Why I don't take the Black Friday offer

okay, I have to admit: it's a GOOD offer: $299 for a whole year of Wealthy Affiliate Premium membership. I count that as half the price of monthly installments.

However,

• you have to have the money available
• you have to be sure that you're going to stay with WA for more than 5 months
• you have to fit with the WA style of teaching and community

The third is a big YES for me. That's an easy one.

The first two are more difficult.

Yes, I can free up $299, but do I want to use that money here, or can I use it better on other stuff during this month of gifts and more gifts? I think the latter.

Which brings me to the second point:

Will I be staying with WA for more than 5 months?

I ask myself this question because if I stay only for 5 months, I'll be paying $250, which is less than the black friday offer. And after all it's a numbers game, so in that case I would not get the offer.

The whole issue here is that I'm very new to affiliate marketing, and especially new to the WA style of affiliate marketing, which, imho is the best style.
I'm so new that I can't be sure yet where I'll be going with my online endeavors.

So, what can I get out of WA during 5 months, and what would be left after that?

During the coming months, I'm certainly going to follow through on the Certification courses. I'm at level 3 now, so 3 levels to go. I'm guessing that'll take me 2 months.

After that I'm intent on doing the Affiliate Classroom. I'm guessing another 2 months.

After that, what's in WA for me?

• The community,
• the hosting,
• the Keyword Tool, and
  
• the ongoing training

The community is nice, and a quick place to get opinions, but for answers to specific questions, I can turn to google easily. Isn't the community included in the free plan anyway?

The hosting is NICE on WA. Top notch. Would I pay $25 per month for that? No, I can get it cheaper elsewhere. Yes, the support would be much less good, but how often do I really need support?

The Keyword Tool is okay, I guess, but I think Jaaxy is better. But I don't pay for that either ;-) Kyle did mention on a few accounts that there is something coming up in december related to Jaaxy and WA... That would be an interesting feature to have. But still, I don't know if I want to pay monthly for that, or rather for a couple of months, and then leave it at that until I have a new need for keyword research?
Take into account that I'm new at affiliate marketing. I still don't know how I'm exactly going to fit this into my life. I don't know if keyword research is something that I'm going to do on a regular basis or only once in a while.

The ongoing training is interesting to keep up with the market. However, depending on how I'm going to fit affiliate marketing into my life I'll be wanting this from WA or I'm going to read up on blogs here and there.

Concluding,

I will be following through with courses here on WA and participating in the community for about 4 months. I'll gladly pay $50,- per month for that. That's great value for my money.

After that I'll either go free or annual.

That will depend on if I see money coming in then, in which case I'll sign up for the yearly $349 offer.

If I don't see money coming in, I'll have to think hard what I'm going to do. That choice I'm going to postpone until then. No need to break my head over that right now.

So for now, I'm sticking with the regular Premium membership, paid monthly.

If all works out as I have planned, in about 4 months I'm going to sign up for the yearly subscription, and next year I'm going for the 2018 Black Friday offer, which will probably be even better than this year's :-)

The Plan: