The Positive Growth Community is now live and inviting its first members in, free of charge. The idea is to have active members in there before putting it behind a paywall. No one wants to join a community if there is no one in it.
The challenge, now, is to attract those first members, and it’s proving more of a challenge that I expected. It can be difficult to promote a new product or service without an email list, and without a large social media following. So, that is where I am falling short.
Paid advertising is one option for someone in this position, but not for me as I simply don’t have the funds. It is early days though, and I need to remember that. These things do take time and abandoning the idea when it has only just launched would be ill-advised.
Yet, having recently left my job, as the NHS can be a horrible place to work at times, I need this to work. This is largely because I’ve put so much work into, but also because I want to be able to work from home.
I also want to be able to work for myself. I’ve had too many experiences with bad bosses to ever want to work for one again.
But I’m realistic, and I also know that I can’t put all my eggs in one basket, so I’m looking around for other options too. It would be great to be able to earn money from blogging, but blogging is not as popular as it once was, and you need high traffic first. I don’t fit that criteria.
It’s not difficult to feel a little despondent about life the day after we saw President Trump, the leader of the free world, bully and humiliate his Ukrainian counterpart. Except it is Trump who has been left humiliated as his bulling behaviour has revealed his true colours.
He might have been unaware of exactly how he was coming across. But the whole world was watching and it was not missed.
I’m still reeling from it 24 hours later, and I am certain it is clouding my judgement. I’m starting to view everything in a negative light, including my new community.
It is probably a day to step away, read a book, and hope that tomorrow is a better day.
