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Now to think of it, this isn't the first time I have tried to execute a gig, let alone Fastlane.
Before I discovered MJ's book and this forum, I signed up for some online business community called Wealthy Affliate. It focuses around building blogs and affliate marketing to create a lifestyle business. The site was quite decent, with the founders offering help wherever they could and a decent support community.
They had tutorials for setting up a basic Wordpress site, with a trial on a SEO analytic tool and limited free domain excess. But I made some silly mistakes:
Being a newbie, I wondered what my blog should be about. What theme should I centre around? Should I blog about clothes,entertainment, news, money? At that time I had no idea about marketing tools such as free e-books, Facebook tools and newsletters, let alone handling producs transactions and delivery. The founders recommended blogging on money first.
I had no experience in money issues like investing or automated penny-pinching, so I tanked even before I could put anything out. I wasted my time testing SEO keywords on the analytics before losing interest. Talk about a miscarriage.
I should have identified a certain need and worked towards it, using a blog as mere a promotional tool. But even if it is a good idea for me to execute, the blog thing has been relegated to being a smaller tool of lower priority. For MJ alerted me to the grim reality of the breach of entry. Too many Joes going into the blogging niche, following after pointers like 'find a niche you love' or 'find financial freedom'. And that invites certain disaster.
I still receieve some notifications from my old accounts of the WA people blogging motivationals and 'sales techniques'. I looked at a few of them and wondered whether how they were going to pull me in to buy their products. But you got to give them credit...they did some shit.
Thankfully, I'm here in TFLF as it not only has a wider range of resources and info not only on blogging, but of franchises, apps and real estate. Here I've debated, argued and even got into a spat or two, but well, I'll never do these things in the slowlane.
But I supposed of all the five Commandments, Need is the most important.
Before I discovered MJ's book and this forum, I signed up for some online business community called Wealthy Affliate. It focuses around building blogs and affliate marketing to create a lifestyle business. The site was quite decent, with the founders offering help wherever they could and a decent support community.
They had tutorials for setting up a basic Wordpress site, with a trial on a SEO analytic tool and limited free domain excess. But I made some silly mistakes:
Being a newbie, I wondered what my blog should be about. What theme should I centre around? Should I blog about clothes,entertainment, news, money? At that time I had no idea about marketing tools such as free e-books, Facebook tools and newsletters, let alone handling producs transactions and delivery. The founders recommended blogging on money first.
I had no experience in money issues like investing or automated penny-pinching, so I tanked even before I could put anything out. I wasted my time testing SEO keywords on the analytics before losing interest. Talk about a miscarriage.
I should have identified a certain need and worked towards it, using a blog as mere a promotional tool. But even if it is a good idea for me to execute, the blog thing has been relegated to being a smaller tool of lower priority. For MJ alerted me to the grim reality of the breach of entry. Too many Joes going into the blogging niche, following after pointers like 'find a niche you love' or 'find financial freedom'. And that invites certain disaster.
I still receieve some notifications from my old accounts of the WA people blogging motivationals and 'sales techniques'. I looked at a few of them and wondered whether how they were going to pull me in to buy their products. But you got to give them credit...they did some shit.
Thankfully, I'm here in TFLF as it not only has a wider range of resources and info not only on blogging, but of franchises, apps and real estate. Here I've debated, argued and even got into a spat or two, but well, I'll never do these things in the slowlane.
But I supposed of all the five Commandments, Need is the most important.
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