6 Years With WA...

I woke up this morning and checked my profile, I joined November 21, 2007... 6 years ago. What an exciting journey this has been...

I feel very lucky that I am in the place I am right now where I can spend so much quality time with my family and friends.

If somebody would have asked me 6 years ago...

Where do you see yourself in 6 years? What are you working with? Whom are you working for? How are your hours spend?

... my answers would have been:

• Have my own business, being my own boss.
• Working from home so that I can spend quality time with my kids.
• Run a business that I can take with me, that will allow me to travel.
• Decide my own salary meaning that I will not have a boss telling me what I am worth, telling me that this is the x amount of money I should be making...

With that in mind, I am living my dream :)

I put a lot of hours in and there are ups and downs but it is all worth it!

There has been a lot of changes in the internet marketing industry the last years. I thought that I would share with you what my last year looked like, what changes I have made...

Focus - If you have been doing affiliate marketing for some years you know that back in the day (we are talking 4 – 5 years ago :) ) working with small niche sites were very profitable. A lot has changed and today authority sites is the way to go. So for the last year I really put my focus on one site. I still dabbled with a few of the other sites I had set up but my main time, effort and focus went to this one site... and that turned out to pay off.

Stay focused on one project at the time. For some this means working with one or two sites... forever. For me this means I set up my site in this case I worked with it for about a year, now I feel that I have gotten the site to a place where I can be more hands off. I outsource my content, I outsource some of the videos I use for traffic and that frees up a lot of time... There is still a lot of work and maintenance that needs to be done with the site and the profit needs to be calculated :) but I feel ready to take on another project... project 2014...

Traffic – If you know me a little bit you know I have been a big fan of article marketing... That did change during 2013. I still use article marketing occasionally but it is not longer my main traffic source.

Submitting well written content on a regular basis to my site has been a major factor to getting traffic. Another one that has drawn a lot of visitors to my site is video. I have the past year both outsourced videos and doing my own screen cast videos. Submitting these well optimized videos on a regular basis has given me lots of first page Google listings.

Monetization – this site is an affiliate site. I took it one step further then most my competitors and I compared the products side by side so the visitor could pick and choose the product that suit them the best. I have NO selling what so ever. I provide them with information I don`t pitch a product because the commission is better I don`t pitch a product because the price is higher... I compare side by side and let them make the choice.

Did It Work?

The result and growth of this site month by month has been incredible. All I can say is I am so excited to see where this site will be in another year... or two...

Thank you Kyle and Carson for providing a great community. Thank you all for your support, knowledge, help and wisdom you all know who you are :) oh and Rich for always "challenging" me with or without flying monkeys.

Veronica