WebTalk Review – Scam or Legit?

Over a year ago, I first received an invite to join Webtalk. Curious to find out what it was all about, I joined. And today, here is my Webtalk Review – Scam or Legit? post to share with you what I have discovered since.

So, can people really earn big money with Webtalk? Is it a scam? Or a legit business? All great questions. Read on to find out.

Meanwhile, if you are curious to know more about WebTalk, here is a video to watch and learn.

Webtalk Review – The Overview, Ranking, Pros & Cons

Here is an overview of what I think of Webtalk. But I still think it is better to read the entire review to find out more before you decide whether to join this platform or not.

Name: Webtalk
Owner: RJ Garbowicz
Website: www.webtalk.co
Business Type: Social Network – have some semblance of LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and The Marketplace. Also, Multi-Level Marketing.
Support: Yes, and have FAQ and Help Forum
Price: Free for now. Premium options available – see What Do I Get When I Join WebTalk?. You must be referred by a real member; I.e. By Invitation Only.
Commissions: $1 per direct referral, $1 per your referral signups (up to 5 levels) – only for premium members, free members get only 1st level
Minimum Payout: Cash out at $100, pays out on 28^th of every month
Scam or Legit? – See My Verdict
PassiveOnlineRevenue.com Rating: 1.0 out of 5.0

Pros

– Free to join
– Easy to use
– Able to segment network; for example friends, family, professional contacts
– Showcase your professional data, business, products and services
– Be part of the 1^st million members referral program and you get paid for life
– 5 Levels Deep Commissions – $1 for all referrals with 5 Levels of Referrals.
– Affiliate credit for every piece of content

Cons

– Not suitable for people who want to use social media only for social purposes
– Paid subscription options
– Free account – Limited to 50 contacts
– Still in Beta phase – So, you don’t get paid until they are no longer beta and have reached 1 million members (the latter has been achieved)

What is The Better Alternative to WebTalk?

If after just reading this summary above, and you are ready to consider a better alternative – I have my Number One Recommendation. This is for anyone who wishes to start an online business or do affiliate marketing.

Not decided yet? Please continue to read this review.

What is WebTalk All About?

Someone in my network introduced WebTalk to me. This was over a year ago. With the introduction, there was a marketing message that had an attractive selling point – that those who joined as one of the 1st one million on WebTalk will get at least 10% revenue share for life!

My first thought was Wow! Then I read further and the message said that social networks were earning billions but keeping the profits to themselves (and of course the owners and shareholders). WebTalk wants to be different, and give back to the users of their service.

Nice spiel. As I thought of what was being offered, I felt a Red Flag hoisting in my mind.

First of all, I found out that later WebTalk clarified that they meant the first one million paid subscriptions. The people who joined free, and stayed as free accounts do not count. And to date, they have yet to reach that first one million paid subscriptions (or so they claimed).

Next, 10% of revenue share? I know what this means. Most times, it would end up as very little. After all the expenses and taxes.

Next Red Flag? WebTalk wants to be the next Facebook. With elements of LinkedIn.

Just like Facebook, it is a social network where you can share pictures, files, posts, and more. And you can share all these with your friends, family, business peers, consumers, and anyone else in the network.

Just like LinkedIn, you can connect with businesses, peers, professional contacts, and share pictures, files, posts, and more with them. Similar to LinkedIn, you can try to find people and businesses to work with or promote your products and services to.

But wait? Isn’t that so familiar? Didn’t Facebook try this before? What was it called? I can’t remember. It was many years ago, and when I checked, this feature no longer exists. Hmmm … If Facebook can’t even make it, can WebTalk?

Today, that feature that Facebook tried has now evolved to Workplace Facebook. In addition, Facebook has added the Jobs feature. With these two, Facebook is more a competitor for LinkedIn than WebTalk. And WebTalk has a lot to catch up.

All this, and yet, WebTalk has gone around to proclaim that they would be the most disruptive technology of the 21^st century. Sorry, guys. What you are doing is NOT disruptive. And doing something that others have tried and failed is NOT disruptive. In fact, it borders on insanity.

“Insanity Is Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again and Expecting Different Results”
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Don’t get me wrong. If this is disruptive and really a great new business or better way to do business, then I am all for it. And so, I was still looking for the plus point. The Unique Selling Point that would set WebTalk apart from the others. And have me convinced that this is a great opportunity. So far, there was and still is none.

Another Red Flag – Nothing new. No unique selling point.

Yet, they are projecting that their membership would grow to 2 billion in the next five years. Really? That is ambitious. But then again, sure. People might join out of curiosity. Ultimately, WebTalk needs to offer a service that they cannot find elsewhere. A service that can help their businesses grow.

In the end, we have to look at the Monthly Active Users. This will tell us that people found the service useful, and are active on the platform. In addition, besides being active on the platform, users have to know how their activities on WebTalk can grow their businesses, and help them succeed.

According to Bold Business, WebTalk has 520,000 monthly active users as of June 2019. This is quite sad comparing to Facaebook that has 2.4 Billion monthly active users. YouTube has 1.9 Billion monthly active users. Instagram has 1 Billion monthly active users. And even Pinterest has 291 million monthly active users.

Red Flag – 8 years, and only 520,000 Monthly Active Users. Not attractive to advertisers or entrepreneurs.

Sure, you might argue that WebTalk is still relatively new. Hate to ruin WebTalk for you but they have been around since 2011. Eight years in the market as a social media network is considered a long time.

Why is WebTalk Still in the Beta Testing stage?

Speaking of the length of time WebTalk has been around, they are still in Beta stage. I found the FAQ where they explained that the reason they are still in Beta is because the product is not 100% completed.

Seriously? Eight years and still in beta? They need to get better programmers.

Big Red Flag – For all who have joined earlier as one of the 1 million members (and I believe I am one of them), please take note that as long as they are in Beta mode, you do not get that paid for life promise that they gave.

Is WebTalk a MLM (Multi Level Marketing) Business?

Yes, it is. And you know how much I do not like MLM (Multi Level Marketing). Sure, there are those that have made lots of money doing MLM. But these are usually the first group of people who joined. And they are usually at the top tier.

So many people have lost money and time doing MLM. It is horrifying to see so many given false hopes only to have them dashed after spending years of effort.

Biggest Red Flag – Read my article about MLM and discover why I discourage you from doing MLM.

Who is RJ Garbowicz?

The owner and founder of WebTalk is RJ Garbowicz. The interesting thing I found out about him was that he used to be the founder of another social network and MLM called YourNight. It failed in less than twelve months.

Ok, I have nothing against people who tried and failed. And also nothing against people who tried, failed and tried again with the same thing. I am all for learning from mistakes and doing it better next time round.

While I have never encountered YourNight, I seriously wonder if Garbowicz has learned anything from that past failure? If he did, would he make WebTalk better? Would he make it a success?

Red Flag – When I go to the Investors page, I see his photo and a brief bio. But when I clicked on the button to see his profile, I am led to the main page. No profile. The CEO and founder of WebTalk does not use his own product?

How is Webtalk is Different from The Other Social Networks?

I truly wonder how? So far, I never liked the claim that they are going to be the next Facebook. It showed a lack of originality. And there had been so many before who made the same claim. And today, Facebook is as strong as ever. In fact, recent statistics have shown that more people are joining Facebook or back on Facebook.

Added to that, WebTalk has paid premium membership options. And you get more features after you pay. Facebook and LinkedIn, as well as the other social networks, never had that. If this is how WebTalk is setting the brand apart from the others, it is not an attractive plus point. In fact, it is a barrier.

Yet, at the same time, I can see the need for pay-for-premium in order for the MLM part of WebTalk to work. And this adds to the many reasons why I find MLM not a good business to go into.

Red Flag – Nothing new. No unique selling point.

What Do I Get When I Join WebTalk?

As established above, it is free to join WebTalk. Free WebTalk members can add up to 50 contacts.

But to get a premium WebTalk membership, you will need to pay. Here is how:

WebTalk Pro

– $20 per month, or $200 per year
– You will get to add up to 500 contacts
– You can send 5 messages a month to WebTalk members that are not connected to you
– You will not see any banner ads
– You will be able to see who has viewed your profile

WebTalk Pro Plus

– $30 per month, or $300 per year
– You will get to add up to 1000 contacts
– You can send 10 messages a month to WebTalk members that are not connected to you
– You can send 10 email messages
– You will not see any banner ads
– You will be able to see who has viewed your profile

WebTalk Pro Platinum

– $40 per month, or $400 per year
– You will get to add unlimited contacts
– You can send 20 messages a month to WebTalk members that are not connected to you
– You can send 20 email messages
– You will not see any banner ads
– You will be able to see who has viewed your profile
– You will be able to search members based on age and gender

As you can see from the above, what you get as you go up the upgrade ladder are not really fantastic benefits. You can get and use most of the added features on other social networks that you do not need to pay anything at all.

How Do I Make Money on WebTalk?

From what I understand, having a premium membership does not mean you can get paid any commissions through the compensation plan. Yes, you read it right. The subscription fees above do not guarantee you the opportunity to make money on WebTalk.

You have to have at least one paid member who is personally referred by you, and have a premium membership to qualify for the residual commissions.

Should you qualify for the commissions, here are the rates:

– 10% of premium subscription fees paid by personally referred WebTalk members
– 10% of ad budget spent by personally referred advertisers
– 10% of advertised local services purchased through WebTalk
– 2% to 9% of commission generated if a product is purchased through the WebTalk news feed
– 5% of app subscriptions sold via an in-house app store

In addition, as mentioned above, if you are banking on being one of the first one million members to get the revenue share for life, remember the million has to be premium members. Plus, WebTalk must be out of Beta stage, which seems forever to happen.

Verdict

Legit but …

There are better programs out there. Instead of waiting for that first one million paid member and for the platform to get out of Beta stage, there are programs that are already paying for your time and efforts. One of them is Wealthy Affiliate. It is my Number One Recommendation for anyone who wishes to start an online business or do affiliate marketing.

WebTalk Review – Passive Online Revenue Final Word

The biggest flaw in WebTalk is the MLM. One of the biggest peeve I have with MLM is that, instead of focusing and growing our own business, we end up being recruiters.

I don’t want to do that. I want to have my own online business. And I want to grow that business, and be successful. I don’t want to spend most of my time recruiting people. If I want to do that, I would have become a recruiter from day one.

And I use social networks to help me promote my business toward the goal of growing and making it successful. This takes a lot of time and effort. Which I have spent on established social media such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest and YouTube. Each has given me their unique value for marketing.

For me to switch to WebTalk, the platform has to give me something very worth my while. It must provide me so much value that I would move my social media marketing efforts to their platform. Plus, with only 520,000 monthly unique visitors, brands will wonder if it is really worth putting time and effort there.

Additionally, WebTalk has not given any good value or reason. All they can think of is the promise of 10% of shared revenue. But with conditions that seem to never happen. When will they reach that first one million paid subscriber? And more importantly, when will they get out of Beta testing?

The latter seems to be going on forever. The excuse that they are at beta testing stage because they have yet to be 100% complete will soon run dry.

Let me share this honestly – many apps, programs and platforms are released with some bugs. And even after release, as they update, there can be new bugs. So, there is never really 100% complete.

As such, all of us who are waiting for that shared revenue, can wait forever.

If you have ANY questions about this review – WebTalk Review, ANY at all, please submit your questions as comments below. I will be happy to help out.

Thank you for reading this.

Best Wishes to All!
Timotheus

August 21, 2019September 9, 2019

Elite Marketing Pro Review – An insider look

Elite Marketing Pro Review – An insider look

Introduction

Are you struggling to attract people to your business? Trying to find ways to get more traffic and start seeing success? Wanting to learn the art of marketing and finding that perfect prospect?

This all sounds familiar to many of you out there, and was exactly where I was just a little while ago

Here is my journey and a look inside Elite Marketing Pro.

Hi I am Dena from denabriley.com . I am a strategist, coach, and mentor that enjoys sharing ideas with others to help them in building their business online and finding the right path to success.

My good friend Timotheus wanted me to jump on and give you a little insight and an insider review about Elite Marketing Pro and the approach in attraction marketing, a training platform that is helping several struggling entrepreneurs learn the art of attraction marketing for their online business.

About Elite Marketing Pro

Elite Marketing Pro is a mentorship and coaching platform for home business owners, entrepreneurs and network marketers. Their goal with their extensive training platform, is to empower you to learn the skills associated with attraction marketing, so you have the knowledge and the understanding of how to market your business in a way that will unleash an unfair advantage over your competitors.

Just starting out in business and not sure which road you want to take yet? With their unique platform they walk you step-by-step by teaching you how to promote their own educational training products.

This gives you an opportunity to earn as you learn, and you will discover how to apply this comprehensive training to your own business by learning the fundamentals of attraction marketing, building a following that know, like and trust you, and then applying what you learn to your own personal brand.

Here is a sneak peak of what you will find inside Elite Marketing Pro.

Elite Marketing Pro – The Overview and Rankings

Name: Elite Marketing Pro

Owners: Tim Erway, Matt Crystal and Ferny Ceballos

Website URL: elitemarketingpro.com

Training: 4.0 out of 5.0

Support: 5.0 out of 5.0

Website Builder: 4.0 out of 5.0

Word Press Hosting: 4.0 out of 5.0

Success Stories: 4.0 out of 5.0

Price: Free Boot Camp – Free => Attraction Marketing Formula – $27.00 => Elite Marketing Pro Insider => $297.00

denabriley.com Overall Rating: 4.0 out of 5.0

Ready to Join Me on My Journey? Get Started Here!

Pros:

Easy to navigate training platform

Learn how to establish a following that know, like and trust you

Multiple levels of teaching – As your business grows you have the chance to upgrade

Step-by-step instruction for getting your own online business up and running

Build out your own website and sales funnels with page creator pro and hosting for WordPress

Provides training wheels while you are building your business

Done for you sales funnels

1-on-1 Coaching to help you understand mindset and marketing skills you need for success

Top Notch Marketing Training for Online business

Opportunity to earn while you learn

Cons:

The training targets and places more of an emphasis on the network marketing community instead of affiliate marketing and direct sales.

Multiple up sales – As you advance through the training there are some extremely pricy upsells. You are learning about marketing your own business and as you learn, you will find that up sales do make a difference in success, why would they not practice one of the strategies that they teach.

Here is a little bit of history about me and how I got started with Elite Marketing Pro…

My dream of owning my own business online started a couple years ago when we had a reorganization at work, and I landed in a dead-end job that I absolutely hated.

Thinking I only had a couple years left before I could take early retirement my plan was that I could stick it out for the duration.

That was until I found out that by taking out my retirement so early, I would end up losing two-thirds of my pension, there is no way I could live on that being 10+ years prior to getting social security benefits.

I was devasted by the news and knew I had to find a way to change my life.

Not really wanting to go out and find another job, I decided to build a business online, something where I could work from home and work toward accomplishing my goal for early retirement.

I jumped in and found myself working endless hours and it seemed like I was just spinning my wheels and going nowhere fast.

I built a great website It just seemed that I could not get any traffic built up to make a difference and find what I needed to find success.

Eighteen months into my online business and still no sales to speak of, I know building a business online does not happen overnight; however, I was frustrated and about ready to quit.

I was talking with a friend on Linked-In and he was telling me about this training that he was involved in that really increased his traffic and he was well on his way to success.

A bit concerned and thinking, not another shiny object. Yes, I had been burned before, and was skeptical of jumping into something that would take my money and not provide the path to success. You have been there, right?

I took the information from him and let him know I would check into the training; we have all heard that before. Well for me I needed a solution a way to get out of that job and a way to find success in my business.

So, I took that information and started my research and the first thing I wanted to find out is, what is attraction marketing and how would it work for me. Are you asking that same question? If so let’s explore…

Is Attraction Marketing for You?

When trying to decide if something might work for your business what is the first question you ask?

My answer to this, who is this product for?

My friend warned me that the training seemed to be for network marketing, using terms like, with this training learn to attract people to you with no more cold calling and harassing friends and family.

He did assure me the training was great for affiliate marketing, direct sales, information marketing and even the professional services industry. This is because is teaches the concept of attraction marketing.

What is Attraction Marketing? Here is what I discovered…

Attraction marketing is a natural strategy that acts like a magnet drawing people to you, getting your customers to know, like and trust you. No, this is not tricking your customers or misleading them. It is more about keeping it real.

Attraction marketing is accomplished by providing lots of value to your customer; in-turn, people are attracted to you and appreciate everything you have to offer. No, you don’t have to be beautiful for this to work, they say just get out there and expose warts and all.

You will find with providing value to your customers, people like you for the real you, even if you are only a couple steps ahead of them, they will still look at you as an authority, because you have the ability to help them and provide them value. If you think about this is what we are always looking for when we search the web.

You see, gaining the know, like and trust factor, makes for loyal customers that come back time and time again. So, Yes! This concept of attraction marketing will help anyone trying to build any type of business online and is not for just the network marketer. Sounds like something you can do, right?

Can you see how this would have an advantage over normal marketing strategies? I know I can.

Attraction Marketing Boot Camp – Free

Wanting to find out more about this strategy and see if it would work for me and my business, I dove right into the free Attraction Marketing Boot Camp and didn’t even have to enter a credit card.

That was a plus I could explore the system and the only thing they ask for was my name and email.

It was set up on a drip campaign providing a free video every day for the next 10 days teaching the strategy of attraction marketing.

The training went over several different categories in how to build a customer base and how it can help you. Remember that my friend had warned me that this training is target the network marketer, but we found that attraction marketing can be for any online business.

If you are an affiliate marketer like me, we just simply read between the lines and understand when they are talking about building your team, as an affiliate marketer, we are replacing that with building a customer base.

Let’s look at some of the topics they cover…

Finding the right customer

How to keep your customers engaged

Optimizing value to you customer

Building a relationship with the customer

During the Boot Camp and throughout the 10-day training, there is an offer for the Attraction Marketing Formula, for an extremely low investment of just $47.00 and has a 100% money back guarantee. Who wouldn’t want the chance to get their hands on the formula for attraction marketing and building that perfect customer base?

What did I have to lose, right?

Attraction Marketing Formula – $27.00

Clicking the link, took me to a long sales letter, you know ones.

It basically talked about how it could help the network marketer build a team and duplicate the process. Another area they touched on was how to make money even when someone did not join your team. Curious? I was too.

Considering most of the sales letter did not pertain to my passion of affiliate marketing or direct sales, like most people I just scrolled to the bottom to find the offer.

What I found is not only with this offer of the e-book, which was well worth the money, for acting fast, they are also including three bonuses and enroll you into the Ignition program. Now that is really leading with value, by this time I am really seeing how attraction marketing can work.

The bonuses consisted of…

A lifetime Affiliate Program – I found they offered great commissions of 20-70% depending on your status for an affiliate marketer, these commissions are an actual affiliate program and has nothing to do with network marketing. Elite Marketing Pro teach network marking but is in no way a network marketing company (MLM).

Ignition Coaching – 1 on 1 coaching from an expert coach to help you get started with the Attraction Marketing Formula and jump start your business.

Members Only Life-Time Facebook Mastermind Group – This is a great community of people just like you and me wanting to learn and implement attraction marketing in your business.

This was all just the beginning…

After opting into the Attraction Marketing Formula on the Thank-you page was an offer for a yearly membership to the Elite Marketing Pro Insider Membership and Training Platform. Again, they offered that same 30-day 100% money back guarantee at a very reasonable price of $297 and they even offered a payment plan. So Yep! I went for it after all, $300 off the regular discounted price, and we have seen that they deliver over and above on their promises and price point.

With the 100% money back guarantee again what did I have to lose and with everything to gain to have that chance to have training that might just start helping you turn a profit in an online business?

I was excited to have all this newfound training at my fingertips and after reading through the Attraction Marketing Formula downloadable eBook, I jumped right into the training platform, inside I found an easy to navigate dashboard and a roadmap leading through all the different modules of the training. I was now on my way to finding success!

Diving right into the individual modules, I found they start you out right away on how to build an audience that will begin to know, like and trust you. Through my research I found that this is an important factor in building any online business, without bringing in customers to your business you have nothing.

This is what I have struggled with all along and with following the training, I am now on my way to building that audience and securing those lifetime customers. This was just the beginning of everything they have to offer to really get your online business going. Everyone must start somewhere, right?

So, here is a brief sample of what I got for signing up for the Elite Marketing Pro Insider Membership.

Insider Membership – $297.00

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As you can see Elite Marketing Pro offers both a well-rounded training platform along with many tools to help you along the way, you even get a 1-on-1 coach to help you stay on path.

One of the unique factors that really sold me is if you are new to building a business online, you could simply use their already proven, done for you sales funnels and make a great affiliate income by just sending leads. Talk about an advantage you send the leads and they take it from there to secure the sale for you.

Many times, with an affiliate program if you send leads and they buy, you get the commission, but you never have the chance to secure that lead as your own customer.

With Elite Marketing Pro your leads belong to you and are stored as your lifetime customers. It is like having training wheels while you are building your own business.

After building your own business and becoming more confident in your business, when you are ready you simply take the training wheels off and simply take over your list of all your own leads. As they say the money is in the list. This is definitely a plus for someone just getting started. I do see how this can create an unfair advantage to other business owners and get you setup on your own path to success.

How Does Using These Strategies Create an Unfair Advantage?

Elite Marketing Pro promotes that you will have an unfair advantage against your competitors by using attraction marketing in your business. Why? Using the strategies that they teach actually attracts people to you and then those people become loyal customers, removing them from the market of your competitors. Is that unfair? Not if you are the one using the strategy.

Here is a case study from one of Elite Marketing Pro’s top earners, Kate McShea and how she used what she learned from Elite Marketing Pro to take her business to a 6-figure per month income and produce a 7-figure year.

Kate started out as a 2^nd grade schoolteacher making $36000/year and wanting to just replace that income with a home business. Kate was then able to leverage her business through Elite Marketing Pro and has gone on to become one of the top earners in the Elite Marketing Pro community. Kate went from trying to build her business, frustrated and ready to quit, to finding success. I want this for my business, and I am sure you do too.

What Are Some of The Members Saying?

These are people just like you and me that have joined the Elite Marketing Pro community. Check out what the members inside of Elite Marketing Pro have to say…

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My Personal Thoughts on Elite Marketing Pro

I feel Elite Marketing Pro is truly committed to helping their students to succeed in any business and with their education and support of their community helping home business owners, entrepreneurs, and network marketers find their path to help you succeed through providing high value through education and support for their students.

In just the short time I have been with them I have learned so much and want to help give back by offering what I know to my own followers and community, I have found this to be very rewarding.

Even though I have not made it big yet, of course I have only been in it for a short while, I do recommend checking out Elite Marketing Pro and the Attraction Marketing Boot Camp and get your hands of the Attraction Marketing Formula, go through the training and see for yourself if it is a good fit for you and your online business needs.

As far as how it has helped me personally, I have seen growth in both me and my business and it has given me that unfair advantage to get out of being stuck and gaining on my journey to success. I plan to see you at the top.

Get Started on your new journey today!

Any Questions or Comments? I am here to help you on your journey to a successful path in creating an online business. Please post and questions or comments below, I am always happy to hear from you.

Dena Briley

Strategist, Coach, and Mentor

January 25, 2018September 9, 2019

The Affilorama Review 2018 – Scam or Legit?

Introduction

Hi there! You most probably came here because you are thinking of whether to join Affilorama or not. Or you have been introduced to it, and wonder what it is all about? Well, you have come to the right place. Here, I will do The Affilorama Review, and will do my best to show you what Affilorama is all about, the pros and cons as well as my final word on whether it is a scam or is a legit training source.

Fyi, you can find More Passive Income Opportunities Reviews Here.

About Affilorama

Affilorama was founded in 2005 by Mark Ling. He started out as a merchant. He created a training program for affiliates to promote his product. Over time that program evolved into Affilorama.

The idea was to help people who wants to make money online with Affiliate Marketing. And that is by training via a web based course with over 100 hours of training videos. The program also offers tools to help people to have a higher chance of success.

Affilorama – The Overview, Rankings, Pros & Cons

Name: Affilorama
Owners: Mark Ling
Website URL: https://www.affilorama.com/
Training: 4.0 out of 5.0
Support: 4.0 out of 5.0
Tools: 3.0 out of 5.0
Community: 4.0 out of 5.0
Price: Starter – Free, $67 per month or $497 for 3 years (Try Premium for one month for $1)
PassiveOnlineRevenue.com Rating: 3.5 out of 5.0

Pros

Free Training Access (for Basic)
Simple to follow courses
Helpful communities
Start a business, do some research for Free (for Basic)
Owner is very well respected in the business world

Cons

Many choices that makes it hard to decide which is the plan to have
Basic plan is very limited in comparison with the paid plans
No direct access to Mark Ling
Too many upsells that can confuse beginners
Expensive upsells

Packages & Prices

Basic – Free to join, $0

20 hours of video lessons and written material
Learn how to create own website
Learn how to write content for website
Learn how to do SEO to get your website ranked on search engines
PPC Advertising to attract visitors to your website and convert them into customers

Premium Membership – $67/month or $497 for three years

All of basic plus more in depth content and additional training
Hosting for 15 of your websites
How to create your own products
PLR articles to use (though this is not so good, read Final Word below for more info why)
Bootcamp training

The Basic membership does not get you much. You will need to upgrade and become a premium member to get more training, applications, limited hosting, and newsgroup access. You will also get extras like link building, blog boot camp, Premium tools, website hosting and PLR content.

Still, the cost of premium is expensive. And there is also the matter of upsells. Yes, you will need to buy more products to get more useful training and tools.

Upsell #1: AffiloBlueprint – $197 one time

– bundle contains 13 lessons, 85 videos covering topics such as affiliate marketing, niche marketing and research, free traffic, etc.
– Suitable for those who want complete package for building a business
– Step by step instructions on everything from building your own website, SEO, niche selection to content creation
– Free access to AffiloTheme (see below)
– Free hosting for one year

Upsell #2: AffiloJetPack – $497 one time

– Niche marketing bundle
– Choice of 5 out of 10 niches
– Also includes 15 newsletters collection, 3 ebooks per market, graphics and 20 PLR articles
– Access to AffiloTheme
– Ideal for those who have money but no time to do some parts of the website

Upsell #3: AffiloTheme – $97 one time

– WordPress Theme with training on how to set up your website using this theme
– Includes private forum, images creation software and one year of hosting.

Support

I would like to highlight about support for this program. Don’t be mistaken. You will need support. Especially if you are new to starting your own online business.

You will need great support to help you navigate all the steps required to start your own website, how to find a niche, how to do SEO, and so much more.

The thing is, at Affilorama, while you do get support that is available in the forums and a team of customer service staff, you do not get direct access to Mark Ling. To be fair, he is an extremely busy man. He does drop by occasionally to provide some insights.

The Affilorama Review 2018 – The Passive Online Revenue Final Word

Overall, Affilorama is a good product. Also, it can be acknowledged that Mark Ling is a very skilled and experienced affiliate marketer. But he is not always around. Still, the training and tools are quite good.

So, Is Affilorama A Scam?

No it’s not a scam.

The training in the Premium package is quite good. But the problem with this program is that there are too many upsells. As a beginner, this can be confusing. Also, considering all that is offered in the Premium package, you may find that you are not getting much for your money.

But a word of caution – do not do or use the PLR provided. The articles created using PLR will not rank well as search engines have gotten wise to this strategy to create content. In fact, use of PLR may result in getting your website blacklisted by the search engines, and essentially do harm to your business.

VERDICT: Legit

While I say Legit, I must also share with you that there are similar programs out there that offers much more value for money, and is much better in terms of training, service and support. One of them is Wealthy Affiliate. It is my Number One Recommendation for anyone who wishes to start an online business or do affiliate marketing.

If you have ANY questions about this review – The Affilorama Review 2018, ANY at all, please submit your questions as comments below. I will be happy to help out.

Thank you for reading this.

Best Wishes to All!
Timotheus

July 22, 2017July 29, 2019

A Wealthy Affiliate Review (Honest & Insightful)

A Wealthy Affiliate Review – Honest and Insightful

There are many ways to make money online. And Affiliate Marketing is one of them. Here, I am going to provide you A Wealthy Affiliate Review that is going to be honest and insightful. This passive income opportunity review will provide you comprehensive information that will help you understand what Wealthy Affiliate can do for you to help you start a successful online business.

Chances are, you are starting to look for a way to earn passive online revenue or you may already be doing internet marketing and wish to learn more and earn more. I can relate to that. You see, I am just like you. I am also a passive income seeker. And I too, look for reviews like this to help me find the best and legitimate option.

For years, I have tried and tested quite a few programs. Only to end up with duds or scams. After many bad experiences, I became more cautious, and more diligent as I research for a true system that can help me be a successful online entrepreneur. And I have found that to be the Wealthy Affiliate program. Read on to discover what I have uncovered about Wealthy Affiliate.

About Wealthy Affiliate

Wealthy Affiliate is a very complete affiliate marketing platform. It is suitable for people who are new to affiliate marketing and also for people who already have internet marketing experience and wish to grow their business to a higher level.

On this platform, you get thousands of training (live and recorded) and extensive support from a caring community and experts. You get to create websites and host them here.

Plus, there is a helpful community that you can network and grow with. It is the largest affiliate marketing community in the world, and the most caring.

Wealthy Affiliate – The Overview & Rankings

Name: Wealthy Affiliate
Owners: Kyle & Carson
Website URL: wealthyaffiliate.com
Training: 4.9 out of 5.0
Support: 5.0 out of 5.0
Website Builder: 4.9 out of 5.0
WordPress Hosting: 4.8 out of 5.0
Research Tools: 4.8 out of 5.0
Success Stories: 4.9 out of 5.0
Price: Starter Member (free), Premium Membership ($49/mth or $359/year)
PassiveOnlineRevenue.com Rating: 4.9 out of 5.0

How You Can Make Money from Internet?

Just as there are many ways to make money from the Internet, there are processes to make money online. For Affiliate Marketing, there is also a definite process to make it into a successful online business.

Kindly allow me to introduce to you the Precise 4 Step Process:

Step 1 – Choose an Interest

Step 2 – Build a Website

Step 3 – Attract Visitors

Step 4 – Generate Revenue

There you have it. It is really simple. ANYONE can do it! All you have to do is just follow the above process. Whether you are a newbie, man or woman, young or old, and wherever you are in the world, you can EASILY do it!

Success does not play favorites. It is impartial to everyone.

First, you have to choose an Interest. This is something you are passionate about. Not sure what this is? Not to worry. The Wealthy Affiliate training, also known as Wealthy Affiliate University, will guide and help you find that niche.

Next, you build your website based on that interest. It is very simple and easy to build a website. You do not need any previous web development experience or even programming skills. There are training videos that guide you step-by-step on how to do it quickly. More information about this in a section later in this article.

After that, you need to attract visitors to your website. This is where Wealthy Affiliate training shines. The courses will teach you how to optimize your website and get ranked on Google and other search engines. Even on first page! That is where you will drive more traffic to your website.

Finally, you start to earn money! How much money can you earn? It is all up to you. The more time and effort you put in, the more money you will make. You can earn $10 per day, $100 per day, or even $1,000 per day. The sky is the limit!

Wealthy Affiliate Training – Affiliate Marketing Secrets Revealed

One of the things that I was concerned with many affiliate marketing programs is whether the training is sufficient? Is it going to be thorough? And very important – is it constantly updated? The digital landscape is always changing and updating. So, it is very important that the training is the latest. This is one of the critical elements to be successful online.

You can rest assured that the training at Wealthy Affiliate is the latest and most current. You will learn the right tactics, techniques and strategies that will work today, tomorrow and in the future.

The training is updated daily in many cases. Every day, new training resources are rolled out to the community. Wealthy Affiliate truly provides you with absolutely everything you need to build your successful online business or businesses.

Also, the other two questions – is training sufficient? And is it thorough? – are about whether the program is really going to teach me everything there is to know about affiliate marketing? Or is it going to show me some points, and then get me to buy more training that they will call as Advanced Level?

Thankfully, Wealthy Affiliate does not hold back. Everything you need to learn about affiliate marketing and how to create your online business based on that is given in the very comprehensive training. There is NO UPSELL to any other levels. You have everything you need when you go Premium.

Wealthy Affiliate Training – Learning Styles to Suit Your Learning Needs

Everyone has their own unique learning style. For me, I am more visual. So, training videos are very useful for me. At Wealthy Affiliate, there is a good variety of training formats. Each to suit your unique learning style:

Online Entrepreneur Certification (50 Lessons)
Affiliate Bootcamp Training (70 Lessons)
Live, Interactive Video Classes (Weekly)
Video & Text Based Tutorials (1,000+)
Course, Lesson & Task Based Training

The best part of having that many formats and learning styles is that you can pick and choose which is the best for you.

From my experience, the training caters to all levels of marketers as well as newbies. For the newbies, there is training that starts from scratch to creating your own website to starting your affiliate marketing online business. For the experienced marketer, there are more advanced level training that is useful to grow your business further.

Although I have over 20 years of digital marketing experience, I decided to comb through the training from start to finish. And I am glad I did. While I admit there were many parts that I am familiar with, I did learn some new tactics and strategies that truly bring my marketing up another level. In addition, these come in useful for my online businesses.

So, I would advise everyone to go through all the training. Even though some things are quite basic, you can take the opportunity as revision or updating your knowledge. I guarantee you will learn a lot.

Wealthy Affiliate Support – A Community of Experts That Care

One of the biggest problems with many of the online marketing programs out there is the lack of support and help. Training documentation and videos can only do so much. Many times, as I go through the training on other programs, I find myself with more questions.

Sure, these other programs have support. Or claim to have. I find most of them with very poor support. When I need help, there is little or none given. And if they every answer, it is weak and always with the same answer – to go back to the training material and study again.

On Wealthy Affiliate, the DIFFERENCE is there is superb help and support from the support team, experts and the Wealthy Affiliate community. Besides the great support staff, there are many Ambassadors who are part of the community.

Ambassadors are members who have many years of experience online and now give back to the community. It is like Paying It Forward. They received help when they were new, and now they are helping others.

The owners – Kyle and Carson – are also around to help. They are not people high up in their glass tower and unreachable. They spend their waking hours personally helping people in the Wealthy Affiliate community. Many times, Kyle have answered my questions and helped me move forward whenever I was stuck.

At Wealthy Affiliate, the Community truly cares.

When you need any help, there are many ways to get it:

Live Chat (help within seconds)
Comments (help within seconds)
Blog Post / Ask a Question (help within minutes)
Private Messaging / Mentoring (help within hours)
Website & Hosting Support (help within minutes)
Direct Access to ME!

Why am I a good resource?

When you join through the affiliate link here, you become my referral. As mentioned in the affiliate disclosure, I do get commission. In exchange, as my referee, you get to leverage on my over 20 years of digital marketing experience. Whenever you need help or have anything to clarify, I can help you.

My response may not always be instant. After all, I am only human, with two hands, one brain, and need sleep. Plus, there is only 24 hours in a day. But I do get back to every question that is asked of me personally. So, you know your chances of success is increased.

For example, I know how to Get Your Website Ranked On First Page On Google. This is another critical element for online business success. When your website is on first page, you will get more traffic that you can capture as leads. And ultimately, convert these leads into customers, which is increased sales and revenue.

Sure, Wealthy Affiliate training helps you do to achieve that too. But isn’t it great to be able to contact someone who can guide you when as you navigate through the training? When you go through any training, you will surely have some doubts or points to clarify along the way. I will be there for you when you sign up under me.

Create, Manage & Grow Your Websites with Ease

Creating a website with the help of Wealthy Affiliate is easy. And so is managing it, and growing it. This is all possible with the the added service called the SiteRubix Suite. Whether you are a newbie or someone with website development experience, the SiteRubix Suite is super easy to use.

You can build your FREE website in 30 seconds! Yes! You read it right. FREE! When you join Wealthy Affiliate, you can build 2 websites for FREE using the SiteRubix system.

The Site Suite Features include the following:

Site Manager where you can access your websites and check each Site’s Health.
Site Builder that comes with tools to help you build your website.
Site Domains that is for you to find, register and manage your domains.
The good old reliable Site Content that is the Ultimate Writing Platform for you to create your pages and posts.
Get comments on your pages and posts with Site Comments.
If you need ideas and feedback from the caring community, use the Site Feedback.
And lastly, of course, superb Site Support is where you will get excellent technical support for your websites

For me, I have had years of website development experience. I have created, managed and grown websites from scratch (that is by hard coding), and using the WordPress CMS (Content Management System). SiteRubix also uses WordPress. Hence, I am familiar with it.

While I do most of my website development on WordPress, I have seen and tried SiteRubix. And my assessment is that it is really easy to use. Added to that, with the plentiful training available to help, anyone can easily create, manage and grow their own website.

Very Affordable Website Hosting

To be honest, I do not use the hosting at Wealthy Affiliate. The reason is because, just before I discovered Wealthy Affiliate and joined the network, I have already signed up with another web hosting service.

My experience with this other web hosting service has been very good, and is still great. I will share about this service on another blog post. For now, my contract with this hosting service is still valid. When it is near end of that contract, I will consider to renew or switch to Wealthy Affiliate’s web hosting service.

Meantime, it is good to know I have options. From what I have read about Wealthy Affiliate’s website hosting service, it is really high quality. And that is very important because we are running businesses here. Websites are important for our businesses, right?

Here are some of the features of the hosting service:

24/7 Support that includes Live Chat, Private Messaging, Ticket System and Community Support.
Easy WordPress Installation. This is important. We don’t want to be bogged down by any programming. Plus, there are pre-installed plugins that can help your website do better than others.
Backups are done daily. This is good because, as mentioned above, our websites are important for our businesses.
You do get Domain Email, too. It is user friendly and no experience required.
24/7/365 Server Monitoring.
Website Monitoring and maintenance.
Type of hosting is cloud based with easy to use interface. It is also designed for high performance.
Starter accounts get 2 Free SiteRubix.com websites. Premium accounts get 25 Free SiteRubix.com websites.
As usual, there are lots of training and tutorials. Courses, video tutorials, resources and much more covering everything you need to know to build a website. There is also Weekly Live Training that covers a wide range of topics.

Useful & Powerful Keyword Research Tool

I have to be frank here. When I first joined Wealthy Affiliate, I was using Google Keyword Tool to do my keyword research. It was good enough back then. Now, it is virtually useless. Thank goodness there is the very useful and powerful Keyword Tool in Wealthy Affiliate. Nowadays, I turn to this to do most of my keyword research.

What is Keyword Research?

It is an essential part of digital marketing. It is foundation of getting your website ranked, your social posts noticed, your posts noticed on other sharing platforms, and even for your online advertisement success. For example, it is very useful when you need to find keywords for a Google AdWords campaign.

This tool helps you to find what words people are using to search for products or services a business provides. It also shows if there is any traffic, any competition, and how strong the competition is. Best of all, it can ‘advise’ you if the keyword is a good choice for your website.

There is another tool available here, too, and it is called Jaaxy. This is a much better tool, and provides more in depth information. There is a basic subscription that is Free. The Premium, of course, provides more detailed and useful information.

These are very powerful tools. Without these, you will be flying blind in your pursuit of getting your business noticed in the world wide web. As a result, your revenue and sales will not reach its full potential.

Viva Las Vegas! A Lucrative Recurring Affiliate Program

When you join as a member, you are immediately an affiliate marketer for the program and can make lucrative profits. You earn passive online revenue by referring people to Wealth Affiliate.

When you are a Premium member, commissions are $8 for the first month $19 special offer. Thereafter, you earn $23.50 every month. For yearly commissions, it is $175. And chances of conversions are 1 in every 8 persons. Over 12% of people go Premium.

Here’s the exciting part!

When you get 300 Premium sales within the year, these are your rewards:

You get to meet Kyle, Carson and other Superstar Affiliates in Las Vegas!
Your ENTIRE trip will be paid for!
You will learn future plans for Wealthy Affiliate
You will be put up in style with beautiful accommodations
Entertainment is in abundance (gambling, shows, dinners, drinks)
Delicious food catered throughout the day
Surprises and Swag

I have never been to Las Vegas. Have you? And traveled there with all expenses paid for? What an opportunity, right?

In the past, when I worked for Microsoft, I traveled to Los Angeles and Florida. It was to participate in trade shows, and it was all very exciting. I am not saying this is the same. What I am saying is I love these events. I find them exciting and invigorating.

And I am sure this event is just as exciting too! Click on the link below to see what happened this year at Las Vegas!

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Wealthy Affiliate Members Do Not Show Off, They Succeed with Quiet Grace

I cannot say enough good things of the community here. It is a really wonderful experience. People are kind and helpful. Everyone is helping each other to succeed. To date, I have found no other community as supportive and helpful as this.

And it is also very amazing to see people who have succeeded help others to be as successful as they are. They do not boast about their achievements. They are there to be examples of success, and to continue to be even more successful.

Every time I have a question to ask or need help from the community, I have no trepidations. I just drop a question or seek help from certain members. And the answers will come with smiles and friendliness, the help given with earnest desire to solve any problems.

This is an opportunity to be part of such a unique community. As long as you are willing to learn, willing to work hard, all you need will be there. Everything you need to have a successful online business.

Benefits of Being Premium Wealthy Affiliate Member

Going Premium, What’s in it for me?

Another really cool thing is the bonuses you get when you go Premium. As a PREMIUM member of Wealthy Affiliate, you get unlimited hosting, email accounts, Premium Monitoring and Security and better yet, 24/7 website Support.

Meaning you can create successful sites, for one or many. The choice is up to you!

What Are the Bonuses for Premium?

If you join Premium within the FIRST 7 days, here are some bonuses I am going to be giving you:

☆ You are going to get 59% discount on your first month Premium Membership (ONLY $19).

☆ You will have private access to me, The Co-founders Kyle & Carson and other successful online entrepreneurs. If you ever have a question or need help with your campaigns, we will be there. Where else can you access the CEO of the Company for help?

☆ I am going to be giving you the “Diamond Traffic Bonus”.

But only if you join in your first 7 days (this is what I call my (Action Taker’s Bonus).

A Wealthy Affiliate Review 2017 – The Passive Online Revenue Final Word

Is Wealthy Affiliate a legitimate affiliate marketing training and program? I would say YES!

Is it the best? So far, based on what I have encountered, I would definitely say YES.

Again, Passive Online Revenue gives Wealthy Affiliate 4.9 out of 5.0.

A Wealthy Affiliate Review 2017 - Rating — Passive Online Revenue Rating: 4.9 out of 5.0

It has a lot to offer. What I have covered is not all. But I do not want to write too long an article as it may get boring for you. What I have provided are the important points.

If you are seeking to build new online businesses or grow existing ones, Wealthy Affiliate is the ideal choice. It is the most comprehensive platform in the industry. Also, it is the most cost efficient.

For FREE, you can join Wealthy Affiliate, and experience it yourself. Take it out for a test drive. See what it is all about. I highly recommend you do this before you go Premium (which costs less than a dollar a day).

The reason why I suggest you try it for FREE first is because I understand about budget. Everyone has one. So do I. Your money is your hard earned money. So, it is good you do some due diligence before spending it. And I am sure that after you try it for a few months, you will be convinced and go Premium. Just like I did.

After trying it for a few days, I went Premium because I discovered that it is a progressive, forward thinking and innovative online business platform in the world. It has very good value. I wanted to start online businesses doing affiliate marketing. And I chose Wealthy Affiliate.

If you have ANY questions about this review – A Wealthy Affiliate Review (Honest & Insightful), ANY at all, please submit your questions as comments below. I will be happy to help you out.

Also, if you are a current or former member, and would like to leave your own review or feedback below, I would love to hear from you, too.

Thank you for reading this.

Best wishes to All!

Timotheus