A New Year, Brings a New WAY Of Building A Business Online.

Happy New Year Everyone!

In tune with the arrival of 2024, I want to explain just how radically the online business world has changed in the past few months here within WA, and how we are changing the game of convention that the world of online business worlds has been working within for the past decade.

There has never been this much SPEED.
There has never been this much EFFICIENCY.

There has never been this much OPPORTUNITY.

Once upon a time, the process was cumbersome and slow, but that’s not the case anymore. With constant technological advancements and changing consumer behaviors, the way we approach online entrepreneurship naturally had to evolve as well.

In this post, I'm going to help you understand the depth of this evolution. We'll contrast what I will be referring to as the 'Old Way' – a labor-intensive and time-consuming approach, with the 'New Way’ – a streamlined, technology-driven method that's shaking up how online businesses come to life.

What was once a 40-day marathon (based on committing 1-hour per day) can now be, with the right tools and strategies, done in less than an hour. That is how drastic this evolution is...and what you have access to now within the walls of your membership here at WA!

The 'Old Way' of Building an Online Business: A HUGE Time Investment. (40 Hours, 17 Steps)

If you are stepping into the online world as a newbie, you're familiar with the drill: every element of building an online business is somewhat discrete, and sometimes a daunting step.

I want to break down the conventional way of building a business, the OLD WAY...which by all accounts takes 40 HOURS total to get a business up and running. Here is what that looks like.

• Discover and Choose Niche - 2 hours
• Decide on a Brand - 1 hour
• BUY a Domain - 30 minutes
• BUY Website Hosting - 1 hour
• Update Your DNS - 15 minutes
• Set-up a Wordpress Website - 30 minutes
• Manually Set-up Plugins - 30 minutes
• Learn Wordpress Block Editor - 3 hours
• Create Your Initial Website Posts - 2 hours
• BUY Keyword Tool - 30 minutes
• Learn Keyword Research - 12 hours
• Research and Find Keywords - 15 minutes
• Learn SEO - 12 hours
• Create a Content Outline for Your Keyword - 30 minutes
• Research Content to Include in Your Article - 1 Hour
• Write 1,000 Article Manually - 3 Hours
• Publish Content - 5 minutes

So, you're looking at well over a day's work - stretched over 40 days if you were squeezing your business-building into one-hour daily increments. All this before even talking about penning a 1,000-word article or hitting the 'Publish' button.

Transitioning smoothly from the historical process, let's look ahead. The scene changes with Wealthy Affiliate's framework, which compresses these steps into minutes instead of months. Making the leap from the 'Old Way' to Wealthy Affiliate's 'New Way' isn't just a shift in speed; it's a transformation in how online business is done.

Wealthy Affiliate's 'New Way': Streamlining The Process. (35 Minutes, 3 Steps)

Now, let's talk about Wealthy Affiliate's fresh NEW approach to building an online business, that has vastly upgraded with the introduction of the platform's innovative Hubs technology.

In a world where "every minute counts", we have compressed what would have been a 40-hour setup process into a mere 35 minutes through our WA Engine.

Step 1: Go Through Hubs Wizard (5 Minutes)

You're starting a brand new business, and don't know where to start. Naturally a passion or interest is the best starting point. As you move through the Hub Wizard, it helps you refine and polish your niche and brand with the Niche & Brand Finder technology that is built right in.

You decide on your niche, confirm your brand identity, choose your domain (which is preselected), and your website is built. Wordpress setup? Check. Plugins? Installed and configured.
We have taken a process that used to take a significant amount of time (and to be frank, many people NEVER were able to finish), and turn this into a 5 minute process.

Step 2: Done For You Blueprint Through Hubs (INSANT)

Now that your foundation is set, we now provide you with a "blue print" for your business.

This is a comprehensive "Done for You Blueprint" where you can manage your website, access a plethora of different research/content side ideas, perform keyword research, get structure for your website and access the integrative training. From the moment you start, you're set up for success with access to top-tier research, training and website management area.

Step 3: Build Your Initial Website Framework (15 Minutes)

Once you're ready to start populating your site with content, you turn towards the Article Designer, and leverage the SiteContentTemplates platforms. Fifteen minutes is all it takes to use this tool to craft your initial "About Me" page and your "Privacy Policy" pages, the first start of your website foundation.

Step 4: Create and Publish SEO-Ready Content (15 Minutes)

And when it's time to jump into the website build out process, the creation of your 1,000 to 3,000-word SEO-ready, keyword-rich content are going to be built initially within the AI "assisted" process.
This combines the research done (along with your creative input) to structure your initial article outline using the Article Designer, and then pairs with AI Authors, to create an initial, high-quality content base that you can then edit, polish, add imagery and refine before publication. This typically takes another 15 minutes. It's not just speedy, it's content that ranks.

In the time it would have taken you just to learn the basics of Wordpress with the old method, you now have a fully functional site that is ready to scale.

Comparing the NEW Way (with Wealthy Affiliate) to the OLD Way

I'm going to draw you a clear contrast between the old school methods of launching an online business and our NEW, innovative approach here at Wealthy Affiliate. It's important to understand just how much the landscape has shifted.

The typical 40-hour setup that used to be a barrier for many (most) is now radically reduced with WA. If you've ever found yourself burning the midnight oil trying to get your first website off the ground, you're going to appreciate the next piece of information.
Here is a breakdown between the NEW and the OLD.

The New WA (no pun intended), is 3 steps and 35 minutes to get the foundation of your business and website set-up. This includes your niche direction, your brand, your Wordpress website + initial plugin set-up, the framework content pages, and your first keyword-rich page.

With the 'Old Way,' the way that other companies are still forcing you into, is 17 steps and takes close to 40 hours to learn and accomplish the same thing (not to mention a lot more money).

This changes the dynamic of WHO can start a business now. Hobbyists who previously might have been intimidated by the complexity of building an online business, can now manage without needing to dedicate eight-hour days just to get rolling.

People with nothing more than a dream, can now create fully-functional businesses, faster than ever.

Times have truly changed, and the OLD way is a thing of the past. As we forge into 2024, we are going to be revealing a great deal of advancements into our core platforms we have just recently released.

Hubs is going to innovate and evolve quickly.

The Article Designer is already getting new features that will make the content design process more efficient than ever, and to give you even greater control.

AI Authors has updates and innovations coming to it right through 2024 that will blow your mind, and assist you in creating content faster than ever, and at a higher quality than ever.

So my question to you today is, are you ready to take advantage of this shift and what is available to you within WA? When it comes to building a business online, the times have changed for the better.