Earning Dollars With Affiliate Marketing In South Africa

byLebogang22

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Updated 5 years ago

Does Wealthy Affiliate work in South Africa? That is the first question that many South Africans ask themselves or other WA members. I see this question pop up all the time in my feed and I also get asked quite often if I have managed to make money, specifically being from South Africa so I will get that question out of the way.

Does Wealth Affiliate Work In South Africa?

YES. Wealthy Affiliate works in South Africa.

In fact, Wealthy Affiliate works in any country in the world. I have been here for over a year now and I have made money through Wealth Affiliate (which I will get into later in this post).

This question makes a lot of sense because African countries are traditionally excluded from international services in the past. Something like PayPal was only available to South Africans since 2010, and even then, it is available from one bank in a restrictive manner.

So South Africans have grown to be apprehensive, but I can tell you right now that your opportunities at WA are just as good as anyone else's from anywhere in the world.

Use The Free Membership

The free membership alone gives you more value than many other programs and courses you could run into online.

Try the free membership, it comes at no cost to you and at the end of it you will know how to build a website. Website creation seems like such a mystical phenomenon before you become acquainted to it.

I was amazed when I came to WA and learned that you could create a website in a few clicks. I get a kick when people that I am friends with who are IT professionals ask me how I ended up in an online business when it’s something I didn’t study.

Things You Get From The Free Membership

• Learn How To Build A Website
• Learn the fundamentals of affiliate marketing
• Access to the affiliate program
• Access to keyword tool

This is through a video training that takes you step by step through the process, and is more value that you can get from some paid content that you can get on platforms like Clickbank

Premium Membership

The benefits of going premium are where you get the best value from being a WA member.

A thriving and super helpful community. The community at WA is easily one of the best things about Wealthy Affiliate. It is almost impossible to get stuck on something because there is always someone online to help you when you have a problem. At any time of the day or night, there is someone knowledgeable to help you along your way.

Other benefits to premium WA include

• The best affiliate training program available on the internet (countless WA members will attest to this)
• Generous affiliate commissions
• Make money with site comments and creating training
• Affiliate marketing knowledge that can be used outside of WA (e.g. SEO, PPC etc)
• 24 hour support

Unique Benefits of Wealthy Affiliate In South Africa and other developing countries

Wealthy Affiliate offers a unique value proposition when you are staying in a developing country like South Africa.

In South Africa, the unemployment rate is very high, at around 30% for the population and over 50% for youth (18 - 35 years old). You can spend 3 or more years on a university degree and you still stand a more than 50% change of not finding a job. That is the situation I found myself in, that led me to trying to start a business instead.

The online economy is a boon for ambitious South Africans because it allows you opportunities outside of the country.

General Benefits of an Online Business

Low Startup Cost

The startup cost is comparatively low for your online business. I have had several offline businesses all with varying costs of starting. When starting businesses offline the lowest I needed for one of the businesses was R50,000 ($3400) to start up, and at the most was R600,000 ($40,000) in a laboratory business I did with partners.

Wealthy Affiliate costs me $299 a year (R4500) and is currently making me R3000 a month on a website that I only worked on for 6 months and am no longer working on. To top it off, that amount has been increasing steadily, month on month.

Work From Anywhere

Wealthy Affiliate allows you to build a business working from home or anywhere where you can get an internet connection. There are no additional expenses on top of those you would normally have. No daily expenses like petrol or anything of the sort.

Get Paid In Dollars!!

Wealthy affiliate protects you from the volatility of the Rand or any other currency on the continent.

One of the biggest concerns that South Africans have is the safety of their money and assets because of the often volatile economic situation there. At the current moment, the exchange rate is about R15 to the US dollar. A dollar goes a lot further in South Africa than in it does in many places of the world.

I am sometimes conflicted when the exchange rate for the rand drops because it means that my payment will work out to less.

But whichever way it goes, I know that my money is safe. If the rand drops, my online business becomes worth more. If the rand gets stronger, it means my assets at home are safe.

What Wealthy Affiliate Has Done For Me

I am generally private about my information. But I will share some info because I was helped by reading the information written by others, and I know that it will help other members to know that the system works for me.

The website that I will show was created in October 2018 and I stopped working on it in May 2019.

The Site Health shows that this website is far from being up to par.

That is less than 2 articles a week for a period of 7 months.

You are free to visit the website and have a sense of where I was.

At this stage I still didn’t know what I was doing and hadn’t found my niche yet. I now have two websites which are my main focus and focused on Amazon affiliate sales.

As you can see in the image below, I have $390 pending. That works out to almost R6000. And this is money that is coming in without me doing any additional work on my website in the last 6 months.

So even if you aren’t sure about what you are doing yet, just by following the training blindly can create an asset for you that will being you a few thousand Rands a month.

What I Afford With an Online Business

When starting Wealthy Affiliate I was making money through online transcription and staying at home with my parents after business didn’t work out.

I invested all of my energies into this online business over the last year and it's the best decision I have ever made (not that I had much choice, lol).

Today, I stay in an apartment in Rivonia, Sandton which is one of the more affluent suburbs in South Africa. My full-time job is content creation on my websites. I am not rich by any means, but having an online business through WA affords me a reasonably comfortable lifestyle.

I am not saying this to brag, but to make it clear that you can earn a full-time salary with what Wealthy Affiliate can bring you.

A Bright Future for Affiliate Marketing in South Africa

There is an increasing number of people finding out about Affiliate marketing and gaining an interest in it.

As far as South Africa is concerned, I believe that now is the best time to get into Affiliate marketing. It is growing at a fast pace and there is little to no competition in terms of local marketing. Now is a great time to build authority in a niche.

The business model is new to us and I have the firm belief that it’s going to explode over the next year or to.

How Much Affiliate Marketing Has grown in South Africa in 1 Year

A year ago I was looking for local affiliate programs and there were hardly any. I was only able to find about 10 at the time and I was one of less than 5 people to have ever blogged about affiliate marketing in South Africa.
And of the affiliate programs that were available, it was mostly brands that were not well-known.

Here is a post from 11 months ago when a user asked about affiliate programs in South Africa

Local affiliate programs in South Africa?

One year later there are more than 100 affiliate programs to choose from, and the list is growing every month as more and more businesses create their own affiliate programs for South Africans to promote. For example, USN, the biggest supplement company in South Africa, only introduced their affiliate program in April 2019.

It is quite a wild thing being at the beginning of the industry (locally speaking) and watching all these changes happen so rapidly.

Closing Thoughts

I hope that this post has answered your question as to whether Wealthy Affiliate works.

Above all, be glad that you found your way to this particular platform. Some of us have had to wade through a lot of scams and pointless programs before getting to this point.

I have been here since March 2018 and I plan to be on WA for years to come.

Now that you have made here, do the training, and I look forward to reading your progress report when things start to work out for you.