, an urban fantasy author, and I'm also big into world events and alternative media - which necessitates several niche sites at once to fulfill my impulses and bring stability to my life.It also means it's taken me a little longer to see some sales but I'm glad t

Beware of Amazon's Unprofessional Moves

Just how unprofessional is Amazon when it comes to the book market?Very.Only this morning did I wake up on the day of my Christmas promotion only to find Amazon, without as much as alerting me, price the first book in my series from 'Free' to 99 cens. Spontaneous. Abrupt. And without even sending me a notice via email.This is the way Amazon acts and it's one reason why for any reader magnet you may write (be it fiction, non-fiction, how-to, a funnel to add subscribers to a mailing list) is to a

Getting Google, Bing, and Search Engine Love

Over the past few weeks I've noticed a nice little uptick in search engine traffic. Upon browsing my Google and Bing Webmaster Tools, saw that on both search engines, my average position had risen, and on Bing, many of my targeted keywords have my blog ranked on the first page. This was my first niche site, with my second one growing and third one still in its formative stages, but by applying the same blueprint to niche sites numbers two and three, big things should be happening as I get on to

Just Get On With It!

Oh, if there's one thing I learned about as a writer it's to cut the throat clearing.What's throat clearing?Excessive backstory before getting to the meat of the story. The same should go for your blog posts.Every. Single. One. Of. Them. I just had a SiteComment disapproved in the SiteComments section.First one in over a month. The reasoning?The author of the post accused me of failing to read the content and stated I delivered a weak response clearly off topic.Okay, what?This is a WA review, r

I'm Back!

Okay, after a two-week layoff, it's good to be back at it on Wealthy Affiliate and now I have some ground to make up. The last two weeks have been the longest span that I've been gone but it was something that needed to be done as I had to complete some 'day job' training and my work days were, well, swamped beyond belief. Thankfully, I'll be working 12pm to 8-9pm this coming week after a 10pm to 6am day tomorrow night and in the first week of February, 2pm to 10-11pm, so the mornings and early

Knock Out the New Year's Resolution: Live in the Present

Okay, this is it, only a few hours left in 2018, so we're making those 2019 New Year's Resolutions, right?Stop, stop, stop, stop, and stop.Don't make the resolution.I'm not being negative with this post, I'm being real.How many New Year's Resolutions have you made?How many have you stuck out until December 31st?Don't say this year will be different as you had the previous ten years. Perhaps the New Year's Resolution doesn't work for everyone.But that's okay!Again, I'm not being negative; I'm be

2018: Year in Review- One Small Step for Todd.

And one giant leap to the key to the rest of my life, which I hope is a long time considering I'm only 27. So, wow, 2018 was the good, the bad, and the ugly, or more like the good, the bad, the ugly, the uncertainty, and the good.And the great....and the great.So, what goals did I accomplish in 2018?1) I started a blog.2) I published two books. 3) I started two niche sites after stumbling upon WA three times within a calendar year. And I found out how my passion can be translated into a career,

Your New Hope

Hope, there's always hope in our one life to live...in this life, anyway.Recently, I've met a lot of people facing hardship after taking a seasonal gig at a local smart post to earn some extra money to pad my income while I focus more on WA.Needless to say, I've mentioned WA to all these awesome people.Yet, for them to actually go on and look at WA, it's tough within itself, as there are so many internet marketing scams out there, why are we any different?We all know that WA is WAY different in

The Shades of Our Journey Await

Take a look at the featured image here and I'm going to tell you what it is.You may already know it's a bridge, but if you look close, it's two bridges.These bridges separate two towns: Steubenville, Ohio, and Weirton, West Virginia.Seven years ago, there would've been a third bridge, the Fort Steuben Bridge, which has since been demolished. It was no longer needed, as it led to Weirton's once vibrant industrial sector but fell into such decay there was nothing more that could be done with it.

Road to Somewhere: Your Two Options

You have two options in life, and you can either pay your dues, a double charge at times, and work toward your own dream, or work really hard working for someone else's dream.In life, we have the power of choice, and many of us make the wrong choice and go work for someone else.Worse yet, making the choice to work for someone else and to help them reach their dreams has given us the respect of our friends and family.My own dad wants nothing more than for me to do this. "You can get a raise each