I'm glad you made it!
It's Damian from The Educated Affiliate
STEP 1
What interests you? What are you passionate about? We all have a hobby or something that gets us excited and motivated when we think about it. There are MILLIONS of different ideas that you could potentially tap into online and we are going to help you come up with your very own “topic” within Wealthy Affiliate.
Let’s say for example I was interested in “learning to play a guitar”. That could be the start of my idea for my website and what my business is built off of. There are 3.75 BILLION people online and regardless of the topic you choose, you can be very successful!
This can be absolutely anything that interests you and we even have pre-selected topics and training on how to narrow down your topic within Wealthy Affiliate. The goal is to have FUN with what you are doing. ZERO experience necessary.
When you choose a passion, success is much more likely to follow and it WILL follow when you are a member of Wealthy Affiliate.
STEP 2
Building your very own website is SIMPLE within Wealthy Affiliate. The process takes less than 30 seconds to build a beautiful looking, mobile-ready, and revenue ready website. Your website is going to be the foundation of your business and what will ultimately lead to a successful venture.
Think of your website as your “storefront” for your business. All activity and all revenue will be generated as a result of your website and there are MANY ways you can generate this revenue. We are going to teach you all about that!
At WealthyAffiliate.com you have access to the most advanced website and hosting platform in the world. A platform built for the most sophisticated online entrepreneurs from a technical standpoint, but from an ease of use standpoint it is an experience that any newbie can thrive within.
STEP 3
Your goal before you try to make money with any website is to focus on getting actual people to that website. Without people, you have nobody to sell or advertise to. This is a critical aspect of your business.
Within the first few lessons at Wealthy Affiliate you are going to be learning all about the most current traffic techniques and how you can get an ABUNDANCE of relevant customers to your website through rankings in all the search engines...like Google, Bing & Yahoo.
In 2017 there are over 3.75 BILLION active Internet users searching for information, looking for solutions to their problems, and purchasing products/services. This is YOUR audience and this is the reality of the opportunity!
When you understand how to capitalize on this audience, you hold the potential to create and grow a business in any “niche” or interest that you wish.
We are going to help you capitalize on the most current traffic methods, from Search Engine Optimization, to Facebook and Social Media, to Pay Per Click. We provide you with the world’s most advanced set of tools and give you full access to network with industry experts.
STEP 4
Once you have an audience (traffic), one way you can drive revenue to your website is through special programs called “affiliate programs” which are completely free to join.
Affiliate programs allow you to promote pretty much anything you can imagine without having to own or create the product yourself. No inventory. No shipping. No product support. And you can be located and operate your business from anywhere in the world.
As an affiliate marketer you will send the traffic to the company website, they pay you a commission of up to 75% if your visitors buy something.
Just one example is becoming an “affiliate” of Amazon.com. As an affiliate you can promote over 488 MILLION products on Amazon and earn a commission of 6-10%. A single referral can lead to $1,000’s in commissions to you!
Amazon is just one such example, there are over 100,000 affiliate programs that you can join, just about every product you can imagine has an affiliate program.
As an affiliate you are going to be highly sought after, in particular with the skill set you are going to be obtaining very quickly within Wealthy Affiliate!
Last year alone, the affiliate marketing industry generated over $3.4 billon in sales. Many of the industries top affiliates are members of the Wealthy Affiliate community, the LARGEST affiliate marketing community in the world boasting over 850,000 affiliates!
Spending online continues to rise as each year passes and affiliate marketers are only continuing to see explosive growth in their businesses online. Are you ready to take advantage of this and become part of the thriving community that you will quickly come to love called Wealthy Affiliate?
There are MILLIONS of products/services that you can promote as an affiliate. Here are a few example products that you can promote as an affiliate (and your affiliate commissions).
For example, there are over 1,357,122 different types of “guitar” on Amazon alone, and you can earn commissions for promoting any one of them. That is just one affiliate program of MANY.
Once you understand how the “initial” process works and how to get traffic, there are MANY more ways in which you can make money from your website. We teach you all about the proper techniques to build, and scale your business at Wealthy Affiliate.
