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" leave a comment telling us if you plan on making it next year

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.
  
• Step-by-Step Core Training. This is where you will be accessing your task-oriented training, which initially is 4 tasks and lessons (Phase 1) in length, and that has an additional 30 additional classes that will help you advance your traffic capabilities , and ultimately start generating revenue with your business. After you complete each task, check it off and move to the next one.
  
• Revenue Opportunities. This is where you are going to discover relevant categories of products/services that you can promote on your website, and the associated affiliate programs. This will offer you insights into the 100+ opportunities in every niche, and align you with some of the most popular, and high ticket brands.
  
• 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 website and traffic.
  
• 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 further build out your business, generate high value traffic, and earn money with your business. This is saving you HOURS on your research.

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.

Our "Ultimate" Goal: Get YOU Down in Vegas!

If you can get 150 Premium level sales in a calendar year you will not only be sitting on passive full-time income, you will be sitting with us down in Las Vegas for our ultra-exclusive, fully-paid affiliate conference in early 2025. We run this every year, and we would love nothing more than to help you create a full-time business through the promotion of WA, and 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" leave a comment telling us if you plan on making it next year