Beer With Kyle: Starter Experience Updates & Niche Research AI Update
Hey Everybody,
Today, I have some exciting updates to share, including an update to the Hubs platform on the premium level side and some improvements to the starter experience here at Wealthy Affiliate. I’d love to get your feedback on both of these updates, but before we dive in, it’s time to crack open this week’s beer!
This week’s beer is from Field House, a brewery out of Abbotsford, BC, just outside of Vancouver. They do a lot of experimental beers, and this one is called Hazy, a Hazy IPA. As expected, it’s a little on the sweeter side, which is typical for this style.
By the way, we’re running the 50 Sales Challenge right now (hence the glass)—if you hit 50 sales by the end of the year, you’ll be joining us in Las Vegas for an all-expenses-paid trip!
Now, without further ado, let’s get into the updates!
Key Updates:
1. Starter Experience Updates
We’ve made a couple of significant changes to improve the starter experience:
- Welcome Video: After building a hub, new members will now see a “Welcome to Wealthy Affiliate” video explaining how their hub works. We noticed many users weren’t going through the step-by-step training, so this video aims to guide them and show how powerful the hub can be, especially for content creation and research.
- Core Task Highlighting: We’ve updated the task interface. Previously, the active task was highlighted in blue, but it wasn’t as noticeable. Now, the current task is highlighted with an orange border and yellow background, making it much easier to see where you are in the training.
- Upgrade Page: We’ve also made some updates to the upgrade page. We rearranged the content, added new testimonials, and refreshed the design.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on these updates—what do you think of the new design? We’re also testing out different training flow designs, including a top-down approach, so you may see more iterative changes soon.
2. Premium Level Updates: Niche Research Section
Now, on the premium side of things, we’ve made some exciting updates, especially to the Niche Research Section. Let me explain:
- Improved Niche Research Output: We’ve spent time training our AI models to produce more reliable and relevant content ideas. Some of you may have noticed that the results weren’t as robust before, but now you’ll see more sophisticated and comprehensive content ideas within your niche. Whether you’re building out your content or revenue streams, this section is now far more efficient.
- Pain Points: One of the most valuable sections in the niche research tool is the “Pain Points” section. These are the challenges people face within your niche—in my case, it’s related to making paper airplanes (yes, that’s a real niche!). These pain points give you excellent topics to address in your content, which you can bulk write and rank for.
You can now bulk write content based on these ideas in just a few minutes, making your content creation process highly efficient.
If you haven’t checked out the niche research section recently, I encourage you to give it a look. It’s available to all premium members, and with the updates, it’s more powerful than ever.
I’d love to get your feedback on these updates—from the improvements to the starter experience to the advancements in the niche research section. There’s a lot more exciting stuff coming next week, and I’m really looking forward to sharing that with you. :)
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Love the new welcome video!
I had a thought the other day. Is there a video that I could post on the articles I have written on my website, specifically the ones I have promoting WA, that would explain to the potential WA customer on what they would get on the free starter portion of WA? Something we could download and embed into our content?
I would also like to use something like that when promoting WA on my YouTube channel and place it within my video.
Thanks Scott
You never want to download and embed a video into your content, as it will slow down your website. This is a great idea though, I can create a video and upload it to Youtube so you could leverage and share this on your website.
This is something that I will absolutely consider after we roll out the latest version of our website, which is going to lead with a "niche research tool" where people can search and find a business that suits them on their way in.
I have attached an example of what the tool will look like. This is going to be a much higher value, and hopefully higher converting entrance than ever.
And something that you could do, is create your own video showing people the starter experience and what they get, this likely would convert even higher as you would be offering people that personal touch and experience. That would be a big trust building moment.
That is awesome. Can you please notify me when you upload the video to YouTube.
I didn't know imbedding videos on you website can slow it down. I have one on my article - https://roamersrvgear.com/pickleball-health-benefits-risks-and-the-rv-community/ That I got from YouTube. Should I take it off and just put a link instead because I though I learned how to embed videos on here....
Hi Kyle.
I like the starter video. Starting is the hardest part of building a business, I think. Knowing how to navigate the Hub is a great start. Of course, starters must go through the step-by-step training. It is critical for getting off to a good start.
I agree that the Niche Research section is underutilized. I'm guilty of not using it myself.
Yes, starting is the hardest and removing any level of friction/confusion is an ongoing goal here within WA and the Hubs experience.
Hopefully with these latest updates, the Niche Research section is going to be heavily used by those building out their businesses. :)
Good morning Kyle,
I hope you had a good weekend. I'm a bit late listening to your video, but here is some feedback.
That's a very good starting point for beginners with the "how your hub works"; a great and clear place to start.
The yellow border looks quite clear and shows members exactly where they are at.
Out of interest, my pricing page does not show The Premium Plus + Accelerated offer. My landing page still shows as the traditional premium plus page, which I know changed some time ago, but I have never been able to see it. Even if I paste the link into another browser, it still shows the old version. There are no testimonials to show.
I must admit I haven't really used the niche research section of the hub, Kyle; it's probably something I need to play around with.
Have a great week and thank you for the video.
Roy
We don't want to overwhelm people externally with too many different offers, but we want to have that offer (P+ Accelerated) for our more advanced power users. So that is why we don't include it on the outside, and that is going to be the format moving forward as well.
And definitely do check out the Niche Research section when you get a chance, it is going to fuel you with lots of ideas to drive your business in the foreseeable future. :)
That makes a lot of sense, Kyle, I wondered why it wasn't showing!
With the time of year coming up with my off-line business is quieter, I will have more time to experiment with the Niche Research section and other tools that you have to offer.
Have a fantastic day.
Roy
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Hi Kyle:
I was pleasantly surprised to see the welcome video on entering the hub today before seeing the video, "Beer with Kyle" explaining it. Starter Members have another opportunity to guide them through the hub process.
Highlighting the core task interfacing in orange and yellow instead of blue allows it to stand out better. The other upgrades to the starter experience is in keeping with the user-friendly themes you and the team have been rolling out.
I appreciate the Niche Research updates with improved content ideas. The new integration with Jaaxy is a delightful upgrade making it quicker and easier to create content.
Thank you for giving us the best tools to move our businesses forward!
Veron