Hello,
I’m back and today I’ll finally start telling you about my experiences with Wealthy Affiliate. First of all, Wealthy Affiliate is an online business (two guys as far as I know) that provides help, support, and whole nine yards to affiliate marketers of all levels. Now for those who like me are not even sure what is affiliate marketing, I’ll explain this as well. Affiliate Marketing is a form of online business when you promote goods of other merchants and get commissions for each sale.
Now, why Wealthy Affiliate? After my vigorous screening, I got down to four companies that provided similar services and passed my scam check. WA was the only company in my list that was charging a recurring fee, which first put it at the end of the list, but then I realized that it’s actually a good thing. Paying on the monthly basis should guarantee me help and support not only in the beginning of my journey but any time I need it. After comparing all bells and whistles, I found that the ones of Wealthy Affiliate chimed nicer for me and signed up with them. That was a week ago (21 August 2007).
The first impression after I logged in was rather positive. The site looked nice and professional; I was welcomed, guided on the home page, and given instructions to follow. In one of the steps I signed for their “8-week Action Plan” where they explained a lot of basics that I didn’t know and provided me with an outline of what I’m expected to learn by the end of the week and suggested what I should do.
As I’m not really a person who rushes in without preparation ;) I spent all week reading their guides and tutorials, watching videos and getting acquainted with their tools, resources and other materials (I’ve done a lot of extra reading as well – almost everything what I could get my hands on in the Internet). I even created two test campaigns, which didn’t bring me a penny, but I didn’t make them working on purpose as I found a few posts on their forum (oh yes, they have a very good and friendly forum) complaining on being sucked by Google when they rushed in and started their campaigns without proper preparation.
So at the beginning of the second week, I can state that I have a lot more knowledge about affiliate marketing and that I’m ready to start making real money :) Actually, I set my target to start earning at least $5 a day ($150 a month after expenses deducted) by the end of the first month, which is not much of course but at least realistic.
If you decide to join or check on Wealthy Affiliate, please use the link below:
Click here to visit Wealthy Affiliate
And I’ll be back later with the results of my real campaign.
Cheers,
Mik
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Hello,
It’s me again and more stories to come. Today, before I start talking about Wealthy Affiliate what I probably should have done already, I’m going to tell you about a few things to avoid while you’re surfing endless vastness of the Internet in the search of your alternative (or not) income. I have to admit a few of them almost got me.
Finding an online business that would work and is not a scam or semi-scam is not an easy task and you should do a thorough research yourself before signing up for anything. OK, here we go:
- First of all, scam may not be explicit; “start making $1000 a day!!” is partially true as someone may be making that much or even more, but it doesn’t mean that you start making that much next moment you sign up or unfortunately at all.
- Avoid any “get rich quick” schemes, most likely they’re scams or semi-scams.
- Data Entry – no one is going to pay you just for typing. You’re going to advertise products and if no one is buying them, you’re not getting paid.
- Sending envelopes – a semi-scam. You won’t get paid for sending envelopes, only commissions for goods that are bought through your letters but mechanics of tracking your affiliation is not clear.
- Multi-level Marketing – is not a scam, but watch ‘em out, as you’re gonna do a lot of recruiting before you start seeing any income if you’re at the bottom of the pyramid.
It’s not a full list of course, but just a few types that you see quite often.
A few good links for scam checking:
http://www.scam.com/
http://www.ripoffreport.com/
And last but not least, I’d like to mention Herbalife. If you are looking for “work from home” businesses, you’re going to bump into them quite a lot. They will never tell you that they’re Herbalife distributors in front and they never show it anywhere on their websites. Good stable income with health or well being products. They’re not scam of course, but people lost a lot of money with them. Here is the link to read a few stories:
http://www.freewebs.com/herbalifereport/
Well, that’s it for me today and my next post will be about me doing online marketing using Wealthy Affiliate program :) Here is the link:
Click here to visit Wealthy Affiliate
Cheers,Mik
It’s me again and more stories to come. Today, before I start talking about Wealthy Affiliate what I probably should have done already, I’m going to tell you about a few things to avoid while you’re surfing endless vastness of the Internet in the search of your alternative (or not) income. I have to admit a few of them almost got me.
Finding an online business that would work and is not a scam or semi-scam is not an easy task and you should do a thorough research yourself before signing up for anything. OK, here we go:
- First of all, scam may not be explicit; “start making $1000 a day!!” is partially true as someone may be making that much or even more, but it doesn’t mean that you start making that much next moment you sign up or unfortunately at all.
- Avoid any “get rich quick” schemes, most likely they’re scams or semi-scams.
- Data Entry – no one is going to pay you just for typing. You’re going to advertise products and if no one is buying them, you’re not getting paid.
- Sending envelopes – a semi-scam. You won’t get paid for sending envelopes, only commissions for goods that are bought through your letters but mechanics of tracking your affiliation is not clear.
- Multi-level Marketing – is not a scam, but watch ‘em out, as you’re gonna do a lot of recruiting before you start seeing any income if you’re at the bottom of the pyramid.
It’s not a full list of course, but just a few types that you see quite often.
A few good links for scam checking:
http://www.scam.com/
http://www.ripoffreport.com/
And last but not least, I’d like to mention Herbalife. If you are looking for “work from home” businesses, you’re going to bump into them quite a lot. They will never tell you that they’re Herbalife distributors in front and they never show it anywhere on their websites. Good stable income with health or well being products. They’re not scam of course, but people lost a lot of money with them. Here is the link to read a few stories:
http://www.freewebs.com/herbalifereport/
Well, that’s it for me today and my next post will be about me doing online marketing using Wealthy Affiliate program :) Here is the link:
Click here to visit Wealthy Affiliate
Cheers,Mik
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Hello,
I’m back and I have more interesting stories to tell you about my adventures in the world of Internet Marketing :)
As I had no experience at all with IM (Internet Marketing) at the time (which was just a bit more than a week ago), I spent a few days just browsing, reading, and clicking around the Internet. As a result of this productive activity, I signed up with fifteen companies/web sites offering paid surveys. As someone of you may be looking into it even now, I’ll share a few things that I noticed:
- Paid Surveys are not scam, but they may not work well for everyone.
- You DO NOT have to pay money to find or join any sites offering paid surveys.
- The sites offering you to join paid surveys for money (I’ll call ‘em money-grubbers) ARE NOT actual sites with paid surveys. All what they do is to give you a list of actual companies that do paid surveys, but you can find them on your own without spending a penny.
- The money-grubbers will provide you a list of companies, which can indeed save you some time and they can give you some useful (or not very useful) advises, but they DO NOT guarantee ANY income or that you’re actually going to receive any paid surveys.
Well, paid surveys DID NOT work for me well. May be because I’m not in the States but in New Zealand or may be they’re looking more for middle-aged women (I’ve heard they’re the biggest spenders), but anyway. It’s been two weeks now and I have got so far probably five or six invitations. In the first four, I was kicked out at the very beginning as I wasn’t going to buy a brand new car next couple of years and I got less than 25,000 of “fluid assets” ready to be invested. The other two put me in some kind of sweepstakes to win from $500 to $5,000… It may work different for you, so I'll put a couple of links to free paid surveys sites:
http://www.yellowsurveys.com/
http://www.paidsurveys.com/
Well, that's it for me for today. Again, there is the link to a program I'm working with now. And you'll hear from me later.
Click here to visit Wealthy Affiliate
Cheers,
Mik
I’m back and I have more interesting stories to tell you about my adventures in the world of Internet Marketing :)
As I had no experience at all with IM (Internet Marketing) at the time (which was just a bit more than a week ago), I spent a few days just browsing, reading, and clicking around the Internet. As a result of this productive activity, I signed up with fifteen companies/web sites offering paid surveys. As someone of you may be looking into it even now, I’ll share a few things that I noticed:
- Paid Surveys are not scam, but they may not work well for everyone.
- You DO NOT have to pay money to find or join any sites offering paid surveys.
- The sites offering you to join paid surveys for money (I’ll call ‘em money-grubbers) ARE NOT actual sites with paid surveys. All what they do is to give you a list of actual companies that do paid surveys, but you can find them on your own without spending a penny.
- The money-grubbers will provide you a list of companies, which can indeed save you some time and they can give you some useful (or not very useful) advises, but they DO NOT guarantee ANY income or that you’re actually going to receive any paid surveys.
Well, paid surveys DID NOT work for me well. May be because I’m not in the States but in New Zealand or may be they’re looking more for middle-aged women (I’ve heard they’re the biggest spenders), but anyway. It’s been two weeks now and I have got so far probably five or six invitations. In the first four, I was kicked out at the very beginning as I wasn’t going to buy a brand new car next couple of years and I got less than 25,000 of “fluid assets” ready to be invested. The other two put me in some kind of sweepstakes to win from $500 to $5,000… It may work different for you, so I'll put a couple of links to free paid surveys sites:
http://www.yellowsurveys.com/
http://www.paidsurveys.com/
Well, that's it for me for today. Again, there is the link to a program I'm working with now. And you'll hear from me later.
Click here to visit Wealthy Affiliate
Cheers,
Mik
Friday, August 24, 2007
Hello, My name is Mik, and I'd like to share my experience of trying to earn some extra money online using Internet Marketing.
First, I’d like to say that unlike many people promoting or talking about making money online, I’m not a school drop-out, not unemployed, and not a single mother with three mouths to feed and a drunk husband to deal. I did well at school and college, I have a good job as a software developer, my wife works as well, and in general everything is fine. So to say, I’m not desperate to squeeze out a few dollars to pay our outstanding bills, but having another reasonable income would greatly help with paying off our mortgage, helping our parents, and providing good education for our kids.
I spent quite a lot of time checking the ways of making money online and I’m going to share with you what I found so far. At the bottom of each page of my blog, you’ll see a link to a program (Wealthy Affiliate) that I have signed up at the end of my vigorous search and which I’m going to dedicate this blog to. Feel free to check it out and I’ll talk about this program more later on.
Click here to visit Wealthy Affiliate
Cheers,
Mik
First, I’d like to say that unlike many people promoting or talking about making money online, I’m not a school drop-out, not unemployed, and not a single mother with three mouths to feed and a drunk husband to deal. I did well at school and college, I have a good job as a software developer, my wife works as well, and in general everything is fine. So to say, I’m not desperate to squeeze out a few dollars to pay our outstanding bills, but having another reasonable income would greatly help with paying off our mortgage, helping our parents, and providing good education for our kids.
I spent quite a lot of time checking the ways of making money online and I’m going to share with you what I found so far. At the bottom of each page of my blog, you’ll see a link to a program (Wealthy Affiliate) that I have signed up at the end of my vigorous search and which I’m going to dedicate this blog to. Feel free to check it out and I’ll talk about this program more later on.
Click here to visit Wealthy Affiliate
Cheers,
Mik
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