An Ill-Educated Perspective.
I had a coffee this afternoon with my uncle in town, we were talking and brought up the topic of Wealthy Affiliate and online business.
Earlier on in the week, my uncle had asked about the work I was doing online, so I had recommended that he check out the WA website.
As we were having our coffee, I mentioned how busy I had been with this work in the last few months.
My uncle's initial response was: "Well I went to the Wealthy Affiliate website and it says you can create an online business in a few simple steps".
Which is true. For example, how many other platforms out there allow you to create websites in 30 seconds or less, right? Not many, I can tell you.
What my uncle didn't realise was that comparatively, not only does this platform save us time and money, there is a lot less work to do in the long term as compared to what the cash-hungry "gurus" out there have to offer.
The difference between WA and the vast majority of the other platforms out there on the Internet is that WA doesn't purport to be something it is not.
The sad reality is that any service that purports to lead to instant results or overnight success is a lie.
Our default mindset often leads us to believe that these systems are the ones that will work - these scammers are good at their craft.
And our default mindset usually happens to be the "Scams work!" mindset, until we're informed otherwise (no offense, Uncle!).
It shouldn't take a genius to figure out that these two-faced hermaphrodites are outright scammers... but unfortunately it usually does.
I speak from experience too - in the past I trialed our several of the other platforms that proclaim to make you rich within a month or less. After pumping my time and financial resources into these "success systems", I soon realised that they were all as fraudulent as each other.
Was I glad to find WA!
So, although it takes time and effort to build up our online businesses here at WA, we can rest assured that our time is being invested wisely and we're not falling victim to the empty promises of the so-called gurus.
Hope y'all are having a wonderful weekend!
Thomas :)
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Thank you Mac, i fell for scammers and I still have to be careful. Sometimes it really looks as if they hace my best interest at heart. Really awful, in fact I was looking into a scam when I found WA.
Yes they are masters of doing this, especially with all the "success stories" they rattle off. Same here, I Googled the name of a system I'd just signed up for and the first thing that came up was a bad review of this that recommended WA instead. Cheers.
I am agreeing totally in what you are saying. It is unfortunate that we are so willing to fall victims to the scammers because they promise "instant gratification - i.e. money" - while we all know deep down that you can never become rich without putting in the effort.
That is unless you're born with a silver spoon, or you profit from the work of other people...
So when your Uncle said that WA promises to show us how we can create an online business in 4 steps it is correct, but he apparently did not read that there is a requires effort on your part before you can claim the promised reward, and online business!
Cheers
rolfkb
Exactly right Rolfkb, you've summed it up well. Yes unless we're one of those lucky ones who win the lottery or are born rich as you say, there must be work involved, there are no two ways about it!
Thanks for your contribution, all the best to you.
Experience! Ah, she is the toughest teacher. What a sigh of relief many of us have had, when we realized just how different WA is from the other somewhat secretive platforms, with their seemingly endless stream of member up-sell offers; and less than targeted, less than effective training; and with their proprietary, windows-only software (even though Macs are shown predominantly in their video ads); and with their soon-apparent goals of building their email list and a small, focused army of JV's; and the list goes on.
Yes, WA is a launching platform and a collective of fine teachers (like you), as well.
Good thoughts, Thomas!
--Fran
Many thanks, Fran! It seems you've been able to identify the common characteristics of the scams out there, if they have one or more of these qualities most often they're not even worth thinking about.
Keep up the good work!
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Thanks for the post, Thomas. I checked out a lot of other things before finding WA. A little Googling will usually prove sufficient to discard most of them as being Fraudulent. WA is head and shoulders above the others!-Rick
No worries, Rick. I bet your were glad to find WA then! Yes I've heard over 90% of the other platforms out there are scams or sub-par systems. Doesn't surprise me at all. Cheers man!
Top 100 too, well done!
Thank you, Buddy! :)
Very glad to find WA! Best Regards, Thomas-Rick