The Struggle and the Uncertainty
The Struggle...
When I have joined WA I was on the one hand very enthusiastic, on the other hand still a bit sceptical. I started out with the starter membership and jumped into the certification course. The first struggle: Finding the correct niche. Was thinking hard and the best I could come up was to start a blog about crowdfunding. I have to admit, I am addicted about new crowdfunding projects, backed a lot of them myself in the past. So the passion is there, I enjoy to research about the products.
Register my domain, paid the yearly fee for the domain and jumped into it. While I was working on my blog and added blog post after blog post, progressing in the course and reading a lot of the success stories here on WA, I got a bit frustrated. The reason for that negative feelings were that I did not receive commisions yet. Putting up the thinking hat again, and yes...the topic crowdfunding was probably A) a bit too broad and B) my affiliate links have basically just a short time of validity. Because after the crowdfunding campaign is over, that link wont do me any good anymore, only in maybe building up my reputation.
Anyway, in my desparation I have started a second blog already (still letting the first grow though, not giving up on it - although the time is really an issue). My second blog has the topic of earning an income online, so basically promoting WA and in my native language German (easier to articulate and write in good spelling and grammar, bit of a struggle in English for me). Doing here now the Affiliate Bootcamp and growing that blog too. Although Kyle suggested in his Super Affiliate Program to upgrade to a "normal" domain, I am still running it on the free siterubix.com domain. Managed to get my blog post indexed by Google and targeting really the "low hanging fruits".
...and the Uncertainty
This is for sure not the place to get rich quick or replace your dreadful 9-5 job in a short period of time. Anyway, that was one of the first things which I read here on WA and I was impressed about that honesty. Because other websites promise a lot, but nothing more. I am still motivated but after nearly two months of doing my day job which keeps me alive finacially and working in the evenings and weekends on my blogs plus doing the courses I feel a bit running low on energy. Guess everyone is going through this stage at one point. The uncertainty is real - will I succeed or fail? Is it worth to get through all of this? Especially by working hard here on WA I am neglecting my fiancee a bit. But the goal is to create a better life with more freedom...So I am sorry honey...I have to do this and to hang in there....for the good of both of us!!
Sorry for boring you with this long post, just needed to write about it...feels good...Need a little energy boost as motivation still high. I really enjoy building up my blogs, reading others posts here and be part of this awesome community. Thank you everyone for making this a great place to be part of!!!
Lets keep rocking even on low energy!
Volker
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Yes I agree this is a great opportunity. No this isn't a "get rich quick" place but I knew that from day one. But It's an honest place and that's what matters to me.
Tried and true
Elaine