Unproductive 4 months - starting again question: what should I focus first on?

One of the best things I really feel you could do would be to go on the boards and see if anyone is willing to help you and do a little mentoring and lend a third ear perspective.

It helps so much. I am not talking someone that charges but just someone who will help you I am sure someone will.

It saved my life because even though we pass it off it is so hard when we are stuck and cannot see a way out.

I hope this helped.

Kyle O

Do you mean I should do freelance writing and not use my writing skills on my own websites and to promote my websites?

Thanks.

To follow your idea can I choose "How to reduce or get out of debt" market?
Since I have implemented couple of ideas to reduce my debt and one way to get rid or reduce debt is by making extra income on the side, can I blog about it?

Earlier we had lot of overtime work at my full time job. Now there is only regular work. That's why I have time now. Instead of finding another part time job, I want to sell something and make some money even if it takes time.

Is debt reduction profitable? How will I know?

Thanks.

I think blogging is a GREAT place to start, but you need more than just blogging. I will elaborate throughout the rest of this post....

Yes and no. Sometimes you can find success in a niche you know absolutely nothing about. EVERYTHING is researchable, so my advice is to choose a niche you believe you can make a profit from, whether you already know about it or not. Sometimes if you already know a ton about the niche, it's hard to appeal to beginners in it, but if you're new to it, as well, you can appeal to others new to whatever the niche is.

I agree, you need to set some goals, but we all function a little different. Be careful not to spend all your time planning and not get anything done that can actually make you money.l

Kyle is on the money here. A mentor makes a huge difference and if you can find one within a program you plan to use and/or promote, that's even better.

I HATE this out-dated method. I know it works, to an extent, but blogging takes more than just a twice a week update. I say BLOG every day and don't always blog about the product or reviews stuff. EVERYBODY is doing that. Blog about something you learned, a cool experience, a video you watched or something fun. That's what people want to find on social media and that is how you will get people to follow your blog on a regular basis.

I agree, if you just go with blogging, you better be ready for a test in patience. However, if you add another strategy to your blog and you come into it with the right mindset, you can achieve success fast and for the long-term.

Elaboration.....

I like to combine two strategies: blogging and paid advertising. Since you already have a job, you have some income from it. Figure out what you can afford to invest into the business of your choice. Even $10 a week in paid advertising will bring you new leads/visitors/customers. You may have to test a few strategies first, but you will find a paid advertisement you like and that works well for you.

While using paid advertising, such as Facebook ads, Google ads, Solo ads and other forms of paid advertising, you can blog every day to build up your long term plan. Blogging is like saving a few dollars a day towards retirement. It won't pay off immediately, but with consistent posts, you will see traffic start to trickle in. That trickle of traffic will go from a few random visitors, at first, to a steady stream of daily visitors, to a flood of traffic.

Some of the most successful bloggers had to get to 100, 200, even 300 posts before they saw any real results. Let this be something you don't expect to make money from for at least a year. Use the paid advertising strategies to help you make money faster.

BTW - this works with ANY business, ANY service and ANY product, when applied consistently.

Hope this helps!

Benjamin Ehinger

Are the people like me who are interested to reduce or get out of debt, are they not my target audience?
Thanks

Thank you Willie.

Actually I do not have a blog, everything is in my notebooks written with pen and typed on the computer and stored on my PC.

I learnt that owning your own business is a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT BALL GAME.

I think that is the biggest lesson I learnt from the past 4 months since I joined Warrior forum.

In fact, I have written articles taking the advise of warriors (in early April of this year, I asked how to start a blog and I listed my interests) in some of the niches.

Since my first language is not English, the main problem I am facing is FEAR to publish my contents.

I have been writing since my teenage years in my notebook almost every day. But, no one except me reads that (may be close family members).

I worry and fear that people may not like writing or there may be grammatical mistakes, etc.,

Do you think I should go ahead and publish my articles using at least first the WP platform wordpress.com?

Secondly, should I start building a list via wordpress.com?

Thank you again for reading and helping me to get up, dust off and start again.

I started writing my recipes and took photos and assembled at least 18 of them. Then, I read RECIPES niche is saturated and tough to make money. When you search "recipes" in google, nothing comes up on the right (Advertisements).

So, I gave up RECIPES niche.

I started to write on vegan, gluten free life styles but again RECIPES came within those, so gave up publishing (not writing).

Then I started to write my story (kind of memoir) as a non-fiction book to publish and then FEAR overpowered me and said that writing sucks. So, I did not publish it.

Thanks to my knowledge of meditation, yoga, and responsible healthy eating and exercise, I am still able to manage myself.

Please advise.

-Peter.

Thank you again for your responses.

Thank you for responding. Can you share the way out that's making you work only 30 minutes a day and still achieve your goal?

Thank you fun to write. Your practical and encouraging suggestions will help me move forward.