Reflecting on My Recent Niche Peak Season

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Early October to early November is my busiest time of year. It's my niche peak season, and I have very little time to do anything else. That is also my "worst" one-month period as far as activities in this community are concerned.

My Case is Different

To begin, I would say, my situation in WA is somewhat uncommon. Not many members here find themselves in my shoes. Though I'm involved in affiliate marketing to a certain extent, my online business "heartbeat" has always been to offer a particular service that I'm also offering offline. That was my primary intent when joining WA over a year ago. As Kyle mentions in the training, there are more than 50 ways to monetize one's website, and as such, I'm seeking to use one of those ways, in addition to being an affiliate of a couple of affiliate programs.

This makes my learning process here to be more challenging, as there are a lot of things I have to try out which are not necessarily taught in the training. But thanks to the loving members, I'm moving in the right direction as far as offering services online is concerned. A big thanks to my Premium Coach and mentor, Gary Horton. So glad I signed up through his link!

Counting the Cost

Couple of months ago, I began my niche peak season preparations, but was overwhelmed by the number of tasks to perform as part of the process: from creating a Facebook page to integrating relevant forms on my website, to placing ad banners in divers locations, as well as publishing relevant posts; all in an effort to get clients during my just-ended niche peak season.

During that time, my involvement in the community drastically reduced. I saw myself slowly sliding down the rankings. Before beginning the preparations, I ranked 260 in the community. At the end of the peak season, I found myself all the way down to Rank Number 891, more than 600 places lower. But that's not much of an issue, as I know how to climb the rank ladder here, and will surely be within the Top 200 for the first time some time next month.

The Outcome and Why

Now, back to my experience. After all I did and all the work put in to get clients during the peak season, my campaign did not pay off; I did not get any clients as I had hoped.

I later managed to figure out the reason why my campaign didn't convert:

My website is still relatively new and consequently generally unknown. And as such, any signups would have been but a miracle. Visitors to the site haven't reposed their trust in my service offered, which I find to be normal. As we know, business is based on trust. Hardly anyone will hand over their money to you unless they know and or trust you.

A Hurdle to Overcome

And what makes this a bit more complicated is, whereas in affiliate marketing, you refer the visitor to another site which they would regard as pure and simple goodwill on your part, when you're offering a service and have to "refer" them to yourself, they tend to become skeptical, considering you a possible scammer, and for the most part, eventually flee.

This is a major challenge that new online service-providing businesses face, which only time and consistency can actually resolve. I "unfortunately" currently find myself in that stage, and have to accept it, 'cause it's part of the business development curve. (All businesses take time to develop).

The good thing is, I've identified this reality, and know how to handle it.

Back to Usual Business

With the peak season and all the hard work put in now behind, I've simply returned to work, continuing to build my business by incorporating strategies that would increase the popularity of my website and by continuing publishing very informative articles on my niche, in order to gain the much-needed trust of my prospective clients. So that hopefully by this time next year, my report on the issue would be different.

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Hello Trodvies,
Your posts are very interesting , and you seem to be very naturally business-minded. I’m curious to know what your website is, and how you manage to maintain all of the work strategies you mentioned! I’ll be following along, to see what I can learn from you! And thank you for your follow and introduction! Good luck!

Emily

Hi Emily:

Thank you for your kind words. You've said it right, I'm very business-minded. Guess it's the result of being involved in business offline for a number of years.

I actually have two websites. Spoke of one in this post, where I'm aiming to offer a particular service that I'm also offering offline. My niche is a rather unusual one with a protracted sales period. When that time of the year is approaching, I integrate relevant forms onto the site and engage in a number of campaigns with the aim of "selling" my service. After that period, I'm more into writing posts to keep my audience informed. The second and more recent one is an MMO website under construction.

Feel free to PM me your questions and concerns whenever there's need, and I won't hesitate to point you in the right direction.

Wishing you all the best!

Thanks for sharing with us Congratulation to you on your journey at WA. You havery good ideas stick to them and extend as you achieve. Keep up the good work. May you have continue success with your business.Have a happy Monday. Fitzgerald

Thank you, Fitz, for the compliments. Best of success in your business, and a happy Monday to you, as well.

You have a plan and you are working it. That is a good thing, and should help you move your business forward. By next year's peak season you will be ahead of where you are now...hopefully you will do very well.

Will surely work hard to achieve that, Fran. Thanks for your usual kind comments. All the best in your business.

Good plan. Good luck

Thanks, Jojo. All the best in your business.

Sounds like you definitely have a sound business plan! Best continued success to you!!

Jeff

I believe I do, Jeff. Thanks for the compliment; and best of success to you, as well.

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