During the past weeks, I experienced helping two different kinds of person. The first one is someone who thinks she knows all and she does not need any help. The second one is the exact opposite ? he is a struggling internet marketer and he is desperate in learning how to make his online business work. I want to share my experience for the internet marketing beginners to learn from, and for us who had some experiences in making money online to know more how to help others.
Wealthy Affiliate (WA) is the most helpful community in terms of offering help to its members. As a member for a while now, I?m also trying to help some of the new ones inside. However, even if I?m also a member for quite some time now, I also often ask help from other members who knows the things that I still don?t know. Recently, I tried to help some members and I got two interesting experiences to share today.
Helping A New WA Member Who Thinks She Knows All
There is this new member of Wealthy Affiliate who just finished her free 10-day and Success in 30 days course. After finishing those lessons, she made a blog post about her review of Wealthy Affiliate. It is great since she posted the things that she likes (pros) and the things she does not like (cons). I made a couple of Wealthy Affiliate University reviews myself so it is interesting to read others? reviews as well. In making a review, it is recommended to place both the pros and cons to balance the points. It is what this new member exactly did and so it is great. However, I read the cons and obviously, she does not know what she is talking about in many things. What I personally don?t like is the tone of her writing. She speaks like she knows it all (you know what I mean?).
I saw some WA members who replied in the post and they pointed out many mistakes that this member said. Some also felt sorry that they spent lots of their time helping her, only to find out in her post that she is complaining that WA is not teaching such and such because they do not like some members to go away. I then also made my reply and corrected some of her mistakes. Unfortunately, I think she does not like being corrected. I still offered suggestions to make her site better but again she did not accept my suggestions. She even said that her site is already ranking on page 1. Well, I?m really happy if her site is already ranking but I checked using Google incognito and sad to say, it cannot be found. I realized that I?m just wasting my time helping her so I made my last reply, still insisting on her site problems and pointing out her negative attitude a bit. Unfortunately, I think she cannot accept them so she deleted my reply.
Helping A Struggling Long Time WA Member
I also read a blog post of this long time WA member, where he is saying that he is really frustrated, since he spent a lot in his online business but he gained nothing. He said that he has a problem in trying to understand technical stuffs and what not, in setting up his websites and such. I replied in his blog post and told him some of the things that he has to do. However, I still see him always, and it seems that he is not going anywhere.
I had a chat with him and he shared some of his frustrations. I gave some suggestions on the things that he can do but it?s really hard to tell everything in just a chat. I then sent him a personal message, and made a deal with him. I guess the only way for me to help him is to work on his sites myself. I then told him that I?ll make the necessary things to make his site work well. We then agreed on a very friendly deal and I guess both of us are happy. I am currently working on his old site, which is now ranking in the first page of google. I?m also setting up his new site and hopefully, it will also rank soon. I really wish us the best!
Things Learned
I realized that it is really hard to help someone who does not like to be helped. Unfortunately, most of the people who do not want any help are just proud of themselves. Blinded by their pride, they can no longer see their mistake. On the other hand, when the person is really in need of help, it is very handy to help him or her.
Personally, I also like to make myself open to learning as much as possible. I admit that there are also times that my ego is working and I?m not accepting some learning. I have to say however that those days that I accepted learning from others improved many of my skills.
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