Is affiliate marketing worth it? Before we start, please check out some of the success stories here. It will surely give you a hint if affiliate marketing is worth it.
Those successes are not done overnight. Those successes are done through hard work, and those successful individuals committed time and effort to make their online business successful. If you have checked out those stories, you will notice that some are doing their business in faraway places.
They are having vacations all year round without a need of a nine to five job. Some of them are considered digital nomads. They just go where the sun is. Well for sure it is in one of those white sand beaches in a tropical country. Everything is done in automation so you can be anywhere as long as there is an internet connection to be able to have updates.
You will be your boss, and you work when you like. No one will give you orders what to do anymore. Some of those who are successful in online business never have the experience to work as an employee. Some are doing full time online before they even graduated college.
If you ask me if I am successful myself, I am still new to this, but I already see results. Check out my blog in Wealthy Affiliate. My Best Pay In Wealthy Affiliate so Far.
So is it worth It?
In my honest opinion, it is very much worth it. This business is the type of activity that will allow you to have all the time to enjoy your passions in life. You can be together with your loved ones all the time and at the same time have financial freedom.
You can even turn that passion into an online business. In my previous post, I have explained how to turn your passion into an online business by being an affiliate.
This business is the type of activity that requires only time and effort and a minuscule amount of money. You do not need to invest thousands of dollar like in a brick and mortar business.
All you have to invest initially is $150. Why $150 $? It would be $19 for the first monthly subscription, $49 for the second-month subscription and $49 for the third monthly subscription. Then you have to add for the two domain names you have to purchase which is about $15 each more or less. You do not pay this in one shot, though. It is monthly and the first month is a discounted $19.
Let me explain,
A free starter membership is offered, though I don’t recommend going for the free account and try to achieve the same results as the ones who succeeded in affiliate marketing.
A free starter member will give you two free websites and level one training. For a free membership, you will never get the same offer anywhere like Wealthy Affiliate. It is one of a kind.You will learn a lot being a free member and actually can start to be an affiliate with that training alone.
It will be harder to achieve success though so I don’t recommend it. For me, a free starter account is for those who want to try it first before they go into the real affiliate marketing.
Let’s go back to the $150.
You have to buy your domains. Remember a domain is like a real estate on the internet. It is yours, and nobody can take it away from you. There is a huge disparity between using a shared domain and your own domain. As you have already noticed, no company is running on a shared domain.
Why two domains? One for your niche and one for promoting Wealthy Affiliate. in this way, you will harness the potential of your membership.
I mentioned three months subscription. It is actually after three months that you will start to feel the results of your hard work, but this will vary depending on how much work you did on your website. By this time
- You are done with the training
- Your two websites are running
- Your two websites are ranking in Google, Yahoo and Bing search engines
- You are getting some traffic
- Some commissions start coming in depending on the amount of time you spend on your website.
So the thing is, are you willing to invest $150 and some of your time to have a real affiliate marketing business? If it is a yes, then you are ready to join a community of online entrepreneurs willing to help each other. Join Wealthy Affiliate, and you will never regret it. It could change your life.
Now, this is what you will have in exchange for your small investment.
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Wealthy Affiliate offers top-notch training on how to build a website. They also have an excellent community of online entrepreneurs willing to help each other. There is always a member you can ask for answers to your questions. They even have Live Chat for real-time answers to your questions. Video Tutorials and Webinars are also available.
Keyword research is crucial as those group of words typed into the search bar of Google, Bing or Yahoo.
Search Engine Optimization is vital for your website to have good traffic. Traffic is paramount for every online business. No traffic means no business.
Now you are set for real affiliate marketing. You have the training, and your website is running. It is about time you make money from your website.
This process is how to monetize your website. There are a lot more companies offering affiliate programs. You just have to pick according to your niche. As you progress, you will find more companies offering affiliate programs. Ebay and Amazon are two of the biggest companies having an affiliates program.
Ebay Partner Network is good considering they offer good commissions. They also have Earnings Per Click where you also earn commissions by driving good traffic to Ebay. You can post the eBay banner on your website, or you can have specific product banner for your reviews.
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On Amazon Associates, you can have a general Amazon banner on your website. You can have a specific product banner for your product reviews. You can also have Native Ads where there is a group of banners on the bottom of your web page. If you desire, you can even use your website as an extension of Amazon by setting up Amazon aStore on your website.
Wealthy Affiliate has the best affiliate programs in the world. Wealthy Affiliate offers an excellent commission for every referral.
There you go, you have three companies to start with as an affiliate. This three programs mentioned earlier should give you a good start on your online affiliate business. The Wealthy Affiliate program has a lot more potential of earning money as I have experienced.
I am not saying you join as a premium member right away unless you want to have good results in a short time. You can sign up and try it as a free starter member which is totally free and no credit cards required.
Please feel free to ask questions, post comments or subscribe to my email list, so you will be the first one to get the updates and offers. You may also visit me so I can answer your questions directly at Wealthy Affiliate.com (my profile page)
I am Den and I am the owner of this Website. I finally quit my job in Aviation to do my online business full-time.
I love doing this online business as I love to help people quit their day jobs to do the things they really love. You will mostly find me hanging out at the coolest site to learn online business.
Visit me so I can answer your questions directly ( link to my profile page )
Den,
This is a great review of not only Wealthy Affiliate, but I really like how you show people about how to get traffic to your site as well through the explanation of keywords, SEO, Ebay, and Amazon. You really explained everything very clearly.
I like it also how you broke down the $150 in to the three months and showed me what exactly I’m paying for. AWESOME!.
Alan
Hi Alan!
Thank you so much for appreciating my work. I just to share my knowledge about affiliate marketing. Keywords Research, Search Engine Optimization is very important for a website to have good traffic.
Joining eBay Partner Network and Amazon Associates is a good way to monetize your website.
Wealthy Affiliate is the best platform to learn all the skills required to be successful in affiliate marketing. They also have the best affiliate program in the world.
Thanks for the comments,
Den
Hey there Den, I’ve been exploring affiliate marketing for a short while now. I know that I am fed up with working for someone else, and I will never be truly happy until I am my own boss.
I’ve heard a lot about Wealthy Affiliate as of late, and I was wandering, what sort of time frame can I expect to have to work before seeing results? I know that it takes time to get good rankings in Google, but what sort if time frame are we talking?
Also, what does Wealthy Affiliate offer that, say, Affilorama doesn’t?
Thanks bud
Josh
Hi Josh,
Affiliate marketing will really make you your own boss if you have the right platform. Wealthy Affiliate is like no other platform out there. The community of online entrepreneurs they have is amazing.
As a newbie in online business you will feel that you have a family around you to help you, anytime you need one. You can even have direct contact with Kyle and Carson, the owners. Affilorama does not even come close to Wealthy Affiliate in these aspects.
Different people will have different results. It would also be dependent on what niche you are in and how hard you work on your website. I have good results after three months in Wealthy Affiliate but take note that I am doing a 60 hour/weekday job.That means I do not have much time with Wealthy Affiliate.
Thank you for the comments,
Den
Hi Den,
You had made a very good point in your blog about affiliate marketing. I am currently undergoing the course 3 of WA certification course. It is a bit slow as I still not able to fully commit my free time to it. But I strongly believe the positive outcome from the affiliate marketing and will continue work on it.
For the additional website you mentioned in your post, that is created to promote Wealthy Affiliate, is it will be on ‘online money making’ niche?
Hi IllusiozTan !
Affiliate marketing is very promising. Once you start seeing results it is never going back. Wealthy Affiliate is best promoted on a money making niche.
Thank you for the comments,
Den
Is affiliate marketing worth it you ask?
Absolutely!
I know that affiliate marketing can be extremely lucrative when done correctly, and it is a strategy that is used by all of the top internet marketers, no matter how successful they get.
If people take up your suggestion of joining Wealthy Affiliate, then they will learn all of the best practices of building a successful affiliate marketing business!
Great post! 🙂
Hi John !
Affiliate marketing is really worth it if you got the skills required. Wealthy Affiliate provides all the training and full community support so that will become a successful affiliate marketer.
Thanks for the comments,
Den
What a great page!
I loved reading it.
I can honestly say that you made me curious about wealthy affiliate, I’m going to try it out now.
I love their commission program, by that I can return my investment and earn money.
I know that some of my friends will love your page.
Thanks for the great info
Hi Efi,
Wealthy Affiliate is offering the best affiliate program in the world. Their commission rate is awesome. The training they offer is also top notch and they have a community of online entrepreneurs willing to help each other.
Thank you for the comments,
Den
Den – Thanks for the great article here. One of the questions I have been searching for an answer to is a realistic view on when you start seeing results… and you hit it in this article. I’ve invested thousands and thousands of dollars into other businesses, so $150 over the course of a few months is ridiculously low to start getting results around that time as well!
When you started the process of affiliate marketing, did you intend to promote Wealthy Affiliate right out of the gate? Or did you start with the intention of a niche passion of yours and see value there so you went to building both websites?
Hi Josh !
I am already having results on my third month with Wealthy Affiliate. I went premium right away and bought my domains. I have never tried SiteRubix. I went Jaaxy Pro.
I really studied the lessons on the training very hard. I promoted Wealthy Affiliate very early so I will be motivated when I start getting referrals. I got my first premium referral on my fifth week on Wealthy Affiliate.Then I started promoting my niche website. My niche website is earning from eBay Partner Network on my third month in Wealthy Affiliate.
Thanks for the comments,
Den
Thank you for your valuable information. I appreciate your suggestion to have separate blogs for a favorite niche and for the platform you mention, Wealthy Affiliate. The membership at WA is very helpful and the training is the best! They teach you to become an authority in your niche by creating content on topics you are passionate about which is fulfilling and motivating.
Hi NathanG !
It is better to have two websites. one for promoting Wealthy Affiliate as it offers very good commissions and another website for your niche. Wealthy Affiliate offers a lot of things for very little money. Affiliate marketing is really worth it if you have the proper training and you have the right community support. Wealthy Affiliate will provide all of this.
Wealthy affiliate must be doing something right, I see banners and websites advertising them all the time now. Is affiliate marketing worth it?
What is your personal opinion on ebay and amazon, if you had to choose between them which one would you choose as your business?
How did you happen to promote both of those programs, could you too not make up your mind?
Hi lifebeginswithyourhealth!
Ebay and Amazon affiliate programs are almost the same, so I promoted both of them on my websites.
There is nothing like Wealthy Affiliate. The training and the ideas they offer are the real deal. Affiliate marketing is worth it if you have the proper training and you have a community that will support you. Wealthy Affiliate provides top-notch training and the community of online entrepreneurs they have is awesome. Every member is willing to help each other.
Thank you for the comments,
Den
$150 is a bargain if it will get me into the lifestyle of a digital nomad. Of course there is a lot of hard work that you must put in to get there but this is definitely achievable.
I have signed up to Wealthy Affiliate and I am making great progress. I feel that I am close to getting to where I want but I know there is so much work involved to get there.
Hi Craig !
Yes $150 is a bargain considering what you get in return. There is a lot to do but once it is set up you are the boss somewhere on a beach in a tropical country. A digital nomad that is.
Thanks for the comments,
Den
What an interesting article. The way that you have presented things, it’s hard to understand the downsides of affiliate marketing with the exception of the $150 investment you mention and that is even options since you can go for the free membership. Thank you for sharing this. I hope you have a great day.
Hi Momma Bear !
Yes you can go for the free options of course but what I am talking about is getting serious results. Being a free member has limits. You should not limit yourself to be really successful. A $150 is an investment that really goes a long way for your future.
Thanks for your comments,
Den