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March 29th, 2008

Giovanna of SEOBook Lashes Out At Wealthy Affiliate Promoter

An SEOBook member by the name of Giovanna expressed her feelings regarding my blog post Wealthy Affiliate Stands In Stark Contrast To Rich Jerk And SEOBook.  You can view her opinions on her blog here.

Now, if someone wants to disagree with me, or make me aware that I am misinformed, I will gladly welcome an amicable discussion.  However, what disturbs me about Ms. Giovanna’s blog post is the way she comes across like a middle school girl in a cat fight.  Yes, Ms. Giovanna clearly enjoys the sport of mud slinging.  I’m not going to encourage her further by mirroring her “tit for tat” approach, but I certainly am going to take the opportunity to respond to her allegations.

Ms. Giovanna says that I failed to convince her that Wealthy Affiliate, Rich Jerk, and SEOBook were from the same category.

My Response: Well, since I wasn’t trying to convince anyone that WA, RJ, and SEOBook are from the “same category” I guess it’s really not a failure.  Although I believe that the three have some things in common and deal with much of the same industry, actually I was trying to point out their differences.  That’s why I used the words “Stark Contrast” in the title of my blog post.

She says that she doesn’t see how Wealthy Affiliate is different from “hundreds of sites like it”.

My Response:  To begin with, there are not “hundreds” of sites like Wealthy Affiliate.  To my knowledge there are only two other membership sites that come remotely close.  I don’t believe that there are “hundreds of sites” like Wealthy Affiliate, and even if there were, I would never believe that Ms. Giovanna has evaluated them all thus making her qualified to say they are all the same.  If she has, then she is indeed an impressive researcher.  I think we can safely throw this remark of hers into the “mud slinging” category.

She states that the “pop up” that “attacked her screen” prevented her from clicking on the Wealthy Affiliate link to review Wealthy Affiliate further.

My Response:  I don’t have any pop ups on my website.  Perhaps Ms. Giovanna has some malicious adware on her PC.

She claims that I “dismissed” SEOBook with just a short paragraph.

My Response:  I didn’t dismiss anything.  All I said was that I could not provide a review of SEOBook because I can’t afford to join up for $100 a month.  It’s that simple.  And, yes, I’ve heard lots of positive things about SEOBook.  As a matter of fact, I’m very much interested in the material and would welcome the opportunity to be a member.  However, that kind of monthly membership fee does not fit into my cashflow right now.  And besides, Wealthy Affiliate only costs me $29 a month and provides me with more educational resources than I know what to do with.

She says that she doesn’t know where I got the information that SEOBook was free.

My Response:  I realize that I may not have been very clear on that point, so allow me to clarify.  According to what I was told on an online forum, there is an actual ebook called SEOBook.  It is my understanding that for quite some time this ebook had been available for free.  The forum post continued to say that the ebook could no longer be had for free because it was now part of material that was included in a membership site at SEOBook.com.  Ms. Giovanna, if I’m misinformed please just tell me that I’m misinformed.  I will willingly retract and correct any information I may have posted that is incorrect.

She claims that I was “hard-selling” my readers, that I related that the other products were “terrible”, and failed to say anything positive about the subject that I was “lambasting and destroying”.  She claimed that my attempt to call the reader to action was all wrong.

My Response:  The only “call to action” that I had was to recommend to my readers that they compare the three for themselves.  So confident am I that Wealthy Affiliate is most likely going to be a great resource for your average person looking to make money online, that when people evaluate the three for themselves, they will come to the same conclusion that I came to.

I never said that any of the other products were “terrible”.  Regarding SEOBook, I only commented that I have heard good things about it.  Although in my opinion it’s probably a little pricey for your average internet marketer.  Maybe the Fortune 500 companies find it useful, but Wealthy Affiliate is a resource that will be much more cost effective for most people.

She claims that because I am a Wealthy Affiliate member that my opinion is biased.

My Response:  Well of course I am biased!  I’ve done the evaluation for myself and determined which product was the best fit for me personally and that is Wealthy Affiliate.  Since that is the conclusion I arrived at, I strongly suspect that Wealthy Affiliate will be a good fit for others as well.  That’s why I recommend it.  If you’re going to get a recommendation on a product, wouldn’t you prefer to get it from someone who has tried the product for themselves?  That would probably be better than someone who has never tried the product.

OK, so let me just stop and address this issue.  Those of us that promote Wealthy Affiliate get this thrown in our faces from time to time.  Basically the idea is that because we are WA members and since we earn commissions from promoting the program, our opinions must be totally invalid because we are only promoting it for the money.  Well, like I’ve said before, that’s just an attitude that I will have to tolerate for promoting a product I believe in.

The reason I promote Wealthy Affiliate is simple.  It works for me.  I’m learning a lot and it is helping me begin to make money online.  I am not interested in making money by promoting digital “snake oil”.  Since I am personally confident that Wealthy Affiliate offers a good value, I can promote it with a clear conscience.  As a matter of fact, I have a blog post dealing with that very issue.

She claims I failed as an internet marketer because I made absolutely false statements.

My Response:  Like I said, if I am misinformed, please tell me.  I will retract anything I said that was incorrect.  For the most part my blog post was an opinion piece.  The only factoid I provided that could prove to be false was that the SEOBook ebook used to be free.  If that was never the case, then I have definitely been misinformed.

She claims that my comparison of three different products “further dimmed my substandard ability to determine relevancy”.

My Response:  I intentionally chose three products that are very different.  As of right now, I’m not interested in comparing products that are nearly identical.

Following Giovanna’s blog post two people (as of this writing) have posted comments.  The first comment is from a person that states that he wants the link so he can take a look at my “POS”.  He then sarcastically corrects himself by saying “piece of work”.  He then indicated that he was writing this before he ever had a chance to read my blog post.  The second person made a comment stating that I am a “frigtard”.

My Response:  Pretty classy friends you have there Ms. Giovanna.  I hope that the rest of the SEOBook members aren’t like them or you.

Now I have to direct a statement to Mr. Aaron Wall.  I realize that the comment I made about you being proud of your product because you charge $100 a month for it may have come across a bit snide.  That was not my intention, and if you feel that way, please accept my apology.  I know that I would be pretty proud if I had a membership product that I could sell for $100 a month.  Additionally, I’ve seen some of your videos and you seem to be a very intelligent and amicable person.  Maybe we’ll get the chance to meet someday.

I’m not going to hold Giovanna’s comments against Mr. Wall, nor am I going to assume that they reflect the opinions and attitudes of all SEOBook members.  Just like we have all learned recently that Barak Obama cannot be held accountable for the remarks made by the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, likewise Aaron Wall and all SEOBook members cannot be held accountable for the comments of Giovanna.  Mr. Wall, I’m sure that Giovanna meant well, but I hope the rest of your faithful followers are a bit nicer.

March 27th, 2008

Wealthy Affiliate Holds The Promise Of Residual Income

If you’re not familiar with what Wealthy Affiliate is, then let me give you a brief explanation before proceeding further.  Wealthy Affiliate is an educational resource that is provided for the purpose of teaching people how to make money online with affiliate marketing.  It is one of the most respected resources of its kind on the web.  By taking advantage of the resources available there, you can learn how to make money online with any of numerous affiliate programs that are available from various merchants.  The principles of promoting any given affiliate program are the same, but the number of affiliate programs you can choose from is almost limitless.

Which brings me to my next point.  Not only can you promote any of countless affiliate programs outside of wealthy affiliate, but wealthy affiliate has its own affiliate program as well.  I am particularly fond of this particular affiliate program as it has one feature that is not commonly found in most other affiliate programs.  The feature I am speaking of is that of residual income.

What is residual income?  Good question!  Residual income is a type of income that you work towards making an initial sale but get paid several times after that.  Insurance is one example of this type of income.  Take, for example, your auto insurance agent.  He sells auto insurance policies.  You purchase a policy from him, and he gets paid a commission from that sale.  Most likely you are going to keep that policy for a number of years.  Each year after that when you renew your policy, your insurance agent makes a commission on your policy again.  So as you can see, the longer an insurance agent works his business, he accumulates more policies which pay him numerous times and his income can grow significantly year after year.  That is why so many insurance agents are making very good money.

Insurance is just one example of residual income.  There are many other types of goods and services that can be sold that also create residual income.  The affiliate program available at wealthy affiliate also holds the promise of residual income.

Before I go further, let me reiterate the distinct advantage of residual income.  With residual income, you can continue to get paid even through periods where you may not be working to earn that income!  That is because you are continuing to receive commissions from sales that you worked for in the past.  That is the beauty of it.

There are other affiliate programs out there that do not provide residual income.  While they are very legitimate programs as well, they lack the advantage of continual earnings from established customers.

This is the main reason that I promote the Wealthy Affiliate affiliate program and I encourage others to do so as well.  You see, this type of affiliate program has the potential to provide a much more steady and stable income for you, so it is very well worth investing your time into building up a business such as this.

I have been promoting wealthy affiliate for a couple of months now, and am beginning to see some nice results.  Since I know the the effects of residual income will only cause my income to become larger month after month, I am especially well pleased.  The fact that residual income based affiliate programs have the potential to provide continual stable income is a fact that cannot be ignored.  If you are looking to build an income stream through affiliate marketing, I highly recommend that you include a residual income based affiliate program in your portfolio of programs that you promote.

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March 25th, 2008

Why I Will Be A Wealthy Affiliate Member For Life

I’ve been applying much of what I have learned at Wealthy Affiliate for a couple of months now and am very pleased with the results.  At the end of this month, I will receive a commission payment for over $400.  That’s right.  Right now my approved balance in the Wealthy Affiliate affiliate program is $406.  I hope to make that number be above $500 before the end of the month.  And just to think that this is just the beginning!  I mean, I’m basically a newbie who is still figuring out what he is doing.  So if someone can stumble through the beginning stages of learning to walk on his affiliate marketing legs and make between $400 and $500, when the future is looking mighty bright!

It amazes me when I see people on internet forums saying that they plan on joining Wealthy Affiliate for one month and then they are going to quit.  The idea here is that they will join long enough to get copies of all of the educational materials within and then they can cut loose as they then feel that they have gotten all they can from Wealthy Affiliate.

OK, I like to be a nice guy, but in this case I just have to be blunt.  These people are CRAZY!  They are definitely the low IQ population of the internet marketing world.  Basically what these people are doing is they are deciding to fail before they even join!  If you feel you have to discontinue your Wealthy Affiliate membership because you no longer want to pay the $29 a month membership fee, then you are simply saying in advance one of the following things:

  • I don’t plan on doing the work necessary to succeed.

  • I plan on being poor for the rest of my life.

  • I’m never going to be successful at any kind of affiliate marketing but I’m going to continue dreaming about it.

  • I’m a moron with pathetically poor capacities for reasoning.

Being successful at affiliate marketing begins with a quality decision to make it happen!

To be honest with you, for me to explain all of the reasons Wealthy Affiliate is worth far more than the membership fee is beyond the scope of what I am wanting to accomplish with this blog post.  So I will forego that here.  If you are wondering about that, then the information you are looking for exists here in other posts on my blog.

The title of this blog post is “Why I Will Be A Wealthy Affiliate Member For Life”.  The reason for that is so simple.  I’m making money with it!  I’d be crazy to quit being a member!  I absolutely love their affiliate program for a couple of reasons, such as: the longer you work at it, your monthly income grows larger month after month; and, the Wealthy Affiliate affiliate program holds the promise of residual income.  That means that when I refer people to become members of Wealthy Affiliate, I will receive a monthly commission on their membership for as long as they remain a member.  You see, I can work for the sale once, and then get paid several times after that.  I love that!

People who say that they are wary of having to pay the monthly membership fee because they could use that money somewhere else are missing the whole point.  The whole point of affiliate marketing is to have an ever increasing income!  That means that as time goes on, the Wealthy Affiliate membership fee becomes smaller and smaller and smaller and more trivial.

People who say that they are going to join for a month and then quit are planning to fail!  I strongly recommend that you steer yourself clear of that attitude!  Make a quality decision to make it happen!  I earned my membership fee back in two weeks after applying what I had learned.  You can too!

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March 24th, 2008

Wealthy Affiliate Stands In Stark Contrast to Rich Jerk and SEOBook

See My Response To Giovanna’s Blog Post Here

Recent actions by some of the major players in the affiliate marketing and seo community very clearly show the superiority and value of Wealthy Affiliate.  Two other resources available that I’d like to take a closer look at are the Rich Jerk and the SEOBook membership sites.  Essentially what I’m going to do here is compare Wealthy Affiliate, Rich Jerk, and SEOBook and see how they stack up against one another.

Rich Jerk

First let’s talk about the Rich Jerk.  The Rich Jerk is a nameless and well known internet entrepreneur that makes a lot of money marketing his products.  The uniqueness of his approach is that he tries to stand out by being abrasive and rude in the manner in which he conducts his marketing.  I recently went to the Rich Jerk’s website to check out what he has to offer.  His first product that he tries to sell you is the Rich Jerk ebook.  This is the ebook that he has been selling for quite some time now.  I know that in the past it has sold for as much as $97, then $47, then $19, and now it’s down to $9.  For all I know, he may have been selling it for $197 at one point .  I don’t know for sure.  If you know, please feel free to enlighten me.

I visited the Rich Jerk’s website and broke down and bought his book.  I mean, since it’s down to only $9, it’s a small price to pay for research.  Not only that, but he’s also selling an mp3 audio version of his book for an additional 10 bucks.  I broke down and bought that too.  I’ve read the book, so I can give you a report.  Is the book worth it?  Well, at some points it was kind of entertaining, but I really didn’t learn anything that I hadn’t already learned at Wealthy Affiliate.  The interesting thing to note about the Rich Jerk’s ebook is that it has more affiliate links in it than any publication I’ve ever seen.  He recommends countless other products for you to invest in to get your internet marketing going.  An additional point of interest is that he offers some “free” websites to help you make money.  The only thing you have to do to take advantage of these free websites is to purchase a hosting plan through, you guessed it, the Rich Jerk’s affiliate link.  This is a web hosting plan where you have to invest almost $200 at one pop for a full year’s worth of web hosting services.  Basically, what that means is that the Rich Jerk makes a commission off of your web hosting plan when you take advantage of his “free” websites.  He doesn’t offer to provide you the “free” websites for free so you can go host the sites on a different host of your choice.  In my opinion, with as many affiliate links that the Rich Jerk has packed into his book, he should be giving it away for free.

After you’ve purchased the ebook, you become a member of his forum.  I suppose that there may be some useful information in there, but I was disappointed to log on to see people still wondering how to make things work.  I mean, if his book was so great, then it should be working for everyone, right?  Additionally, once you are a member, he tries to cross sell you into buying “Rich Jerk Evolution” for which he is now charging $99.95 a year.  About a month and a half ago, I was looking at this offer and it was priced in the neighborhood of $360 a year if you paid for it all at once.  If you didn’t pay for it all at once, then you had to pay more.  Why is it only $100 now?  Well, I guess he learned that people weren’t going to pay his ridiculous price.  I don’t know about you, but I’d be ticked if I was one of those people that paid the $360 fee for access only to see it quickly changed to $100.  If you ask me, it sounds like the Rich Jerk probably isn’t as rich as he says he is and he is in desperate need of some coin.  Is this someone you really want to trust to teach you how to make money online?

SEOBook

Next, I’d like to talk about SEOBook.  From what I understand, this is an online search engine optimization resource that used to be free.  I had heard really good things about it and unfortunately before I was able to get over there and take a look at the free ebook, the owner of the site, Aaron Wall, decided to change his site over to a paid membership type of site.  I went over to his site to check it out only to be disappointed to find that Mr. Wall wants $100 a month to be a member!  YIKES!  Long story short, I can’t review his material for you because I didn’t join.  I don’t know what’s available in there, but apparently Aaron Wall is very proud of it.  If you want to chance it and pop 100 bucks to check out the material, then please let me know what you think of it.  For now I’m going to have to pass.

Wealthy Affiliate

Last but not least, we come to Wealthy Affiliate.  It amazes me how misunderstood Wealthy Affiliate is.  People somehow still have a problem understanding what it is.  Wealthy Affiliate is a membership website with a complex set of multifaceted educational resources and internet marketing tools that teach and equip you to begin making money online.  Additionally, Wealthy Affiliate is a meeting place for a community of people that are making money online.  These are good people to be friends with.  Evaluating the Rich Jerk and SEOBook is enough to make anybody want to run to Wealthy Affiliate and sign up.  I don’t need to say much to convince you which is best.  All you have to do is start looking and compare what’s out there and you’ll see for yourself.  If you are interested in making money online, then personally I recommend you give Wealthy Affiliate a look.

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March 18th, 2008

Is Wealthy Affiliate Just An Elaborate Scam?

You must be here reading this post because you are wondering if Wealthy Affiliate is a scam. If you are, then I certainly couldn’t blame you for wondering. Just take a look out on the web. Do a google search for the term “wealthy affiliate” and you will find all kinds of link titles implying that Wealthy Affiliate may be some sort of a scam. If it’s a scam, then you don’t want to have any part of it. Have you ever been “had” by some supposed “deal” on the internet? Well I have. And if you haven’t, then you are part of a rare few.

Most likely, you know what it is like to be taken or deceived in some way by some sort of “offer” on the web. That means that you are a part of the large majority of us that have been fooled at one time or another. The one thing we all have in common is that we do not want to be burned again. I don’t know if you’ve heard the old saying or not, but it goes something like this, “Burned once, shame on you. Burned twice, shame on me.” So if you are being cautious and wanting to investigate something before you get involved with it, I think you are being very wise.

So this brings into question the issue of Wealthy Affiliate. Is it a scam, or isn’t it? Quite frankly, I didn’t want to have to break down and create a “Wealthy Affiliate Scam” post, but seeing that those types of rumors are all over the internet and that people like yourself seem to be drawn to that sort of thing, I figured I’d give in.

Have you read any of the Wealthy Affiliate Scam posts out on the web?  Well if you have, then you already know what they all say.  What they all say is: are you ready for this?  That Wealthy Affiliate is NOT a scam.  So why then are all of these posts out there luring you in with the idea that WA might be a scam?  To be blunt, it’s simply to get your attention.  Whoever is writing such a post is actually wanting to tell you of the benefits of Wealthy Affiliate, and it has been shown that the word “scam” actually gets people’s attention very well.

So, if you’re super skeptical and have a tendency to think that everything out there is a scam, then I’m sorry to have to disappoint you about Wealthy Affiliate.  It certainly would be easier to make a decision regarding WA if it indeed was a scam.  But since it is not a scam, that makes things a bit more difficult.  Knowing that WA holds the legitimate potential to train you in how to make money online in very legitimate ways puts you in a difficult situation.

At this point you are probably asking yourself “Great!  NOW what am I going to do?”  As a matter of fact, you wouldn’t be normal if you weren’t asking yourself this question at least on some level.  This is the question that gives you cause to stop and ponder.  “Should I join Wealthy Affiliate, or should I pass this by?”  Then more questions begin to pop up.  “Is this a resource that could actually help me make some money online?”  “What if it is and I pass it up?”  What if it’s legit and I join, and then I fail?”  “How will I feel then?”

Is this ringing any bells?  Believe me, I completely understand because I went through all of the same questions when I first came across the Wealthy Affiliate website.  Well, as you know by now, I joined.  How do I feel now that I have joined?  Well, I have no regrets.  It’s been an interesting journey though.  To be successful making money online requires you to have determination to make it work.  Do you have that?  If you expect Wealthy Affiliate to drop some formula into your lap where you don’t have to put forth any effort and yet money comes rolling into your account, then just move on right now.

What?  Am I actually steering some people away?  Perhaps.  But I think it’s better to filter out those people who don’t have what it takes and move them on.  Which brings you to an even more important question than the previous ones.  Do you have what it takes to learn the methods taught at Wealthy Affiliate and apply them?  Or, are you someone who is going to bail after you’ve been a member for a week and discover that you don’t have 1000 more dollars than you had a week ago?

You’ve got to decide.  Do you want this education that you can receive through Wealthy Affiliate?  Do you have the determination to succeed?  If this is you, then the $29 membership fee is nothing.  It’s the best bargain of an education you will receive anywhere.  You think education is expensive?  Then try ignorance.

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March 17th, 2008

Wealthy Affiliate: A Dishonest Review

If you’re looking for a dishonest Wealthy Affiliate review, then you have come to the right place!  Why might you be looking for a dishonest Wealthy Affiliate review?  Well, maybe among all of the other Wealthy Affiliate reviews out there, you’d like to read something a bit different.  I know I would.

OK, enough with the dishonest review nonsense.  I’m not going to try to write up any sort of dishonest Wealthy Affiliate review.  But I picked this title in response to all of the other Wealthy Affiliate Review titles out there.  There are so many of them that are called something like “An Honest Wealthy Affiliate Review” or “Wealthy Affiliate: An Honest Review”.

So what is it that these people are trying to say?  Are they insinuating that all of the other Wealthy Affiliate reviews out there are somehow dishonest and that their review is somehow one of the select few that are truly honest?  Well, let me tell ya, that couldn’t possibly be true.  Because, if any of the Wealthy Affiliate reviews out there are dishonest, then all of them are dishonest.  The reason being is because all of the Wealthy Affiliate reviews out there all say the same thing.

If you’ve read a lot of Wealthy Affiliate reviews, then you know exactly what I’m talking about.  If you haven’t read a lot of them, then just go take a look around out on the web and you’ll see what I mean.  I have never been able to find one single solitary negative review about Wealthy Affiliate out on the web anywhere ever!  Just go and try to find one.  I don’t know, but it may be nearly impossible.  All of the reviews of Wealthy Affiliate out on the web are glowingly positive.

So does this mean that they are all true, or are they all false?  There are those who discredit the positive reviews of Wealthy Affiliate because they say that they are only written by Wealthy Affiliate members who are trying to earn commissions by promoting the Wealthy Affiliate membership.  These types of people are of course going to tell you nothing but positive things about the “product” right?

Well, indeed that is a good point.  However, when we boil it all down, all of the Wealthy Affiliate reviews, whether they are sales motivated or not, are nonetheless true.  Yes, all of the reviews are positive and they are all true, and I’m going to tell you why.

The reason that all of the positive reviews are true is simply because ALL of them are positive.  Let me explain further.  In this day and age that we call the “information age”, we have the ability to instantly share any information, thought, or opinion with the entire world in mere minutes.  What this means is that it is very difficult for ANYONE out there, be it an individual or a company, to get away with mistreating customers and yet keep it a secret.  Sooner or later, a problem will be reported.  There’s no hiding this sort of thing in today’s day and age.

What this means is that we all (individuals and corporations included) have to work extra hard to maintain our good reputation.  Any unfair business practices on our parts will be exposed post haste.  So what does this mean for Kyle and Carson and Wealthy Affiliate?  It means that they have a stellar reputation!  You can’t find any negative reviews out on the web about Wealthy Affiliate because there is nothing negative to report about WA.

It really is just that simple.  The training materials offered at Wealthy Affiliate are not fake or worthless.  They are real and valuable.  The software tools offered at the Wealthy Affiliate website are not bogus and useless.  No, they are legitimately useful and valuable.  The buzz you’ve heard about the Wealthy Affiliate forum is not a bunch of lies.  The Wealthy Affiliate forum truly does offer unique and higher quality interaction than any other affiliate marketing forum I have found on the web.  If any of the positive things you’ve heard about Wealthy Affiliate were not true, then the falsehoods would have been exposed long before now.  The fact that there are no negative reports about Wealthy Affiliate is all of the positive testimony you need in order to be confident about becoming a member.

If you have any desire to make money online, then you would be making a great first step by becoming a Wealthy Affiliate member and beginning to work through the training materials there.  And at only $29 to join, it’s a very painless and risk free way to just get in there and evaluate the materials for yourself.  To put it off is only to put off the new profitability that awaits you.  Do yourself a favor and take a look at Wealthy Affiliate TODAY!

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March 17th, 2008

Article Review: Affiliate Marketing And The Free Forum Myth

OK, truth is that this really isn’t an article review.  Instead, it’s just a post where I’d like to discuss my most recent masterpiece of an article published on ezinearticles.com.  It is called “Affiliate Marketing And The Free Forum Myth”.  You see, for those of you out there who are looking to learn how to make money in affiliate marketing, you will invariably encounter forum users who are going to try to lead you to believe that you can learn just as much by reading free forums as you can from the training materials at a paid membership site such as Wealthy Affiliate.

This could not be further from the truth, and the people who spread this myth are doing you a great disservice because they will lead you to waste a lot of time and increase your likelihood of giving up on affiliate marketing altogether.  This could unfortunately cause some permanent damage as someone who may have very well become a successful affiliate marketer and gained financial independence from it, was instead, derailed.

In any case, I am not going to repeat all of the points in the article here.  Instead, I’d like you to direct you to the article itself, and I highly recommend that you read it.  This article is not one of those fluffy “throw together” articles that so many people put out on the web just to draw attention to their sig link.  Instead, it is a very thorough and thought out article that explains the positives and negatives of free affiliate marketing forums.  So go take a look at the article.  It can be found here:  Affiliate Marketing And The Free Forum Myth

March 10th, 2008

Wealthy Affiliate: Read This Warning Before You Even Consider…

I’ve been seeing all of these blog posts and articles out on the web dealing with the issue of whether or not Wealthy Affiliate is a scam.  If you have been considering the possibility of joining Wealthy Affiliate, perhaps you are concerned about it being a scam or a rip-off.  Naturally you would like to know beforehand if it could help you avoid making a mistake, right?  Well, as much as I hate to say it folks, you do indeed need to be warned…

What’s the worse that could happen if you join Wealthy Affiliate?  Well, it’s like this.  If you join Wealthy Affiliate, you will be put in the difficult situation of having access to the best training resources on the internet for making money online.  Why is that a difficult situation?  Well, it’s a difficult situation because then you’ll be in a position where you’ll have to do something with this training material that has been made available to you.  I mean, you paid for it, so now you have to try to learn it right?  To just let it slide would be to waste your money and you don’t want to do that.

OK, so here’s where it gets even more difficult.  You’ve joined Wealthy Affiliate and you’ve studied some of the material and you understand it.  Now you’re in a new difficult situation that is even more difficult than the previous difficult situation you were in.  What is that difficult situation you ask?  It’s the situation of having to do something with your newfound knowledge.

“Why is that such a difficult situation?” you ask.  Well, because you could then possibly find yourself in the very unenviable position of actually making some money on the internet.  I mean, you know, it’s everybody’s worst nightmare!

Please do yourself a favor and heed my warning.  I know how troubling this can be from personal experience.  Let me tell you my story…

I’ve been applying the Wealthy Affiliate principles for just a very short time now and an absolutely horrible thing has happened!  I’ve earned commissions from 13 Wealthy Affiliate referrals already!  And to make matters worse, I’ve received 5 additional payments from some of those referrals that are recurring!!  Oh God, when will the madness ever stop?

I thought things couldn’t get any worse, but now I’ve accumulated $252 dollars in my account at Wealthy Affiliate.  At the end of the month, I’m going to have to suffer as that money will be transferred to my PayPal account!  And by then, the amount will be even higher!  <sob!>  It’s so bad, I think I’m going to have to start going to see a therapist!  Nobody ever warned me about this!!!

So if you value your mediocre income and lackluster standard of living to any degree at all, then save yourself some trouble and stay far far away from the Wealthy Affiliate website.  I recommend that you don’t ever look at their website, and don’t allow the thought of joining to ever cross your mind.  I’m telling you, if you join, you could be really sorry!  Don’t get yourself in my situation, because it is so burdensome to have income coming in from yet another source!  Now I’ve got to figure out what I’m going to use this money for!  Man, life sucks!
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Author’s note:  After writing this article I went to check my Wealthy Affiliate account to find that I had earned three more sales bringing my total up to $294.  I just can’t take it anymore.  I’m going to go jump off a bridge…  and don’t try and stop me!!!

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Affiliate Website Where Certain Doom Awaits You!

 

March 5th, 2008

Why I Can Promote Wealthy Affiliate With A Clear Conscience

You know, it’s not very much fun when you go looking for products to promote online and you find all the scammy garbage out there.  After awhile you begin to wonder if that is all there is.  Let’s face it, the majority of “products” out there on the web, particularly in the area of making money, are snake oil peddled by bandits.  Is it enough to make you want to turn away from promoting money making items online?  Sometimes it sure the heck is!

On the other hand, as with anything in life, you have to be willing to sort through all of the plentiful garbage to get to the few rare diamonds.  This is the approach I have to take with promoting products online.  You see, I couldn’t live with myself if I were to lie to people and promote products to them that I knew were garbage.  Think of it this way.  Most of us want to be able to be financially independent making money on the internet right?  Well, let’s assume that one day we all make it there.  You’re having a conversation with someone and they ask you, “what do you do?”  OK, so knowing that you are peddling snake oil online what do you tell them?  “Oh, I market products online.”  Then the person asks, “Really, what kind of products?”  Then that’s the point where you have to weasel out of the conversation or just outright lie.

Personally, I don’t ever want to be put in that position.  If someone asks me what I do and what products I’m promoting, I want to be able to believe in the products I promote and share them proudly.  That doesn’t mean that I don’t realize that the products I promote aren’t for everyone.  On the contrary.  Indeed I do realize that the products I promote are not for everyone.  But for the people who are looking for a trustworthy product that does what it says, I have something to share with them.

That’s why I love promoting Wealthy Affiliate.  If I promote Wealthy Affiliate and someone purchases a membership as the result of my promotion, then I am able to confidently know that they received more than their money’s worth.  I don’t have to worry about someone being ripped off or lied to.  This is because Wealthy Affiliate is no scam.  Rather, it’s the real deal.  I know that if someone joins Wealthy Affiliate, studies the material,  and applies what they learn, they WILL indeed see results.  How do I know this?  Because that has been my personal experience!  I’m nowhere near working my way all the way through the entire 8 week action plan, but I have already started to apply what I’m learning, and I’m making money!

That is the point where it starts to get fun.  You see sales coming in and being credited to your account, and all of a sudden, it’s fun!  This just motivates me to work harder for the next sale.  I know that anyone else applying the principles learned at Wealthy Affiliate will experience the same excitement I have experienced when their first sales begin to come in.  And I have to tell you, that is just so awesome!

Once I was on the Wealthy Affiliate Forum and someone made a comment about when you promote Wealthy Affiliate that you know that you are promoting the best educational resource online to help people learn how to make money online.  To be honest, at that point, I thought that was just a line of baloney.  I thought it was just some sales propaganda, because I’ve heard it before with other systems or products that turned out to not be legitimate.  But in the case of Wealthy Affiliate, I have been pleasantly surprised to find that it really is true!

Believe me, it is a really nice feeling to have a clear conscience when you are promoting products online.  If you are looking for something to promote online and you want to feel good about it, I cannot recommend Wealthy Affiliate highly enough.  If you are looking for the best way to learn how to make money online, again, I cannot recomment Wealthy Affiliate highly enough.  I am confident that if you become a member, you will be very pleased with the educational resources provided to you.

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March 3rd, 2008

Wealthy Affiliate Member Averages $3000 To $5000 A Month!

I’m still working on promoting the Wealthy Affiliate membership rather than marketing other products. Call me obsessed. It appears that I could make more money by jumping into marketing other products, but like I shared on the forum, I have to manage my time between studying affiliate marketing, marketing Wealthy Affiliate, evaluating other products to market, and my full time job.

As I’ve perused the web and observed questions by those considering Wealthy Affiliate, one question seems predominate. “Does Wealthy Affiliate Work?” OK, so I understand that people might be skeptical, and it’s a totally legitimate question. However, the answer to that question is undoubtedly a resounding YES!

If you’ve read my posts or the posts of any other Wealthy Affiliate members on the web, you know that the Wealthy Affiliate website hosts a members only forum. One subforum of the members only forum is called ‘General Success’. This forum is where members share their success both large and small. What I am going to do right now is make you privy to a post from the members only forum. Here it is.

I Made $500.00 In One Day This Week Through Bum Marketing…

This week I had my second $500.00 day solely through bum marketing, and I’ve had three $450.00 days recently too.
For every bum marketer out there it is possible to earn hundreds of dollars a day through bum marketing and free search engine traffic without having to do PPC if you want to limit your expenses. of course, I also have one or two days a month where I earn little or nothing but I always believe that there’s more coming and sure enough it always does, for some reason particularly on the first day of a new month too.

It’s been 14 months since I started bum marketing (while working in a “normal” full time job). I still work full time because I actually love my job and don’t want to reduce my hours.

The difference that $3000.00 to $5000 a month from my internet marketing efforts makes to my family’s life is astronomical, I just can’t believe it.

And I’d given up a few years ago as I’d tried it for a few years with little success. So there you go.

ALWAYS BELIEVE IN YOURSELF AND YOUR PURPOSE
NEVER GIVE UP
SMALL STEPS ALONG THE WAY CAN MAKE A BIG SNOWBALL EFFECT

Keep dreaming … and believe that you deserve it. It doesn’t cost anything to dream big.

In case you’re wondering what “Bum Marketing” is, it’s a term that refers to free methods of marketing on the internet - methods that do not cost you anything. So there you have it folks. Need I say more? Regarding whether or not Wealthy Affiliate works, I rest my case. After reading that post, there’s really nothing more I can say.

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