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To All Free Starter Members - Upgrade ASAP

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Published on April 3, 2026

Published on Wealthy Affiliate — a platform for building real online businesses with modern training and AI.

To All Free Starter Members - Upgrade ASAP

If you are a Free Starter Member here at Wealthy Affiliate, it is important to know that you will need to upgrade to either of the Premium level memberships if you want to start earning money.

There is a popular saying that goes, "You have to spend money to make money" and this is true in most online businesses, even if you are selling on eBay. It is an unavoidable fact of success.

WEALTHY AFFILIATE IS UNIQUE

YES, it is great that Wealthy Affiliate lets you join their training community for Free. I don't know of any other online affiliate marketing training platform that will give you a website and training for free.

However, you will have to upgrade to either of the Premium level memberships if you want to continue in your training and have access to all of the business building tools. Don't wait too long!

Though you can stay a Free Starter Member for as long as you like, you will be losing out on furthering your education and gaining access to affiliate marketing opportunities and income.

Making money online takes time and effort. It does not happen quickly. The sooner you upgrade the better off you will be. You cannot even cash out your platform earnings unless you are Premium.

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DON'T FEAR THE UNKNOWN

I totally understand that your finances are not in good shape and you are worried that you might be wasting you money learning a new online opportunity. I get it. Fear of the unknown. But guess what?

If you don't upgrade, you will never have the chance to taste success. Wealthy Affiliate has been in business since September 2005! Many other so-called affiliate marketing platforms have come and gone.

Wealthy Affiliate is still here! Still growing, still updating, still helping serious minded entrepreneurs to taste some level of success (this depends solely on your actions) and ready to help you!

But you must take the first step. If you are serious about making money in your very own online affiliate marketing business in a niche you personally have chosen, then Upgrade ASAP and get started.

WEALTHY AFFILIATE UNIVERSITY

Think of Wealthy Affiliate as an all-inclusive online business school. You have to spend money to go to school or buy the text books and tools. This is why you have to spend money to make money.

I remember when I started as a Free Starter Member at WA back in 2013, the nickname for the platform was Wealthy Affiliate University. When you think about it, WA is like an online college.

Once you have the knowledge you can not only earn income from your affiliate marketing business but you can also freelance you skills that you learn here to local small business who don't know SEO and AI.

There are plenty of money making opportunities, other than affiliate marketing, here at Wealthy Affiliate. The only thing standing in your way is $49 per month. That's only $1.65 per day!

Skip a couple of Starbucks coffees every week and you can save up that much money and more. Sell some stuff around your home you are no longer using. Whatever you need to do, do it!

Don't stay stuck in the Free Starter Membership, because every lost day of furthering your training and growing your skills, is another day further away from you beginning to succeed.

If you are a Free Starter Member and you are reading this, ask questions if you are not sure about something. Just don't ask, How much money can I make at Wealthy Affiliate? There is NO definitive answer.

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