So you have been searching all over the Internet for some way to make some money online. You have this great idea of working at home to make a little extra bank. Maybe even being able to pay off all your debt and fire your boss one day. You know that the possibility exist but as of yet it still eludes you. You say you have been hunting for many months now and yet everything you try just ends up costing you money. Will this going around in circles ever end?



I had some of the same feelings for a while but I am no longer plagued by them. It is not because I have payed off all my debt. Not yet any way. And I haven't fired my boss nor do I plan to. But I have turned things around and am making a little bank online. And guess what? It's growing!

You see, a few months ago I became a Wealthy Affiliate Member. The minute I was on the inside I knew I had found what I had been looking for. All my searching was over. All my questions were being answered. There was so much information that I was now running around in circles for a different reason. I was suffering from information overload. A Wealthy Affiliate Member in the in-house Forum encourage me to settle down and take one thing at a time. "Start the 8 week Action Plan" she told me, 'And keep posting your progress in the Forum" she finished. I took her advice and hit the books so to speak. Things started getting better. I now had direction and was getting organized.

The first week as a Wealthy Affiliate Member I had "Learning Outcomes" like this:

What is Internet marketing

Using your time wisely

Learn the inner workings of Internet marketing & Affiliate marketing

What are Affiliate Networks, and how you leverage them

The different "types" of Internet marketing

Choosing your direction

How to become an expert, not a generalist

Choosing an industry and product to sell online

Begin understanding consumers

Setting up a Pay-Per-Click advertising account

Understanding the importance of market & keyword research

Using keyword tools

How to leverage your competition

Understanding market research

Hyper-Targeting consumers (understanding the WHY)

Relevancy = Success (broad marketing vs. targeted marketing)

How a website will benefit you as an Internet marketer

Setting-up your FREE WA Hosting & choosing domains

How to build a website

Different types of web pages

How to create landing pages that convert

Using the feeder sites here at WA

That is a lot of stuff isn't it? But guess what, that was not all of it, there was more!

Creating free marketing campaigns (how to structure them)

Creating paid marketing campaigns

Organizing your campaigns using WA tools

Creating long term income

Should you become a merchant?

Providing quality customer service

Email marketing

Creating squeeze pages that convert (with examples)

Which auto responder to use

Effective communication skills

The importance of understanding results

Determining the effectiveness of your campaigns

How conversion tracking works

Proper split testing techniques

Refining campaigns

Bridging campaigns between different IM techniques & platforms

Creating "Your" business

Success life cycle

Advantages to running an Internet business

As you can see, being a Wealthy Affiliate Member is a lot of work, and this was just the first week!

Well I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed so it took me a little longer that a week and no I'm not going to tell you how long either! The important thing was I was now learning and it was finally starting to make sense. I now had ALL the pieces to the Internet Marketing puzzle and no one was hold back the critical pieces to up sell me and get more money.

In just a little less than 2 months I made my first sale. Then slowly, I started making a few more. It became a weekly occurrence and then I had my first $100 day! I learned this truth though. There is no "get rich quick" method in Internet Marketing. It takes dedicated hard work. But the results are so rewarding.

No, I am not getting rich but as a Wealthy Affiliate Member I am making extra money every month while learning and it is steadily becoming more and more. Things that I used to think were complicated have become easier and even second nature. Why I just wrote this letter to you in about 30 minutes, I would have never believed I could do that a few months ago!

Well there you have it. A current inside story of one happy Wealthy Affiliate Member. So now I ask you, "Why aren't you a Wealthy Affiliate Member?"