We Have a Vested Interest in YOUR Education.

Over the years, it has been interesting to work with well over a million people (personally) and to see how different people learn, in different ways. Some people pick up different topics quickly, whereas others have a tough time understanding certain concepts.
A lot of this is based on our personal backgrounds, some of it on past knowledge and the ability to learn new topics, and a lot of it based on our own learning styles.
Today I wanted to reach out to everyone and discuss the training here at Wealthy Affiliate.
Training is a core focus at Wealthy Affiliate and we have a lot coming in respect to the overall training platform, how training is delivered, the nature of how training is updated and kept relevant, who can offer training, the various formats of training, and the ways that people can get help from when they are stuck.
Before we get too far ahead of ourselves in terms of idea development and actual laying out many of our upcoming developments/transitions, I wanted to get some feedback from YOU, our most important focus when we make any change or improvement here at WA.
So here it is, these are a few questions that I want you to ponder and offer your feedback and insights on.
(1) TRAINING FORMAT: What format of training to do you prefer? Do you like courses, challenges (if you have taken part in one), video tutorials, text tutorials, live events, or a combination thereof? Also, if there are any other formats of training that you have used online that are not available here that you enjoy, feel free to share those as well.
(2) POINTS OF FRUSTRATION/CONFUSION: What aspect of the training do you find to be the most frustrating or confusing? What improvements would you recommend to solve these frustrations?
(3) TRAINING TOPICS: What types of marketing or what methodologies would you like more training on here at Wealthy Affiliate (to help proper your skill set and business?) List your ideas.
(4) ANYTHING ELSE: Anything else you can think of. If you want to offer any feedback on the training itself, the training platform, how the training works, or the format of the training, we are all ears.
We have a lot of exciting stuff slated over the next 6-12 months, much of it already deep in development. Training is one of these key focuses.
There will be releases through the fall, and we have a busy release schedule of improvements here at WA, new innovations and technology, new platforms, and of course a myriad of exciting stuff coming to the training environment here at WA.
As always, we appreciate your feedback. It is YOU that makes us better and to continue to strive for perfection. Looking forward to the discussions and I thank you for your feedback in advance.
(1) TRAINING FORMAT:
Current training format is awesome, videos is a must, text to complement.
(2) POINTS OF FRUSTRATION/CONFUSION:
Old trainings. New members get very confused very fast when the training materials don't reflect the current interface of platforms we need to use. I'd like to see way more often updates on training videos.
(3) TRAINING TOPICS:
i) WP Themes - New members get confused about the layout of their site and how to use themes, which gives the look and the design of the site. Just a mention about how themes work, what they should do if they pick one they don't like or have a function they can't do.
ii) Search Console training - this needs to be earlier in the training, maybe phase one or two.
iii) Structuring of the site - you need a section that pulls in all the info they learned and then present how this will all look on a site. For example, I often have to advise people that they need a few "money pages" (landing pages) where all their other posts will be pointing to or getting visitors to go to, as the other posts like reviews, how to's, and such should all then go to these "money pages".
iv) Paid traffic - Your PPC training is from 2015. This needs updating and only for one platform. PPC is a big area I'd like to see expanded. Google Tag Manager, how to use Pixels, how to track, how to evaluate your campaign while it's going. Case studies on PPC campaigns would be awesome.
v) Email marketing - this is so crucial in any online business, this must be incorporated in the main training, not just in Jay's weekly webinars.
vi) Sales Funnels / Landing Page Building - this can totally be incorporated into our blog websites as the ultimate "money page" they need to direct all visitors to.
vii) Dealing with Google Updates - what to do when Google trashes your site.
(4) ANYTHING ELSE:
WA Affiliates - I've seen a lot of affiliate programs by now and I have to say the tools we get here is lacking compared to a lot. I would love to see better affiliate tools, reporting is a big area I'd to see improved, done-for-you pages or sample funnels/pages, updated banners (the only banner I've ever used is for Black Friday cuz I really don't like the other banners in there).
I think Challenges may be good for some, but I think these are ultimately a huge distraction on what members need to be focusing on.
What's better are case studies over a period of time, this is what Jay should be concentrating on for live webinars.... this is the perfect medium for it as we get to look at the case study every week, see updates, what to do next, how he analyzes things that happened for the week, etc.
These case studies could be for a PPC campaign or a new niche site like the way he did football snack helmet.
Thanks for making changes and always improving this platform.
I know it sounds silly because maybe there’s a class right here that teaches this. but I’d have liked to learn it in the initial courses so I’d get off to a running start.
Note: I am very grateful for where I am now, absolutely no complaints here.
Also, I hope I’m saying this correctly, is it possible to have the changes, when made in the “edit website” section, and the update button is clicked, it also updates site content?
Is that possible, it seems like site content does not update when you edit content through “edit website”.
Thanks guys
Other than that you might want to consider spending one class on paid traffic ( ie: Google adsense).
Thank you for all the knowledge you have imparted to me to date.
What I can say now and not that I think anything should change, but I feel because of my age 84 and no fault of yours but my generation missed out on being very knolendgeble on computer
savy and the internet in general. Because of this I struggle a lot in what your training offers, no fault of you, but if you could you
may want to sole search if their is any way you could help people of my age with the training you offer. Only you can answer this question as you may have many reasons for not wanting to spend time & money because so far your membership is not made up of that many members facing this problem. I do mention that if you analize the growth of the population you may find that if you could offer this segement of the population who are retired & not working, but would love to be able to make money thru Affiliate Marketing and you had the training that could make this happen for them, well you would find a niche well going after and having very little competition to go against. Just food for thought on your part! Well I gave you the problem I have with your training, it's only fair I give you a suggestion as to a solution. This is only one of many solutions I would think is possible & that is to offer for those who have this problem to be able to talk in person to tech people who have the knowledge to be able to help them thru thier
individual problems. I know I & many of my elder friends find this much quicker & easier than messaging back & forth which does not get you onstuck too fast. I'm sorry I made a book out of this
but this my story & I stick with it. I only hope I was able to get my point across as it could be I truly believe a whole new market for you and if you achieve it I would be able myself to bring a load of
new members into Wealthy Affiliate Program. The older people need this kind of help!!!! I rest my case!
First of all I think for a starter member like me the training is very helpful and easy to process specially the video tutorials and text tutorials.If we missed any point in the video we can still refer to the test tutorial for reference.
For me all the training are very clear and precise.Also if there is any confusion we can always ask the team of WA or even the other members of the community who are always ready to help.
As I have done my degree in marketing management I am quite familiar with some of the terms you are using at WA but with your tutorials and guidelines my marketing knowledge has increased further.So thanks guys!