The Difficulty I Had With Wealthy Affiliate – And How I Turned It Into An Income
Prior to enrolling, I’d spent eighteen months scouring the Web for a way to turn my writing experience into a source of Internet income. Naturally I ran into quite a few of money-grubbing cyber-con artists. I expected a similar result from a free online marketing course I found. But much to my surprise, it actually worked! It turned out, though, that its author wasn’t giving away something for nothing – I was invited to join in as a Wealthy Affiliate through him.
The Wealthy Affiliate University Web site was so large, and with so many modules to wade through, I felt almost as confused as when I’d started out in college decades earlier. But soon I realized that I wasn’t exactly a first-semester freshman – since I had learned the principles Web marketing through my free course, I wasn’t quite as frustrated as those who had signed up with no online marketing skills at all. Just when I was beginning to believe that I’d made a mistake and join Wealthy Affiliate too soon, it taught me about audience niches.
An online marketing niche is where keyword research meets an unnoticed but lucrative audience segment. “Profiting online” is not a niche because it’s so general, an Web search produces literally millions of responses. “Profiting online for beginners” is a niche because it reaches a specific piece of that audience. And “Profiting online for beginner lessons” is a perfect niche because it promises a desired product or service to a highly-demanding audience. Once I grasped that concept, I also grasped that I’d pretty much fallen into a niche. I named them “raw newbies.”
There were some WA-ers who were working along similar lines, and had formed their own pre-Wealthy Affiliate beginner marketing courses. I signed on as their affiliate and collected free products from them. On a Web site, I presented the products to raw newbies so they could receive the primary experience that I had received. Within two months, my site was pulling in one hundred hits each day while producing an e-mail list, and, of course, money from their referrals!
So has my first year at Wealthy Affiliate been worth it – the labor intensity, the strain on my spare time, the demands on my self-motivation and confidence, the re-defining of what profitable writing is? Has it put me in a position to earn good money online?
Well, let’s just say while I’m not a wealthy Wealthy Affiliate at this point, I’m already setting goals for my sophomore year!
And I would like to invite you to visit Profit Online For Beginners at http://www.profitonlineforbeginners.com. If you think you’re ready for Wealthy Affiliate, click on “Learn How To Make Too Much Money” on the upper right. And if you don’t, please get the KickStart SixPack on the left – it teaches you the essentials of Internet marketing, and it’s absolutely free.
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