I was just keen to know more about WA wondering how is it going on with Wealthy Affiliate...is it good for long term. Is it worth the investment or you can get the info out here in the forums?
In my opinion, it IS worth it. I have been studying Internet Marketing for a long time now. I know all the "ins and outs" but I haven't been making very much money at it. There's been something missing, and for the longest time, I couldn't figure out what it was. Until I joined Wealthy Affiliate, that is. I needed a community that would be willing to answer my questions and share the secrets others won't give you. I needed a "do-this, then-this, then-this" type of plan and I couldn't afford hundreds of dollars to pay for it. Wealthy Affiliate gives you EVERYTHING you need. I can't stress enough how rich the resources are at WA! Plus, there's a jobs board for everyone where you can pick up enough money to PAY for your monthly subscription! Everything you read on the sales page is TRUE I can't recommend it high enough. ~cj
The materials there do not meet my needs. After I left, I find I can find everything here. That is it.
I'm not so sure about being able to find everything one needs right here. Newbies don't necessarily know the right questions to ask, so being able to access an 8-week step by step plan is quite valuable. Having access to a forum that is more than helpful (moreso than this one) is quite valuable. I find the forum at WA not only helpful but quite generous in their offerings of "How I DId It And How You Can Do It Too" messages, never once asking for payment. I've NEVER found a forum more supportive and generous than the one at WA. Having access to free keyword analysis tools, while available "out here", is nice, but what is better is getting the training on exactly how to use those tools. Then how to apply and use one's research. My biggest concern has been using PPC, and no matter how many eBooks I read or questions I asked "out here" (not just here at DP), I never felt I had enough information to use it properly. I was always afraid of racking up an ad campaign bill that I couldn't pay for. That's not true now that I've been inside WA. I understand now how to test the market without spending my life's savings. The success stories are not only encouraging but VERY enlightening. Most of them are the "How I Did It" messages that are so helpful. The owners of WA, Kyle and Carson, are not only very accessible, but will frequently step in and add their own advice and .02 to conversations. The exact method to build a paying Squidoo site. Free web hosting (up to 3 sites). Free site builder (Site Rubix) Free blog. A constantly updating feed that tells you what everyone's doing. A learning center with articles and videos that takes you thru various training programs (besides the 8-week newbie course) on different aspects of affiliate marketing. NicheQ, where every month you can choose a hot-market niche product that is fully developed and comes with a highly detailed niche report, relevant plr reports to give away, articles and fully researched keyword lists that include low competition keywords, an email series for an autoresponder and website templates. These products do everything for you except post themselves. Set one up every month, drive traffic, and in short order, you'll be rolling in dough. This month there are 8 topics to choose from, like dating, web hosting, VOIP, insurance, online gaming, stocks, pets and golf. Next month, there'll be 8 more, fully researched and ready to go. You won't find any useless "Buy My Product And Become An Overnight Success." What you will find is the most supportive community I've ever seen. Because people pay to be a part of this community, there is NO scamming or spamming--everyone is there to help and are quite serious about creating legitimate wealth. I guess my point is, if you are unsure as to what affiliate marketing can do for you, and you feel like you're alone and in the dark "out here," then taking a look at Wealthy Affiliate should be your next step. Once again, I'm telling you truly, Everything you read on the sales page is TRUE!
WA is not teach you any special methods but they only guide you on How to generate more sales with keyword research. When you finds good keyword list on one topic and saturate it with different mediums for promotion then it will generate more cash for you. This can be done by learning yourself with own methods. WA Conclusion : Find keywords with low competition and make a list of 1000 keywords with 200-5000 searches per month and create unique website for those keywords and optimize that site with those keywords and do some SEO to get listed quickly. When you do so, then organic traffic dramatically comes to your website and hence you have choose low competitive keywords the sales ration is Good. Think and research yourself, there is nothing special in WA.
It's a monthly subscription, yes. If you pay by the year, the cost works out to $29/mo. If you go month-to-month, it is $39. I'm paying month-to-month and it's totally worth it to me. I've learned more in the short time I;ve been there than anywhere else. Even if you only stay a month or two, learn all you can, get some free niches, make some valuable connections to successful marketers, I'd say it's worth it.
WA seems like a huge investment for me. I know $40 bucks may not seem like a lot to some people but it is to me. I don't have as much time as I would like to research everything about SEO and generating traffic to my site or what products to promote. I think this is where WA could really help me. Let me ask you this though... and keep in mind it is hard for me to believe some of the WA people because we all know they make commission off others signing up so why would you say its not worth it.... If I'm smart and work hard should I see a return on my investment in the first month? Thanks~
One of the things the gurus don't mention about Internet Marketing is that it is extremely hard to get anywhere in this business without some kind of personal guidance. It takes longer because the learning curve is harder to conquer. Working hard and smart is definitely called for either way. I am in week 3, and I've made $180 so far... but not from affiliate marketing. WA has a jobs board. It didn't take long for me to exploit my writing skills and line up just 2 clients for regular writing jobs. Since I have no actual portfolio, trying to get work at eLance.com was impossible. That wasn't a problem at WA. If you have a skill other IMers can use, it won't be any kind of problem for you to get a job at WA. In that way, it will pay for itself and all the while you'll be learning very valuable skills, getting over that learning curve with the expert guidance of people who really care and want to help. I call that working hard AND smart. And I haven't seen ANY spamming or fraud there, either. From what I've read, it takes at least a couple of months before most people started seeing an income from affiliate marketing. It depends on your skill levels and how quickly you can put your new education into play. I think the average time frame has been 6 months to get an income rolling in, but once that ball starts rolling, it's like a snowball, picking up momentum and getting exponentially bigger in relatively no time at all after that. i understand your trepidation. I had the same concerns. But curiousity finally got the best of me and I decided one month's fees would be worth it if for no other reason than to be able to ease my curiousity. I determined that if it was not worth the monthly fee, I would come to forums like DP, et al., and tell it like it is for others who have money issues like I do--did. And to a large extent, that's exactly what I'm doing. I'm just happy to report that it is worth the monthly fee instead of the other way around. I'd at least give it a one month trial to see it is for you. And if you have a marketable IM skill (can you build Squidoo lenses or write well or build websites or...there's LOTS of things you can do!), then I say go for it! And you don't even have to use my affiliate link!