Working on this site, and on myself, I keep on ending up in so called ‘self help sites’ and of course I signed up to some of them, so every day I receive e-mails from those sites that certainly give me information that interests me. But somehow these e-mails are also written in a way that I feel the urge clicking on the links to go to the site for ‘more information’. And of course in the end the purpose of those e-mails is to keep me ‘hooked’ and let me buy something.
Nothing wrong with the above, except that it is kind of a negative look on those sites that I think have perfect tools to ‘improve yourself’ or ‘get more out of life’. And also nothing wrong with ‘selling’ stuff, either invite people to go to the site and read more, learn more, etc. Of course in the end I want to achieve a similar thing with this site: help people and earn from it. And while writing this I think I know why I’m so negative, as it may be that ‘earning’ is a very sensitive thing to me. For me ‘earning’ is something like ‘taking money from other people’ and of course that’s wrong, that wouldn’t and won’t work.
But actually I don’t want to ‘help’ people. I want to inspire people as there is something negative to me in the word ‘help’, like someone is needy or there is something wrong with someone.
So how did we end up with this ‘self help’ stuff instead of inspiration? Or is it just me who ends up in those sites the way I do? And of course the biggest question is how to make this site an inspiring site and not ‘just another self help site’? And what’s the difference? Is there any difference?
Of course I and the team will look further into this, but of course we are very much interested in your thoughts on this as of course the purpose of this site is to inspire people, to inspire YOU. And maybe the most important question, what inspires you?