Rule: If your finances require a free website, then WA is for you. You get one free bite of the Apple, every day for one week. If you come with a large appetite and stay at the table several hours each day, it is possible to take all the training available at the free level and build two websites that are actually able to create income for you.
Tip: After the first week your access to the help from others markedly decreases, however as I understand it, your websites will still be working for you.
What will happen: You will receive wonderful offers to upgrade to a premium membership in wealthy affiliate. It is truly A remarkable deal at full price. If you have developed and income stream at the very beginning, of your fund for your membership. If Not, and you see that you can go ahead and develop that income stream without a premium membership, do that first. Otherwise finance the cost of your membership, and rapidly make it work for you.
Consequences: if you do not pay your membership fee, after you become a premium member, you risk losing all the work that you have put into the website and into your own websites.
You've sure understood the marketing part. Helping others is where we earn our keep. Within or without WA. You've put up information without asking anything in return. A + Value.
We must all become highly skilled at marketing if we wish to succeed. But not just here. Even though it is fun to interact starting out...Within the community. We fully need to set high intentions on building a real business where we earn income, outside of the safe and secure shelter here at WA.
I worked 8 hour days here on the WA site trying to improve my rank. Didn't know at the time that it was more of a waste of time for me. As I needed to earn money badly. I even eventually became a level 6. Yet I was not making any money. I would spend all my time here helping others and for that I got very little. Sure I may have learned a few things and a few things not to do. :)
Great information for newcomers for sure. Just let them also know in your next Rendgade Rules that the sooner they are able to branch out to promoting themselves away from WA, the sooner they will earn their income.
As good as it is to practice marketing here. I believe my learning came from following those that were so much more advanced. I actually was steered wrong on a few occasions within the community here. But that stuff happens everywhere. Lessons are what we are here to learn in the first place.
And I like yours.