Wealthy Affiliate Review
Name: Wealthy Affiliate
Overall Rank: 9 / 10
Price: Free for a starter account
Owners: Kyle and Carson
Website: www.WealthyAffiliate.com
Introduction to the Wealthy Affiliate Program
I’ll confess, I’m not a professional writer and am not the best at “writing reviews” but this is worthy of the effort! I’ll do my best here. So, without further ado, here goes.
Wealthy Affiliate is a comprehensive Open Education Project for internet affiliate marketing. Internet entrepreneurs, Kyle and Carson, had a vision of a platform where one could find complete training resources, and have all of the tools needed, integrated onto a single platform. After lots of trial and error, and countless months spent to just to get started in the internet marketing world, Kyle and Carson wanted to build a complete one-stop internet marketing training resource where others could learn the the tricks of the trade.
Wealthy Affiliate is not a get rich quick scheme or a flash-in-the-pan trendy fad that will be gone the next year.
Wealthy Affiliate has been in business since it’s inception in September 2005 – going on 11 years as of the date of this writing. It has grown into a bustling community of thousands of people from many walks of life with a mutual interest in building web sites and earning a long term income online.
Pros/Cons
Pros:
- Very Stable – over 11 years in business.
- Active, collaborative, upbeat community with thousands of members.
- The most complete training package to be found anywhere.
- Superb help and support.
- All of the tools you need to build and run on online business on one platform.
- No “up-sells” nor “bait and switch” tactics.
- The web site and tools are well maintained by a top-notch IT dept.
- Keyword research tools included!
- You can start for free!
Cons:
- Getting up to speed takes awhile in the affiliate marketing process. This can be overwhelming to newcomers and will require some patience.
- If you are looking to get rich quick, then Wealthy Affiliate is not for you!
- Building a real online business takes time and a lot of effort.
- It’s not free if you want to take full advantage of all that is offered. However, the cost is far cheaper than purchasing all the services offered separately. As noted in the “Pros” list, you can start for free.
Who is it For
- Moms seeking extra income so that they be with the kids.
- Students looking for income while in school.
- Anyone who wants to work on their own schedule from anywhere.
- Anyone who wishes to break away from the 9 to 5 grind and rush hour traffic.
- Anyone trapped in a job they don’t like.
- Anyone seeking extra income to pay off debt(s).
- Frequent travelers, looking for a business they run from anywhere “on the go”.
- Anyone looking for a full suite of internet marketing tools on one platform.
- Anyone wanting to learn how successful internet marketing works.
- People who like to blog.
Training/Tools Overview
Have you been wanting to build a profitable online business, but just don’t know where to start?
Training – you’ve got it!
“organized and complete”
At Wealthy Affiliate, you will find the most organized and complete collection of training courses available!
Some of what you will learn:
- Building your foundation.
- Finding your niche.
- Building a website.
- Writing quality content around your niche.
- Search Engine Optimization.
- Finding Keywords
- The importance of keeping it “human”.
- The value of engaging your audience.
“Everything you need”
Everything you need is on one platform and is all easily accessible, including extensive training.
During training you are encouraged to offer others feedback on their progress. In return, you can receive feedback on your progress. This provides a nice peer-review system.
Training is organized into “classrooms” that will guide you through every step of building your online business from scratch. Each classroom has a discussion area where you ask questions, comment, and view other’s comments. This makes it more interactive like an actual classroom.
“showing you step-by-step”
Trainings are broken down into individual courses. Each of these courses are broken down into a series of daily training sections. These outline a list of tasks showing you step-by-step how accomplish the task at hand. Most of these sections have an introductory video that demonstrates what you are about to learn.
There is a continually growing, searchable archive of training resources and videos at your fingertips anytime you want to explore or brush up on a subject. New content is being added daily! There many members who are contributing their own training on subjects they are good at.
“check lists”
Task check lists are provided for each training section to help you make sure you’ve covered important steps. A handy link is always available in the side bar to take you back to where you have unfinished tasks in the trainings. You’ll never lose your place.
If you get stuck or have questions, the whole Wealthy Affiliate community is there via Live Chat, a Question post, or private message. You have no excuse to fail!
Support
Because Wealthy Affiliate is a large community, there is support available 24/7 all year long. Questions can be posted and are usually answered within a few hours or even minutes!
“feedback from others with experience”
You can give others feedback on their progress. Likewise, you can receive feedback from others with experience on your work. You’ll never have to worry about “Am I doing this right?”. The WA community believes in a “pay it forward/give and take” ethic.
“Live Chat, blogs, messaging”
With communication tools like Live Chat, blogs, messaging, and a tool to post questions to the community, support is always available 24/7 and just a few clicks away. No other package I seen offers this!
Community
Over 600,000 members. Thousands of whom are very active in the community every day. Help, mentoring and support is always available on the WA platform. In this community, people are very responsive and always get back to you in a timely manner.
“friendliest and most helpful”
The Wealthy Affiliate community is hands down the friendliest and most helpful community I’ve ever been a part of! It feels like extended family.
When I first joined Wealthy Affiliate, I was amazed at the outpouring of support from others. It is a place where you are surrounded with moral support, help, success stories or just plain good humor.
“zero tolerance policy for spam”
You will never find spam or inappropriate content posted in the Wealthy Affiliate community. We have a zero tolerance policy for spam and abuse!
“peer review”
Another great perk, is that as you are learning, you can share your work with the community and get a peer review of what you’ve done. You can review and comment on work others have. In the process, you will gain knowledge of how to do your craft better. There are even dedicated tools for just that. The Site Comment and Site Feedback buttons.
Price
Wealthy Affiliate is broken down into two pricing options:
Starter membership, which is free. Join here!
Premium membership for $47 per month, or $359 yearly (less than $30 per moth). Join here!
As a bonus, you can even start your first month of Premium membership for just $19!
Final Verdict and Opinion
I just about gave up after getting burned multiple times on “Internet Opportunities”, but decided to give this “Wealthy Affiliate” thing a try. I have not looked back since. For the first time in 25+ years of “searching”, I have finally found something that is truly doable!
I say go for it! It is reliable, completely legit, and will be here for the long haul.
If you’re willing to roll up your sleeves and put in some work, commit to it and not give up too soon, this system will work. All for about the cost of a couple of lattes per week! With the active community, you will not be “going it alone” here, either.
Enough small talk, let’s get to work!
“Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.”
— Thomas Alva Edison
If you have your own reviews experience with Wealthy Affiliate or just want leave a comment. Please leave them below. Your feedback is appreciated! You can also visit my profile at Wealthy Affiliate.
All of the best,
I loved reading your review Oren. I joined back in January 2016, took a while to get into my groove, but now go in daily. It’s a journey & as you say, does require patience.
I now believe I am on course to creating a real online business, and I am doing this with the love and support of so many new friends.
I count you as one, and for that I am very grateful.
Jules, thank you for the comment. Good to hear that it is working for you.
Hey Oren. Love the beard man.
Your review is awesome. Great job.
Blessings and success to you
Thank you Marlene! The beard has been growing for 8+ years.
As a full time member of WA I can vouch for the content in this review I have been a member of WA for about 18 months and it if was no good I would have left a long time ago.
This is a very comprehensive review, detailing the many benefits of WA
I think for most people the No 1 benefit is the free starter membership
With so many products out there asking you to pay before you actually see what your going to get WA stands out a mile
In my view the best training out there for building an online business
Thanks Barry! It is good to hear from others who have experience with WA.