PAGE 1 – Why you should take the time to decide which course to take

PAGE 2 – Why finding your personal niche is really the best way to start

PAGE 3 – What is the Certification Course and why I recommend you start here

PAGE 4 – What is Affiliate Bootcamp and why I recommend that you do not start here

Many newbies to the Wealthy Affiliate training platform come here with various different expectations and goals. But the majority come here to learn how to earn revenue online while working from home and doing so in a way that is fun.


Though this is a concept that is quite attractive, it does require some smart planning before setting off on your training and building journey. Unfortunately many are so over-excited or overwhelmed by this concept and they draw a blank when having to choose a niche.

Choosing your niche is the important first step and it should be your choice. There will be those who make the mistake of thinking that the niche they have selected is too competitive and/or over saturated. These are both concerns that are highly overrated.

ANY NICHE CAN BE PROFITABLE

You can be quite profitable in any niche market you choose to be involved with. The trick is not to choose a niche based on how much money you think you can earn but rather how much information you can provide to help people who are interested in your niche.

It is relatively important to select a niche you have a passion for, one you have a great interest in, because it will show in the content you write. When you are passionate about something, what can most of us do with that passion? Talk endlessly about it.


Think of it this way. If you wanted to take a road trip with your friend and you had a couple of exciting destinations in mind but cannot choose which one, would you feel happy if your friend picked a different destination and told you they would guide you there?

At first it might seem like an exciting concept. But after hours of them telling you which turn to make and which road to take, not knowing when your destination would come, could make you lose interest. This is not what you want to happen when choosing the niche for your website business.

Take the time to learn the simple concept of what is a niche and which niches you are involved with. We are all involved with many niches every single day, just pick the one that you enjoy the most. Do not think that this will be your only niche website. You will more than likely create a few as the years go by.

NEXT UP = Why choosing your own niche will yield better results in the long run.



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NileshMistry Premium
Thank you for this, very helpful. I have been struggling with this because I have read and learnt a lot about making money online, but have never actually done it for various reasons. I do enjoy the subject and want to go into personal development, life coaching and internet business, that kind of thing. so I wasn't sure if I should do that and take the bootamp course. After reading this it sounds like I should leave the personal development stuff for now, and come back to it later, is that rite?
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bill808 Premium Plus
I don't want to put words in boomers mouth. I consider him one of my major mentors here at WA. But, I think you may have misunderstood.

You have your niche in personal development, I share your interest in that niche. We will each approach that niche differently and will undoubtedly focus on different aspects of the niche.
Based on Boomers advice, I am going to take the entrepreneur certification course again and this time I am going to take note and summarize the training on my website with links to the more intensive WA training.

If you take the course and methodically apply what you learn to your website you will have a very productive site by the time you complete the cleass. I got my certification a couple of years ago and I'm sure I will get much more out of the refresher.

You do not have to postpone working your niche until you know everything. Apply what you learn as you go along and you will be developing a webite to promote your niche.
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NileshMistry Premium
Got you, thanks a lot.!
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boomergp08 Premium
You can still keep your niche of Personal Development while doing the Online Entrepreneur Certification Course. There are many products and services in this niche you can promote and the OECC is the correct course to do this in.

Affiliate Bootcamp is for the promotion of WA. And though WA could fall into one of the products of personal development, it will be difficult to promote it if you do not know how it will benefit people through its training.

There are many things you will learn in OECC that are not taught in Affiliate Bootcamp, like finding various affiliate program networks and finding the thousands of niche markets you can make money in.

By completing the OECC first you will get a better understanding of how WA can help the complete beginner to create a website business in ANY niche without having to promote WA itself. Once you can understand this, it will be easier for you to promote WA in Bootcamp.
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NileshMistry Premium
Thank you very much, I'm a lot more clear about things now, really helpful, thanks! it seems so simple now, not really sure why I was getting confused.
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boomergp08 Premium
You are welcome. You were getting confused because this is a learning curve that we all go through.
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sbhowmik Premium
First mistake of newbies are to chose niche quickly and start building website without doing much research on the subject. But I don't blame them for doing that ( I am a victim ) because that is how the WA is designed. Newbies want to start website within the free membership time period and complete as much as training they can grasp without being matured on that subject. Sorry to tell but there are lots of superficial advice on WA which does not help newbies much. Thanks for your article!
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boomergp08 Premium
Yes, I agree and that is why I always stress to newbies, as well as try to help them, to take time and find a niche. Every single one of us are involved in dozens of niches and most times on a daily basis.

I can find niches for people just by talking to them for a bit, finding out what they like and what they enjoy doing. It is not hard to find many niches. But newbies want to make money quickly and that is just not how it happens.

They then give up on the simple process of finding a niche and just accept Bootcamp. But if being in the MMO niche is not a good fit for them, they will most likely fail. This is why they need to take their time and find a niche they like. Everyone has something they like doing or using.
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sbhowmik Premium
Thanks for your reply! "Slow and steady wins the race" is the right phrase to become successful atWA in my judgement. But it needs regular work ,research and most important all those certification courses/bootcamp. Yes, you are right, because of your maturity you can find niche by talking to the person. I think every newbie will be like that after couple of years.
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boomergp08 Premium
Slow and steady always wins the race when it comes to anything one will build that will bring about success. But my point about not being able to complete the simple process of finding a niche one is into has nothing to do with my maturity.

When I joined WA I had no idea what a niche was really all about and then Kyle said that it is a group of people looking for a specific product or service. That is a very simple and easy to understand explanation.

Millions of people wear waterproof leather boots
Millions of people drive pickup trucks
Millions of people like traveling to Disney World
Millions of people buy baby clothing
Millions of people enjoy the movie Star Wars
Millions of people play video games
Millions of people use an iPhone
Millions of people want to live healthier lives
Millions of people love watching sports
Millions of people buy t-shirts
Millions of people wear athletic shoes
Millions of people enjoy flat screen TVs

The above twelve are all niche markets. Go to a newsstand and look at the magazine rack. Each of those magazines represent a niche market. So understanding what is a niche is simple. To find in oneself what a person enjoys should be a simple process too.

But many newbies, not all, wrongfully search out a niche that they feel will be the most profitable for them. Again like Kyle says in the training, every niche can be profitable and when it is a niche your have an interest in, you can create content that will convert.
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TracyIrv Premium
Thanks and I agree. I felt as a new person to building a website I wanted to concentrate on that first, and social networks.
As a traveller ( I constantly travel) I actually found signing up to Affiliate companies a nightmare, as they all want an address, a phone number, a bank account....etc.
This is all very well if you are living in one home, but I don't. I have been on the road over 2 years.
Also, importing and exporting goods is a nightmare if in the cosmetics industry, which I am.
I am still struggling with that.
Amazon....only pay into a bank account if you have an address in the USA, otherwise it's a cheque! ...to a home address.
All these things have pushed me to leave the affiliate Bootcamp to the end, Lol.
I am glad I have been concentrating on the lessons first.
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boomergp08 Premium
Yes, I can see how doing almost anything that requires an actual street address must be troubling, to say the least.
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TracyIrv Premium
Nice image of lady on her laptop. Pixabay?
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boomergp08 Premium
Yes. Pixabay is one of my two most favorite free image resource websites.
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TaniaHersel Premium
Thank you for this. I started the certification course and rushed it which lead to me getting overwhelmed and still making mistakes. The best advice I got was to do the course step by step, slow down. Only this week I discovered what Boot camp was about. Once certification course is done, will then move onto Boot camp.
Thank you for this training it will help new members get on track.
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boomergp08 Premium
You are welcome. Yes, always do the training in a slow step by step process. You can never rush success. Finish the Certification Course first and then going on to Bootcamp, if desired, is the correct way to go about having successful affiliate marketing websites in my opinion.
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ladyluck2013 Premium Plus
Hi Robert,
I have been with WA since 2013 and I've never really understood the difference between the Affiliate Bootcamp and the Certification Courses--until now. I started with the Affiliate Bootcamp first because I did not have a niche. What you have said in this post makes a lot of sense, so I will start the Certification Course and see what happens. Thanks for explaining the difference between the two courses.
Deidre
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boomergp08 Premium
You are welcome Deidre. I did this training because I see a lot of newbies starting with Bootcamp and then later on not seeing any results, with some of them quitting WA.

There is a reason Kyle, Carson and everyone eho promotes WA, will recommend a newbie start with the Certification Course first. Because it will teach you EVERYTHING.
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MrKent Premium
Nice article Boomer. I started with the certification course about 9 months ago and build my first niche blog. Right now I just started my 2nd blog which is a WA affiliate site.

I probably shouldn't do this but I find that I'm flying through the bootcamp with no problems, even skipping some parts cause I already know how to do a lot of things. This could be a mistake though because my 2nd site has not been indexed by google yet and its been 10 days, had I missed something? If it doesn't get indexed in another week I'll have to go over everything again slowly... ah, should have just done that the first time.

I plan on having 4-5 blogs in the next year or two. diversification is the key to a reliable passive income, you never wanna put all your eggs on one site.
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boomergp08 Premium
Thank you Kent. And yes, even though you know a lot of the things being taught in Bootcamp because you learned them in the Certification Course, you should NOT skip over them.

At the very least skim through them because there will always be some little thing you may have forgotten or that me be explained in a slightly more understandable way.

If you want to see right away what if any of your website has been indexed, just go to Google and do a site search by typing

site:yourdomainname

Make sure your domain name does not have the www or the https in front of it.
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