Negative Wealthy Affiliate Reviews Online.

Negative Wealthy Affiliate Reviews Online.

You know, I read a WA review the other day by a former member here and to be honest, it didn't read too well. Steve (not real name) wrote his review fairly recently and was pretty scathing about virtually everything relating to Wealthy Affiliate and stated that, in his opinion, it wasn't worth wasting money on!

I have to admit that a few of the points he raised did seem fair but, like most reviews, his main reasoning was centred around the idea of "this is no good so try this" and he offered his readers a list of alternative sites that he considered to be "better" than Wealthy Affiliate.

Apparently Steve started his online journey in 2010, not here, and came to WA last year ie 9 years into his online marketing journey and with 9 years previous experience. As I was reading the review I realised that he was coming at it from a totally disingenuous perspective, let me explain.....

Here was Steve, a veteran in online marketing terms, ripping WA apart, using stats and graphs that would have been beyond a beginner to put together to make his point about how useless WA is. That the training was too basic, too haphazard, too out of date, the community was more like a cult and of no use to man nor beast etc etc

The point being that, as far as I'm concerned WA, is not the place that a veteran marketer would come to because they are not commencing their online marketing career. For me, Wealthy Affiliate is generally the starting place for those people who have never been in the industry before or who had been but had had no previous success or who had been scammed elsewhere.

I had mulled over writing about this for a few days but was inspired to publish it finally after reading a couple of other blogs today. One is from Catherine who asks about whether or not some long standing training would be updated to which Kyle puts it all to bed and the other is from Nathaniell who gives us his thoughts about being a member here for 10 years. That's not he joined as a 10 year internet veteran, he joined as a newbie like hundreds of thousands of others and is STILL here 10 years later!
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/wa-affiliate-program/will-wa-be-updating-its-training
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/nathaniell/blog/10-year-anniversary-at-wealthy-affiliate
To my mind Steve was completely missing the point, but what was his point I wonder?

Could it be that all of the alternatives he offered were priced in the $500-$1,000 bracket, paid up front of course!

Is Wealthy Affiliate perfect? Well, no, we know it isn't perfect but is it a brilliant training, learning and supportive resource for newcomers and fantastic value to boot? Absolutely!

So, never worry about any negative reviews you might come across when thinking about recommending Wealthy Affiliate. Tell the truth in your own reviews, warts and all, good and bad, and your viewers will respect you for it. You never know, some of them might even join you in spite of Steve's review!

Happy Hunting

Mark