I consider the cost of my subscription an expense that I must pay for my business to go forward. I'm willing to wait until the website is paying its own way -- meanwhile, I'll help it out. Black Friday is a great time to renew because of the savings. I'll be renewing soon.

Like others have said, it's all relative and depends on how you use WA. In my case, I currently run a consultation service. My first paid hour of consultation pays for my WA membership fee and then some.

I've heard of others paying for their subscription by providing comments to other WA members using the Site Comments section. Once certified a person can potentially earn enough credits each month to pay for WA.

Of course the best way is by referring other premium members to the program. Once you get three premium members to sign and stay beyound that first month, you are in profit for that month and every recurring month that your referrals remain premium members. Like Joe said, I think that's the best deal to go with.

Definitely a lot of possibilities here, but it all depends on how a person uses them.

Ralph

I look at it this way. Any business requires an investment if it is real. If there is none, it feels like it has no value. To me that investment pays for itself right away even before one starts to earn an income.

How?

We are paying for an education that would cost many times more elsewhere. Instead of paying say $200 a month that many others charge, it is only $49 a month. Hence. I feel that I am already making a profit of $151 a month.

With this attitude I do not worry how long it will take me to earn $50 a month. When I joined WA I estimated it would take me about a year to start earning enough to more than cover my subscription. But if it takes longer, so be it. I am building an asset that will pay me a living income working a couple of hours a day instead of eight or more.

I hope this helps.

Edwin

Hope it works out for you.

Referrals seems to be the fastest way to earnings. Hard to get quick results from the website using SEO, but it can and is being done.
Tough question.
Joe

It is hard labor. Takes time to learn and grow as wEll!

Great post Cindy, thank you for sharing.
Following, to read the replies...

Success lies in how we work, it may be a short time, it may be a long time. So when you can pay your subscription depends on how you crack the funnel to flow.

Hi Cinderella,

It's a good question but one that is generally asked by someone who hasn't ever run a business before. The reason that there isn't a set answer to this is because the responsibility of success and return on investment, doesn't lie in the subscription but in the person joining.

Perhaps, remind them of how many years they spent in University, not earning and with no promise of a job at the end of 4 years, sometimes more.

Most of us have worked for a wage all our lives. This has trained us to think, 'if I turn up, I will be paid for my time.' And unless you do a terrible job, you will continue to be paid for your 'time.'
A job gives you no control, you have a boss, and you don't share in any profits you make for that company.

A business or subscription to learn how to build a business leaves the responsibility for producing an income from that knowledge, squarely in the subscription buyers lap.

Please notice, I say responsibility, this is the big boys world.
You won't be paid just to turn up.
You will be paid by your own business, if you learn the ABC of creating a business. You can sell either other peoples products or your own and make profit but will you?
You will be your own boss, can be as creative as you like and reap all the profit after expenses.

But the responsibility is all yours. So to answer your friends question. Ask them a few questions.

Have you ever run a business?
How fast do you learn a new skill?
Will you apply what you learn?
Are you self motivated and a self starter?
Will you take advice from mentors?
Are you tough enough to make a mistake, fix it and keep going?
Are you an employee or do you want to be the boss?
Do you have grit and determination?
Can you learn and grow over years towards your future?
Do you have a dream?

Because to get their money back on a subscription to WA or any other learning course, they are going to have to be prepared to learn about a whole new world of business online. It will be a steep learning curve.
"No pain, no gain"
" No free lunches"
"No complaining to the boss "

Just LEARN, GROW, EARN. It could take a year or 5 years. Only THEY can decide that. How smart, how teachable are they?

That's why WA is so great. Here you are safe and supported to take however long you need to change from being an employee to a business owner.

Their future, the return on investment is in their hands.

Short answer; 'How badly do you want to own your own business?

Hope this helps. Love to hear what you think, so leave a comment.

Lily 😊

That's like asking `how long is a piece of string.`
It's all relative.
It depends upon the amount of hours they are prepared to work, how dedicated they will be and how hard they are prepared to work to reach their goals.
If you have no commitments and are working at WA for 16 ish hours a day, the subscription will pay for itself sooner than someone who has a lot of commitments and can only manage 5 hours a day.
On my blog I say a minimum of 6 months but more likely it will take a year or more, because I want to be honest and would rather people who signed up wanted to work hard and intended to stay.
Hope this helps.