makemoneygirl

I completely have the same experience. At first I was really excited to be a member and learn all I can in affiliate marketing because everybody seems to have a good review about the program. But I have just joined for a week that I decided that I can do better on my own.

95132

I was a member for more than a year. I never sold their Program. I had a couple of website with free hosting but transfered them to paid hosting. If you want to learn about internet marketing I would go to Ewen Chia or some one simalar. There is a lot of free advice on the market and also for $30 month you can buy a lot of books and programs.
That is my opinion and I hope you do as you want.
Go Luck
Ralph

thegiftoffive

I am really looking for some one who actually made money with affilate programs.

wealthyfun

Joined WA on $1 trial and left the same day, too much coming at you all at once and no sense of where or what to start from. I prefer Eric's Tips and ShoeMaker. I have been on this forum for two days too and am impressed with the wealth of information on here (w/o the mind boggling issues of course) and for free as well.

embrown

I'm a member and wanted to cancel after my trial, but I forgot. Here's my little review:

Pro:

• Good start for an absolutely clueless newbie. You have access to all the tutorials and video from day one (except for the 8-week program, but more on that later)
• Its like the facebook/myspace for IM. Lots of people to network with
• Its similar to this site. You can place ads for work that you need done and place bids on projects.
• The templates are not horrible. I don't really care for them, but they are not bad for someone who doesn't have anything already.
• There is a lot of tools at your disposal.
• NicheQ is very good and thorogh. Its a good start for someone to get into the niche. I picked the pet theme and there's so much info, which I'd definately use to jumpstart my niche site.

CONS:

• *$49 monthly fee! Its expensive, especially when you have $0 money coming in! You do have the option to pay yearly, which brings down the price a bit.
• You lose your commissions if you quit. Which isn't really fair. They say its fair because you are not competeing against nonmembers as well as members - but nuts to that! If I work on promoting something, I want my money!
• I don't care for the templates they give you. They are very limited. If you do use them, you'll have a site similar to the other 1000s or however many members WA has.
• They have iframe websites you can use. See above comments about that.
• There are bunches of upsells. They have 'university level' accreditation. You'd have to pay a seperate fee to get these. There's PPC and something else. YOu get their ebooks, though. But depending how you joined or any other offer you may already have those.
• The 8 week course is the main draw (for me, that is) but it is soo slow. If you have read about affiliate marketing anywhere else, the first week and maybe the second are complete wastes of time. You can't work ahead beause you don't have access to it. For one thing it is a good way to get $100 worth of membership fees out of someone who is determined to finish the course before canceling,
• The forums are not very helpful to me. I've searched and I found tons of unanswered posts and questions.
• The success forum doesn't seem that successful. When I looked, a good majority of the people were saying stuff like "After months of doing this I finally made a sale!" I'm happy for those people, but wow. Maybe I'm just used to people hyping their success on other forums.
• Some of their free tools can be found elsewhere. Well, I'm not sure about all of them. Theres one epecially that mimicks CB-analyitcs or whatever the sites callled.

Well, that's it. I'm canceling my membership this month. But I'm promoting WA so I can get my money back. Its a good site with a good idea, but as you can see from my list, I have more CONs than PROs. So, it's not a good fit for me, personally.

Right now, like someone else in this thread, I'm looking at AffiloRama or someone's blueprint WSO. But, I have my eyes on the War Room.

aimeee

I agree with embrown about the pros and cons. I canceled after 2 months. I was undecided just before 1 month is up and then it was too late to cancel. The first 3 weeks of the 8 week action plan are good for newbies, after that not much useful materials. I also don't like the fact that they push members to be super WA affiliates. In the success forum, you often see new members post that they just have the first WA sale. And I'm thinking 'Is the purpose of WA to teach people to promote WA?'

SolarFelineAU

Thankyou everyone for relating your experiences. WA was something I was seriously considering. The search continues!!

SolarFeline

thomashoi

it's interesting to read from some of the posts here. I understand that some people quit WA after a month of joining.

It seems to me that they are going for the "instant cash machine" solution. The fact that WA has so much to learn proves to be too much for some people.

Many people don't understand that internet marketing is the same as doing
any type of business, it takes time to build up this business and you got
to build your foundation strong.

As a member since Apr 2007, I'm not concern how much money i have
made but it is the learning process that i'm focusing on. If I know why my
customers want to buy a certain product or services, I will make
money.

And I can kiss goodbye to those ebooks, paid keyword tool, software, and
those nonsense because I know what my customer
really wants. It's an Art and you need time to perfect this skill,
you can't simply get it by buying some ebooks or software.

TommyG

I was a member of WA for about a year but I also quit in January. I wasn't getting anything additional out of it. It is good for people who are new to affiliate marketing but why pay $30 - $50 a month for that when you can get all the information right here for free. I don't have anything bad to say about them but I was getting more here and it wasn't costing me anything. Their forum was where I spent most of my time and this forum offers so much more.

If you really need some additional help join a mastermind group or the private warroom. It will cost less especially when you are starting out and have no money coming in.

elos

I agree with TommyG. I was member to and ater few months i quit to. They add some stuff once or twice a year but not organized and like tommy said you can find here all that info for free and use warrior special offers.

reynic

I was a WA member for about nine months and didn't get much from it. The lessons are totally generic, the Site Rubix sucks, and forget about the promise of personal help from the owners.

Other than that, it's a perfect deal for Kyle and Carson- getting paid by the member affiliates for marketing their product for them! Pretty sweet deal for them.

Aishab30

I'm thinking about cancelling my membership. I joined last week but it's not what I thought it would be at all. How go about doing that? Is it thru Paypal? Do I need to call Paypal. They are not forward about this information!

embrown

Just log into your PayPal account and you should see your transaction on the first page. There will be a yellow button you can click that will cancel your membership

pavionjsl

There are some basics to making money with IM, but wealthyt affiliate was weak on tools and the biggest thing they seemed to give you was tools to market themselves. There are better tools and ways to being successful on the internet.

Azlan.MY

That's a good point. WA is not for lazy people.


I also agree to this one. I mean if you think Wealthy Affiliate is bad, just wait until you try bunch of products out there - 90% of them worse than WA with higher price.

Google Lover

yeah! way to go WA-ers!

personally i thought joining WA will make me a millionaires in 3 months. i was indeed wrong. how stupid i was.

I must credit WA for being humble and true to its value. WA really teaches you IM, the white hat way. And since it is not overhyped, people tend to think it is not that good.

I guess for those who are looking for the next shining thing, they can always hang out during product launches.

If you are ready to be a real rich marketer, like Ryan Moran, Jennifer Ledbetter aka PotPieGirl, Marcus Cox, Travis, Justin Brooke, you can join them at WA! hahaha...

The next shining thing will never bring you wealth. It's really hard work guys.

And look out for Wealthy Affiliate Platinum in September! Going to be a blast!

Google Lover

There's one promise that Kyle and Carson made: You will not need any more internet marketing products ever again.

Yes i guess they are true to their words. Although i know i can be greedy sometimes, and want to purchase that $1997 Google Cash Detective, when i can use a simple competition spy tool in WA. hahaha. I must learn to be grateful for what i have. Only then i will be successful...

Boo hoo me..

wilco1570

Hi Everyone,

Thank you for taking the time to post your thoughts on WA. As a complete newbie, I was about to join this program as I thought it would be the ideal place to start.
I will look at alternatives now as the general theme of this thread is there are better alternatives out there. I must say, the best thing I have done is found the warrior forum and I feel very fortunate I have found it before Ive signed up too any programs. Its very difficult to find impartial, non - biased reviews of programs like WA over the net.

Cheers Wilco

Richnana

I joined Wealthy Affiliates after getting recommendations from the Bum Marketer. I was not at all impressed when I was able to get into the site. It was kind of very basic - nothing that I could not get from the forum either for free or with a little research.

Within the first few days I wanted my $39.00 back and was told they did NOT give refunds. I thought this was an error... Who doesn't guarantee their product. But that is the response I received. Did not see the value in continuing this membership at over $400/yr.

Promote the best Clickbank Programs with just one link.

thomashoi

I finally knew the real reason why people want to do internet marketing.... they want to make money fast and get rich quick!

And best of all, do the least amount of work like "pushing buttons", going
to ATM and withdraw money!

If you just look at the rich and famous, all of them have just one point in common,

They Do What Others Don't Do!

They spent a great deal of time to do things what others hate or lazy to do.

I hate to say this but 97% of the products out there are misleading! Why?

because they only focus on the product and ways to drive as much
traffic as possible to the website... but they don't teach you a simple
thing....

"Why A Person Wants To Buy A Product?" You cannot get the
answer from those worthless products. Until you can figure out
that answer, you will not make a single cent....

seo, ppc, black hat, white hat will not give you a sale....

But Knowing what a person wants will make you very rich.....

If someone were to ask who is easier to succeed in internet marketing,
I will say people with the sales / marketing background.... Because they are constantly
finding out what people really are hungry for and they just give it to them....

Netbug

That is the first time I have ever heard of it? I do now where you can go and get in a Free Affiliate Membership site for a limited time. Check out my sig it will help you.

Azlan.MY

It is a good place to start. Even if you can't get success with it, this program is very useful. You'll see the direction right away.

Warrior is good also, but it's not easy to find the right direction here, especially when you are a beginner. Threads here are discussing different ways to do internet marketing and make money online. - CPA, Adsense, Affiliate, selling eBook, SEO and Adwords. It's quite confusing when I first started.

bigfriendly

I was a WA member for 6 months. WA is not a bad deal if your totally clueless and new to IM. To me the WA forum is a little bit less intimidating for newbies than the WF. People almost always answered my questions quickly and many times in a way that was easy for a newbie to understand.

The big marketers like Travis Sago and Pot Pie Girl are very active in the forum and are quick to answer very basic questions. I do understand that they are making a boatload on WA affiliate commissions but they do respond with genuine kindness.

The free tools are really nothing special but when your new and learning it's kind of nice to have everything in one location. The pitch page is misleading about the one on one coaching from Kyle and Carson. They will answer PM's but the taking you by the hand stuff is pure nonsense.

Roddy H

I too was a member for a couple of months but thought that prolonging the membership would not be beneficial.
I found the 8 week course informative and worthwhile for a complete beginner - as I was at that time - but in common with some comments on here, I found the guidance about what to do with the new found knowledge lacking. When you first start out some 'hand holding' (mentoring) is usually required and it was that aspect that was lacking with WA. I was also disappointed with their seeming obsession for pushing their own products and indifference about whether their charges are successful or not.
Maybe I am being a bit unfair with this review but at least it is my honest opinion.

Lutz80

I was with them for around 6 months and although I am not new to IM and was not at the time either. I did not care for it I thought it was a wastye of money for me personally ! I just used the forum to help folks out but was impressed but I did meet and make some good friends there. But it is not the best IM training in my opinion. If you are looking for IM traing I suggest Jeremy And Dons IM Bootcamp they are the best value one time payment and show you what to do from start to scaling and everything between. Good Luck

nbolmer

I can't believe I've finally found some honest feedback on the WA program. I'm a fairly clever searcher, but every single link I could find in every search engine lead me to someone's completely bogus page trying to sell the WA program.

Most of them resort to misleading surfers into thinking they are headed to a website specializing in reviewing money-making programs, when in reality, they do no such thing. They are so blatantly dishonest in the approach, I'm surprised that someone more clever hasn't managed to get an actual review somewhere in the top 10 google hits (or even the top 1000). It's absolutely unreal.

It's obviously nothing but a very thinly veiled pyramid scheme to sell the "program", which in turn, lures users into doing nothing other than trying to sell it to others.

Halhighlander

You sound very pessimistic but I assure you nothing about Wealthy Affiliate is fake and if you would just try it out for yourself before passing judgement on it then you would change your mind I'm sure!

On April 20th, 2009 I posted blog entry number 179 entitled "Life is Amazing (A 6 month WA Story Courtesy Of Two High School Students)" and if you read that post on the MyWA.ca blog you will see a very inspiring Wealthy Affiliate success story!

Cheers,

Fred ( A Wealthy Affiliate member since April 2008).

DrFresh

I like WA. I was a member for a month.. Thats where I learned the basics.. It's good for anyone who has never heard of affiliate marketing..

NettaFranetta

Well I am a newbie at WA, getting very confused within the tutorials although there is a wealth of information great starting place for anyone who does not know a zilch about internet marketing but also found components missing within the tutorials. Would have liked to see more step by step instructions, paying over $400 aus dollars yearly subscription ... As I have read through the posts here and agree with most , there are a lot of newbies everyday asking the same questions and I suppose the more experienced get tired of the newbies, well that's how I feel about it. I am beginning to believe a lot of it is hyped. But they do have a wealth of information as you search through the forums.. easy to get overwhelmed with tutorials (8week tutes) as well as reading forums which is advised to do from the first week of joining...Also found a lot of negativity within the forums which can put a newbie off and make you wonder if you had made a the right investment in joining... I will stick with it and learn what I can for now as well as look around else where hopefully with out investing to much more money. Cheers..

kislany

Was a member for a month and then left running. Too much info, too much tied to that place, to scattered all over the place. As a newbie I was so overwhelmed, I almost left IM just because of that place. Unsubbed from WA and never looked back...
I then found WF which is free and you find here everything you need to start out.

PeterBenson

I was a member for 6 weeks. WA encourages not to utilize all methods of IM. Master one by one to avoid being overwhelmed. So I decided to concentrate with PPC and I followed the PPC training to the T.
Within a 2 weeks of doing PPC I lost $210 so I quit WA.
Nevertheless, I gained a lot in relation to article marketing which I use to this day. WA is a good start for newbie, but the road will be long and bumpy.

monsur

Yes,I agree with you

dlnunez

It's a great place to start your Internet Marketing education, but you better go in knowing its going to take some time and effort to get through all the material.

Waldo Claassen

I joined them when I started internet marketing.
I think it is ok when you start to learn the basics of internet marketing but I think most of the information they have in the course is freely available on the internet.
I have actually learned more in the Warrior Forum and decided to join the War Room.
The war room is a great place considering it is less than a months subscription at Wealthy Affiliate and it is a once off $37 for a lifetime membership.
I also bought myself Market Samurai for $87 when it was on promotion with the money I saved by cancelling my membership.

Waldo

Daniel Euergetes

I have been a member there since January 1 and it has really made a big difference in my progress in learning how to deal with SEO and article marketing (so far.) I would not be anywhere near as far as I am now if I hadn't joined. It's huge and more complete than most I've seen, a couple of which I've actually joined. Though I've seen that there is really nothing there that gets very advanced, it certainly has something for everyone starting out.

It's true much of the information on there can be found for free, that's true for a lot of online information. Although it's possible to get lost on the website it's better than trying to find things on the entire Internet! Not knowing any better, I found and attempted to apply old information to my earlier IM endeavors. My problem with the free approach is:

1. I'm new at it and may not even know what to look for. Try putting a puzzle together which contains pieces that don't even belong to it!
2. Searching, sometimes in circles, is a time-waster. That's about a year and a half for me!
3. Risk of relying on dated, useless, or incomplete information that comes up in the searches. Led to a program I actually purchased which was a total waste of money!

My assessment of Wealthy Affiliate is that it helps newbies like me get their feet wet in most of the marketing methods in common use and provides more than enough proven and up-to-date information in each training module that helps people begin making money. Dynamic as it is, it's also a safe investment. It's all in one place. Finding WA was like finding an oasis in the desert.

dkonline

Haven't tried WAU. But I think anything that tries to duplicate WP functionality is taking on more than is necessary. WP does the job well. So why reinvent the wheel. There is also the issue of long term maintenance. It will take a lot to maintain such a system over time.

sarahberra

I was a member, but I cancelled my membership. The info and services are really good, but I just don't have the time to devote to it. I am so busy working and building CB preadtor web site. I do want to join again within the next few months. The membership is worth the cost if you really utilize their tools and training. I just have clients that depend on me so I am stuck doing a lot of work for them. This leaves little time for anything else right now. Once my other sites start making money I want to go back to WA.

powyoung

Here's a summary of what you'll get in Wealthy Affiliate

1. Learn Article Marketing
2. Learn how to use Web 2.0 properties like Squidoo, Blogger
3. Learn to build sites

Honestly your better of paying the $37 to join the War Room
Do a search under article marketing, keyword research in the warrior forum and you are good to go.

UKTim29

I wish they'd explain the forum marketing side of getting traffic better so it's not quite so obviously a plug for your sig!

CianMcCarthy

Truth is WA is awesome for the beginner, as it allows you to sample a lot of proven strategies before buckling down to one specific one (kinda like 1st year of college me think!!)

NewLevelMarketing

You can also do a search on Google and find information on any topic in Internet marketing. But, to me it's a waste of time.

If you want you step-by-step information that's organized and all in one place, with help from other members, then Wealthy Affiliate is where it's at.

Ken Strong

Anyone who posts a "review" in this thread who is promoting the same product in their sig as an affiliate will have their posts deleted.

Stop doing it. This part of the forum is for actual customers to post their opinions and reviews.

netwiseprofits

Just a heads up to those thinking of joining, the membership price is going up from $39 per month to $97 per month, I think it happens on June 7th.

CianMcCarthy

Yep 12 Noon EST June 7th , which is a bit of a hike alright

JeromyS

I have been getting messages about that too. I have looked into them again, it appears that they have added a fair bit since i was a member a couple years ago. Plus there is word of some service being added (probably around launch of new price structure) that is supposed to cost $197/month elsewhere. I didn't find anything 'wrong' with the service when I was a customer, but with what ever new services are being added (anyone know anything about Niche Q) I wonder if it is worth it to check it out, at least for a month, in case its worth locking into the lower price.

amanita

I was a member for a year. Nothing wrong with it. It tought me that you have to find the place, the method that works for you best. I find Warrior Forum a much better place in every aspect.

honestbizpro

Yea like all the comments above I have varied mixed views of WA. I can remember when I first gave it a try they had a Meet in Vegas competition to all their successful affiliates and Travis Sago was the only one going!!! I am sure they have come along way with some fantastic tools and hosting package all inclusive but some of the forum posts I used to read there were down right depressing from people not making any money.

Again that was back a while and I am sure those guys would not still be around unless someone was making some bank.

ejiKoala

I was a member at WA for a year and canceled it about six or eight months ago when I joined the war room. WA was okay for a beginner, but the forums (which was supposed to be the heart and strength of WA) had tons of unanswered questions and single-post threads. Whenever I had questions, I'd search the forums first and would find more unanswered questions than answered ones. I think I posted on the forums a total of 10 times and only three times did anyone post a reply which was very discouraging. I couldn't justify paying $39/mo any longer so I can't imagine paying $99/mo when the war room is a lifetime endless bounty of affiliate info.

CianMcCarthy

WA is great for the super motivated, if you're otherwise, you may be dissapointed

abnation

Stay away from WA unless you are a complete newb IMHO