100 Posts On Wealthy Affiliate - 50 Posts On My Website

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I felt it was time to write my 100 blog post on Wealthy Affiliate at the same time as I published my 50th on my Affiliate Marketing website.

How quickly the time has passed. When I started at Wealthy Affiliate just over a year ago, I didn't think about writing blogs here. After I started to read some very good ones I thought why don't I try to learn from the best.

For my 50th website post I decided to do a review about the ClickFunnels Affiliate Program. It was a culture shock when I discovered their method of Affiliate Marketing is diametrically opposite to Wealthy Affiliate.

Russell Brunson

It is hard to talk about ClickFunnels without bringing up its creator, Russell Brunson. He is quite famous in the entrepreneur world I imagine most members at Wealthy Affiliate would know about him. For those who do not, Russell will be 30 on March 8th. He was a born entrepreneur and growing up he sold any and everything.

Russell grew up at a time the Internet was young and he decided that was the space for him to create businesses. You may know that Russell is one of the first to develop the funnel system to market products online.

He made his first million dollars after graduating from University and before he co created the hugely successful ClickFunnel marketing system. ClickFunnels has a value estimated to be about $350 Million. Russell's income from ClickFunnels combined with income from his other projects provides him with annual earnings of just under $40 Million.

ClickFunnels Affiliate System

Since this system is geared to market mainly the ClickFunnel system, his approach is different to what we use at Wealthy Affiliate. The website is treated as a landing page near the top of the ClickFunnel. The purpose is to make it simple with minimum of distractions to go through the funnel where prospects who are not serious are filtered out at various stages.

Eventually they arrive at a 7 Step pretty much Done For You Marketing system. In fact, that is how prospects become paid members of ClickFunnels and this 7 Step system trains new members to set up this exact funnel system for themselves.

The system combines the landing page with an autoresponder and an Email marketing system to manage the flow of prospects to eventually become paying members.

Traffic

Here is where this system differs from conventional affiliate marketing. Instead of using SEO and organic means to attract traffic, they utilize people who have large Email lists to send traffic to their funnel.

Sounds great so far doesn't it. A Done for you system that is focused with one singular objective, sell subscriptions to ClickFunnels. So what are the costs?

Costs

The monthly membership fee for ClickFunnels is $97. Out of which $40 is used to pay commissions. Then there is the Aweber autoresponder, cost for emails, and Instagram marketing system. This all adds up to about $297 a month!

But here's the thing. The success of a member is dependent on the quality of the Email, list as well as the click through rate. If all of this works well then yes, income can be earned faster than the organic system. Until it does, there is this little inconvenience of shelling out at least $200 a month if you do not employ all the recommended tools.

By the way, the training is free. It costs you in paying for the tools.

Income Potential Publicized

The program implies it is possible to go from zero to $10,000 in 30 days! Remember the adage that when something sounds too good to be true it probably is! But that doesn't matter to people signing up. This program definitely appeals to those who like the done for you concept where you can get-rich-quick.

Until they realize that somehow they need to find the traffic to make any earnings at all.

Thankful For Wealthy Affiliate

My post here is just a fraction of what I wrote in my website blog, about 3500 words. The benefit I got was to make me feel so thankful I found Wealthy Affiliate before discovering the existence of the ClickFunnel system. We know that it takes hard work and time to create a successful affiliate marketing business. Any short cuts will be short-lived.

No doubt that there are folks at ClickFunnels who are doing extremely well. But I am sure that has to do more with the work they put in rather than relying for the Done For You system to throw money into their bank account on autopilot, which is what is promised.

An Interesting Thought

Wealthy Affiliate has its own affiliate program. Having been exposed to the ClickFunnel system I feel that a funnel system here for focused marketing may make sense. Since the Wealthy Affiliate niche is very narrow.

The change I would consider from ClickFunnels is to initially rely on organic traffic to drive visitors to a landing page. But that would take writing compelling articles in the MMO space.

It will still take hard work and persistence. I like the thought of simplifying the process for those interested in learning about affiliate marketing. At the moment this is an interesting thought worth exploring on the Wealthy Affiliate platform. I am sure there are others who have used this approach successfully.

Hype

Sadly hype sells. One of the methods that Russell Brunson uses is using hype skillfully. He has written a ton of books most of them with the titles starting with the word Secrets. And who doesn't want to learn about a secret!

He appears in many videos among thousands with a lot of cheering, smiles and trotting briskly to the stage, much like at a MLM convention. He also happens to be successful in the MLM arena. It seems there is nothing he gets involved in that fails. Russell is a marketing genius.

No matter how you cut it, he has helped a lot of entrepreneurs to become successes. But I am also certain there are a lot of people who are wanna be's.

Low Key

I love the low key approach of Kyle and Carson. Similar successes are achieved without the hype. Wealthy Affiliate attracts members who prefer it that way.

Conclusion

There is no right or wrong way to create successful businesses. We are all unique individuals. Some thrive in that high energy world. While others prefer to become successful in a more restrained manner. And that is OK.

There was another lesson I learned from evaluating the ClickFunnels system. Compared to monthly expenses of over $200, the $49 fee here is a bargain. And if anyone wants to consider a funnel system, there are lower cost and very good alternatives like Convertri.

Now that I have reached my 100 post here I will be focusing on building my website up to 100 too. That will mean posting less here.

I wish everyone who reads this much success in your affiliate marketing journey.

Cheers!

Edwin

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Such an informative post, Edwin. You clear a lot of doubts about people who are being distracted by the shiny object. I was also wondering why the YouTubers are having "clickfunnels" URL. And then I found your post. Thanks again for a clearer picture. I choose to stay humble and lenient.

There are many things to consider before joining sites that offer "easy success". However, it is all up to us if we like it, if we have the budget and if we do not do our own due diligence to all we wanted to be in, are all up to each one of us. 👍🔥💨🆗✔💓

You have an amazing achievement and very forthright statements, that is in effect, if we wanted to grow, we need to put more time into our own websites! I agree. We need to give up something in order to achieve another "El Dorado". 🏅💲🥇🤩📷🏆

Florentino

Great post Edwin very informative - I had no idea what CF was about...I am better learned now having read this partial review.

Wishing you the best in your goal to publish a further 50 posts on your website, I've no doubt you will certainly achieve it. Thanks again, Jules

Great to hear from you Jules. You can always go to my website and read my full article. If you do, please leave a comment.

Thanks also for your encouragement.

Cheers.

Edwin

Great post,

I was always wondering what is this Click Funnels all about.
And Russel - a quite famous guy, what is his "secret"?

You explained it well -> the success people have with the CF, is more about the effort they put in prior to the CF usage.

It is true that hype sells.
I have seen it in other fields as well.
A friend of mine used to study marketing in Denmark.
After 3 years he went back and started his own business.

He wrote a book together with his friend (classmate) in his early 20s.
They appeared a couple of times on TV as well.
They did not say much, but they were on the TV. - that what's counts.


Oh, and Edwin, let me congratulate you on your 100th post!
I am sure you will reach your 100th post on your website sooner than you think,

Wishin you a lot of power
Cheers :)
Mike

Thanks for your response Mike and your vote of confidence.
Edwin

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