One thing can be a real deterrent to your success online is when your family is not behind what you’re doing. Ok, maybe it’s not that they’re against what you’re doing but they cannot see any value in it. After all, are you making any money doing it? You’re always on the computer! Why exactly do you spend so much time on the internet, what are you doing? If you’re not making any money from the business, why are you spending money? How much money did you spend on your business so we can deduct that when we file our taxes? How much longer will you stay with it before you quit? They say internet businesses are a scam, nobody makes money doing that. Why so many conference calls if you don’t have any money coming in? I’m going to the store, do you need anything? The game comes on in 10 minutes, are you planning to watch it? I’ve been thinking of painting this room, what color do you think I should go with? You haven’t been on the internet for over a week, are you feeling ok? Did you hear that AI left the Grizzlies? YOU have a blog? I know you’re busy, but you gotta come here and see what this guy on tv is doing.

Sometimes I just want to pull my hair out strand by strand.

Now I don’t believe for one minute that my spouse does not want to see me succeed online.  After all, if I win, he wins, right? I also don’t believe that I am the only internet marketer that runs into this.

So tell me, how do you get your family members to understand that building a business online requires your time and in most cases, your money too?

Invite them to join you?

Ask for their help?

Get up 3 hours early every day (weekends too) so you can get some uninterrupted work done before you leave for the office?

Explain and apologize for the fact that what  you’re trying to do requires some of your time on a daily basis (hopefully, without interruption) after which I will be glad to watch the game with you?

Forget about it, I give up!

 If you think I am going to end this post with the perfect answer to the problem, I’m not. 

This is where you come in.

Your thoughts?

 To Your Blogging Success!

Yvette 

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So you have just created your blog and you have written your first post and you want the world to know about it, don’t you?

That’s where ping services come in.  Ping services notifiy blog directories and search engines that your blog has been updated. The bigger your ping list, the better.  Creating or updating your ping list in Wordpress is a piece of cake.

In your admin area go to Settings > Writing > Update Services (at the bottom of the page there is a box where you add your ping list) > Save Changes > You’re Done!

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To Your Online Success!
Yvette

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For me the hardest thing to do was to get from ‘I want to create a blog’ to actually creating it.

The desire was there but I just couldn’t seem to get started because I felt that I had to know everything before I could begin. After examining other blogs I convinced myself that there was no way I could become a blogger because I didn’t know enough and I couldn’t write well enough so I stayed stuck. When I finally got up enough courage to get started, I couldn’t decide on which blogging platform to use. There are many to choose from. My fave is Wordpress.  From there I couldn’t decide on which wordpress theme I wanted to use. One-column, three-column, black, red, blue or green? What to do, what to do? Then I had to decide on the best plug-ins (those are the extras you can add to your wordpess blog to make it more functional).

When my husband asked me one day, “How’s your blog coming along?” and I had to tell him that I was still getting it together, I realized that I had been suffering from analysis paralysis. I had talked myself into doing nothing because I wanted to learn everything first. It finally clicked that my blog didn’t have to be perfect and I didn’t have to know everything before I could get started. The most important thing was to go ahead and get started knowing that I would make some mistakes along the way but  isn’t that how I have learned some of my best lessons?

What’s stopping you?

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I was lousy at marketing.

Well, let’s put it this way: I was (and still am) an outstanding cartoonist. And marketing was nowhere close to being my forte. I’d write, but I’d agonise over it. The only thing that kept me going was the audience.

Audiences are needed…and not just for those who are struggling
This is why writers, singers, speakers need an audience. It doesn’t reflect on their ability to speak, write or draw. But in their ability to be appreciated.

The greatest speaker in the world becomes a bit of a washout if there are three people in an auditorium that seats five hundred. It saps your energy.

However, if those three people happened to be the only ones the speaker was expecting, then he/she will turn out a world-class experience. Which is why if you’re starting up any venture, be it a blog or a website, or a newsletter or even a painting, I would get at least two-three people to visit (and bug you) so that you get and stay motivated.

The biggest issue is the appreciation, and not the ability to write, draw, speak.
Being able to be very good at something, is a nice-to-have, but most writers, speakers, etc start out being very, very average. In some of my early speeches, I had to take a ten-minute break because I forgot what I was going to say. Early articles used to take me two days or more to write, and I’d struggle. But it was the audience (and believe me, back then they were tiny audiences) that kept me going.

Tiger Woods had an audience of two (his father and mother).
It was not his so-called talent that mattered. He didn’t start out as the world’s best golfer. But without the audience, he probably would never have gotten there at all.

Get an audience, no matter how minuscule.
Your so-called talent will come with practice. But if you don’t have an audience, you’ll probably never get off
the ground.

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