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What Is Wealthy Affiliate?
Ty Johnson
Published on October 31, 2012
Published on Wealthy Affiliate — a platform for building real online businesses with modern training and AI.
Wealthy Affiliate is a lot of things to a lot of people. To me it represents honesty and places people before profits. Not that Wealthy Affiliate doesn't make a ton of revenue but that is precisely my point.
Let me explain what I mean. OK, over the years we have all seen many companies start out with a great product at a fair price and we have watched as these companies build their reputations and wow their customers.
Then what happens the bean counters show up and ruin everything by forgetting that it's their customers who make that company who they are. All of a sudden they start to give you less and charge you more, kinda like a McDonald's Big Mac.
Over the years I have watched so many companies do this to their customers and tho we have all grown accustom to it frankly I am just dead tired of it! I mean look I understand that operating cost go up and sometimes prices must be raised but must I also get less for that larger amount of money?
This is what has really impressed me about Wealthy Affiliate over the past year. When I joined here WA had two membership types, I think they called it Gold and Platinum or something like that. The point is one was $47 and the other was $97.
For $47 you got 3 websites hosted, I think it was about 100 monthly searches on the keyword tool and of course full access to the training and the live chat feature.
Shortly after I joined they made it 10 free websites hosted.
Then not long after that maybe about the time the new WA Open Education Project was launched they did away with the $97 dollar accounts and just gave everyone everything for the $47 per month.
I could not hardly believe what I was seeing! Where most companies start taking things away and jacking up the price at the same time WA was actually giving me more and lowering the price!
They have made more and more improvements since then as well like they went with a free 10 day trial for a few months but after awhile they removed the time restraint from the started accounts so now you can be a free member for as long as you like. They also started giving free members 2 free websites on their siterubix sub-domain for free with free hosting for life!
They decided I guess while they were at it they would allow premium members to have unlimited siterubix websites as well lol
So when you ask me what wealthy Affiliate is to me, The answer is WA is the role model for how all businesses should be run. It's the one place where the people come before the profit.
The funny thing about this concept that most people don't seem to understand because they are so blinded by greed they forget the customer is that by doing this WA has grown and expanded and is making more money than ever before!
Greed is just stupid and when people or companies get greedy no one wins not even the company. Something to keep in mind as you grow your business online and start to make money or if you ever decided to start a brick and mortar business because this same principle applies in all businesses.
Thanks for reading. let me know below what Wealthy Affiliate is to you!
Let me explain what I mean. OK, over the years we have all seen many companies start out with a great product at a fair price and we have watched as these companies build their reputations and wow their customers.
Then what happens the bean counters show up and ruin everything by forgetting that it's their customers who make that company who they are. All of a sudden they start to give you less and charge you more, kinda like a McDonald's Big Mac.
Over the years I have watched so many companies do this to their customers and tho we have all grown accustom to it frankly I am just dead tired of it! I mean look I understand that operating cost go up and sometimes prices must be raised but must I also get less for that larger amount of money?
This is what has really impressed me about Wealthy Affiliate over the past year. When I joined here WA had two membership types, I think they called it Gold and Platinum or something like that. The point is one was $47 and the other was $97.
For $47 you got 3 websites hosted, I think it was about 100 monthly searches on the keyword tool and of course full access to the training and the live chat feature.
Shortly after I joined they made it 10 free websites hosted.
Then not long after that maybe about the time the new WA Open Education Project was launched they did away with the $97 dollar accounts and just gave everyone everything for the $47 per month.
I could not hardly believe what I was seeing! Where most companies start taking things away and jacking up the price at the same time WA was actually giving me more and lowering the price!
They have made more and more improvements since then as well like they went with a free 10 day trial for a few months but after awhile they removed the time restraint from the started accounts so now you can be a free member for as long as you like. They also started giving free members 2 free websites on their siterubix sub-domain for free with free hosting for life!
They decided I guess while they were at it they would allow premium members to have unlimited siterubix websites as well lol
So when you ask me what wealthy Affiliate is to me, The answer is WA is the role model for how all businesses should be run. It's the one place where the people come before the profit.
The funny thing about this concept that most people don't seem to understand because they are so blinded by greed they forget the customer is that by doing this WA has grown and expanded and is making more money than ever before!
Greed is just stupid and when people or companies get greedy no one wins not even the company. Something to keep in mind as you grow your business online and start to make money or if you ever decided to start a brick and mortar business because this same principle applies in all businesses.
Thanks for reading. let me know below what Wealthy Affiliate is to you!
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