Come to Wealthy Affiliate with a Positive Attitude
If you come in here thinking WA is probably not unlike the other training programs you might have visited, you're not giving the platform, the membership and community a chance.
You've already presupposed what's here and if you do this, you probably won't get involved as you should.
Sadly, we've had new members come in here with such a negative mindset already formulated that, when they came in here, they made war! Sad! So sad! None of these kind of people stay around very long - because they placed images in their minds before they have ever been here, what Wealthy Affiliate is!
Very fortunately, this issue rarely crops up, but it has.
Come to Wealthy Affiliate with an open mind.
Try it.
Work it.
Make what's in here yours.
Make yourself at home!
What you say it's true. But it's too harsh, and somehow goes around the straight answer. Those questions are natural and logical. We have all come here to earn money.
I think it would have been more honest just to say: "People, if you don't have any kind of financial backup, don't rely on the business you opened through WA. Here is simply a school, that you have to pay for, for at least one or two years, till you can actually earn enough to sustain yourselves from your websites."
OK, you can elaborate a lot starting from here, but what would be the point? This is true. Any senior here knows it.
There are people here, who mention how much they earn. No secret at all. Ivetriedthat says in his site, he earns like $6000 a month and his site is from 2007 (I'm not exactly sure) and Nathaniel says he has MANY websites (by many I understand like 20) running for good years, and that there are months with almost no money and months with $11000.
And I think this kind of honesty is enough for everybody to get an idea.
Laura
Like the majority of people who first join WA, I too, was looking for a great way to make legit cash overnight. While I knew logically that it doesn't work that way, I was willing to hope that I might be able to pull it off.
Needless to say, I wasn't. But that hasn't in any way made me think less of WA. It's like you say - there's no such thing as overnight success.
One thing I would like to point out that is not a new concept, but one that we constantly need to remind ourselves of is that what we're doing here is starting a business.
As a retailer myself I know that a brick-and-mortar business starts off with an investment of capital and slowly but surely, as the business takes off, and the money comes in, debts begin to get paid off and only after that does the profit show itself.
It takes time, patience, effort, time, perseverance and, dare I say it?, time, to achieve the goals that we set for ourselves. Embrace the journey!