First off, I am Kyle Loudoun. Co-founder of Wealthy Affiliate, a platform that Carson Lim and I created over 18 years ago and that has turned into a true lifelong passion project. We are a company that focuses on YOU, and how to best help people build thriving businesses within the online world!

To do this, we combine technology, education, and community to offer you the most forward-thinking platform to build an online business within. If you ever feel stuck along the way, scroll down to the comments area of any of the training resources and ask a question. You WILL get help.

Tasks for this Lesson:

• Understand the Potential of Online Businesses
• Read the "Achieve Super Affiliate Status" post and tell us how you will be getting there next year
• Introduction to Wealthy Affiliate's Hubs platform
• Understand the Goals and Roadmap of your Successful affiliate business

Now let’s talk business…and the first steps.

Being “overwhelmed” might accurately describe how you're feeling right now, but there is no need to feel this way because by the end of this lesson, you are going to have a solid grasp of the unlimited potential that awaits you here within Wealthy Affiliate using the "Hubs" platform, the training, and having access to all the levels of support and community.

Our goal is to help you tackle the online world with confidence, and to give you the capability to create a business of any level of success online, and the ability to do this within ANY niche, (passion or interest).

My role is to guide you through this process with a well-calibrated compass, a treasure map, and practical survival lessons. You being the one who takes this guidance, and reaches the pinnacle of the mountain top (that is, significant affiliate success).

Your success is our success, that has been our focus since day 1.

Excited? Let’s get rolling…

Unpacking Wealthy Affiliate’s Hubs Platform.

Enter Wealthy Affiliate’s Hubs platform, your comprehensive environment where you are going to manage your website, research, and content game plan all from one location. Think of it as your virtual headquarters, designed to streamline your entrepreneurial journey.

Upon logging in you will be able to access your Hubs platform from the main dashboard.

Within your Affiliate Hub you are going to be building out your business, and following through the training in a sequential manner....no experience required!

Here is a look at how the Hub environment looks upon arrival:

Now let's chat about the POWER of Hubs, and why this evolutionary environment has become a game changer for newcomers to affiliate marketing, as well as seasoned "super affiliates" alike.

Key Features of YOUR Affiliate Hub:

• Website Management Area. This is where you are going to be able to manage your website, login into your website (Premium & Premium Plus+ members) and to initial your content creation. All websites here are hosted on our high speed, high ranking, and ultra secure Managed Wordpress Hosting framework
  
• Core Training. This is where you will be accessing your key training, which initially is 22 lessons in length, and has 12 additional classes that will help you advance your traffic capabilities and your website development skills as you move through it. As you complete these lessons, additional and more advanced training will become available to our Premium/Premium Plus+ members within this scroll. We are going to truly advance you from any level of marketer, to an expert through this core training +.
  
• Your Path to Success. This is where you can track your progress towards your financial goal. Within the initial onboarding process, you set a monthly revenue goal (which can be updated at any time), and we are going to be providing you with concise tasks that you can follow to reach this goal.
  
• Website Structure & Organization. This section is going to help you discover a broader blueprint for your business, and categories that you can touch on within your niche. The research is done for you, and this will give you over 100 high opportunity content ideas that you can use to build out your business. You can build on these sections with a click of a button as time goes on. This is never seen before "research" that is done for you the second you build your hub.
  
• Task Manager. Manage your writing task through the “To Do” list. This is going to help you streamline your entire business, and give you a focused road map to success within your respective niche. You can add ideas to this list at any point, and it will be pre-loaded with some initial key pages that you want to add to your website.
  

• Niche Research. This is where it gets really fun, you are going to be able to get “ideas galore” related to your niche. This is going to provide you with 100’s of low competition, and highly targeted ideas across your niche that you can use to build out your business...generate high value traffic, and drive revenue to your business.

Embrace this platform. Jump into its features. It’s designed to turn your initial “niche” idea, and create a road-map to a long term and very successful venture online.

Future Vision: The Bootcamp Goals and Roadmap Ahead

What is the build out of your business going to look like, and what are some early stage milestones of your business? Let's talk about planning. Think of setting up an online business as a journey. Like any worthy journey, it requires an initial roadmap. Over the course of this bootcamp, your growth will be tangible and you are going to start to see results in the early stages of your business. Here's a sneak peek of your journey ahead:

STEP 1: Understanding and picking your niche. You have already done this within the initial Hubs Wizard that you did when you joined, you have your “target audience” selected, and as you move forward you are going to be helping that audience with your content.

STEP 2: Mastering the art of content creation. This isn't just about piecing words together; it's about creating value, solving problems, sparking interest. This is something that you are going to be well-versed on within the first series of lessons alone and we have writing platforms that are going to help you speed up the process drastically.

STEP 3: Get rankings and Traffic Learn SEO secrets that even experts aren't fully aware of, this is going to be the first focus as the source of “traffic” to your business. Because what's the purpose of creating great content if it’s not being found, right? Google, Bing and Yahoo can yield significant traffic to your business…and traffic means opportunity!

STEP 4: Make Money! You are going to be learning how to earn revenue through the promotion of Wealthy Affiliate right from the early stages. You have instant access to one of the most lucrative affiliate programs online here, and we are going to be teaching you the highest converting strategies.

ULTIMATE GOAL: Get YOU Down in Vegas. 150 Sales in a calendar year you will be sitting on a full-time business online, and sitting with us down in Las Vegas for our ultra-exclusive, fully-paid affiliate conference. We run this every year, and we would love to have you there next year.

You can read about our Las Vegas “Super Affiliate” incentive within the following post:

READ POST: Achieve Super Affiliate Status in the Year Ahead!

And this is just scratching the surface of what is to come. You are capable of any level of success you are willing to work for, and we are going to help you harness your full potential here within WA.

Tasks for this Lesson:

• Understand the Potential of Online Businesses
• Read the "Achieve Super Affiliate Status" post and tell us how you will be getting there next year
• Introduction to Wealthy Affiliate's Hubs platform
• Understand the Goals and Roadmap of your Successful affiliate business