I've seen this more than I would like to...
Some people come in here and continue to ask the same questions over and over again, often, the ones presented here. I'm now downing anyone who asks these questions, but when the same person keeps asking them day after day during the first couple weeks they're here tells me they are NOT doing the work! This does happen from time to time from folks who will not follow simple instructions and let the resources answer these questions for them.
It is often the case where folks come in here and ask these questions. It's human nature, but this too, is what the community is for - to direct such folks to the lessons and bid them to ask about things they don't understand.
It is normal for anyone to ask questions about things that are new to them and what's presented here is no exception. We're all here to get you going on the right path...
There are outstanding courses and other resources offered to both Starter Members and Premium Members alike. I have literally seen paid memberships and products elsewhere that don't measure up to what Wealthy Affiliate offers in the Starter Membership. I do reviews and I've seen this first hand several times over!
The lessons offered on Wealthy Affiliate will adequately answer the three, and similar questions featured above!
Do the work!
Get involved with the community.
Ask questions if you can't understand something.
Make comments.
Make friends.
This community is here for you. It is an aggregation of like-minded people on here, all aspiring to be, or are already effective entrepreneurs who have laid aside the mediocre semblence of the jobs they hate and the wage slavery they are (or were) in with.
Wealthy Affiliate is wonderful instruction and discipline on developing the mindset of an entrepreneur and the abolishment of the mindset of an employee!
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!