This week was pretty exciting altogether. It included really coming up with a strategy of words and ads for the website we built for our businesses. I found it a little harder to come up with these keywords for our ads campaign. I personally have no experience in running ads and feel that I will choose the wrong words. I did realize I can see how they are performing and how money changes where my ads are placed and how often. I decided to put a five-dollar daily limit for my ad campaign because I feel I need to test things out what type of ads i will run and how effective is one keyword versus another. I really enjoyed learning and reading my other classmates' ideas and how they would run ads where and how. I also love seeing this step-by-step process of building a business and I think it's very beneficial to me and what I want to do.

website

 This week was really exciting! I learned a lot of cool things. I was able to build my first website to have buttons actually work and create a successful representation of my business for affiliate marketing. I definitely struggled a lot and so did others when we looked into the legal structure of our potential businesses and how taxes would work. There are so many differences between states and cities. I collaborated with some CPA's and seemed to be even more confused. I think having people with experience help you or guide you is one of the biggest bits of help. Having a mentor changes the learning curve and helps you avoid mistakes that they may have encountered when building and or structuring their businesses. I did have lots of fun building and learning how to add everything to a website. I know this helps me in the future and allow me to have the opportunity to be a mentor to someone later.

Designing

 This week was understanding more about our website. We were taught to make a button with and through PayPal. I quickly discovered it wouldn't be as useful to me and my business as it would be to others and their businesses. As I would be an affiliate and advertisement for a company I wouldn't charge anything. I could create a button as a link so every time a customer wants a solar proposal I could generate it with the information they fill out, or it sends them directly to the company and if the deal goes through I get a portion of the deal as I gave them the lead. This week has me thinking about a lot, including how I want to structure the website and what I want my customer to see and feel when going through my website. I believe its also important to take on feedback and listen to my customers and make those changes for them.

entering new fields

 This week was a bit everywhere for me. It was a lot of emotions, I felt like an emotional rollercoaster. There were so many things to get done that I am so unfamiliar with that sometimes takes a while for me to understand. And then when I feel I understand I end up being completely wrong. This week I was planning just about everything and trying to execute every step which is also always very exhausting sometimes. We learned about website building, domain, and web builders. There is so much new information I am excited to learn about and learn to be able to power right on through all these challenges in the future. Something else that stuck with me is to work in silence and let no other people know what I do and what I am doing to... This builds a good characteristic that helps you surpass everyone and just about anything else you set your mind to. The quote of the day is "Actions speak louder than words". 

Strict barriers broken

 This week was for me everywhere. I have one strict thought process and thinking wow I really feel confident and I got this finally and then read another student's perspective and totally my opinion is changing because what they are saying connects more with what I want for the hypothetical group we are helping. What this taught me is there are so many ways to get to where someone wants to be in the future. There are endless possibilities with business and what product to sell and what business model to use. It truly is an art and I have never thought about it that way. I tend to think this is a strict hard rulebook for success but now in it, I see how the rules change and can bend and that business is flowy and not so tough and rough. Business more relates to a wooden sculpture with all the moving joints and parts that artists use to sculpt what they want.