There are a few big differences between someone that is highly successful within the online world, and something that 
is consistently failing. Any guesses what that could be? The education that one has. The tools that one has. And support that one has. Does Wealthy Affiliate deliver on all of these levels, and if so, how?
In my Wealthy Affiliate review I am going to keep it REAL with you (hence my website name, RealDealAffiliate.com). I don’t benefit from beating around the bush or giving you half-truths, my goal is going to be to help you assess whether the platform and community at WA is going to be the right place for you to make your home base for your business.
I think you are going to be impressed, but there are also some things that I want you to be careful about. So please read on and if at any moment you have any questions or want to offer you own personal reviews/feedback, feel free to head to the bottom of the page and leave me any insights you have there.
The Company: What is Wealthy Affiliate?
Wealthy Affiliate is a platform and community dedicated to affiliate marketers and internet entrepreneurs. Since 2005, the team at Wealthy Affiliate has been dedicated to helping people succeed online, which at the best of times, can be a difficult task consider how quickly the internet changes and how rapidly the affiliate marketing world can evolve.
The website, funny enough, started out as a keyword list website for affiliate marketers. Every week, WA would offer a new subset of keywords to help affiliates build successful pay per click campaigns. It worked. People loved the service, but then they started requesting new features.
- A way to communicate.
- Personal help and coaching.
- Training on how to build an online business (and the various facets)
- Websites
- Hosting
- All kinds of tools
- The ability to network with others
And on and on. Here Wealthy Affiliate is over a decade later, 25 employees strong, over 1.4 MILLION members strong and growing at a faster pace than ever, and the platform is becoming ubiquitous with THE place for affiliate marketers to create and grow businesses online, but also to mingle with some of the most affiliate marketers in the world on a daily basis.
At Wealthy Affiliate you are going to learn the proper process to build a business online in any niche of your choice, without needing any requisite knowledge. It is actually very straight forward, and it is the process of building a business online that worked back in the early 2000s and that will work in the 2020’s.
Here is a quick breakdown…
So as you go step into the platform at WA, you are going to be given all the training, tools, services, and coaching that you need to build a business in ANY niche using this exact process. It isn’t complex, but of course, any successful business takes a bit of hard work (so please don’t think this is a get rich scheme, it simply is not).
I have personally worked within many niches over the years, from the dieting niche, to the hosting niche, to record look-ups and people looking for their ancestry.
Any direction that you head, there is an incredible opportunity and with over 550,000,000 products/services that you can promote as an affiliate and earn revenue, there has never been a better time to get rolling online (and do so with Wealthy Affiliate).
So that is a quick breakdown of the process and how WA started, now I want to give you a full and thorough review of the various aspects of Wealthy Affiliate, from my perspective.
The Community: The WA Family is the LifeBlood of Your Business
With over 2.2 MILLION active members, WA is definitely a place that you can hang out, get help, create friendships, and even business partnerships. There is something profound about being able to get up at 2am with an idea and being able to run it by others within the community and get affirmation. Or working on your website late at night and being 
able to fire out a question and get an abundance of help in a matter of minutes.
Wealthy Affiliate is not just a community, but rather one that cares. If you have hung out at Facebook, you know how negative the vibe can be there and it actually turns out to be a depressing experience. Hanging out within the platform at WA is simply different.
People are there for the right reason, they are there to help, and at any given moment there will be 1,000’s if not 10,000’s of people online that you will be able to interact with to help push your business forward in a positive direction.
The Education: What Can I Expect From the Training
Education Recommendations: Very Newbie to Very Advanced
Format of Training: Video, Text, Live Classes/Webinars, Instant Chat
# of Resources: 1,000’s of training modules
Hours of Live Classes: Over 400 HOURS
The best way to learn, hands down, is to DO. If you implement what you learn, that is when the real learning takes place. This “applied knowledge” approach is the one taken within Wealthy Affiliate and as soon as you step in the door, even as a Starter member, you will realize just how interactive and hands on the training is within the community.
There are some very important features that are offered within the WA training environment, that maximize how efficient your path to truly learning this stuff becomes and ultimately speeds up the process of you actually creating a successful and sustainable business online.
There are several formats of training within Wealthy Affiliate that you will be able to harness to go from a complete newbie, to an expert within the affiliate/internet marketing space.
- Core Training Courses
- Video Tutorials
- Text Tutorials
- Live Classes
- Classrooms
So whatever you’re learning style is, we cater to it. Within every training modules, there is a comment/coaching section where you can get help if you ever have any questions, or you can start a conversation about one of the topics discussed and get further insight into it. There isn’t a moment where an expert within the community isn’t available and offering support through the various training channels.
The Websites: An Elite Marketer Needs a Great Website Platform
Type of Websites: WordPress
Hosting: Managed WordPress Hosting
Websites Included: 1 (Starter), 10 (Premium)
The websites platform at Wealthy Affiliates gives you the tools you need to create and operate a very successful business within the online world. A website is the foundation for your business, so it is very important that you have a website platform that can grow with you, one that is stable and efficient, and one that follows alongside the quick moving pace of technology.
Wealthy Affiliate provides you with this environment through the SiteRubix platform and competes directly with the most advanced hosting platforms in the Managed WordPress space.
I don’t want to confuse you with too much on the technical side, but there is certain things you need to look for when it comes to building a website. These are the “factors” that will contribute your success as they are requirements these days to run an online business.
To be the best, you need to expect the best out of your service providers and websites/hosting is no different.
- Website Speed (fastest in the industry)
- Website Ease of Use
- Proper Encryption
- A Sophiscated Management Environment
- On Site Engagement/Communication
- Advanced Features/Plugins
- Timely Support
These are all very much focal points with the Wealthy Affiliate website & hosting offering. With each year that passes, you can come to expect innovations within the website platform at Wealthy Affiliate that push it far beyond any offering. To be great at online business, you have to have a great website and be confident in the company that is hosting your website. WA offers you this.
As a Starter member, you get ONE completely free website (hosting included). As a paid Premium member, you can host up to 10 websites, including on your own domains. The quality of hosting alone offered within the Premium membership (which is $49 per month), is comparable and superior to the $250 per month managed WordPress hosting packages out there in the industry. Just for some perspective.
The Toolkit: With the Right Tools, You Can Shape a Sustainable Business
We all battle a constant “time crunch” in our lives. There simply are not enough hours in the day and this has been something that I have been faced with during my entire time spent as an internet entrepreneur. I have always sought ways to add more efficiency within my business. This has typically led me down the path of automation and efficiency tools.
Some main tasks that you will be doing within your online/affiliate business are building websites, researching niches & keywords, creating and publishing content, and analyzing and assessing websites and your SEO campaigns.
Fortunately, these are things that are provided to you within Wealthy Affiliate, some of the tools allowing you to free up literally 100’s of hours of your time through the course of the year. I want to explain each of the platforms in a little more detail.
Efficient Keyword & Niche Research
Research is a big part of any successful online business. For example, one of the core task of getting ranking in Google is being able to effectively find low competition, high traffic keywords to target with your campaigns. This can easily be achieved through Jaaxy, a platform that you have exclusive access to through Wealthy Affiliate.
As a member of WA, you have access to Jaaxy, the world’s most powerful research platform for affiliate marketers. It offers you a large subset of tools that you can leverage to maximize your time when it comes to research.
Here is a sneak peek at the entire subset of tools that are included within the Jaaxy platform alone:
As you can see, you are well equipped from the research side of your business and you don’t have to go off elsewhere and buy (and manage) tools that are inferior to what you get within the state of the art platform at WA.
Estimated Time Saved: 12-15 Hours Per Month
Amplify Your Content Creation
Content is KING, as they say. It is part of any successful business, in particular within the online world. SiteContent is the marketers dream platform and it is included within the Wealthy Affiliate platform.
You also have access to features that will help you create a beautiful, high ranking site. This includes access to the SiteContent images platform that offers you over 1+ MILLION high definition images that you can use on your website, SEO tracking features that help you optimize your content, grammar and spelling checkers, image optimization, and the platform will even check all of your content for uniqueness before you publish.
You can set writing goals and track these through any set period of time. This accountability naturally is leads to a lot more productivity in your writing and you will be provided with reports of your daily/weekly/month writing achievements.
Did I mention that you can publish directly to your website from this platform, making content management and publication and absolutely breeze.
Estimated Time Saved: 10-15 Hours Per Month
Website Creation & Automation
Building a website in 30 days used to be MY reality when I started out online in 2002. It was a freakin’ headache. I had to learn how to program, I hate to create my template designs myself, and I had to basically manually create the code for every single page on my website. My first website I ever built was not only UGLY as sin, but it actually took me 30 days to build.
Faster forward 16 years later, and I can now create a website that is 100x more powerful, much more beautiful, has way more features, and is “success” ready in less than 30 seconds using the website platform at WA. You have access to over 4,100 different designs (see below), and you can build a website faster than you can pour yourself a coffee.
There has been a great deal of technical advancements that have led to this, but what this has done has allowed ANYONE to create a website and ultimately a business online. Gone are the days when you had to be a “techie” in order to create a successful business online.
Estimated Time Saved: 50-60 hours per month.
Website Analysis & Management
As you establish your website and your business, it is going to become imperative that you have some oversight into what is working for your, what isn’t, and what you can do to improve your website so it ranks better, so it gets more engagement and traction by your website visitors, and what you can use to amplify your overall website results.
There are two platforms specifically that will work hand in hand within WA that will help you with this. The SiteHealth Platform is going to offer you tracking and progress in terms of your overall “health” of your website, kind of like a maintenance and health dashboard. You can see what this looks like below.
It will monitor your website activities and tell you how you can improve them. This will led to your website being built in a way that appeals to search engines, more traffic, and WAY better results in your business.
The second tool, is SiteRank. This will track your rankings in Google, Yahoo and Bing and tell you if you are going up or down within the search results.
Ideally you want to land all of your rankings on Page 1 of search engines, and you are going to come to understand with this automated ranking tracking platform where you are ranked and why. This is a HUGE time saver.
Estimated Time Saved: 10 hours per month.
The more time you save, the more time you have to be productive within your business. More productivity, leads to more revenue for your business (the ultimate goal, right?).
As Wealthy Affiliate evolves and innovates, you can be sure that there are going to several platforms released ever year (without any additional cost) that will make your life more efficient as an affiliate marketers.
The Coaching: Need Expert Help, You Have More Than Just That
Coaching Types: PPC, Content Marketing, SEO Marketing, Social Media
Coaching Formats: Live Chat, Q & A, Ask a Question, 1-on-1, Direct Access to ME (pic below)!
# of Coaches: 1,000’s YOU Get Instant Access to
It takes a village to raise a child, but what if the same thing could be stated about an affiliate marketing. Wealthy Affiliate is truly that village with the interactive and very hands on coaching elements that you have immediate and 24/7 access to.
With over 1.4 million active members, Wealthy Affiliate has become the place where newcomers go to learn affiliate marketing and create online businesses, but something that is very apparent is that it is also the place where very successful affiliate marketers and internet entrepreneurs pay forward their knowledge and skills to newbie to intermediate marketers.
Live Instant Chat Help. Within Wealthy Affiliate you have access to the live chat platform, which you can utilize to get instant help. This is a great coaching medium to use if you are looking for a quick way to get support, but it is also a powerful medium to connect with other fellow entrepreneurs, network, and build relationships with very successful marketers. At any given time there are 100’s to 1,000’s of people interacting or lurking on the chat platform and you can expect your questions or a simple to be met with a response very quickly.
Average Response Time: Less than 1 minute.
Training Q & A. As you move through the training, you are encouraged to ask questions when you have them. All training modules, videos, tutorials and live classes within Wealthy Affiliate have a comment area where you can leave any questions that you have as they pop up. This works really well because others that are involved in the same level of training and that have COMPLETED the training will be notified.
Average Response Time: Less than 10 minutes.
Ask the Community. There is a question platform within WA that you can utilize to ask a question about ANYTHING related to your business, or anything that you need help with. These questions get exposure from the entire community at WA and it is a rare occasion that you don’t have specific help and often times several people helping you within minutes.
Average Response Time: Less than 5 minutes.
Personal 1-on-1 Coaching. As a Premium member within Wealthy Affiliate, you have the ability to get private coaching from whoever you like within the community. That is why it is critical once you get in, to network with others and to “follow” those that interest you, these relationships will prove to be valuable to you down the road if you ever need anything. There is something to be said about having access to all the elite affiliate marketers in the world, which you do within WA.
Average Response Time: Depends on the member you contact, usually within 6 hours.
From ME directly. Yes, when you join through me, or through someone else, it doesn’t matter. I am there within the community to coach you, help you, and offering you accountability and motivation every step of the way. Even if you want to just stop by and say hi, I would love to hear from you. Or if you need a bunch of help, I also want to hear from you!
You can see my personal profile here at WA and see how active I am getting back to people, my goal is to try to answer everyone within 24 hours, sometimes on weekends if I spend time with my family it can take longer, but typically I am much quicker (sometimes within minutes!)
Average Response from ME Personally: Less than 24 hours.
You won’t find a day when I am not interactive and helping 100’s of people within WA through chat, through answering questions or offering personal support.
If you join through me, I am going to be offering you my support and personal coaching immediately. This is real, the CEO of the company will be someone you can access directly and I will be reaching out to you within the first few hours of you joining just to make everything is cool.
The Success: Are People Succeeding Within WA?
In a word, yes. Wealthy Affiliate has been in existence since 2005 and since there have been thousands upon thousands of success stories posted within the community. Everything from a newcomer posting an exciting story about how they made their first affiliate sale, to someone being successful enough to quit their day job, to people having their first million dollar years within the online world.
I want to share a few recent success stories with you, just to give some perspective as to what people are accomplishing. This is a fraction compared to what people are achieving, but it will give you a good idea!
What you will not find is that WA people is not a community where people boast about their success (and belittle others). Many of the most successful folks go quietly about their business. No differently than within the offline world, you have people that enjoy sharing their success, and people that share it private.
I personally, in my 16 years online haven’t ever shared how much $$$ I make with anyone and I surely don’t share income with people that I don’t have an intimate relationship with. Why? Because this to me is private information and I have no reason to share this. I rather focus on helping people create what I have, and offer the best help (and platform) in the industry to do so.
There is the tendency to see people bragging about MONEY, cars, houses, or other material things when they don’t have much of it. Wealthy Affiliate is a community of achievers and elite affiliate marketers, some people share their successes which is amazing, but for every one of the 1,000’s of success stories you read, there are 10,000’s of other quietly going about business and helping others at WA with theirs. 😉
You can be one of our next success stories at WA, I can assure you of that. You can set-up your account at WA and be rockin’ and rollin’ within 5 minutes from now. You really have nothing to lose and the Starter account doesn’t require a credit card, or have any obligation. Just free access to the Wealthy Affiliate platform, the community and me.
===> Click Here to Get Rolling With Your Free to Try Starter Account!
The Vegas Opportunity: Where Brilliant Minds Collide (And Have a Blast)
I also wanted to mention that there is a unique opportunity offered to EVERYONE within Wealthy Affiliate as well, the WA 
Super Affiliate Conference. As a member, you of course can build a business within any niche you want, but WA also offers a very lucrative affiliate program for those that are interested in promoting it.
If you can achieve 300 sales in a given year, you get an all-inclusive, 4 day trips to Las Vegas where you get the Royal treatment. This is fully paid for and includes a 3-day conference, amazing meals, entertainment, drinks and even some gambling if that is what you are interested in.
You are also going to be meeting with some of the top affiliate marketers in the world and have the ability to “talk shop” with these folks, gain new insights, and share some of yours. This is achievable by absolutely anyone, including folks that are just starting out.
The Oops: Sometimes Change Can Really Suck.
We will be the first to say it, not everything is perfect at Wealthy Affiliate. Nothing in fact in this world is perfect and can be improved upon, and that is what is so exciting to a technology company whether it is Facebook, or in our case Wealthy Affiliate.
Within any given year, we roll out 10-12 entirely new platforms within Wealthy Affiliate. These could range from something related to “content creation” a brand new website platform, a new way to community, or about every 3 years we will go through a completely different design.
Because of this, there can sometimes be too much and Wealthy Affiliate can have short spurts of being a bit disorganized. This I amount to growing pains, but it is a good position to be in. We not only are offering people new services within WA (at no extra charge) we are giving them tools to make them much more efficient in their respective businesses.
So as we grow and improve our offering, there will be slight growing pains, the odd bug to sort out, and then odd frustrating. But one thing we promise you, we are completely present within the community as the co-founders (usually within WA 10-12 hours per day), and we have team of over 25 programmatic geniuses behind the scenes to make the technology mesh and operate efficiently…and to fix these bugs before the average member even notices them.
We stand behind our service at Wealthy Affiliate being the BEST in the industry, but it will never be OUR BEST (if that makes sense). That is good for YOU, the end user. You can simply assume that there are going to be a lot of great updates that take place through the course of any year.
The Real Deal: WA Will Take You to the Next Level.
Of course, I have a bit of a bias because I am co-founder of Wealthy Affiliate. But that also gives you the reader unique access to me directly, and some unique insights into the ethos behind Wealthy Affiliate and the fact that we truly do care about you. Wealthy Affiliate is unique in that respect, we are not focused on how much money we can make off of members, rather how we can make members more successful within their respective businesses/niches.
WA has never been a business about making as much money as possible, if we were, it would be much more expensive. The price of the Premium membership is actually cheaper today, than it was back in 2005. That should say a lot about our mission to help people and in the process, offer the most cost-efficient, yet BEST platform in the world for affiliate marketers and Internet Entrepreneurs.
In fact, I don’t want you to spend a cent on a service until you have tried it. I also don’t want you to take my word for it as we just met, I would rather the community and platform speak for itself. Here are the next steps to getting rolling, to seeing what WA is all about, and to start your bright and very successful journey online.
Step 1: Create a Starter Membership at WealthyAffiliate.com (Click Here to Join)
Step 2: Go through the Get Started Here training
Step 3: Get back to me when I personally reach out to you (and I promise I will)
Step 4: Have fun!
Upon joining, you are going to be emailed with some instructions on how to get rolling, but I want you to remember that you have full access to ME (Kyle) personally when you jump into the community. If you ever need to reach out to me after you create your account, you can do so on my profile:
Direct Access: My Wealthy Affiliate Profile (Kyle)
And lastly, if you have any questions at all about WA, you want to offer your own personal review, or you have any other sort of feedback/questions about the affiliate marketing or online business world, please leave them below and I will be more than happy to help. I promise to get back to you quickly, so expect a response within 24 hours max.
Hi Kyle; I have read your fulsome review and Oh! what can I say? To respond to all the facts that is given in this review, calls for a well relaxed mind and body.
Unfortunately I am out of that stamana right now.
The review is a training in itself. It is not written with any hype. While it is not normal for anyone to retain more than fifteen percent of any lesson thought in one sitting.
The way in which Wealthy Affiliate training is constructed; any one consumes as much as one percent of the overall training, even as is laid out in this review, that one can use that one percent and start and build a sustainable business here on WA platform.
Why? Because research would has to come into play.
There are back up information all over the place. And the community exebit love toward one another.
Kyle; is it possible for a website to be successful without having Google + and Google Analytic?
My best regard
DorcasW
The training at Wealthy Affiliate focuses on a few things. First, the focus is on what actually works and the proper process of building a business online. If you don’t teach what works, then people fail. We teach from experience and of course having 1,000’s of training modules is great, but the “core” courses give people a strong introduction, foundation and flow to their business building process (right from the early stages).
What I have also found over the years is that a lot of the training “elsewhere” is fluffy, and it is focused a great deal on motivation, not actual processes people can implement to achieve success. If you want to build a business online, you have to actually build a business right? Rah rah type of information is good for the personal ego I suppose, but not for the actual business creation process.
So the training, it has definitely been a focus within Wealthy Affiliate over the past 12 years and the members are achieving a greater success than ever as a result of the “applied” knowledge they are getting. The live classes that are run weekly and are completely included in the premium membership are always a big deal as they offer huge value.
In respect to your last question, you do not need G+ to succeed. It can help you with getting your content indexed, but as time has gone on it has offered less and less tangible value to online businesses. As for Google Analytics, this tracks all of your traffic to your website and provides you with granular data in respect to that. It is completely free and it is useful, there is no reason not to have it installed on your website, but it won’t have any significant bearing on you getting more traffic itself. This will be based on the content you create.
Great overview of what WA has to offer. It is well worth joining, as long as we put in the work, and being consistent with following the training. Success is within reach for whoever takes the plunge and doesn’t quit! Thanks Kyle for making WA such a wonderful program, I’ve learned so much from this great community already, with more to come!
That is the key, those willing to put forth the effort to build an affiliate marketing (or online) business, are those that actually create it. One thing that is always going to be true about Wealthy Affiliate and what we offer is a sense of “reality”.
We teach what works, and we teach the proper process of building a business online, but we are also realistic about the process that it takes to get there. There is no such as “get rich quick” and I cringe at the idea of newcomers to the internet world thinking that is a reality…just because that is the idea being sold by a lot of the scams out there.
So glad you are enjoying your experience Eric and thanks for dropping by to offer your feedback.
It’s definitely legit. I see sites from WA members ranked in Google, and they’ve been there for years. They also don’t pretend to be some get quick rich scheme like so many other offers out there. If you’re want success, join WA.
That is the key. When you see people achieving results as the result of a training platform, then it is a good idea to pay attention. Wealthy Affiliate has and will always teach what works, not what is hypothetical or currently trendy (as those always lead to failure), rather the proven methods that worked 5 years ago, and that will work 5 years from now.
I have been a member of WA for 6 months and I have to say that after 4 years of spinning my wheels within the online opportunity world, something has truly started to stick.
I had a website up and running in the first few days, which was really refreshing, I have my website starting to rank well in all search engines, I have made sales and they are getting more consistent, and my future feels like it has never been brighter. Not to forget about everything I have learned, I am in a place where I have been helping other noobs which feels amazing.
Anywho, I love everything about Wealthy Affiliate! It is my nighttime hangout and is becoming my full-time control center for my affiliate biz.
Amazing Joanie and thank you for sharing your Wealthy Affiliate experience/review. Your future has never been brighter and once you see the process working for you and you have actually implemented it, you start to realize just how vast the opportunity (as the result of the vastness of the Internet) truly is.
When you understand how to rank in search, you understand the core fundamental process that can be scaled. If you can get 100 uniques per day to your website, you can get 1,000…you can get 10,000. It becomes a matter of doing more of the same of what you are already doing. Keep it up and I have no doubts you are going to be a force within the affiliate marketing world in the near future.
This is a very detailed review on Wealthy affiliate and I can see it offers many great benefits for those who are serious about building a business, and I would agree the tools and blueprints are there but it will not work unless we make the commitment to put the work in, as with any business building the foundation is what takes the longest however if we get this done right it will become a bit easier to keep it all flowing.
Would you say this education platform is suitable for novices ? There is so much more to building a online business and this seems to offer a comprehensive package.
Wealthy Affiliate definitely is a comprehensive platform that includes everything you need to not just create your business, but maintain, manage, run and grow your business as well. Every successful business within the online world starts with a “niche” website and that is the first focus within the training. By lesson 4, a starter member (click here to create your account) will be equipped with this. By the end of the first 10 lessons, someone is going to have a very good grasp of research, content creation, and rankings.
So with very little commitment, a lot can be accomplish in a short period of time. But of course, as with any successful business or accomplishment in life for that matter, a business will take some hard work and effort. This is no different than any job anyone has ever had, or anything that someone has worked hard to become good at. The beautiful part about the Internet is that anyone can become a successful affiliate marketer in this day and age, and anyone can create a long term and sustainable business as a result.
In respect to your question, WA is absolutely geared to all levels of marketers. Novices are definitely a focus, in particular in the early stages of the training and then beyond that, they are moved into more intermediate to advanced skills. That is the natural progression, but you have newbies to million dollar marketers hanging out within Wealthy Affiliate at any given time.
It is a community of aspiring and internet entrepreneurs, and it is where the elite ones within the online world hang out and thrive.
I’ve been searching for years for legitimate ways to earn income online. I’m a natural skeptic, and my search has made me more skeptical. I’ve been very cautious about who I trust. When I discovered Wealthy Affiliate, I felt the first glimmer of hope that I’d had throughout the process. I’ve been a Wealthy Affiliate premium member for over a month now, and even though I have NOT earned any money YET, I absolutely love WA. Why? First of all, you can sign up for free and complete the first course (10 lessons) for free, and the knowledge gained from the free training is excellent.
That’s why I signed up for premium. The premium membership is an INSANE value. The training alone is worth the cost, but they sweeten the deal by including secure hosting for up to 25 owned domains (and an additional 25 free domains; you’ll understand what I mean when you create your free starter membership). The thing I like best though is that unlike other affiliate training programs I’ve looked into, there is a huge focus on generating ORGANIC traffic to your websites. That is hugely valuable.
Other programs I’ve looked into focus on generating paid traffic through Adwords or Facebook ads. Not that there’s no value in that, I just believe it’s best to set the organic foundation before considering enhancing traffic with paid ads. Wealthy Affiliate is helping me do this.
I’m currently on course 3 of the WA training, and many people could probably move through the training at a faster rate than I have. Unfortunately, I can only dedicate around an hour per day on most days, but those 1 hour blocks are time well spent. Thanks Kyle!
There is a right way and a wrong way to go about an affiliate marketing (or online business). Most people unknowingly choose the wrong way because of the programs or training they get themselves involved in, as most of it is outdated or self serving.
Prime examples of this are companies teaching Facebook Ads or Google Adwords before they teach people how to properly build a website, not the best approach and one that will typically end up with people losing a great deal of money.
Wealthy Affiliate follows THE process of building a business online, which has key foundational building blocks at the outset and requires you to have a website, access to quality hosting, access to tools to research and discover keywords/analysis within your niche, elite training, and of course coaching, support & the ability to network with very successful Internet Entrepreneurs.
One foot in front of the other here Josh, you are doing great and I am so glad you are thoroughly enjoying your experience at Wealthy Affiliate. The time and energy you put forth now will always pay off down the road and you are going to see the bigger picture of your biz truly start to take shape.
I completely agree with you Wealthy Affiliate is a life changer, to think that I joined without any knowledge in affiliate marketing whatsoever and the support of the community has brought me pretty far along with my websites increasing traffic everyday. The keyword search tool:jaaxy has been amazing, I would definitely recommend this one to anyone out there.
Thanks for sharing your experiences and your personal review of WA Dave, it sounds like you are making some amazing progress in your business already. It is always a good sign and an exciting point in your online business when you start realizing growth in your traffic and are in a position to truly start to scale that.
More traffic equates to more opportunity and I am sensing that you have a bright future ahead of you!
11 year member here. Love this place. It’s my online home away from home. But besides that, it’s been the key to helping me make a sustainable living full time for years.
I also have personally met Kyle and Carson several times and can tell you all that they are awesome dudes to talk to and hang out with, not to mention the fact that they are also very honest about their business and how much they help people.
Kyle is on WA’s live chat daily helping folks out as is Carson. I don’t know how they find the time, but for anyone who is as successful as they are, to find time to help the little guy says a lot of great stuff about their character and I can attest to that.
Wow, 11 years already. Been amazing to work with you and see you evolve within the affiliate marketing space during this time Vitaliy. Thanks for stopping by and sharing your Wealthy Affiliate experience, I think it will truly serve as insightful as well as inspirational to those looking to start a business on the Internet. I am truly excited for the next 11, in my opinion the affiliate marketing opportunity is still in its infancy, while the industry and the platforms around this space continue to mature and improve.
I’ve researched and tried a few affiliate programs. Many are scams, they come and go, they don’t deliver on promises. WA is here to stay and is head and shoulders above the competition. The training, support and couching you get from the WA community is seriously second to none. I have found a home with WA.
There is a reason Wealthy Affiliate has been going strong for 12 years and has never been in better shape, more refined/polished, and has never been a more caring and helpful place to build a business online. We care about YOU.
This is only going to continue to be evident as we roll out our BIG plans for 2018 and right through 2019. We have 4 significant platforms that we are working on behind the scenes currently, and will be rolling out weekly updates and innovations to the members of the community. That is something that the community has come to expect and that will remain consistent as time goes on.
Many companies have and will come and go in the affiliate marketing space, one thing that you can be sure of is that Wealthy Affiliate is going to going to be there and be at the top of the pile (and lightyears ahead of the offerings of other companies in the space, while remaining the most cost efficient).
Hey there! I’ve been searching for a way to earn extra money online. I’m a student and I heard great things about wealthy affiliate. I read your review about wealthy affiliate and this made me more interested in wealthy affiliate. I have plenty of spare time to put in but only limited money to invest. Do you think that I could be successful given my situation is? How long does it take before I start earning money?
You are starting out in my exact situation. I remember being full time in school when I started my affiliate marketing ventures, with the same desires and dreams that you likely have. My goal first was to see some income (that it actually worked), and then secondary to that I wanted to obviously create success so I didn’t have to get a “job” when I got out of school. Both of which I was able to experience!
So how did I do it. Well, my first issue was time. But time is something that we all feel is limited, whether we are in school, working full time, busy with families, etc. But we all have the same number of hours per day, 24. What you do with those hours and your “in between” minutes at times will dictate how much you can accomplish in your business. I spent lunch hour, my time instead of watching TV, and took the odd night off “going out” and spent that working on my business. This paid off and as I started to see more and more results, I dedicated more time.
Realistically, you can absolutely create a successful affiliate marketing business, even as a busy student. How long will it take? Well, that is ultimately up to you, but 1-2 years is typically the time frame from starting out to being able to go full time (and then some) as an affiliate marketer if you put forth the effort. From there you can continue to scale your business from a small business, to something much more significant (6-7 figures).
Sorry for my long winded response, but I felt your questions deserved it and it would be useful for me to share your back drop.
Oh yeah, and one more thing. If I had a platform and a service like Wealthy Affiliate when I started out online, it would have literally shaved up 6 months in my path to going full time and saved me 1,000’s of hours of banging my head against the wall. When I started out a platform like WA simply didn’t exist. I recommend at the very least to get yourself a free starter membership, it will speed up your path to success drastically!
All I can say is thanks to Wealthy Affiliate my local business is literally on the Map.
Yes, Google Maps and Google My business and is rocking My phone I can honestly say I get the majority of My clients through Google.
When I first came to the Wealthy Affiliate Platform I sign up to see what was the deal with it since I found a website that presented Wealthy Affiliate I was new to online so decided to join and after my first Week I came across a live video class that was covering Local Search so I watched and from that moment on is been 3 years since I watched that training and I can honestly say it works after 3 years by local business is doing much better and getting service call almost every day My local services has increased by 40 to 80 calls a month all new clients.
SO now in 2018, I decided to build a website since I know Wealthy Affiliate has me covered so this is the only testament that Wealthy Affiliate Training really works. Regardless of your marketing skills everything is covered inside the WA training.
That is awesome to hear, we have lots of FULL TIME local marketers coming out of Wealthy Affiliate and that is the testament to the live classes covering this topic and the insight training and experts we have in place to help local marketers.
Most people view WA as just for affiliate marketers, but there is in depth coverage across many huge and lucrative online business models like local marketing. It only takes 10-15 clients in the local space to be running a very successful business, and if you have an offline business, WA can surely help you get your company exposure within search and outrank the competition.
Amazing to hear about your success and the growth in your business. Wishing you an amazing year ahead Sergio!
Kyle I think you really did a great job capturing what WA is about and offers. As someone that has been a member for over a decade, I can say it’s been the best investment I’ve made. And it continues to get better and pay off. But it only works if you’re willing to work and not give up.
Wow, 10 years truly does fly by. And yes, business only works if you work at it. I often times will get the question, “does affiliate marketing really work”. To me, that seems silly now after running a full time business in the affiliate marketing space for the last 16 years, but I can appreciate it. There are too many programs that are set-up to confuse people, or take advantage of folks.
Affiliate marketing works, like you said, if you work at it. It is NO different than any business, it is a business, and the most widely adopted form of marketing online used by Fortune 500 companies. There are over 550 MILLION products online that we can promote as affiliate marketers, and there are billions daily being spent online. In most cases, affiliate marketers are getting a cut in this as they are referring the sales through their websites, email, social media, etc.
I kind of went off on a tangent there didn’t I! Anyways, happy 10 year Eddy and thanks for the praise. Wealthy Affiliate is going to continue to push forward and remain the leader in the affiliate marketing space. We have our most exciting year of rollouts coming to members yet, and building a business online is only going to get more and more efficient through the platforms offered at WA.
I’m so impressed about your breakdown here. You fully introduce Wealthy Affiliate with direct way. You motivate visitors in order to start their own online business and succeed. It’s the ideal information that someone needs to make a decision as to whether or not to join this community.
I personally think many people need this platform to achieve their dreams. Wealthy Affiliate is a visionary platform and anyone can succeed with the help of the mentorship, community, and wide ranges of tools/services offered to members.
What you are offering here and what Wealthy Affiliate offers is something that is going to change millions of people’s lives. I can attest to that. Continue the great work!
I am really glad you enjoyed it and that you are experiencing Wealthy Affiliate for yourself and having such a positive experience. That is the ultimate goal of the platform at WA and truly what we stand for as a community.
To help people achieve success they never thought was possible and the Internet is the perfect place to accomplish this type of success (and to do so within any niche).
As with every year, there are some exciting updates coming to WA that are going to once again change the game for affiliate marketers. Stay tuned.
What I like about wealthy affiliate is the training is presented in short easy to digest segments often with a short video. I built one web site but changed my niche so I had to go back and re-learn some things but that is no problem since the training is easy to access. I also like the live webinars that Jay does and appreciate the fact that the replays are recorded and available for later viewing.
Glad you are enjoying the training. Our gaol is to make it simplistic without all of the unneeded complexities. There is a right way to deliver training and a wrong way. Offering people information that they don’t need isn’t of use, so our focus is to keep focus on the core concepts that you truly need to understand to be a successful affiliate marketing/entrepreneur online.
Thanks for this review on Wealthy Affiliate. I too started an online business many years ago and I felt like I was on my own – no support, no training, no guidance, nothing!
Not only that, I was spending money that I now know wasn’t necessary – if only I knew how to build an online business. With Wealthy Affiliate, I get all of this as part of the package.
Spending £500 on SEO only for the person to turn around and say ‘I don’t know why your site still isn’t showing in the SERP’s’ was so discouraging, to say the least. I gave up on that website and anything to do with doing an online business. That was way back in 1998.
However, coming across Wealthy Affiliate has given me the confidence that I can have a successful online business.I’m still learning and want to take things one step at a time. Wealthy Affiliate seems to have everything to become successful online.
With affiliate marketing being saturated, do you think there is room for newbies to make an impact or are we late to the game?
Thanks,
Jackie
I think a lot of the people that attempt to start an online business start out this way. They do a few Google searches, they try to figure it out, and they ultimately end up purchasing a product/service that will hopefully help them create a business online.
Unfortunately, like in your case, there are far too many companies out there claiming to offer help, but end up taking your money and running. Some people bounce from program to program until they find a legitimate service like Wealthy Affiliate, but some people fail a couple times and never try again (which is always sad to see). So glad you are loving your experience at WA Jackie.
In respect to your question about affiliate marketing being saturated, I actually feel the opposite is the reality. There is too much opportunity, not enough people to take advantage of it. In my 16 years full time online, I have never seen more opportunity than there is today. There are more affiliate programs than ever, there are over 550 MILLION products/services you can promote as an affiliate, and there are more people buying online than ever (and doing most of their shopping online).
There isn’t enough affiliates to fill this void, and there are millions of niches and directions that you can head as an affiliate. It is easy to feel there is a lot of competition when starting out, because it is difficult to see how vast the opportunities are online. I am telling you though, if there was any time to get rolling with an affiliate marketing business, this is it.
Thanks for answering my question Kyle. Yes, I do feel that there is a lot of competition in the Affiliate Marketing business.
However, as you’ve put things into perspective, it gives me greater confidence to know that there is plenty of potential in this huge market for people like people. Thanks for the assurance, much appreciated.
Great explanation of the pitfalls that exist today. A great explanation of the right way to proceed and the warning all about the scammers. I believe anyone could understand this. In my case, I am thinking that I need to purchase another dot.com from WA and get the site that I want to build. However, lack of funds right now is what is delaying the process.
My suggestion to you is that if you don’t have the budget at the moment for a domain of your own (which are around $14 per year), don’t buy one. There is no sense feeling stretched at this point. Work with your free website within Wealthy Affiliate, you can always move over to a domain of your own down the road and use the MOVE feature within WA which does this with a click of a button.
You are doing just fine Ken!