My Path to Wealthy Affiliate

byt-Dubs

232 followers

Updated 5 years ago

My experience over the past month (and earlier):

I started working for myself, reselling electricity for a company called Kynect (formerly Stream) about a year and a half ago. While I was able to make money doing this, I just didn't particularly enjoy the sales life. I am a naturally outgoing person, but I just don't like using that God-given attribute for sales (I couldn't help but feel like a cheap used car salesman).

Enter Wealthy Affiliate. The value was immediately obvious to me:

1. Choose something that you're passionate about (or at least that you can write about prodigiously; being passionate about your niche isn't required but it helps!)
2. Write about it! Have fun with it. People respond to authenticity.
3. Link to it! Sign up for affiliate programs, right here at WA! They have gathered hundreds (if not more) of affiliate programs to register for.
4. Get paid! Let's be honest: Everyone is here for one thing: we want an easier, better, and/or more personally gratifying way of earning a living. When people ask me what it costs to sign up here, my answer is: "What does it cost you to stay where you are now? Self-respect? Peace of mind? Family time? Personal time? We're all paying to be where we are in life. Perhaps a better question to ask is: Can I afford not to do this? I have been here for just over a month, and I have been ranked on google, been declined for (and subsequently approved for) an affiliate program, sold enough stuff to pay for my first month through my affiliate links on Amazon, and I have been able to spend much more quality time with my sons (my niche is "stay at home dads"). The most personally gratifying thing of all is that I am, after years of struggling to find something I enjoyed and getting paid a fraction of the value of the time I was spending to be there, finally excited about the future!

If I could give you one piece unsolicited advice, it would be this: Follow the training.

When in doubt about what to do next, write! Then you should write, followed by some writing, with some writing on the side. Write for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and desert. Write for snacks. Write when you're tired, when you're rested, when you're happy, sad, hungry, hangry, and everything in between.

Stop going out on the weekends. Instead, watch a training video, learn about word press, sign up for affiliate programs, such as Amazon; a great choice for newcomers, since it doesn't cost anything to verify your account, and if you don't sell anything in the first 120 days, all you need to do is re-register your account) If your friends don't like it, get new friends. Surround yourself with people who support you. Register for a wordpress.org word camp event near you. Pro tip: If money is tight like mine is, volunteer to help out at the event. You'll get a ticket for free. If you want to maximize your time there, volunteer for an early lecture and a late lecture, bring your laptop, and attend all the classes in between for free.

Finally, ask for help. If you're stuck on something, ask the community for help! We are all, myself included, here to help. We genuinely want to see you succeed, achieve your goals, and fire your boss! I am available to you at any time for any reason. If I don't know the answer, I will ask someone who does! That's the difference between this community and the rest: Wealthy Affiliates legitimately wants to make all affiliates wealthy!

Regards,

~Tom