Is Wealthy Affiliate a Scam or What?

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Go With Your Instincts, Not Hype

Is Wealthy Affiliate a Scam? I see it as a great opportunity. I have a full review below for you to make up your mind, though.

First some words about internet marketing in general.

There are so many stories and companies out there about internet marketing this or that, complaints, reviews, success and blah, blah, blah.  It makes the head spin.   How many companies and methods of making cash and marketing philosophies are out there?

What is an internet marketing business?  There are as many methods of working affiliate marketing and marketing your own products as there are ways to actually generate cash and get wealthy.

There is also what I like to call the ‘mob mentality’ that is so very prevalent on the internet airways.  I also want to tell you about how responsible I am about my own success — even how I DEFINE success.

 

The Mob Mentality

First, I want to drive home my comment about how the ‘mob mentality’ rules the internet with an meme I saw on Google+ the other day:

This is our society (at least the online version!!)  It’s all about complaining how others aren’t doing this or that.  At every turn, it seems that you read more about comments tearing down people rather than building them up.  This is, sadly, the majority of comments that you read.

People are always trying to point out how everyone else is stupid and aren’t spending any time supporting anyone because ‘it’s not cool’.  This sort of attitude leaves a person to conclude that everything on the internet it just one big ripoff.  Do you think that’s true?

This meme reminds us of something else I want to bring up in regard to MY success in internet marketing.  It also reminds me of how I want to encourage YOU to find — and define — what success means to you.  Don’t let the internet mob determine what success is or isn’t.

Even if the people posting with negative comments and views are somehow trying to be constructive, the seeds of the gray cloud over your thoughts are sewn. It’s tough to navigate through some of that to see what is real.

Even if you read sites about internet marketing and scams, there is sometimes way too much info to take in so you can make intelligent decisions.

So, I’ve laid it out there:

• So many stories about internet marketing out there, blah, blah, blah
• More than one way to make cash on the internet
• The mob mentality is trying to tell you what to do — and they are slowing your progress (dare I say ‘slowing your life’?!)

Where does a person turn?

 

The Latest Scams on the Internet – Why Do We Fall for this Stuff?

I certainly don’t know all there is to know on the subject, but I’ve seen and read my fair share of schemes and methods and reviews.  Why do we fall for this stuff?  Because our natural instincts would have us dig in to find the next gold mine.  Yes, it can all be very confusing to know what is real, but here’s the bottom line:  learn to go with your instincts and not only with your emotion.

If you see and read a bunch of hype, you should know that you should run far, far away.  Either that, or you should investigate the truth.  The truth about who is telling the story, the truth about the actual possibilities AND THE TRUTH OF THE METHODS OF GAINING THIS SO-CALLED SUCCESS.

You really do need to do some research.  Research the person, the methods and the hype.  The brain loves hype.  Especially in this crazy world of the almighty dollar.

Find those offers with pure intentions and surround yourself people who really know the business.

 

More Than One Way to Make Cash on the Internet

This is a part of the problem.  There are some very legitimate ways to make cash, and there are some not-so-legitimate (or questionable methods based on morality) .  There will always be those who believe that the ends of gaining money justify any means of making money.  That’s up to you.

But I’m here to say that there is no need to sacrifice dignity nor morality to operate a legitimate online business.

There are as many methods to make a cash business on the internet as there are niches of interest.  People love to find and purchase the items that make them happy.  Find out how to best serve your customer, and you will find the ways of being in a good, sustainable, online business.

 

The Mob Mentality is Trying to Tell You What to Do

As is described by the meme above with the donkey, sometimes all comments from others are only designed to bring you down and to tell you that you are stupid.  I’m not sure why others do this, but I somehow suspect it’s mainly due to their own insecurity issues.

But, I don’t want to be unfair.  Some people really do care when they’re giving negative comments.  They’re either being realistic or just bombastic or whatever. Some people don’t mean harm by what they say.  There may be a constructive message in there for you, so listen and find the nugget of truth within it.

As far as the mob mentality of the hype of the internet marketing frenzy goes, you really need to develop some tough skin to wade through this pile and not get sucked into the wrong crowd!  There is a ton of learning for the person new to this.

The bottom line is that you need to educate yourself and find those who are not giving out all of the hype.  Have I found such a place?  Yes, and it’s an internet marketing system known as Wealthy Affiliate.

 

Wealthy Affiliate Review

Name: Wealthy Affiliate
Website: www.WealthyAffiliate.com
Price: $0 Starter Membership
Owners: Kyle & Carson
Overall Rank: 98 out of 100
Who it’s for: Newbie – Expert

Okay.  It’s good to know what Wealthy Affiliate IS and what it ISN’T and what Wealthy Affiliate is about.  WA is an internet marketing university and forum.

The owners, Kyle and Carson, are active within the community every day with the number one task of educating the community on the ways of internet marketing.  It is a school.  It is a family.

It is a website designed to get the average person enough knowledge to begin the journey of learning the ways of having an online business.

They offer free websites and tools to make your first websites.  They provide step-by-step instruction.

Wealthy Affiliate is NOT some get-rich-quick scam.  There is very little hype.  The only thing close to hype you’ll read is that of how much the owners and others there believe in you and your chances of succeeding.

I go into more detail about what WA has to offer on the main pages of Create Wealth Online Today:  Free Website Builder, Build Traffic and Rankings and Monetize Your Site. Below is a summary of what WA has to offer.

 

Why it’s Safe and Makes Absolute Sense to be a Wealthy Affiliate

 

• Complete Online Entrepreneur Certification
  • 10 online article and video training sessions with Kyle
    • He breaks it down:  it’s so simple to get started!
• Massive library of video training, tutorial and classroom training and courses
• THOUSANDS of HELPFUL family members of the Wealthy Affiliate community available
  • 24/7 questions answered
  • 24/7 customer service available
  • 24/7 community live chat where all available members are talking
• 13+ Full, Interactive Classrooms
• 2 Free, Beautifully Designed Websites
• State of the Art Secure and Fast Hosting
• Access to Industry Experts & Millionaires
• A strict spam free environment.
• Completely FREE to Get Started! (no catches.  I mean FREE!)

 

It’s completely free to get started.  No other platform in the industry offers this.  There are absolutely no upsells.  You will completely love your experience at Wealthy Affiliate.

 

If you are a spammer or a jerk, you won’t like your time there.  And you won’t be welcomed.

 

Wealthy Affiliate is a completely spam-free zone.  You will find nothing but supportive comments and the help you need to succeed.

 

Who is Wealthy Affiliate For?

In a word, everyone.  The site is designed by Kyle and Carson to be the internet marketing university home for all who intend to be successful online, regardless of any status.  If you have the desire and you’re a newbie, you’ll find your way.

If you are an internet marketing veteran, you’ll find tools and methods that you may have never seen before.  If you already have successful online business, you can use the tools and knowledge to scale up your business to new heights.

The site works well on mobile devices and iPads.  Anywhere you have a connection to the world wide web, you have a connection to your online businesses.

 

Training and Tools Overview

• Live Training Classes every Week from Experts
• Question and Answer Periods
• Organized Classrooms on all aspects of internet marketing
• Interactive Discussions with all training
• Video Training, Tutorial Training
• Task Based Courses

 

There is an amazing library of online marketing strategies, tools and experience at Wealthy Affiliate from the experts who built the site, Kyle and Carson, and from the experts who help them operate the community…as well as training from the experts inside the community!

 

The online training library is vast and is complete from experts who are giving up-to-date information about how internet marketing can easily work for you.

 

 

Your Tool Belt!

• Keyword & Competition Research Tool
• WordPress Express website builder
• Low Competition Keyword Lists already Available
• State of the Art, Unlimited Cloud Hosting (Premium Members)
• Lowest yearly cost / highest quality protection domain registrar in the world
• Advanced website and domain managing platform
• Access to over 2,400 website templates/themes
• Ability to add over 30,000 different plugins to your website
• Rapid Writer, your content tool designed for article hosting
• Link Tracker, a tool to help you find how much traffic you are sending to your pages via certain links

You have literally every tool and every type of training available.  There is absolutely no other place like this in the world.

 

Learn to Make Money with Affiliate Marketing – How Can I Succeed with Wealthy Affiliate?

You’re new at this.  You’ve never done something like this before, but you’ve been searching for the best venue to learn. You found it!  No matter if you desire to build a site around your passion of sports, make-up, weaving, swimming, guitar, reviewing, spiritual, creativeness, helpfulness…sharing your heart about anything, this is the place to be.

It’s never been easier to build websites.  You don’t need all the fancy programming knowledge.  But if you have the knowledge, you’ll flourish (and this is why so many newbies are successful, because there are PLENTY of website building experts to ping).

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Build Your Free Website Right Now

I Mean ‘Right Now Right Now’

Use the box at SiteRubix to see if the subdomain website name you want is available. Reserve it right now and see how fast the website creation process is.

Don’t worry, you don’t have to spend a bunch of time working on the site right today. But you can actually create this website in under 30 seconds and create a placeholder for your new online venture!  Then you can come back any time you’re ready to work on it.

Maybe you’ve got products that you are currently selling online or you want to sell online and you want to learn how to monetize your site properly. You’ve found a home.  No matter the level of your experience, you will learn how to take the next steps to get people to your site and how to become successful in sharing and marketing your products and ideas.

 

 

 

A Beautiful New Beginning

Affiliate Marketing by itself is only the beginning.  There are many different ways to begin learning about making extra (or primary) income from your website ventures.  Website marketing not only is the current reality, it is the future of income generation and human interaction.

What happens if you don’t have a passion?  Wealthy Affiliate will help you find it.  Or, they have a passion built in that they will teach you step-by-step how to build.  No passion necessary to get started, they’ve got a built-in winner for you.

There are many different ways to make money with a website, and Kyle will walk you through many of these methods.  But there are more ways to monetize a site that can be blogged about, so start thinking creatively!  It’s all about your passion and helping others and being natural throughout the process.

So, in a nutshell, you’ll be creating a niche website and sharing what you know in that website.  Then you’ll monetize the site by using affiliate marketing or Google Adsense or other advertisements, or by selling or promoting physical or digital products.

This is the starting line, and Kyle is going to walk you through, step-by-step on building your full-time internet business.  Nice!!

 

The Price

There are two levels of pricing:

Starter Membership, $0 (Join Here)
Premium Membership, $49 per month / $359 per year (Join Here)

For $0, you’d think that you’d only get a nickel tour, but that’s not the case.  When you join as a Starter member, you are going to have instant access to the Wealthy Affiliate community and all of the experts.  This includes access to live chat, all of the hundreds of training modules, access to three classrooms, networking, commenting, 2 free websites, access to the keyword tool, and literally so much more.

As I said before, there is absolutely nothing on the market that can compete with the Wealthy Affiliate starter membership.  Well maybe there’s one thing….

Wealthy Affiliate Premium

If you have the desire to build your web businesses the right way or you’d rather not do it at all, then this is what you’ve been waiting for.  The Premium membership was designed to take away all of the hosting, keyword search and other web related fees, paying for outside help and searching the internet tirelessly for answers on how to put all of your internet marketing efforts together.  It’s all here in one very nice package for a very, very nice price. Your search is over.

I guarantee that you will never be scammed in this business again.

See this article from Kyle about Premium

  

Read Reviews About WA

 

The Verdict — Completely Legit

Plus Three Special Bonuses!

I have been very amazed at what I have found.  I joined Wealthy Affiliate in May of 2016, and now I am very much on the road to internet success!  I have three niche websites that are really beginning to take shape and generate organic traffic, and I’m excited about the future.  There are so many more stories like mine.

If you’re interested at all, you can’t go wrong with the $0 starting fee which gives you a huge chunk of access to the professionals, plus two free websites.  And Kyle WILL be in contact with you right away!!

Just be sure to set up your account information, and Kyle will personally be there to guide you along.  I’ve probably sent 5 private messages (Premium feature) to Kyle and he has happily helped me along my newbie way into learning what this is all about!

Kyle is there to help.  Period.  This is his, and his partner Carson’s, job.  They will actually interact with you!

 

Get More Info

Join WA for $0

Bonus #1

Become a Premium member within the first seven days and you’ll receive a 59% discount off of the normal price.

Bonus #2

Bonus #2 is a two-part bonus.  The first part of it is that you will PERSONALLY hear from the owners, Kyle and Carson when you become a Premium member. They will be contacting you and will let you know that they will be there for you in a very personal way.  You can contact these guys with any question at any time. There is no Ivory Tower at Wealthy Affiliate.

The second part of this bonus is a very wonderful and personal set of training directly from Kyle called Diamond Traffic (you will want that set of info, trust me on this).  He is going to give you insights from his years of experience online that are really going to accelerate your progress.  There is no other kind of mentorship service out there.

Bonus #3

I will be there for you right away, and on a regular basis checking in to see if I can be a help.  The reason I want to do this is so I can be helpful and point you in the direction of the information that you seek. I will be sending you small chunks of information periodically, and will be glad to take a look at your sites to give any feedback if you desire.

 

 

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How I Define Success

Sometimes it’s difficult to describe the feeling of personal independence that you will have by becoming a member of Wealthy Affiliate. I believe that this is the greatest victory of all. Yes, you are setting yourself up to learn how to attract traffic in an organic way, and yes, you are setting yourself up for a source of income. And I hope your source of income lasts a very long time.

But the largest victory comes from your realization that you are in complete control of your destiny. With this method of creating your own business, you are achieving what very few people do in that you are creating a path where you are in complete control and that you have complete knowledge of how to get there.

Enjoy this journey!

 

Build the Solid Foundation

It literally comes down to these three areas:  build your website and learn how to fill it with relevant and helpful posts and pages, learn how to build traffic and search engine rankings and then learn how to monetize your site!

This is what I really like about WA: there is so much info targeted on the basic subjects that I am able to form a picture in my mind to see exactly how I can flourish.  After all, it’s up to ME whether or not I succeed online, not up to Wealthy Affiliate.  The fees that they charge pale in comparison to any scam out there that wants you to part with your big bucks.

It is very plain to see that this place is not a ripoff.

Like I read in a post somewhere, “How can you say it’s a ripoff when there are tens of thousands of people paying monthly and annual fees to them?”  Don’t let the fee thing stop you from checking them out.  You get to start and learn for free.  You could stay a free member for a long time if you’d like.

They provide the tools that I can use in order to succeed.  What more could I ask?  I get to go with my instincts, not just some hype.

 

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What have YOU heard about Wealthy Affiliate?  What internet marketing systems that offer hype out there do you have questions about?  Please leave comments below!

 

About Steve.  A working guitarist, guitar designer, songwriter, worship leader and online entrepreneur, I have discovered that the key to online success (and success is more than money) is simply to focus on helping people be successful.