The elephant in the room with all this 'make money online stuff' is that depending on which reports you believe...

98% of people make less than $1000 per month from their online business, with most making nada!

With that being said how can I hand on heart advise you to try your hand at affiliate marketing?

Because it offers POTENTIALLY very worthwhile rewards for very little risk...

If...

You try it out the right way.

The free membership option is fantastic for risk free, zero cost experimentation.

The community spirit seems to inspire and drag people through when they hit the roadblocks that befall most new endeavors.

And the core method is in my opinion is the easiest system for a beginner to visualize and implement.

Visualize?

Let me explain.

The core method that Wealthy Affiliate teaches is how to use tools to identify what information people are searching for online (keywords). Specifically information that is not currently well catered for already...

In other words these tools tell you exactly the subject matter (keywords) for your content (can be text, video, pdf, audio - text is the obvious one).

Your job is to simply create that content in any way you like (text, video, pdf, audio) according to the WA training.

Text and video are the main content delivery methods that people and search engines both love.

So if I told you what you had to write about, how many words to write, gave you tips on style and ways to make it engaging, can you begin to picture what needs to be done?

You will already have done similar work at school.

It need not be more complicated than that.

Most affiliate training pushes folks to build email lists (excellent advice but difficult for beginners), or create their own products (again good advice) but is way to advanced for most people.

Wealthy affiliate simply shows you how to find the keywords, and how best to present it on your website so people enjoy it and search engines want to list it (gets you free visitors and earns you money).

So your journey will probably be something like...

The reason Wealthy Affiliate works is because it's a simple proven marketing system, that people can quickly visualize, understand AND IMPLEMENT.

Combine it with great training and a supportive community all the tools you need (free) and you have the ingredients to bridge the lag between taking action and seeing results.

ABSOLUTELY...

NOT!

Though I can see why somebody researching WA might thinks so...

WA has over 400K active members, and a community that is based on supporting and helping each other.

I've heard new members say about feeling almost freaked out by the warm welcome...

Until they realized it was genuine!

Something they simply where not expecting in the make money online space.

Also if you look for bad reviews of WA, you can't find any (I can't).

Why's that?

Is it because like a network marketing or MLM company everyone is promoting WA therefore all reviews are bound to be good?

Again no, most members of WA don't promote WA. The focus of the training is to show you how to create a profitable successful website that is focused on the niche of your choosing. Not WA.

The option to promote WA is there if you don't have a niche, or like me your fascinated by the whole make money online journey, and want to write about it.

And while we're on this point I would encourage anyone new to this to NOT start out trying to promote WA.

The reason?

Because it's 10x harder to make money in this space than any other niche you care to mention.

So just to confirm WA is an online service company, providing training, hosting and software services to it's members (both free and paid).

If you do choose to promote WA there is no complex commission plan like the ones used by the MLM's. You simply earn a commission from the people you refer as an affiliate whilst they remain a premium member.

There is no down-line, or pass-up commissions or any of the other shenanigans associated with multi-level businesses.

Another tell-tale sign is that you can promote WA as a free member. No MLM could operate like this.

The reason there are no bad reviews?

It's a fair offer...

Free trial, premium service discounted for the first month, $47 per month thereafter.

You're free to 'cram' your training into a few premium months, and return to a free membership... because that's fair... isn't it.

And yes, if you cancel premium to return to free membership, you can always reinstate premium membership again when your circumstances suit you.

Also if you look at the WA sign up page...

What's missing?

Hype.

Images of fast cars, and easy money.

No countdown timers or other scarcity BS.

WA is simply a company that has operated for over 11 years, and provides a value based service... no hype required.