Hi Lynne,

There have always been and will continue to be idiots living on this Earth. It's just that the Internet through forums, message boards, blogs and social media provides these clowns a chance to voice their opinions, and although these narcissists don't know it -usually they are totally worthless. The thing is these people who bash the company out of jealousy, misery or just plain ignorance have failed miserably to do their research about WA.

So, in a sense, they're the ones who look like the donkey's ass as the proof is in the pudding that those members who work hard on their online business over time are the ones who succeed.

Perhaps these muckrakers are the type who look to get involved with the get-rich-quick schemes that are fraudulently promoted online as a way to simply let one's computer do all the work while the person sleeps. He/she wakes up to hundreds of dollars being deposited into their bank accounts overnight as this person did nothing. Life does not work that way only too many people still can't get the rocks out of their heads to not fall for these scam opportunities

I don't know how many times I have stated in articles and reviews of other online opportunities that WA is not a program that will guarantee a member becomes a millionaire several weeks after his/her business is created.

Yeah, Kyle and Carson are such awful people, Lynne. Just this week, I have had the opportunity of having Kyle twice reply back to my private messages, taking time out of his day to try and give me recommendations to improve my business. I know that daily Kyle must answer several dozen different messages from other members, MINIMUM, (and I could be way off). Yep, this proves that Kyle does not care about his members. NOT!!!!!!!!!!

Truth be told and I wish every jerk who takes the time to bash WA could comprehend, (if he/she was mentally capable of doing so) the untold amounts of money that Kyle and Carson each have personally invested back into the company, designed to improve WA and, benefiting every member. This includes updated training, hosting services, (unmatched by practically any other like company), live training and so on.

If a member of WA (as is an option) is paying at the yearly level, the monthly price of around $22 is an absolute STEAL with everything that is available here at WA involving training, tools and community support. All of this put together allows people to slowly build financially successful online businesses.

The thing is that it is up to the individual member here at WA to take all that is offered and put it to good use - working his/her tail off daily to grow an online business. If he/she is unwilling to do it - the guilty individual would be the reflection staring back at him/her while looking into a mirror.

Great article, Lynne!

Great post but I nearly missed it because your title says the opposite, and jokes don't always travel well in writing.

Congrats on your great success, that was also my take of reviews, he didn't tell people to write bad reviews, the successful people don't write bad reviews, and if people are being lazy and inaccurate then whose job is it to babysit 800,000 plus bloggers - no one here polices their reviews - however it is up to anyone who receives a negative inaccurate review to make enquiries and complain with integrity - not to use it as an excuse to carry out an orchestrated attack on an entire platform belonging to a competitor that is as slanderous as a US presidential election.

These people are saying very untrue things in their 'reviews', one girl in their crew even said she left WA because of the upsells but in almost 3 years here I can say there are no upsells at all, it is very direct in its pricing unlike most if not all other places I've investigated.

They also directly insulted every single member of WA, how crazy is it to generalize like that, although having visited them I see that they had an army all saying the same thing - but we here are individuals ;)

You are a great example of a real success and what's possible when people use the resources at hand.

I just think there are so many of us WA Bootcampers dominating Google, that it's making other bloggers/marketers jealous because they can't compete.

They may attack WA, but in the end, it's gonna backfire because since WA offers a free test-drive, newbies are gonna experience for themselves just how much value is here. ;)

GOOD always beats EVIL. ;)

Lets see the training works, the hosting is some of the best around, if you signup a paid referral they pay you month after month with out fail and there is a great community of people who quickly become friends to support you.

Wait that sound exactly like a scam. What do we do? Run Run Run.

I was taught a long time ago if someone is not saying bad things about you that you are not doing anything. Kyle and Carson put targets on their backs when they succeeded.

Here is the other thing to consider. In marketing many times negative publicity can be just as good or better than positive publicity. It gets people talking about you and checking out your site for themselves.

So haters go ahead and hate because when people see adds saying "Is Wealthy Affiliate a scam find out for yourself." and other such ads they will have sent people to us.

Ride the wave of publicity and take advantage of their hate talk. It will pay off. Time to get referrals while people are talking about us.

It's actually a compliment. Bad reviews are a way to lure people away from what is perceived in the industry as a model for others. WA is the best training I've ever seen, as a teacher for over 20 years, I think I"m qualified to make that statement. When you're at the top of something, people will always try to knock you down.

Kyle and Carson seem to be sailing along quite nicely, so I guess it doesn't really bother them. ;-)

It is sad, and it's frustrating, and.... it's the internet.

I feel bad for Kyle and Carson, of course, but I feel worse for all the people who could benefit from WA, who might be turned away due to this garbage.

I personally haven't seen negative reviews other than what gets discussed here, but I know they are out there. WA, being the leader, is of course going to be a target. They amount of time and energy put into discrediting it is indicative of how effective WA is. And of course, being a solid, ethical, effective enterprise, those other guys have no real dirt to sling, so they have to make stuff up.

I know they best thing is to ignore them while continuing to support and promote WA, but it's a bit tough to do.

There are many people outside that want to destroy WA. But, the point is; if someone has tried WA, couldn't write such a bad reviews.

I've joined WA since 2016, I left WA after two months, but I come back again and also made some money.

At the first time, I could write some bad reviews against WA, because I didn't earn anything. But, It wasn't WA's fault that I didn't get enough effort. It was my fault.

In addition, I'm a non-native English speaker that learned English by myself then WA taught me how to create content and make money.

So, this is very sad when I see those terrible reviews against WA.

Very good points Lynn. Comparison reviews are a common technique to call attention to your own product and can do well if they are done honestly. Those doing trash reviews to somehow make their own product look good only degrade their own business and credibility. I don't worry about them because the usually stay around long.

Yeah why are you paying monthly fees??? You should have gone annual by now girl!!! Like I have and save yourself some money!!

Omg Lynne, when I couldn't sleep last night I read a lot of your blogs that I don't know how I missed them and I have to tell you how similar our story is on some points! I really would like to pm you to talk more! My story is not yet 20k unique visitors though. Lol

Well said, Lynne!

I expect the fake WA scam reviews will intensify in the near term. Mark Ling is launching his LearnBuildEarn 2017 product shortly. It is the latest version of his Affilorama product line. With a price tag of almost $2500.00, I expect to see more negative reviews of WA as affiliates promote LBE.