Do you love your j-o-b?
Do you ever dream of becoming self employed?
Being in the office by 6:30 every morning for twenty years got old. It’s what was required in my j-o-b, so I did it. It didn’t mean I got off early. It just made for a longer day.
What if there were a better way?
If you could work from home, on your computer, with an unlimited opportunity, is that something you’d look into?
Here’s an overview of Wealthy Affiliate
If you’re not familiar with Affiliate marketing, let’s start there. It’s a way for you to take advantage of the time, energy and investment someone else has done to create a product or service. As an independent contractor affiliated with that company you get paid to build a market for them. The amount you sell determines how much you earn.
The important questions to ask when looking for a company to affiliate with are:
- What problem does the company’s product/service solve?
- How much demand is there, what is the market size?
- Is there training and support to help me succeed?
- Where do I find customers?
- What’s the catch?
- Does it fit my personal objectives?
- What kind of income is possible?
The biggest problems present the greatest opportunities.
Look for huge problems. Look for dissatisfaction. One of the biggest problems effects 70% of all adults with full time jobs. According the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 7 of 10 Americans would like to be self employed. They want to fire their boss, work for themselves and own their lives. That presents a massive opportunity..
WA provides a solution by teaching you A-Z how to set up you own online business.
How much demand is there?
What’s the market size?
As of September 2016, there are about 124.73 million people employed full-time in the United States. If 70% of them are considering becoming self employed that translates into a potential market of 87,311,000 people in the United States alone looking for a way to become self employed. This is the primary solution WA provides.
It is a comprehensive, online University complete with a step by step series of courses that guide you from complete neophyte, to seasoned internet marketing professional.
This, without even considering the number of retirees who must develop a source of income during their golden years. Every day from now until December of 2030, ten thousand people reach the age of 65 and almost none of them have the financial resources to be secure in their retirment years. In fact only 30% of americans have more than $1,000. in savings.
The training and support are exceptional
This page is the result of lesson number seven in Course #1. Each lesson can be completed within several hours. There are more courses added regularly to stay current with the ever evolving world of internet marketing. Each has a series of sequential lessons. They all have thourough video tutorials, clearly defined tasks and detailed descriptions of how to accomplish each one.
The support is actually overwhelming. It’s one of the areas I warn new members to be aware of. The community is inculcated with the culture of “paying it forward”. This sounds like a great thing and for the most part it is, however it’s possible to spend so much time engaging with all the members offering assistance, support and guidance you can spend hours interacting with out achieving any income producing activities.
Customers are everywhere
Consider this. There are over two billion internet users worldwide and 90% of them made an online purchase within the past 12 months. Virtually anyone with a product, service or an idea can be a consumer of the Wealthy Affiliate services.
In addition to providing training, and support regarding building an online business in any nice imaginable, WA also offers a very rewarding Affiliate marketing opportunity. In other words, if you do not already have a product or service you want to learn how to market online, you can benefit financially from everything you are learning by becoming an Affiliate for WA
What’s the Catch?
There’s always a catch. The longer you’re exposed to any system, method, company, organization or model the more apparent the pros and cons become and Wealthy Affiliate is no different. I will admit that even being a highly analytical skeptic the downside of WA can be looked at as a benefit. You see, the program is free to enroll in. All new members join for free. The free membership includes a host of products and services that make the $0 price tag one of the great bargains to be found anywhere.
The philosophy of the company is to overwhelm you with value to the point that you have no resistance to the offer to upgrade to a paid, monthly subscription as a Premium member.
Let’s do a Ben Franklin comparison between the Free, Starter membership and the upgraded Premium subscription.
Here’s exactly what you get for deciding to become a member.
Does it fit your personal objectives?
What are you goals? That’s a highly individual question and the answers will be different for all of us. Personally I was looking for a way to help lead my team in the offline world of “old School”, belly to belly, face to face, one on one marketing methods into the current, value added, Attraction marketing, one to many, world of the internet.
I once heard it said that if you’re still doing business the same way you were five years ago, you’ll be obsolete in another five years. In today’s fast paced environment of technological evolution it’s more true now than ever. Quite simply, it seemed like the only way to be relevant was to take my business online.
Leading the way, by definition is what leaders do. What are your personal objectives? I’d really like to know and invite you to leave a comment below. It will be greatly appreciated and will help me understand you much better.
What kind of income is possible?
The real question is, how much do you want to earn? It really is your call. One thing that impressed me with WA from the get go is they’re not about the Up-Sell. The game many online marketing companies play is to get your attention with a lead magnet, offer you a low priced starter pack that provides little true value then dig into your pocket to get you to spend as much as possible as rapidly as they can. It’s a well oiled machine and it sucks in a lot of people.
Becoming a Wealthy Affiliate Premium member unlocks the compensation plan to you.
Number one – It’s a uni-level affiliate marketing plan. You make a sale and receive a commission.
It’s residual – Every time a member maintains their monthly membership, you earn more commission.
The commission breakdown goes like this:
The monthly premium membership is $49 however by paying an annual enrollment members save $229 per year.
For monthly subscriptions you earn $22.50 up front and residually on monthly renewals
For annual subscriptions you earn $175 up front and residually on annual renewals
You do the math and figure out what’s possible for you.
My desire here is to provide you with an unbiased overview of the Wealthy affiliate program. I truly hope you’ve found beneficial. If there are any questions I can answer for you please leave me a comment below.
Onward
John (Your Partner in Success) Rogers