Emerald269 wrote:
If you can provide them with the solution to their needs and fill in the missing pieces then you have a high chance that they will click through your affiliate link and make a purchase.
Hi Naughty hubby, In saying this, have you joined the Lovehoney affiliate program?
Also, I am interested in starting my own blog for personal reasons and to help others who have been through trauma, like myself.
I don't know where to start and have had a go at building a webpage or two before, but that's about it!
I think it's a great and kind idea what you are doing along with the help you are offering. I know a few members already have blogs on here, not sure if they make money from them??
However, I'm very interested, but, on the other had it's a big step for me, so would have to do things at my own pace.
I can imagine you have to put the hard work in to reap the rewards, as with anything. It seems daunting to me, and is something I'd like to acheive.
I have taken the first step by plucking up the courage to reply to your thread. I have a lot going on at the moment, so don't want to jump in with 'half measures'.
I'm definitely interested and been hoping I could get some honest information from someone on this. So thank you so much. ☺ 😉 😊
Hi Emerald, I posted this in another thread it might give you a little idea of how easy it can be running a blog. You simply work at your own pace. Who cares if it takes two weeks to complete one post.
Anyway here it is...
Haha I know what you mean about it sucking your time away. That was the problem I faced when I first started working online. I found I just wanted to get things done.
The biggest and single most important tip I would give to anyone just starting out is to create a schedule and stick to it. Set yourself an early manageable weekly target and always hit it.
You really need to create a new realistic good working habit that won't be such a burden on your current daily life schedule.
So at the beginning I'd probably set a target of 1 quality blog post per week. Then give yourself a small amount of time each day. Like maybe wake up 30 minutes earlier or set aside 30 minutes after you take the kids to school to exclusively work towards getting that 1 amazing blog post done by the end of the week. Just try to stick to one fixed set amount of time that you can.
So if you pick getting up earlier, get up, grab a coffee and wake up a bit and then sit down to work on your article. Once you're ready to go, set a timer for 30 minutes on your phone and work until the time runs out then stop. Even if you are half way through a word stop, save your work and shut down your pc until tomorrow.
This will give you at least 2.5 hours per week even if you only do Monday to Friday. Don't worry if you don't get the article done the important thing in the beginning is creating a positive new habit. Over the course of a month it will be like second nature. Once you're used to setting a bit of time aside and getting work done you introduce the next part to the equation.
You give yourself a target for the current days 30 minutes schedule. So it might be today I am going to get all of the photographs or images sorted in 30 minutes.
This will take your productivity up another level, it's amazing how much a difference you get between "just working on that article" and "today I'm getting all pictures edited and publish ready" can make. Again don't worry if you don't get all of the work you expected done because I can guarantee you've gotten a lot more than you would have done.
If you don't do something like the above in the beginning it can feel like a burden. You'll find yourself sitting at the computer for hours in a day trying to finish it all. Only about an hour or two in you'll probably be getting hardly any done. Then a couple of days or weeks like that you'll start doing less and less and eventually just give up.
PRO TIP... Before you start your article set it out into subsections like a table of contents e.g For a review. Toy name, what it does, price, look and feel, useage, final thoughts.
If you've used what you're reviewing you'll already have a good idea of the content for each subsection. Get yourself a speech to text app on your phone and literally speak your thoughts on each section and have your mobile type it all out for you.
It's so much faster to build most of your article. All you need to do then is transfer the generated text to your pc and go through and fill in gaps and generally tidy it up
Hope this helps someone, it sure did for me when I first started working online. If you need any help feel free to ask