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No this may not be exactly about conspiracies. Well, maybe. Everyday, all of the time, we see people falling for terrible scams on the Internet revolving around making money online. There’s no shame for the victims here. Everyone is looking to make a few extra bucks, and the online world is very inviting. No commute. The promise of easy money is alluring. Common Sense Conspiracy is a blog at heart, and while we were not created to make money, we do employ some ads around to try to pay the bills. Hosting a website costs money, and sometimes it’s not cheap (especially if you start having some real traffic). So, we understand, and many of us here have also sought ways to make money from the comfort of our own home. The conspiracy here is that there is no conspiracy. The truth is you can make money online, but it’s not going to be easy. It’s going to be hard.But What About <insert company>?
Truth be told, there are reputable companies where you can make money online, especially if writing is one of your talents. Unfortunately, there are so many scams and promises of easy glory out there, that it can be next to impossible to actually find those opportunities that are legitimate.
Without being ultra-discouraging, we think there are a couple of things that you can count on as signs that a company is legitimate. First, they are not advertising quick riches for little effort. Legit companies will tell you that this is going to be a drag, and you have to be in it for the long game. Common Sense Conspiracy didn’t see any real traffic for many months after its inception, and it didn’t see any real money for its efforts for years. This doesn’t happen fast, and it isn’t going to be life-changing money. Real legit online opportunities are probably going to be supplemental income, like a part-time job but without the hassle of having to go somewhere. You might invest quite a few hours with little return for literally years. The reputable companies will tell you this up front. The bottom line is that if you are reading about an online money-making opportunity and they act like it’s easy, it’s probably not the real deal. And you know how we at Common Sense Conspiracy feel about BS.
So What are the Real Opportunities?
The most common, reputable ways to make money online are either by providing a service for money (no dark web drug selling, either… we said reputable) or by providing an opinion. That’s about it, unless you have created a physical product that you are pushing. In that case, you have all the logistics of production and shipping and all that stuff. We aren’t going there, although it is very possible to start such a business online. We are going the route where you don’t have a physical product, but you are selling either entertainment, advice, or an opinion about a product.
Writing an entertaining blog may get you some subscribers and a little ad revenue, but it would take multitudes of traffic to make a real change in your bank account. The CSC has received over 3 million visitors in its time and still doesn’t really make that much money. Blogging is a good way to engage with others and maybe blow off some steam, but it’s really difficult to make real money that way. That’s why affiliate marketing is all the rage these days.
Affiliate Marketing 101 — Wealthy Affiliate
At first glance, Wealthy Affiliate does look like some click bait. They are promising that you can make money through affiliate marketing and they will help you do it. That’s all they really promise, and if you look a little deeper into it, you’ll find that nowhere do they ever imply that it will be easy.
Kyle, one of the founders of Wealthy Affiliate, even wrote a very detailed article explaining to the newbies that it may take as much as six months to just see organic traffic on your site, much less see conversions and profits. Some take longer, and some can do it sooner. Some of that is luck of the draw, but it’s mostly getting what you put in.
Wealthy Affiliate’s training program takes you from square one of getting an idea for a niche-related website and then designing said website. From there, it teaches you about SEO, how to attract traffic, and how to eventually use all of this positivity to make money through affiliate programs. The most beautiful part is that Wealthy Affiliate lets you try all this on in the fitting room 100% free of charge. That’s right. A guest account is free and requires only an email. No credit cards or subscription BS. We like the sound of that.
So, What’s the Catch?
There is always a catch. We at the CSC would never claim otherwise. The catch here is that the premiere part of the Wealthy Affiliate service costs some real money. At $49 a month, it’s not cheap. They do offer an introductory month at $19. There is also huge savings if you go yearly instead. We recommend starting with a free account for sure, but we will warn you. This ultra-supportive community is infectious, and you will find yourself wanting to plunk down your hard-earned money to give this thing a try. Should you? Well, that’s the question isn’t it.
Wealthy Affiliate makes no bones about the work it’s going to take to get your online business in affiliate marketing off the ground. This is not a short-term thing. You are looking long game here, and if you’re not, then you are just chasing the shiny gold that the sites we talked about above are hawking. This is about putting in the work, day in and day out for maybe years before you really see the fruits of your labor. That may not sound encouraging or exciting, but it’s real. The real world works that way, and unfortunately, even the online world still exists in the real world.
So What Does $49 Get Me?
This is the part that really put us here at Common Sense Conspiracy feeling like we could willfully advocate this product without compromising our morals. The $49 a month fee seems a little steep, but it includes hosting for your websites. We can tell you that if you wanted to start five or even ten websites, you would pay a whole lot more than $49 a month to host all of them with decent bandwidth. Honestly, this almost makes it worth the monthly subscription alone, even if the rest of the site was rubbish.
It’s not rubbish though. These people are super-supportive, and everyone seems to be on the same page. The whole community revolves around helping each other reach goals, and the infrastructure encourages this as well. The only caveat here is to not get so lost in the community that you forget to do your work on your business.
On top of the very attractive website hosting deal, you get tons of training videos, articles, and live webinars. You also have access to their community for everything from templates for creating keyword-rich SEO-driven content to actually getting real live comments from people through their SiteComments system.
Is Wealthy Affiliate Worth It?
Worth what? It’s free to try it out. It’s definitely worth that. Give it a look and take your time. Maybe now is not the time for you to get into something like this, but keep it in mind somewhere down the road. This community makes the work seem fun and engaging even if you are working two jobs and struggling to find the time. That’s what really stands out here is the community and the resources.
We failed to mention that WA also includes a lite subscription to Jaaxy, an unbelievable keyword tool that will help you immensely in your quest to find keywords that don’t have so much competition. This really can kickstart your website by becoming an authority on the right words that will help search engines like Google really start to steer people your way. We advocate it because it works. On a slow news day, Common Sense Conspiracy often uses Jaaxy to find out what people are looking for. We want to help, and finding out what is popular on the search engines can point you in the right direction to providing a quality product that people will enjoy.
Give Wealthy Affiliate a try. It may not be for you, or more importantly, it may not be something that you can find the time to give it the attention that it demands. This is work. Make no mistake. But the possibility of passive income stream can really light your fire.
Common Sense Conspiracy doesn’t make a practice of advocating products like this. Our history backs this up. The bottom line is that this is a legitimate life-changing product, and we wanted to share it with our readers.
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