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When I was getting started in the internet marketing industry with my local lead generation business model, I hired a mentor through this coaching program to teach me what he knows.  

I wanted to have a skill that genuinely turned massive profits for me without giving me more work to do, like — ya know — a second job would. 

Then I got started, quit my full-time job a year into the adventure, and I’m now making over $45,000 in monthly, passive income in 2019. 

It’s truly been a remarkable journey. 

So we’ve all had our big start when we looked into making money online. 

Sounds ridiculous, but just read to the end and you’ll see just how legit this is. 

Anyway, there I am getting my great start. 

I thought that it was so impressive that I was going to be an awesome life coach to someone in the future. 

You know, like those people who hit it big and have all this success then charge reasonable prices to make themselves available and share their wisdom of how they made their successes happen. 

I thought it was going to be awesome. 

And it was… kind of. 

See, every single person I took on (as a client) always changed my outlook on life. 

I was excited to see their joy when they transformed into something better than either of us thought would have been possible from their courageous work. 

Recommendations were made, referrals were sent my way, more clients due to the raving reviews provided by current customers – it was the life! 

In fact, people loved me so much that I was broke! 

Yeah… true story. 

I guess it turns out that life coaching really doesn’t make that much money – despite how rewarding the work is. 

I could be passionate and excited for changes made that make people around me happier than they ever thought they could be. 

Unfortunately, the bills just weren’t getting paid.  

I explored options on how to get more money in a day so I could live and eat:

• Lower my rates?
• Put more money into marketing (that I didn’t have)?
• Ask past customers to buy from me again?

If I was so good, then why couldn’t I produce more funds in my so-called successful career?

At the end of the day, coaching is a business. 

Yes, I know.  It’s hard to look at it like this, but when you’re out of peanut butter and jelly then it’s time to take some drastic actions. 

If I was going to continue going forward in the self-employed track of life, then it was time for me to figure out how I was going to earn my living. 

Even though I was an epic coach for the clients that came to me asking for some support, I decided that I needed some mentoring of my own to guide me toward where I felt I needed to go. 

Whenever you’re reaching out for someone to help you like this, it’s always best to look at it from the perspective of asking someone to look your way for a period of time. 

When you hire a mentor, you’re inviting them into your personal space to watch you briefly and recommend changes that you could make to get to where you want to go. 

Unfortunately, any coach that I had explored seemed to seriously miss the point of what I was looking for; their promises were beyond extraordinary!   

What I mean is that I just couldn’t believe the words they were saying or the claims they were making. 

None of them seemed to be in the market to help someone like me – in the position I was in. 

I couldn’t find a coach of my own that would be a good fit until I met someone at a local meet-up that dropped the name: Mr. Russ Ruffino. 

There’s a name I didn’t think about looking into. 

Who was this guy?

Would he be the person I was looking for?

Can he guide me to where I want to go?

Is this the top coach in 2019 for an entrepreneurial-minded, success-oriented individual such as myself? 

Read on to learn more! 

By the way…

If you haven’t yet started something for yourself to turn some profits through the internet, feel free to consider our coaching program; we’ve got a few spots open to educate people the ropes of local lead generation and how this can work for you from home, in your spare time.

Why did I just drop a shameless plug? 

I’ll tell ya later – and oh the reason is very good! 

For now, more on the myth, the man, the future mentor: Russ Ruffino’s Clients on Demand.

Russ Ruffino: Who is This Guy?

If you’ve never been to California – especially the southern portions of it – then let me give a quick description of it, because that’s how Mr. Ruffino likes his environment (or, so I think). 

The rumors are true; starlets and famous people head out to the West Coast for more than just the business opportunities. 

The place is as beautiful as it is fast-moving and quick-paced. 

If you ever head out that way, be sure to wear your go-fast kicks because you’ll be hauling some serious tail just to get up to speed on how the local layout works. 

A humble man, no doubt, Russ is no stranger to taking responsibility for the important things in his life and carrying through on commitment. 

He demonstrates that with waking up to work on his family, what with his marriage and child and all. 

The gentleman that I’ve heard about who likes to make a living by changing lives with his business career, Ruffino established the Clients on Demand coaching program in the year 2011. 

How does he reach other people and pass his overarching message along to the masses? 

He’s no stranger to implementing technology in order to get his job done. 

By the way, he does it well! 

You can catch Russ Ruffino in the following mediums:

• Podcast
• Facebook
• Customized YouTube Channel
• Instagram
• Running webinars to educate and connect
• Twitter
• And a variety of other social platforms and media

Understanding the Program: Clients on Demand

If you’re looking to become a coach, then Russ probably isn’t going to be a good mentor for you. 

His heavy hitter material is better geared toward those already working in the trenches and changing lives as we speak. 

If you still want to get into this space, then you could probably find his education and content more applicable to you when you’ve helped a handful of clients achieve some things. 

I’m not saying you can’t get started with Ruffino, but he’s got some high-level things to share and it’ll just make more sense when you’ve been through the gauntlet of getting satisfied customers under your belt first. 

This is a review blog, after all.  I’m happy to provide some insight. 

Also, if you’re looking to get started with making money online, the cost of his program (alone) would make any newcomer balk at first. 

I know I did when I heard how much his program costs. 

Still, I think this guy had something to him that I might be able to capitalize on. 

So what’s it all about – that Clients on Demand thing that Russ is doing? 

Well, you get to dig in with Russ from the very beginning of starting his mentorship programs. 

He helps you to find your ideal clients that:

• Seem to be a good fit for what you’re hoping to work with them on
• Can reach your price of entry without asking for things for free or some upfront discount
• Believe in what you’re trying to do
• Take what you’re saying and appreciate your time

One other thing: Russ Ruffino reminds you of your need to make money – that you’re in business – and that you need to generate more revenue to continue to afford to help people. 

Part of his content includes recommendations on how to have future clientele consider you instead of you having to go find them and pitch them to get started with your coaching experience.

How awesome would that last part be: have clients seek you out.

You’d be like a famous brand right from the get-go; no more following up with people who don’t want to talk to you or quickly hang up on you while pretending to be polite. 

No more ridiculous handshakes necessary at events you never wanted to show up at, where the business cards you pass out are as worthless as the napkins they wipe their mouths with before tossing them (along with your card) into the garbage. 

Russ’ course, just for attracting clients, is worth the price of admission – so you can have something to show for all the work that you’re trying to accomplish. 

As a new member, here’s what you can look forward to:

• Figure out how to get less face-to-face events happening so you can help more people in less time, and still have time for yourself to enjoy your career’s lifestyle
• Figuring out other resources that you can leverage so you don’t have your phone ringing off the hook from clients to ask you about every little detail to your program’s aspects (downloadable files, recorded podcasts, and other forms of published content)
• Learn to be the go-to expert among your competitors
• Charge your pricing to what you really deliver, and not to undercut the competition (who probably don’t provide what you can anyway)
• How to guide my clientele in a way that positions me to be the EXPERT in my field (to them).
• Finding ways to perform my services in less exhausting, more automated pattern
• Earning back my social time so I can have a life outside of my business
• 2-day closing structure for selling clients quickly and getting them off of my prospecting actions
• Getting authentic with both my sales and marketing and in the coaching services itself

I like that: Authentic! 

When I achieved some changes from Mr. Ruffino’s mentoring, I had a new found appreciation for the things I was doing in the field of coaching and life mentoring. 

I received the privileges of…

• Less content marketing headaches
• More satisfaction in my clients
• More buyers for my coaching services
• Landing the type of people that will passionately work with my guidance to make a profound change in their life – ultimately leading to some amazing testimonials I was able to leverage for the marketing… so I could change more lives for the better

I know that I’ve made some changes.

I also know that Russ Ruffino provided guidance during the same time that those changes were made and the results were realized.

There’s no telling who ultimately takes the credit for these rewards of hard work and joys that came from implementing his wisdom…

I’ll simply say that I’m grateful for my mentor’s guidance and I’ll happily run with what results were delivered from enduring the rigors of changing for the better with the help of Mr. Ruffino’s Clients on Demand program. 

How 6 Figures Were Acquired with Local Lead Generation in 2019

If you possess clientele by the volume equivalent to a laundry list (yeah, that’s a pretty old school term), then you might be able to get something out of Russ Ruffino’s coaching and mentoring with his Clients on Demand program. 

For the newbies reading this kind of review, I want to make sure that you get started off in your entrepreneurial adventures online with an opportunity to land some wins in a relatively short amount of time. 

The coaching industry can be brutal – and you also have to have testimonials, which are often hard to acquire if you’ve never had clients before in a coaching program that you want to get started with. 

By all means, go ahead and start a coaching program if that’s really what you want to do.

I’m not putting together this blog to tell people what they can or can’t do with their time and business ideas. 

However, having raked in a hefty 6 figures of annual income with having been in business only less than 5 years, I have a unique perspective on the situation and think I can communicate what I believe is the most effective approach to getting started with a side-hustle online. 

When I got started, it was 2014 and I was struggling to generate a profit online while I was sick and tired of my 9 to 5 and the freezing cold commutes that came from the joyous benefit of living in downtown Detroit (especially in the winter mornings that carried freezing gusts of wind). 

It was a miserable lifestyle and I was more than ready for a change.

That’s why I started looking for an opportunity to gain a side-hustle that would profit me long-term without messing with what little time I could afford to spare in life each and every day

It wasn’t until I had found this coaching program for local lead generation that helped me to figure out how to use free traffic (which meant no paid ads) to generate web traffic and leads that I could send to a local business for a hefty profit. 

This type of passive income is awesome and is what helped me to turn what was a simple side hustle into a now 6 figure business. 

This is what the results of my efforts look like…

A business owner sending me $750 every month – and they’ve continued doing that for the last 4 years, without missing a single month.

Now I have about 45 of these deals all paying me every month whether I work or not. 

What else this has afforded me to do is…

• Work anywhere I want now – I don’t have a 9 to 5 anymore and don’t have to punch a clock that requires me to be somewhere before work actually starts
• I can generate as much income as I want – and I never thought I’d say when I started a few years ago, but now I make more money than medical physicians and attorneys in a calendar year
• I can choose my work hours – and the money will still come in if I take time off for being sick, vacationing, or anything else
• My business will be around for quite some time – the internet isn’t going anywhere and businesses want to make more money
• So I use free traffic on search engines to send them more leads, and they pay me monthly to keep sending them business (just like Uber and Airbnb)

When you’re using Google search results to rake in the bucks, you might as well dominate the marketplace and get the maximum results to send to a company to keep paying you for years.

Just like what I did for limo rentals in Lansing, MI.  Check it out below:

If you’re ready for these kinds of results in your future, then consider joining our coaching program so you can learn how to generate leads in a side business (just like I started doing in 2014) and make your year of 2019 (and beyond) the days that you never have to worry about your financial security again. 

I look forward to hearing from you! 

Do you ever remember loathing the order that it’s bedtime when you were growing up? 

I remember way back to the time I was growing up…

Thinking that the night was going to belong to me when I was older! 

I was beyond sick of the mom and dad figures trying to tell me what I was supposed to do…

Who told them that they had to tell me when the right time to go to bed really was, anyway?

I’d be in charge someday!

And when that day comes, no one would tell me what to do!

It’ll be my rules from that point forward!

I’ll have made it in this world, and I’ll be all set!

I can play anytime of the day that I want to.

I’m not gonna lie to ya…

I’m older now and I always look forward to retiring early to bed. 

Do you get enough sleep at night? I know that I sure don’t see the back of my eyelids often enough.

I mean…

I wake up nearly every morning now, stretch out and think of how good it felt…

And how I simply can’t wait to do something like that again! 

Sounds ridiculous, no doubt, but it’s a true story. 

I don’t mind putting some of my beans out there.

Let’s just say that these personal experiences are going to make for a great story someday.

Try comparing all of this to the idea of what it might be like to be your own boss. 

The majority of this blog is centered around an ideal audience of people who are looking to start their own business from home. 

This is especially for those people who are sick and tired of some raggedy old person that still runs their business operations like it’s 1927 and everyone wishes they would just chill. 

If you’re looking to be a soloist and go at it in the entrepreneur world, then you’ve come to the right place to have this discussion. 

Developing into someone that can manage yourself, while operating in the marketplace to a degree where you can begin raking in profits by the bushel and make THAT your full-time gig…

But a lot of us want to get started without having a second job to add to what we’ve already got going on. 

That is to say, we don’t want a second full-time job. 

After all, we don’t want to double up on what we don’t want when we’re reaching for something that we’re wishing to come true.

When I launched my local lead generation business with the help of a mentor who started our coaching program, I never thought that I’d be raking in $50,000 on a recurring, passive, monthly basis. 

With the help of that coaching program, I was able to build an online presence for my business that could bring me results after only 6 hours of work — and the lead gen sites look a little something like this (see below):

At the time, all I knew was that I wasn’t happy with where I was and that I wanted more than I was getting dished out with the corporate 9 to 5 and a crummy $35k salary (before taxes, mind you). 

If I wanted to be my own boss, I had to wise up and learn to take more control of the things that I wanted freedom within. 

If I wanted to have a full day to myself, then I needed to put myself to bed at a reasonable time so I had the energy – and the capacity – to hustle at a side gig that would ultimately lead to my becoming a full-time entrepreneur and making a full-time income on a part-time basis. 

Take a brief self-assessment with some honest, personal insight right now:  Do you have what it takes to make smart, personal decisions, and business decisions, in 2019? 

If you’ve never heard of the founder of Course from Scratch, Danielle Leslie, then you’re in for a treat.

I learned about her not too long ago and noticed that she had some tricks up her sleeve when it came to empowering someone to make their choices work for them (not against them), with the ultimate goal of shifting their lifestyle into establishing a business model they can embrace and look forward to daily. 

Learning More About Danielle Leslie

This amazing woman, Danielle, has some outstanding qualities and accomplishments:

• Founder
• Reputation with Being Successful at Startups
• Marketing Expert
• Business Instructor
• Social Media Activist
• Industry Influencer

I wish that were all the titles that she could carry – she’s really done something with her career in entrepreneurship. 

At her core, Ms. Leslie has been a well-understood advisor and entrepreneur; her initial start was on a course platform that retails classes people can post online for others to learn from at affordable rates.  You might have heard of it: Udemy. 

In her wheelhouse is the goal of helping the average person – just like you or myself – to shift what we look forward to doing regularly from just a hobby into a business that delivers profitable returns to us when we engage with it. 

A pioneer of sorts, Danielle’s innovative prowess has proven to deliver outstanding ideas and techniques that work. 

Further, she has a passion in reminding others to believe in themselves and that nothing is impossible. 

Such positivity is difficult to find these days; she’s truly a one of a kind in her own right within the capitalistic style of our American business industry. 

The accelerator program that she’s composed for every person to establish their business and entrepreneurial path (especially for those people that are brand new to the business endeavor) brings with it her unparalleled motivation and talent for instructing in plain terms. 

Like her, she really wishes that others can open their hearts up to the possibility of making the best vision for the ideal life a genuine reality. 

More about Course from Scratch

Kicking an 8-week set of learning modules, the course that she makes available for a premium is quite accelerated! 

It’s no joke – she holds nothing back and expects anyone stepping up to the challenge to grind with her as she moves quicker than lightning. 

For some, 8 weeks might be too long; other students, maybe not long enough. 

There’s nothing wrong with catering to what you have going on and fitting this course into your lifestyle – instead of allowing it to take over. 

While the idea is that you could be full-time in your passion and receive massive compensation for doing that – exclusively – for a career, everyone starts somewhere and has their own demons to work through before they achieve that ideal situation. 

However, these 8 weeks seem to really move a person from…

• Only considering doing the unthinkable…
• To move such a thought into the palatable with considerable planning…
• Then launching the effort by acting on the plan and making the once unthinkable now possible! 

A remarkable program in hindsight, it took me longer than most because I simply wasn’t prepared to make the commitment to my investment. 

I was ready a little while later, but it took me a little bit of time to prepare myself for the training that was coming and the adventure I was about to embark upon with Danielle Leslie’s Course from Scratch.

Remember, this course is mobile, available, and here for you! 

I would advise taking it seriously the first time around and garnering all you can from her wisdom and experience. 

If you delay, at any point, all you’re really doing is procrastinating the ideal – which could someday be an inevitably good outcome if you take this coaching seriously and work at what you want. 

Since it’s easily accessible, that also means that the course is easy to invest in and simply not take it seriously. 

The low-cost means a low barrier of entry so more and more people can access the program. 

That, unfortunately, also means that there’s little in the public perception of value in the 8-week boot camp. 

If it’s easy to do – then it can also be said that it’s simple to not do it, or start but not finish. 

Ask yourself the following questions to ensure that you’re prepared to successfully navigate her course:

-Do you have an online resource, like a website that hosts a blog which is overwhelmingly full of content?

-Do you have any sort of online asset that pushes money your way?  If not, how come?

-Producing regular videos for a following on YouTube but just aren’t seeing that much of a return in profits?

-Would you like to be taken seriously and influence the masses, but just believe that it won’t happen for you?

-Do you have bragging rights with all of your education and life experience in a respectable discipline, yet aren’t clear on how to develop that into a profitable revenue stream? 

If any of the above points should describe you, then you’re going to be in good hands with Danielle Leslie’s coaching program.

Maybe you could consider tapping into her “Course from Scratch” training.

Danielle is a pro when it comes to…

• listing what you’re knowledgeable and skilled at, which often means you have a passion for your niche
• outlining commonalities and patterns
• facilitating your mind to see what’s possible with such things that are now brought to the forefront of your mind

After that, it’s just a matter of time before those course helps you to –

• Prepare your course, product, or service for attention and distribution
• Marketing your newly found idea through appropriate advertising methods
• Launch your startup for your ideal audience
• Expand your revenue streams with paying customers and potentially recurring clientele

In total honesty, I was rather skeptical about this when I explored this. 

I mean, I was already successful in an online business, that does local lead generation, which rakes in financial wealth passively — meaning the money comes in whether I’m working in the business or not that day.

What was this self-proclaimed, successful businessperson going to teach me about generating a lifestyle based on my passion that can return a handsome profit? 

I can attest to the reality that not everyone that gets started with this course will be an absolute success story which Danielle Leslie can use as an advertising testimonial for her program. 

I’m not saying that it’s not for everyone, but statistics have shown that – in most things – there are almost always attrition rates to a program if enough people go through it. 

However, I became a success and wasn’t really expecting this to work for me. 

How I Love Local Lead Generation in 2019 for My Ideal Business Model

So it’s no secret that I have a business…

And it pays me well…

And I’m happy to be living the lifestyle that I never thought would have been possible for me only a handful of years ago. 

Course from Scratch by Danielle is pretty good, I like how it shows you how to really hit the ground running and improve quickly; however, I still prefer my lead generation business…

And here’s why…

The amount of value I wish to give to others when I work a business model needs to be insurmountable. 

I mean… BIG!!!

Also, I would prefer to have a target audience that I am confident always has money set aside to pay me – as if I could be one of their recurring fees in their monthly expense reports. 

When I found a business model that could achieve that, my income shot up to exactly half of 6 figures in cold, hard cash every 30 days! 

What kind of business can give you such passive income? 

It’s called Local Lead Generation for Small Businesses using Free Organic Traffic.

Why do I love putting lead gen properties at the top of Google search results to work it’s magic through free traffic? Just see where they are… (image below):

When it comes to free traffic, nothing can beat it and nothing can stop it. 

While I’ve explored other business models in my days that could turn a couple bucks profit from the high investments, I wanted as little expenses as possible in operation costs dipping into my profits. 

I’m not greedy; I’m savvy with my business decisions and know what I want! 

When I learned about this gig, my whole life changed. 

Here’s all I do now when I want to make more money…

1. Mock up a quick lead gen site
2. Smear glue on the back and slap that bad boy to the top of Google search
3. Rake in the cash like it’s my job…

In reality, that’s what I do for income now.  In the picture below, you can see what I’ve been able to do to generate more leads for limo and party bus rental services.

It’s was my side hustle when I was working a crummy corporate job in downtown Detroit, Michigan. 

Let me tell you, those wintery cold commutes on-foot were miserable… especially on the windy days. 

Instead of dealing with that, I now get to…

• Work from home… or, ya know, wherever I feel like that day
• I don’t have to concern myself with a dress code anymore, or a boss telling me that I don’t look professional with my hair cut a certain way
• I now have the opportunity to – and do – make more in a year than most attorneys and medical physicians
• I get to do exactly what Uber is doing for business, and their competitor (Lyft): generate referrals, send them to businesses, and get paid loads of money to keep doing it
• I’ve definitely got financial security working for me – I don’t think the internet or the small, local businesses I’m serving are going to dry up and disappear anytime soon
• I can sleep in and never have to worry about quarterly reviews telling me how many times I was late to work – I walked away from my 9 to 5 only a year after starting this business model

Too good to be true? 

Yeah, I’ve heard that before. 

Here’s proof of what I’m doing…

This lead gen site was worked on for a grand total of less than 6 hours. 

The result? 

It now pays me, to this day, for the entire last four years, a monthly income of $750 – and the business owner never misses the payment. 

Check it out here…

Why doesn’t he miss a payment? 

With local lead generation, I’m delivering buyers from the marketplace to his company. 

They want to keep making money and being the top dog in the marketplace, so they keep hooking me up to keep them busy. 

It’s really the most ideal, passive arrangement for a win-win in a part-time business through the internet! 

It’s a stable, reliable, and profitable business that I can expand anytime I want. 

We’re currently taking students for our coaching program to teach others how to do it too. 

We’re not concerned about newbies coming in and being our competition because there are too many small businesses in the world – yes, the world – to help in various cities and working in multiple industries that we could be helping. 

Learn to leverage free traffic, generate leads, and make profits with a real business model you can work while still working at your full-time job.  When you’ve got enough coming in, then you can think about whether your time is better spent at the job or not, but we’ll let you make that call. 

Eventually, you’ll be positioned to rake in a multiple 6 figures like I’m currently doing in a given calendar year.  I started just like you only a few short years ago, so what are you waiting for? 

An invitation?  Here it is… click here so we can talk. 

It’s been rumored that some of the most well-compensated and/or famous Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) in business claim that they consume more and more knowledge on a weekly basis – through reading multiple books every single week. 

Assuming that this is not only true but valid, then it makes sense to have a product like what Alex Mehr and Tai Lopez have brought to the marketplace. 

MentorBox is a program by which you can have the similar effect to a concierge service and allow these two entrepreneurial gentlemen to bring you resources so that you can attempt to duplicate this CEO mentality of increasing your personal knowledge through this monthly service. 

It’s no surprise that some of the people that rise up in society happen to do so because they took action on the knowledge that they’ve already garnered. 

For example, long before I had ever heard of the MentorBox I was already productive in my local lead generation business and had been successfully leveraging free traffic to generate a passive income by sending referrals to small businesses.

Even though I was doing well financially — after all, I had already left my 9 to 5 by the time the word of MentorBox came my way — I still grew intrigued and wanted to know more about why someone would automatically ship books in the mail to members in a digital era.

By this point, I had also hear of Tai Lopez, but Alex Mehr with the MentorBox subscription program was a new person (and product) altogether for me.

I know that I have heard how one of the best ways to acquire more knowledge – and, hopefully, retain it – was through reading books. 

While we’ve learned in elementary school that reading can be key to unlocking the vivid depths of the imagination, this could also be applicable to the world of business and overall entrepreneurial goals for sure. 

To that end, Mr. Mehr and Mr. Lopez – both serial entrepreneurs in their own respective rites – stand convinced that time is of the essence and it’s important to take the most important lessons from published authors and attempt to digest them exclusive versus attempting to read 50 full books annually (page after page). 

For those that enjoy the experience of cracking a good book that is intended to help develop their mind and keen senses for business, maybe this isn’t for you. 

Or, maybe it is…

If you’re anything like Tai, perhaps you’re a skimmer and speed reader of textbooks. 

Among the few across the globe (which, arguably, that number could be growing) who can speed read, maybe you are also able to pull out only the most vital content and big picture takeaways from good books that you can find applicable to your daily life and/or professional endeavors. 

It’s no doubt that improvements will inevitably be achieved if you continue to habitually put the effort in to invest in yourself through your own actions – like reading stellar books that were intended to help develop yourself (if appropriately, or even effectively, consumed). 

If you’re anything like me, on the other hand, I’m so lazy that I could fall asleep reading a book – and I often have. 

Why limit yourself to 12 to 20 books per year (ranging from 1 to 2 books actually read each month) when you could invest in a program like MentorBox which is intended to deliver digital resources like:

• Audiovisual content – in the form of videos
• Worksheets so you can progress through the book’s content and follow along
• Reduce the time it takes you to consume book content to approximately 60 or 90 minutes (depending on what the topics and books are at the time)

In this method of delivery (from the MentorBox), you should theoretically be able to…

• Reduce your time spent reading or learning from book-bound paper with words
• Expand your retention with interactive content about the themes of the books included
• Increase your annual reach of book consumption from the rumored average of 20 books and 20 lessons to a yearly personal achievement of 50 books (sometimes as much as 60, time permitting)

In reality, while personal development is widely advocated in the field of business – how many wannabes and initially beginning entrepreneurs actually get past the range of three to six books in a calendar year? 

Since it’s not always regarded as a money-making activity (as in, you’re not pitching people and asking for money at the end of the conversation when you sit and read a book), this is one activity that often competes for our time and falls to the wayside. 

So, it sounds like the MentorBox is a very fitting idea for entrepreneurs to invest in themselves and their development through a paid subscription to resources that are habitually sent for the betterment of those with the monthly membership. 

One can’t help but wonder – and ask – if increasing the rate of book knowledge consumption to the level that Tai Lopez has been able to achieve will legendarily lead a person (like you and me) toward increasing our financial well-being. 

In case that thought got you to pause or hesitate, I’ve gotta say that you’re not alone. 

This point seems to be a severe struggle for people in the space of business – or those who want to begin a business venture – because it just doesn’t seem to be a required or productive activity (like making money might be, in contrast). 

To be successful, however, the following features of successful entrepreneurs end up being only one aspect of the equation for hitting it big in your side hustle (which is where a lot of us begin, anyway):

• Read Personal / Self-Help / Development Textbooks
• Gain (and hopefully, retain) the knowledge within
• Improve one’s mindset and outlook in their business endeavors

One of my favorite mentors (who happens to counsel tons of millionaires, by the way) and business tycoon, Mr. Dan Lok, had this to say on how come developing one’s mind and building character just isn’t sufficient to achieve your desired level of success from within…

What he was pointing acknowledged a truth that I have seen over and over with people who confidently step up to the plate of entrepreneurship and believe that the first step is to spend money and buy the fixings of a business. 

In reality, what you need is a high-level, high-income skill that you can leverage to turn profits in the marketplace. 

If you’re already in a business venture, as well as for those considering one, please consider this question in your own mind for a hot minute:

What can you bring to the marketplace with the skills that you currently possess?

Let’s take it a step further:

What are you currently able to deliver, or what do you think you can deliver, to the marketplace that can solve a recurring problem that you can then ask for payment in exchange for?

If you can deliver a result, nay, promise a result, then you can find yourself in a lucrative opportunity. 

There was a time in life where I found myself hopelessly addicted to the notion of consuming more and more stuff that fell along the lines of personal development. 

Somehow, somewhere along the line, I was thoroughly convinced that if I was able to digest more information through these self-help books than my notional competition and counterparts in the marketplace that I was going to be successful beyond my wildest imagination! 

Guess who had 2 thumbs and his priorities mixed up. 

Fast forward from those old days to 2015…

I was given the opportunity to invest – and actually had invested – in a coaching program that provided training on a unique skill set which ultimately allowed for the side hustle profit generation of amassing nearly $10,000.00 in passive monthly revenue. 

It’s not the kind of riches that allow me to go and buy a house with one big cash payment to the desk of a realtor, but it was able to let me give some serious thought to why I was spending so much time slaving away at a 9 to 5 that only gave me $35,000 every year but always turned me down for an annual raise. 

What did this experience do for me? 

It essentially jumpstarted everything that I had packed into my mind regarding all of those self-help books. 

What I was missing was high-income skill and massive action to grab the money that I felt I deserved to be making from the marketplace. 

I now live an awesome laptop lifestyle, where I…

• work from home – or anywhere I can take my laptop
• run a local marketing agency whenever and wherever I want
• and I look forward to waking up every day to continue this lifestyle

Look, if you’ve already established yourself with a business model that’s kickin’ back to ya the recurring income to the tune of at least $10,000 in monthly pocket change, then something like this monthly subscription package from Lopez and Mehr can really set your business ablaze in the best way. 

Let’s dig deeper on the personal development investment of the MentorBox and discover if this is something that you can see true value within…

How Much is MentorBox and What Do You Get with Your Monthly Membership?

As we’ve discussed, this is a service that costs you money in the upfront tune of investing in your future, your business, and so much more. 

If you’re not familiar with the various methods of retaining information, then I highly advise first doing a Google search on each of these learning styles – and maybe even take a quick, free, online quiz to find out what your best method(s) for learning is/are. 

Meanwhile, the MentorBox membership subscription brings you 2 options to acquire the regularly delivered educational materials which encompass your ability to retain the book content in the each of the following modalities:

• Kinesthetic (Action/Touch)
• Visual (Perception/Observation)
• Audio (Where you can listen to the information)
• Reading (Just as good as if it were the book itself)

Pricing for the program’s membership levels entail:

1. This option is $7.00 for the monthly content (charged every month) and you receive all digital aspects of the information
2. Choosing this level will be an upgrade, which requires an additional fee, bringing the total monthly subscription costs to $89.00 (every month) – and this is regarded as the ever-popular “upgraded physical version”

With your membership, you’ll be able to receive the following:

• Uninhibited access to the membership site where you have complete access to your delivered content.  You get access to the books within the program along with the core content pulled out by the people running the subscription service itself
• Video lessons which are accessible to the tune of over 500 Hours of recorded content
• Book summaries are provided in an audio format
• Workbooks (for the digital version of the subscription, which is the more popular and lower priced option) which you can download and print if you so wish
• Cheat sheets to better facilitate and train your ability to augment memory retention of book content and personal reading speed
• Additional, relevant, and (intended to be) helpful materials for your personal investment of time studying
• Complete access to the mastermind group that is exclusive, and private, to MentorBox members only
• You always have the option to expand your order to include the physical shipment of the monthly provisions

If you choose to – and pay the upgrade fee – you can receive:

• Physical copies of the 2 to 3 books covered for that month’s MentorBox
• 1 USB Key/thumb drive, loaded with book summary content
• Physical workbooks for the self-help books that were shipped out
• Your cheat sheet for the month (delivered at no additional charge) to expand your memory retention and reading speed
• MentorBox bookmark(s)
• A magnet (that is also branded with MentorBox)

If you were ever seeking to establish yourself as a reputable individual and draw closer to achieving the level of results that is talked about regarding Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) and other C-Suite officials, this could be a starting point for you with help on improving –

• The speed that you can read books (if you work at it)
• Memory retention through photographic memorization methods
• Consistent, monthly reminders (that you’ve invested in) to work at these both regularly and often

I don’t know if I’m the only one who has heard about this, but it’s also been rumored that CEOs and reputable businesspersons have been known to hire individuals for the very purpose of reading a book for that individual. 

Why?

The individual doing the hiring appreciates the value of the book’s content and also their time. 

In a push-pull situation between two things that are of great value, but you still want to get them both done, then this could be a great business principle to learn because what they’re doing is outsourcing the work of reading the entire book to someone else that they’ll gladly pay a premium to. 

The goal, then, is for the hired help to digest the book into note-form so the businessperson can absorb more content in less time – at least, that’s the goal here. 

Everyone is different.  

What works for some may not work for others, so it’s not going to hurt anything to give the MentorBox a try, but I’d also encourage people who explore this option to really take a pause and evaluate whether this method of consuming information is really for them. 

If you’re the type of person that can see a project through, stick with a regimented program, and garner a lot out of your commitments and the things you say you’ll do, then the MentorBox could – in fact – be something of value for the individual that grinds things out with good work ethic and sweat equity. 

The added benefits of this monthly membership are that you can…

• Save time
• Gain more knowledge through having access to various modalities of learning with the same content
• (if you’re diligent with your labors) reduce the amount of time-consuming the books’ highlighted points which the founds of MentorBox have taken the time to identify for, and on your, behalf

The Goods and Not-So-Goods to the Monthly MentorBox Program

Positive aspects of the MentorBox presented to people who buy into the membership can include:

• Acquisition of pivotal lessons that correlate to the investment of time that would have been originally spent reading the same books
• Discover books from the market that you might not have otherwise discovered or heard of if it weren’t for the MentorBox’s recommendations
• Highlights of key lessons from commentators and contributing experts that may not be within the actual books themselves (which means you get some bonus content and helpful tidbits)
• The selected books for the MentorBox subscription can end up being handpicked famous authors found on the favorited lists of other people
• The MentorBox is a very mobile application that you can take with you and learn on the go – no more needing to have to sit in a classroom or at a home office desk and wait until you get home; when you’re waiting in line or sitting and waiting your turn at some professional or corporate setting, you can be learning and absorbing valuable content to improve yourself
• Dig deep into the subject matter and lessons provided with the cheatsheets, worksheets, and other bonuses included (at no extra charge)
• The key points delivered in this package could inspire you to further explore the book itself
• You could develop the beneficial habit of gaining an unquenchable thirst for wisdom and the constant seeking of knowledge

Things that I think could have been missing or a drawback to a program like MentorBox may include:

• If you’re more of a do-it-yourself type of person, or if you see greater value in selecting different applications of the information for cheaper options of access on your own (like the convenience of an audiobook, for example), then maybe this could be something you can pass on
• The subscription does continue to pitch other offers while they’re supposedly “helping” you to learn more things (and I personally would rather not be constantly pitched and asked to buy more stuff)
• The advertising and sales pitching online could have overstepped their bounds in the sense of honestly delivering the benefits to this MentorBox program
• You’re subjected to whatever books they select for the month; you don’t get to pick what books you want to learn important points from each month

What It Takes to Develop Good Learning Habits and Maintain the Value of the Material in your MentorBox Subscription so it’s Not Collecting Dust

Just under a decade ago, I found myself digging through more and more information in the self-help and personal development section of bookstores – and this phase also included anything I could virtually get my hands on to expedite the volume I absorbed in this niche of information. 

Call it a phase of obsession, or even deep passion, for more and more personal development. 

I dug in deep and tried to retain many business-applicable principles regarding…

• Thinking positively
• Feeding the subconscious mind
• Self-talk and positive psychology
• Aspects of good things in spirituality
• Hypnosis (for business and goal achievements)
• Affirming oneself for the future
• The (ever-famous) Law of Attraction

I was rolling big in the personal development – like no one I had ever met or heard of, actually. 

In fact, I found myself jumping down the rabbit hole of devotion toward practicing self-help and personal development concepts and principles for many, many years.

It’s often nice to look back at the journal I had kept and the notes I had taken with what I had just learned and how it shaped my daily habits, outlooks, and actions for that time in my life. 

However, it just wasn’t enough.

My life, income, and lifestyle weren’t revolutionized by any ground-breaking idea in personal development. 

The big changes, for me, came when I met a mentor by the name of Dan in 2014 who had introduced business principles and high-income skills to me that, only a year later, after massive activity and testing these skills was I able to see the product of personal development when combined with talent and hard work. 

In fact, I became the testimonial and success story of such combined, aggregated efforts. 

See, by 2015 (less than a year later), I was able to shift my lifestyle from a daily, exhaustive 9 to 5 corporate office gig in a downtown building in Detroit (with a commute and low compensation, just like everyone else) – all of which I hated, by the way…

Never having done a side hustle in business online before, never having made a single dollar online on my own…

To generating a passive income of around $10,000 in monthly, recurring income from the online business venture that didn’t exist until I met Dan – my mentor, the guy who introduced me to local lead generation for small business. 

In retrospect, I often ask myself what was the actual shift that made a difference for me to be able to live a better quality of life and have more options than to work in the corporate life for 30 years. 

The change was that I was able to find, obtain, develop, establish a presence of, and habitually use a high-income skill every single day to have a better quality of life. 

Dan Lok, the guy who talked in the video above about having your head screwed on right, has been a mentor that I appreciate and actively seek to learn from rather often. 

In this next video, he emphasizes the critical importance of obtaining your high-income skill long before ever setting foot into launching a business with financial commitments and problems. 

It was 2015 when I managed to entirely understand the magnitude and power of the high-income skill I was learning through this coaching program – which gave me the ability to quickly use free organic web traffic to execute the business model of local lead generation for small businesses. 

This changed my entire life – for the better, too. 

Here’s all I did for the business model of the high-income skill:

• Piece together a website
• Superglue it to Google’s top search results position
• Sends leads to business
• Business pays me to keep sending them more customers

It’s awesome! 

How awesome is it? 

About $2,000 per month awesome for the lead gen site I made to help out a tree service company.

Check it out…

From multiple instances of situations like this, I’ve been able to amass a successful business that now pays me to the tune of $50,000 in passive income, every month, predictably, and I still only work part-time right now (if that). 

That’s how awesome it’s been to experience the change that occurred for me.

See, I already had the big mindset from masterminding with all the great minds over the years – thanks to their willingness to publish books that discussed their important takeaways in business. 

I was able to finally begin applying my knowledge, tips or tricks from self-help and personal development books to something that was authentically mine and of value you…

Those guys were always talking about applying their wisdom and concepts to business…

I now had a business…

A lucrative business! 

The thing that was missing for me to finally turn a profit was the possession of a high-income skill that I could then figure out how to leverage to solves problems for others and bring enormous value to the business arena locally. 

When you have the skills that deliver results to pay the bills, there’s a ton within that skill set with you can deliver to others in exchange for a fairly sizeable chunk of change. 

It’s your skill that allows value to be brought to those who can benefit from what you have to offer…

And when you can help to deliver on – or move someone closer to – your desired result, you can be given compensation for your services and efforts on their behalf. 

The drawback to the self-help books that are currently on the market – at least the bigger names and titles – are that they are about as liberally applicable as telling someone to go to college and leaving that solution to that generic of a detail. 

Where should one go to college? 

What classes should they take?

What degree should they earn? 

Instead of answering those questions – at that level of thinking and problem-solving – the personal development books I know and have reviewed (along with the titles I see on the shelves of the business section of popular bookstores) simply attempt to solve specific problems with generic, grandiose ideas. 

I can appreciate that people suggest masterminding with great minds thr reading the books that have been published with those people’s names on them. 

One question I have is whether those books were actually ghost-written versus by the hand of the author who is receiving credit for the title. 

After all, these people are accredited with being very successful in complex business models that often consume large amounts of their time and attention. 

Between the business, family time, hobbies, food, sleep, there isn’t much time left in the day for anything else…

And then they wrote a book with what little time they don’t have? 

Just some food for thought here. 

When it comes to the MentorBox subscription program with Tai Lopez and Alex Mehr, the contents of these boxes are simply that – contents within a box. 

I didn’t learn my high-income skill or how to produce recurring revenue – passive income of high-value – from a book or a box. 

Digging your head into pages – while intelligent in the grander sense of obtaining knowledge – is not the same activity as sitting with a mentor and analyzing what you’re doing that’s good (and not so good) to adjust and calibrate your skills so you can hit home runs of landing deals that deliver profits into your bank account(s). 

Instead of the criticism and advice of a mentor telling you things that you should and should not do in order to yield a desired, and extremely specific result, the MentorBox just gives you books to read – at the core of it all. 

A real, live mentor finds out what your goals and ambitions are, then…

• Encourages you to continue your progress,
• Pushes you out of your comfort zone in healthy ways, and…
• Challenges you to the very core of your beliefs to make healthy changes to become the person who deserves great things through your actions took and unshakeable beliefs that what you desire is possible and worth earning though constant, unwavering, diligent efforts!

Much like a Master’s degree student finds a mentor who is in possession of a doctorate-level education credential, a student of business hires a mentor that holds the kind of skills and abilities that the mentee is hoping to acquire – with similar end-goals and accomplishments that the mentee hopes to also achieve. 

Instead of picking a random skill to go after, Mr. Dan Lok has further advised students and mentees to achieve something of greater value so you can increase your personal value…

And the way to do that, he continues, is with the ascertaining of a high-income skill. 

This kind of high-level skill is something that you can seriously consider making 6 figures annually with. 

That means, for all intents and purposes, being capable of generating upwards of $120,000 every 12 months, or – for a smaller, more digestible number for some people that could be reading this — $10,000.00 in a given month. 

This kind of skill also needs to be translatable into a business model that can be expanded (or scaled out) so you can have more resources working for you while you’re still doing the same amount of work – if not, less work. 

Yes, you can position yourself to make more income while doing less work. 

How do I know? 

There’s a lead gen site that brings in calls for the renting of limos and party busses. 

I had built this and launched it back when I first got started in local lead generation – less than only a handful of years prior to now. 

To the amazement of some, that virtual real estate is rented out to a tenant who is consistently paying me $750 every single month to continue bringing him value – this time, in the form of more customers each and every month. 

Take a look for yourself here…

Is it really that hard to believe? 

These are where the web properties are listed online and consistently bringing value from the marketplace (meaning more buyers) to the company’s ringing phone each and every day – whether I go to work on my business or not. 

How is this possible? 

This local marketing skill allows me to generate leads using free traffic from search engines. 

This means I can duplicate this business model time and again, by putting more lead gen sites out in the marketplace and producing more phone calls for a small business – and for other industries that service call requests for assistance from the local marketplace. 

Unlike paid marketing strategies like Facebook Ads or Google Ads (formerly Google AdWords), when you leverage free organic traffic online, there’s really no way to turn off the flow of calls. 

That means you can repeatedly grow and expand your ability to generate income and continue to do so in a passive manner. 

That means – even if you’re a beginner –

As I was several years ago, you, too, can get started and achieve progress (even on a part-time, basis, if you need to). 

The passive income is rather swell, too. 

You can do any of the following activities and still have money rolling in steadily, thanks to the privilege and power of passive income:

• Sleep
• Eat
• Take a vacation
• Chill on the Xbox or Turn on a Playstation Game
• Take a dump and read something

I’m not kidding – this works! 

Welcome the world of local lead generation, and our coaching program where we teach others to build up their own business in this kind of work from home, side hustle business model. 

With the passive income assets that you can set up online to consistently bring you profits while you’re not actively working on your projects…

This means that you now have the groundwork by which to actually expand your empire and start earning your way toward a passive 1 million dollars in annual salary – yes, ANNUAL SALARY! 

Can the MentorBox program actually set you up for financial gain?

Well, it could condition you to be ready to take action in a very steady manner once you have that high-income skill and know how to apply it to the marketplace. 

However, and this is a BIG however…

At its best in delivering value, it’s nothing more than a glorified situation of asking people to pay money to learn information from bound stacks of paper that we popularly refer to as books. 

Why the Local Lead Generation is my Top Business Pick in 2019

What I appreciate from the stories and research accomplished about C-suite executives, namely profitable and popular Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) includes the opportunity to try and reverse engineer how they become so successful and apply it to the assumption that doing what they do can yield profitable returns. 

There is no doubt that knowledge is key when it comes to figuring out solutions to problems – especially if that problem is how to have someone reading this from the comfort of their home on a laptop or desktop – or maybe even a smartphone or tablet/iPad and still asking themselves how they’re going to find a reliable, credible way to make more money without getting a second job (part-time or full-time, the point is it’s a second job and no one wants to spend more time working than is absolutely necessary)! 

The other thing I appreciate about this analysis of C-suite executives includes the famous business owners and CEOs adding this little gem…

They often mention that there were key points in their careers when they were able to notice that larger strides in profits were achieved in the positive direction – progressing toward their goals if you will – when they, themselves, hired a mentor. 

What was it? 

It wasn’t in the time that they had spent reading soft-cover, famous, overly-worded essays that are now packaged into smaller pages with binding on them. 

Yes, learning things are important – especially when it comes to learning the high-income skill that you (no doubt) will have every intention of putting to good use when you actually acquire one (assuming you, the one who is reading this, doesn’t quite have one figured out yet) that you will put it to massive use. 

However, the hiring of a mentor means that you’re asking someone to whoop your tail to the degree that you get into action mode and adhere to the commitments that you had made when you signed up to study under them. 

That means you are willing to –

1. Follow their leadership and guidance
2. Pay close attention to the precedents and examples that they display through their advice and actions (that you’ve paid them to be privileged to)
3. Conversely, they are privileged to open access to provide well-meaning advice on necessary changes as they see fit

You asked for the mentorship; what’s amazing is how some people don’t like the results when they had paid good money to be coached accordingly. 

When you hire a coach, you are asking to be moved out of the learning phase and into the action phase. 

That means you are off the bench, and put into the game of business. 

This also means if you ever sit out of the game for a second, your coach has full permission from the get-go of your business relationship to ensure that you are aware of the need to get back up – and then get you to get back up and keep playing ball. 

Securing a mentor for yourself is not a classroom session type of activity; it’s an activity that requires action on both persons involved. 

That means it’s up to you to get moving on the goals that you said you were going to go after and take it upon yourself to make sure that you’ve done everything you could to learn – and comprehend – the high-income school you are acquiring and then getting that skill into the marketplace as fast and abundant as possible! 

I can’t find the exact quote, but Mr. Dan Lok – millionaire mentor and high ticket closing expert in business transactions and sales coaching – said something to the effect of acknowledging how all things that you can do to improve are good. 

He said that reading books and listening to audio recordings, training videos, seminars, and improving your skill through habitual training is not only good but necessary for your craft. 

Even he, as highly successful and positioned as he is to be an educator, supporter, mentor, and business coach, knows that his biggest strides toward success came from the times that he had hired mentors to help move him along. 

It wasn’t in their act of reading books, end of discussion! 

There were actions required in order for C-Suite executives to improve their current situation. 

That high-income skill could be local lead generation. 

Of course I’m promoting what has helped me to become so successful. 

Even if I weren’t successful with this business model, it makes so much sense that there’s no reason not to tell a newly interested person in the world of turning a profit online through their laptop that this business model can make you a fortune in passive income. 

While money isn’t everything, we can all agree that money can help solve a lot of problems that we seem to be experiencing every now and then. 

In addition to passive income, local lead generation can also provide you with…

• The opportunity to make more cash than a doctor or an attorney (remember, it didn’t take me any further than a handful of years to reach $50k in monthly income)
• I get to work where I want, and you could take your laptop to your favorite destination to run your business from there, too
• Leverage the simple business model of generating referrals from free traffic in search results and send them to a business so they can pay you incredibly well to keep doing what you’re doing
• Get financially secure with your future and never have to worry about someone telling you that you’re not good enough at your job – worse, that you might not have a job to come back to one day.  You can get free of that worry by generating a side hustle income
• Maintain that financial security with the comfort that you can do this gig in any industry and within any city
• Take confidence in your financial future with the belief that small businesses and the internet are here to stay in society – so you could have a very long and prosperous future in the field of local lead generation.
• Decide if waking up early for your job is still something you wish to keep doing in the long-term or if you’d rather wake up some day and know that you could fire your boss instead of having your boss fire you. 

Don’t get me wrong, we have people in our coaching program that absolutely enjoy what they do and wouldn’t want to leave their job for any amount of money, time freedom or other privileges that come from this business model. 

However, it’s always a great relief to know that …

• If the company ever goes out of business
• If they are ever laid off from work
• If a costly family emergency comes around
• If a natural disaster were to hit their neck of the woods
• If the economy were to collapse or drastically shift and influence their compensation
• If they were depending on the next raise due to inflation but the company told them no at the annual review
• If you’ve never received a raise in the last few years (which is what happened to me before I left my 9 to 5)

You can position yourself with your lead gen sites to never have to worry about the above concerns wiping you out and putting you in a position to fear change ever again.

Make the choice to get started with this coaching program and learn how you can ensure…

• Food will always be on the table
• Heat will always be on in the winter time
• Gas will always be in the tank of a reliable vehicle that you own
• The electricity will always be paid so your lights can stay on
• You can always have the option of going on a vacation and not worry about checking your bank account to see if it’s really an option for you and/or your loved ones
• Update your wardrobe so clothes that you own don’t have holes in them anymore (from being at least 10 years old)

Bottom line: You could be making $10,000 every month for yourself.  If you’re not, grab yourself a mentor to show you how a special, high-income skill can change your life for the better – just as it has theirs and mine. 

Make sure that the skill you seek is something that can make a positive impact in your local marketplace so others can instantly see – and appreciate – what you’re trying to do for them (like bring them more customers).

I’ll never change my opinion that leveraging free traffic through local lead generation is the top business model and #1 skill that you can develop to make more money online in 2019! 

• It’s better than Social Media Marketing
• It’s better than eCommerce with Amazon
• It’s better than drop-shipping products with Shopify
• It’s better than affiliate marketing

Click here to learn about our coaching program right now! 

I know what it’s like trying to do some independent research on a business opportunity or coaching program online. 

You land on a blog like this, and then either right from the beginning or shortly thereafter, they decide to try and pitch you.

It’s the most biased review of any internet discussion because the truth is that they’re pitching the program that they’re reviewing – and they probably have some financial tie to the action you could take if you decide to get started from what you’ve read on that article. 

Don’t you wish that, for once, in your online business venture investigation and effort to find something that you’re looking to get started with – and to find a reliable, credible coach that can further help streamline your effort to land some side hustle income – could just be an honest review about someone’s experience without any hype or extreme pitch to get you to buy…

I know how you feel since I was once in your shoes only a few short years ago and trying to find the trend or wave that I could ride in order to achieve my competency in generating a real, serious income online. 

Let’s take a quick look at the Wealthy Affiliate program, initially. 

I’ve been trying to find a good source of reviews all over the internet before I decided to write my own on this blog site (yes, the same one that you’re on). 

See, if you were to do a quick search for Wealthy Affiliate and maybe an additional term like “review,” you’ll almost always land somewhere that the author is hoping you’ll buy after reading their notional “review” that somehow turns into a pitch to buy Wealthy Affiliate. 

The bigger concern I had from reviewing other coaching programs online is whether or not the person who was doing the pitching (which should have been a simple review of the course) actually has had success with the coaching program that they’re trying to encourage you to make a purchase with. 

All good questions, but not always clear-cut answers. 

I understand; and I know how that feels. 

We just want more information so we can make an educated decision for ourselves. 

While I’m not here to pitch, I want to keep you informed that the Wealthy Affiliate permits members to profit on as much as 50 percent in commission if you were to buy through one of those “reviews.” 

Can you honestly take what those people are saying to heart? 

So, I’m changing the game and delivering something unusual here. 

That’s right; an authentically unbiased review about Wealthy Affiliate. 

That means I’m not promoting the program. 

Then why am I writing about it? 

Well, I really have become rather successful over the last few years with my local lead generation for small business – which is a side hustle I started only a few years ago and have developed it into a handsome $50k in monthly, passive income. 

This gives me the change to have wealth, financial security, and an abundance of spare time –

Since I’m no longer working a 9 to 5 – that allows me to indulge in my curiosity and excitement of seeing what other methods can make a profit online are being pitched on the market. 

Hence the founding of this blog. 

If you take a moment to look around, you’ll notice that I’m reviewing a vast number of other coaching programs – not just the Wealthy Affiliate. 

Each of the blog posts are not to pitch those coaching programs, either. 

This way, future entrepreneurial-hearted folks that want to start a business online but aren’t sure where to turn can get all the information their heart desires in one place. 

For those that might be reading this that are also successful already and have some spare change to kick, this can still be a great asset for you –

I may have done well for myself online, but I’m smart enough to know that it’s more about how much you retain from your profits and any edge you can acquire in expanding your portfolio of income streams can be a smart move. 

So, to save everyone some time, confusion, and potential heartache from making a poor investment that can only be realized down the road, I’ve gone ahead and invested in this – and other programs like – Wealthy Affiliate and am delivering my experience from it here for all to read and enjoy. 

What are you going to get in this blog?

Keep in mind that I have a unique perspective when it comes to evaluating businesses because I’m already on the other side and not struggling to turn a profit in order to try and make ends meet for my household. 

I don’t have a wife and kids that could go hungry if I make the wrong investment – my electricity isn’t going to get turned off – and I’m not going to suffer through a long winter of a cold apartment if I choose to invest my money in a for-profit coaching program with the hope of a quick return on investment (ROI). 

I was there once, and only a few short years ago, too. 

I still decided to invest in a coaching program with a proven system despite:

• a dead-end 9 to 5 that…
• only hooked me up with $35k in annual income, yet…
• worked me to the bone, and…
• didn’t care that I was in a low-rent apartment, with…
• a landlord that wouldn’t turn on the heat, in…
• zero-degree weather in the downtown Detroit, Michigan region, for…
• 4 of the 6 months of winter. 

I didn’t want to be there for the rest of my days and knew there had to be a better way to enjoy life. 

So I did something about it and learned the high-income skill of local lead generation, got started and was able to leverage the wisdom of the lead gen business model to tell my boss to take a hike within a year of launching my internet-based business venture. 

Now, IppeiLeads.com is gaining traction and having requests from all across North America for assistance by business owners that are catching on with the trend that customers really can be acquired through leveraging free organic traffic from search results online. 

I choose to wake up early every day, not because of an alarm that tells me I have to be at work “or else,” but because I get to do what I love – like review companies and business venture options for your benefit. 

What’s the joy in hearing about Wealthy Affiliate from someone like me (who you don’t even know)?

Long before the lead gen business online found me and helped me get started in local marketing, I was always hungry to find a way to generate profits online.

Not just any sort of profits though –

I wanted a way to generate commissions for marketing other peoples on a massive scale; an entrepreneurial approach all its own, that would leverage the internet to reach tons of people and literally pour cash into a bank account of my choosing both regularly and often. 

That’s really what I wanted; I was young and unclear about how the internet industry worked, but I knew that I wanted more than what I had.

Now that I could afford to take the time to explore and review a program like Wealthy Affiliate, I indulged in more than just this. 

Several programs are on the market today that attempt to claim that they are the elite coaches and mentoring programs about affiliate marketing. 

In addition, 2 people that I’ve met along the way have made tons of revenue from marketing other people’s products through the internet – and I thought they knew what they were talking about, so I hired each of them. 

I’m proof that mentorship works from the lead gen coaching program that guided me to a fantastic, monthly 5-figure income, so I believe in buying the time and attention of someone who has accomplished what I am seeking to achieve as well. 

Perhaps $10k for a 6-to-12 month connection directly to these busy individuals and the opportunity to mastermind with them 1-on-1 for around half a year to an entire year (whatever time they wanted, and were willing, to spare to help me figure out the affiliate marketing thing here). 

The results were a few successful months of profits, producing affiliate commissions numbering in the $30,000.00 range.

So yes, affiliate marketing is possible and a very real business model online in which to turn sales from (or with). 

I can testify that I am confident in knowing the insider strategies, primary steps (from A to Z), and the 2019 requirements of how to…

• Beat out the competition
• Rise above the noise
• Achieve more attention than the next person
• Collect sales through the internet

…all with affiliate products that I’m associated with. 

Guess what?  It’s not all rainbows and sunshine! 

Seriously; it’s not as easy as I had anticipated from the very beginning. 

Bottom line: 

In an effort to train people who come into the affiliate marketing space on how to generate sales online with other people’s products, the Wealthy Affiliate program was founded. 

I’ll share with you…

• What is affiliate marketing
• Things you can get if you join the Wealthy Affiliate training program
• Whether the sacrifices made for the sake of starting a business in this way is worth your investment(s) of cash, resources, time, etc. 
• Pros and Cons regarding the actual coaching course, Wealthy Affiliate
• My opinion and whether joining WA is in your best interests

You’ll get the full story in this blog – so read on! 

Affiliate Marketing – The Real Story

When you get a referring link that you can share with others to learn more about a product and/or simply click to make a purchase, directly from the owner of the product, you stand to turn a profit based on what the web traffic or individual visitor decides to do – especially if that action is to buy what is offered.

That’s the simple art of Affiliate Marketing; you promote someone else’s product and rake in cash when people that see the offer find enough value in what is going on to make a purchase through your link – because that’s really the only way that affiliate offers have to track and give credit to someone like you and me. 

Remember – these offers are giving referral links out in mass quantities; as far as the owner of the product is concerned, most times, you’re just another number to them in the affiliate world where people could care less about the product they’re pedaling and just want to make a commission. 

That’s not to say that you would or wouldn’t have personally used the product that you’re trying to promote; if you have a burning testimony and success story of having used a product and find such tremendous value that you feel a passionate need to share the story with others, then go ahead. 

If anything, it could help improve your marketing strategies because now you’ve personally connected with the owner’s product and can help others to do the same – even vicariously through your story – to see what’s possible and help the prospective customer to buy the product too. 

Since we’re in the affiliate world, however, maybe they could make that buying decision while visiting the website through your referral link so you can get a sliver of the action that’s happening in the transaction?

How Does Affiliate Marketing Actually Work?

Someone (like you or I) finds out about the opportunity to turn a profit from marketing other people’s products, seeks out the owner of the product and asks to promote it for a chunk of change in return. 

At this point, it’s not exactly affiliate marketing but asking to become a marketing associate for someone else. 

The way to establish yourself as an affiliate marketer is to…

• Get your own, unique referral link for the product so people can buy from you
• Get the referral link (and offer for the product) in front of enough people so that buying decisions can be made and you can – hopefully – turn a profit online

What are Affiliate Marketers actually promoting? 

The typical items that someone in this industry would try and push in front of an ideal, potentially buying audience are things that the audience could relate to or find value in.  Things like:

• Physical products
• Informational products
• Example: reading material on a very specific topic of interest
• Another Example: content that someone can use right away to achieve a goal, such as weight loss

If you’re looking to get started in this industry and actually want to find a product that you can start promoting right away, there’s an entire resource that automates the process so you can get a referral link without having to wait for the owner of the product to get back to you when you attempt to reach out. 

Call it a digital form of a warehouse, I guess; it’s called ClickBank and can be found at clickbank.com. 

You could be up and running with your referral link after registering for ClickBank in moments, provided you know exactly what you’re looking for and are able to navigate the site quickly. 

For me, it took a few moments and patience to grow educated about what all the product metrics and fancy numbers meant, but you’ll get the hang of it – just stick with it. 

You can find any combination of products to promote and you don’t even necessarily have to limit yourself to one product’s referral link; promote as many or as few as you’d like. 

So how does this work? 

1. Get your referral link
2. People visit your referral link and make a purchase
3. You rake in a portion of the sale
4. Amount of Revenue Generated: Amazon products = 5 to 7 percent in commissions and within Clickbank the opportunity to profit varies drastically from product to product and the various offers that they may have available

Don’t want to wait to find out? 

Interested in doing more research to find these numbers and the possibilities that could come from marketing other products and turning a commission from it? 

When you reach ClickBank’s website, go ahead and visit the Affiliate Marketplace (it’s easy to find, it’s right at the top)

Then you can start exploring through one of two ways. 

1. Browse the various categories by clicking on the red boxes (with white letters and words) on the left-hand side of the page; it’ll look like an interactive menu that you can click on
2. Use the “Find Products” search box at the top

Things that are common in the affiliate marketing space to pedal: 

• Yoga
• Spiritually (purposed products)
• Games
• Weight Loss
• Yoga
• Cooking
• Oh yes, there are tons more to choose from!

The whole reason for listing these was just to further illustrate that you can find an affiliate program for just about any industry you can think of; most likely, someone has made a product on the topic and suited it for an ideal audience – and if you have the attention of such an audience, then you can pitch the product to them and hope they choose to buy from ya. 

Stuck finding something on ClickBank?

Can’t find an offer that you’re happy with or that works for you on Amazon?

A simple Google search could help…

Just type in a product type and follow it up with the words affiliate program.

For example:

“Indoor Grill” + “Affiliate Program”

Maybe your search query will surprise you with what turns up.

The Positive Aspects of Affiliate Marketing

Things aren’t all bad and scary about employing tactics with the internet to make a buck (or several). 

• No Hassle: Forget about needing to deal with customers after they’ve placed an order through your referral link; the company has that covered.  All they ask is that you continue to promote their offer and they’ll continue to give you a cut of the sales that you bring in.  Some might claim that hassles still exist in this industry, but there are some things you just don’t have to worry about – and that’s kind of special in its own way.
• Automated Compensation and Receiving Credit for Sales You’ve Generated: Technology is awesome these days.  How so?  With your referral link, everything is tracked for you through the company.  They use cookies to ensure that they’re very aware of who bought from your link. 
• Big Pay Day Potential: Know how to bring tons of targeted, ideal, prospective customers through the internet to an affiliate link you’ve got?  Worry less about fulfilling orders – just keep getting more and more people to see what you have to share and you can get more opportunities to college more commissions – plain and simple.
• Tons of Offers and Opportunities: If you have an interest, there’s bound to be something around that you can market which captivates not only you, but the product you find may also be of interest to the people that you’re normally around and could find value in your offer as well. 

The Adverse Affiliate Marketing Aspects

Remember what I said earlier?  Rainbows and sunshine aren’t everywhere, and things can get bad and scary when it comes to trying to pedal an affiliate link around the world wide web. 

Side note: For anyone who is confused about why I just said it’s not all bad and scary, then followed that statement up in the next section of this blog post with things can get bad and scary – please understand that there are simply pros and cons to everything.  Think of this in terms of a good, better, best blog post, instead of whether this is good or whether this is bad. 

• Enormous Competition

Without web traffic visitors seeing your offer, you don’t get paid. 

This is where most affiliate marketers struggle – no doubt about it. 

Every affiliate marketer wants the same thing; targeted buyers. 

That means everyone who markets a product in this manner might also aim for the same attention that you’re trying to harness through the world wide web as well. 

It makes sense that this type of marketing can be epic and appealing for anyone looking to launch a side hustle from home. 

I mean, there’s hardly any investment to be in a position to profit — no inventory to buy, no postage concerns or a brick and mortar location to rent out, and tons of other great aspects about the low barrier in which to enter the field and get started. 

Even signing up for your affiliate referral link and acquiring an offer that you can now be financially tied to is usually (if not, almost always) free to get. 

However, your choice to be here now means that you have one of the hardest tasks in marketing staring you down; you need people to see what you’ve got. 

Tons of competitors in the affiliate marketing industry will most likely be thinking about the same traffic generating tactics and make the attempt to do either what you’re thinking of doing or what you have yet to think about in getting your offer in front of potential buyers. 

Without paid traffic options, your alternative will be to find high buyer-intent search terms on search engines that people might use to buy a product like what you’re trying to promote. 

Then, it’s just a matter of establishing a web presence and getting your web property superglued to the top of Google search results. 

This is the preferred method taught in Wealthy Affiliate – however, you have your referral link and review website competing with the globe (filled with other affiliates) for the same free organic web traffic and potential buyers from Google search results…

The competition is brutal; no 2 ways about saying that. 

To make matters more interesting, there are only 10 organic ranking spots on the first page of Google, and the majority of buyers usually stay at the top of the page. 

If you want more sales, you’ll simply have to get your tail to the top of the marketplace for each of those search terms. 

• Potentially low volume of buyers, or low pricing which could mean low commission rates

The simple truth is that some offers compensate at a higher percentage, and some affiliate programs bring a better return because the pricing is higher. 

In contrast, the higher the price of a product, the lower volume there might be of potential buyers. 

For example, not many people are going to buy a Ferrari because of the high price tag. 

However, chocolate candy at the grocery store could very well be seriously considered by a larger volume of potential buyers simply because the pricing is significantly lower. 

To dial this down a bit, there are simple reasons that you aren’t making money in an affiliate program and often times it has nothing to do with you –

• Market conditions may not be right
• The offer might not be enticing enough
• Price variation
• Follow-on upsells could be an irritant and inspire a refund instead of an additional purchase

If you’re looking for a great offer to leverage, keep these things in mind:

• Look at what’s popular in the industry.  Clickbank.com and organic search results are both listing what people are most likely buying in the marketplace at the very top of their results if you take a moment to explore this. 
• Figure out what your competition may be promoting
• Assess the numbers that are posted in the ClickBank offer, like price point for buyers, your commission, whether it’s a monthly membership or a one-time purchase, etc.
• Whether there are high volumes of customers who stick with the program and/or make repeat purchases through the same company or the same referral link

Typically, you can find an ideal offer that you can feel confident promoting in an industry that you are comfortable with. 

• When Affiliate Marketing Receives Too Much Hype

Affiliate marketing is not immune to prospective coaches or mentors pushing a sale on you to join their course with flashy signals, buyer psychology, juicy carrot-dangling (where they show you what they think you want out of a business venture in the background – like fancy and expensive cars, or a large home – then insinuate that you can have all of that if you just pay them a lot of money ever-so-suddenly) or other tactics.

The hard sell it real, and just because the computer is put between you and the salesperson doesn’t necessarily make the selling process any less easy to endure with they try to put the pressure on. 

They attempt to pitch you with powerful, moving, emotionally captivating testimonials and other forms of success stories where only one or two people actually generated massive results in affiliate marketing. 

Maybe they’ve introduced an uncommon story of someone landing almost 6 figures in commissions within their first 30 days of getting started with Wealth Affiliate (I’m not saying someone has pitched this exact story, but this was made up to illustrate a point). 

What I don’t like is how these types of stories are used to try and build the façade in your mind that this could be a get-rich-quick business opportunity and the myth that one exists might actually be true. 

I’m here to say that these type of over-hype videos marketing efforts are simply frustrating to me. 

They just don’t tell the full story of the struggles and learning curves that some individual had to go through. 

For those notional overnight success stories, what we don’t know is whether someone was an affiliate marketer and landed success already and long-term before joining another coaching program where they could turn a profit instantly because they only needed to make one or two adjustments to what they were already doing to “try the coaching program.” 

I appreciate coaching and mentoring programs that resonate with buyers in catering to the honest side of the business model; there will be challenges and growing pains, but it will be worth the effort when you’re on the other side of the hump and enjoying passive income like I am. 

The difference is that I’ve earned my stripes to enjoy my reward – and it wasn’t an overnight success story either. 

If someone brand new to a program really had these kinds of results, it had to have come from spending money on a paid advertising strategy (like Facebook Ads, for example). 

Various factors influencing a marketing campaign can facilitate your efforts taking root and just outperforming anything that anyone in the industry might have ever seen in the past.

I get it; you don’t get money if you don’t play the game and compete. 

However, Facebook isn’t exactly a fan of promoting affiliate offers in general, so you’re welcome to give the Facebook Ad the old college try but don’t be surprised if you find your…

• Facebook Ad account gets banned without notice
• Burn through your audience quickly and not land a sale
• The ad keeps spending your advertising dollars but still doesn’t get seen (for any reason, or no good explanation at all)

How do I know these things? 

I’ve done it and experienced them first-hand. 

It can be awesome to finally land a massive pay day online. 

The next question is, can you repeat those massive paydays routinely, with consistently, and keep the high income consistently high?

I’ve been playing the game for a while – and I’ve invested in some of the best mentoring around, and I can testify that I really don’t believe there are ways to keep this kind of paid traffic approach sustainable.

• You’re building someone else’s brand – not your own

As an affiliate, you’re hooking someone up with their product and brand awareness.

In other words, you’re taking all the risk of marketing their product for them while they exclusively compensate you only for results. 

That compensation, by the way, may not always leave you in the green; you could be in debt just trying to get to making a sale and never have that volume of sales actually cover what you’ve invested in your project to acquire them in the first place. 

Let’s add some salt to that would while we’re here; you get zero shares in the business that you’ve just helped to push into the marketplace. 

So, if the brand becomes a household name and people start buying the product through actively seeking it out – they may not see your referral link, and the company isn’t going to send you a commission check for all the hard work you did in getting them known in the first place. 

• Dishonest Marketing

Have you tried the product that you’re looking to promote? 

Chances are that most affiliate marketers haven’t even handled the product, let alone tried it or could speak confidently to how effective it really is in solving the problem in the marketplace that it was designed for. 

Still, these self-proclaimed mentors or coaches think that they can push any product into the marketplace, turn a profit, and consistently teach others how to do the same. 

The truth is that this is hard work. 

Downright sweat equity and expensive marketing strategies are involved in affiliate marketing.  

That’s the truth! 

Not many people are going to tell you that when they’re trying to convince you to purchase their coaching and mentoring program for a whopping several thousand dollars because they are trying to imply that they have the valuable golden nuggets of wisdom that you can leverage to turn a profit online. 

I hate to break it to you, but…

In local lead generation, I use similar strategies of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to turn a profit in less competitive industries, and I get paid high commissions for very little work. 

After having invested in Wealthy Affiliate, I know what they’re teaching, and I know that it’s not going to work when it comes to trying to ask a brand new person – who has invested several thousand dollars in a coaching program (if it is that much – it’s been so long since I had bought in that I really don’t remember the price) – to continue to spend more to get their own business started.

I can appreciate that people are putting value on information – and it’s a long-standing principle that people pay a lot of money to collect valuable information. 

If that information doesn’t get you to where you want to go, however, then how valuable was it really? 

In all fairness, there are people that decide to buy into mentoring programs and learn the ropes all day, but they simply don’t take any action in order to realize the potential of the return on investment (ROI). 

I’m not one of those people – remember, I hired 2 super affiliates with a lot of money out of my personal pockets just to learn the ropes of affiliate marketing. 

Trust me; I’ve given this a try! 

The Cost of Getting Started with Wealthy Affiliate

Convinced that Wealthy Affiliate is the coaching program for you?

Okay, let’s go and have a look at what it’ll take to get started as a brand new student in 2019.

So far, I notice only 2 options available for a newbie to enter into:

1. Free Membership Level: it’s here that you’re able to get some basic training in establishing an affiliate type of website then some fundamental principles on pushing web traffic to it.  Additionally, you can rake in 15 percent of Wealthy Affiliate commissions when you promote the mentoring course and help others to decide to get started with the program as well.  In addition, the Wealthy Affiliate program will see what they can do to hook you up with 2 WordPress website themes so you can build your first two affiliate sites right away. 
2. Premium Membership Level: Your price tags that you have to meet start with $49 for monthly access, or you can pay up to a year in advance for $359.  This enables your account to have access to all of the Wealthy Affiliate training course content.  Your Wealthy Affiliate commission percentage (when a new person comes on-board) also elevates from 15% to 50%. 

If you’re looking at considering the free membership level, then I guess you can gain some insight on what all is involved in the affiliate marketing industry – however, my personal and professional opinions on a newbie becoming a success story with only the free membership’s training modules is highly doubtful. 

If you’re seriously wanting to jump in feet-first on the Wealthy Affiliate coaching course, and if you’re serious about attempting to land some sales online with their training modules, they’ll most likely incentivize you to get started with the $359 Premium Annual Membership. 

Fun Fact: It’s a marketing tactic to tell you that you can save so many dollars when you buy something at a discount rate.  The truth is that you didn’t save x amount of dollars for purchasing a membership like this at a certain level; you still paid some money out of pocket. 

The psychology behind telling someone that, if they act now then they can save x dollars, goes back to the comfortable notion that society has been telling us where if we save our money then we’ll be rich. 

The key to wealth is not to save your way to a million dollars; you need to establish and expand a method (or multiple methods) of income that can help you get to where you want to be in a reasonable amount of time. 

In other words, you can’t save your way to wealth and enjoy the lifestyle that comes with it before retirement age; if you want it earlier than that, your wealth should come from the idea of expansion – expanding your opportunities for income generating streams – and that has to start today!

Ways to Generate Revenue in Wealthy Affiliate

The fun part – we get to talk about money and profit generation. 

I personally see 2 ways to get that cash flow happening in Wealthy Affiliate:

1. Follow the training, build your affiliate websites online, and hope to compete well enough to bring traffic from the marketplace to your offer that are ideal buyers, ready to pay you for whatever it is you’re trying to push toward them. 
2. As a premium member of Wealthy Affiliate, promote the mentoring course and rake in 50% of the membership fee if someone decides to get started (just like you did – if you join, that is).

I guess the irony of the situation is that you can be brand new in the program, never having used it before, and still promote the program as if you were successful with it so you can turn a hefty profit. 

Here’s my thoughts on that…

Time to Complain About Wealthy Affiliate

Let’s say you were in charge of Wealthy Affiliate, or your own coaching and mentoring program. 

You’re hoping to charge lots and lots of people a hefty fee so they can learn what you know. 

Especially if that knowledge includes training these potentially new digital marketing and home-based entrepreneurs – people that have never invested in a business or tried anything like this before – but want to trust what you have to say and get started to see a return on their investment (ROI) as soon as possible. 

If you want to have the best reputation around and be the #1 option for your industry – in this case, it’s affiliate marketing – who would you rather have singing praises from the rooftops about your program? 

1. Either the most experienced, seasoned success stories around, or…
2. The newbie who really just bought the course and hasn’t seen an ounce of training, nor implemented the program to build their own belief about whether the training works or not

Who really thought it was a great idea to bring people into something like this, then invite everyone – from the top down – to promote Wealthy Affiliate…

What does that really accomplish?

I’ll tell ya what I think it means…

I think it means that people with…

• Zero belief in what you’re offering
• Have no experience whatsoever in the industry you’re attempting to train people in
• And they’re basically lying to the marketplace because they have no basis by which to testify that this business model is the best or most intelligent fit for their audience –

It clearly wasn’t a good fit for them if they’re not doing anything with the product; it’s done them a disservice if they’re now lying about your company to the masses simply so they can get some cash. 

Can we find someone with some street cred? 

Seriously, c’mon, brah! 

By this point, you’ll be lucky if your program isn’t overhyped by people who have no proof to show their audience about the claims they’re making with what they’re pitching. 

Would you rather have people flock to you because they know you can help them revolutionize their livelihood by teaching them a new skill that essentially teaches them to fish so they can eat for the rest of their life? 

Having anyone come in and start pitching the mentorship appears to be more of a network marketing style of multi-level marketing (MLM).

Let them publicly claim that Wealthy Affiliate is otherwise. 

I see right through it. 

When I get on a blog like this and promote something involving local lead generation – also referred to as local marketing – I’m sure to remind my audience that I have used this training to personally build a multiple 6 figures in my own side hustle. 

In fact, I’ve got multiple employees working for my digital marketing agency as I’m typing this. 

Who am I to this coaching group to get the privilege to be one of less than a handful of personally selected representatives by the founding mentor (his name is Dan – he’s a nice guy) to promote this program in this privileged way? 

I’ll tell ya. 

• I’m one of the original, founding members that got started when this coaching program opened up a short few years ago.
• I’m a successful student and proven that this stuff works – it took me over 4 years to get where I am today, but nearly a year to walk away from my 9 to 5 after starting this coaching course.  
• A full-time entrepreneur now, I rake in about $50k every month on AutoPilot using only the methods taught in this program.
• Yes, I use this blog to pitch the coaching program sometimes, but if I never wrote blogs like this again and got a chunk of change from the people that I introduce to the mentorship, I would still be just fine with the rest of my life – I will continue to feed small businesses referrals and get a sliver for what I’m delivering for as long as they’re in business, as long as I keep giving them customers, and as long as the internet is around so that my lead gen sites can stay rubber cemented to the top of Google search results! 

I hate to say it, but in my research on this program – long before buying into the coaching course so I could learn about it, try it, and review it here for you – I’ve actually found numerous review sites that were of a scuzzy and super-low quality; they all said this was the best thing to invest in. 

Why is it so difficult to find negative press and adverse opinions about the Wealthy Affiliate then? 

People have now started using phrases like wealthy affiliate negative reviews in their marketing strategies to get more attention and try and turn prospective buyers into fellow course members. 

In other words, they’re trying to make money off of a very biased, profit-driven perspective with their program review content. 

What’s different here is that most credible sources of online coaching and mentoring programs really don’t allow each and every student that comes in to pitch their program for as much as 50 percent of the sale price. 

First and foremost, however, why can’t the program just be spoken of as the best affiliate training on the planet – with tons of success stories to prove that it’s as awesome as such claims make it out to be? 

I sincerely question the tactic of asking students that are brand new to pitch the program to friends, families, neighbors, and now (thanks to the internet) strangers as well. 

Where is the integrity, man?

Take a look at this from a contrast standpoint. 

Here’s how I’m viewing this…

1. You offer to train people to promote information products, physical products or other forms of affiliate offers – that aren’t your own – for a measly 5 percent to 25 percent in commission, regardless of the costs associated with the effort required to get sales happening.  Then…
2. Your new students are also offered a much higher level of commission – as much as 50 PERCENT – to promote Wealthy Affiliate.

Which is the better deal to try and go out to promote? 

Would anyone seriously go through the training at that point and try for smaller profits when they can have the opportunity to land big scores all day long with some casual efforts in digital marketing as they promote Wealthy Affiliate in a brand-awareness fashion in 2019? 

I find some ethical dissonance internally when it comes to a situation like this – especially for those that haven’t had experience in the affiliate marketing arena. 

It’s not what I do, it’s not why I’m in business, and I’m not looking to build an empire in a method like that, ya feel me? 

Is the Investment Worth the Training in Wealthy Affiliate?

I’m not going to lie to you – this is a very subjective thing to be asking. 

I know, I asked it; but it’s a question that tends to always arise when someone is researching a high-cost training program. 

Aren’t the real questions when considering a program like this going to be more direct? 

Here’s what I was wondering when I got started in local lead generation for small business:

1. How much?
2. How fast?
3. Can I do this?
4. Will you help me?

Let’s see how Wealthy Affiliate measures up from a brief overview of what you’re getting as a new student that goes premium in their membership. 

Your Certification Courses are as follows:

• Level 1 – Getting Started: Online Entrepreneur Certification
• Level 2 – Building Your Own Website to Produce Buyer Traffic
• Level 3 – Rake-In That Money: Your First Certification in Entrepreneurship Online
• Level 4 – Figuring Out How Social Engagement Can Work for You: Your Second Entrepreneurship Certification Online
• Level 5 – Maximizing Your Success with Content Creation Strategies: How Content Can Lead to More Business

Let’s take a deeper look at the various levels of training and what kind of lessons are provided in each of them…

Level 1 – Getting Started in Wealthy Affiliate

• First Lesson: Get Rolling!
• Second Lesson: How Money is Made Online
• Third Lesson: Selecting Your Industry That You Can Feel Confident to be Doing Business In
• Fourth Lesson: Establishing Your Own Website for Your Affiliate Offer
• Fifth Lesson: Getting Your Website Set Up
• Sixth Lesson: Prepping Your Website for Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
• Seventh Lesson: Keywords that Drive Content Ideas
• Eighth Lesson: Understanding Website Pages and Building the Rest of Your Site
• Ninth Lesson: Fabricating Awesome Content for Your Website that Can Work
• Tenth Lesson: Congrats!  You’ve Done It!  Here Are Your Next Steps

Level 2 – Traffic Production: How to Build

• First Lesson: Your Branding, Including Your Web Domain Name and Web Address
• Second Lesson: Building a Theme for Your Website’s Content
• Third Lesson: Identifying an Email Account that Caters with Your Web Domain Name
• Fourth Lesson: Breaking Down What’s Up with Web Traffic
• Fifth Lesson: Visual Content – How to Use It Effectively
• Sixth Lesson: WordPress Editor Tutorial – and How to Get Good at Using It Wisely
• Seventh Lesson: Finding Low Hanging Fruit – and Tapping into that Low Hanging Fruit for Maximum Profits
• Eighth Lesson: Establishing Your Brand Online, Earning, Keeping, and Saving Face
• Ninth Lesson: Using Google to Help Your Google Search Results (and Profits)
• Tenth Lesson: Rank Boosting with Wealthy Affiliate

Level 3 – Money Making Strategies: Your First Certification with Digital Entrepreneurship Online

• First Lesson: Making Sense of Online Business and How Money Works in the Industry
• Second Lesson: Affiliate Networks and Affiliate Program Comprehension
• Third Lesson: How to Find a Relevant Affiliate Marketing Opportunity Anywhere
• Fourth Lesson: Connecting Your Website Pages to Your Free Affiliate Links
• Fifth Lesson: Not Sure Which Product is for You?  Select from a MILLION Affiliate Promotable Programs with This Lesson!
• Sixth Lesson: Acquiring – and Using – Product Reviews to Your Advantage
• Seventh Lesson: Another Revenue Stream Just for You: Placing Ads on your Website – and Getting Paid for Them
• Eighth Lesson: Which is better in the affiliate marketing world: Profiting from Pennies or Looking Exclusively at Dollars
• Ninth Lesson: The Ways We Track and Understand the Metrics of Our Marketing – Figure Out What’s Working, What You’re Doing Well, and What You Should Improve
• Tenth Lesson: Financial Success Doesn’t Mean Going Alone in Business – When to ask for help, and what kind of help is appropriate to ask for (and how to get the help you’re asking for)

Who Started Wealthy Affiliate?

Wealthy Affiliate was an entrepreneurial endeavor opened by two gentlemen that were having success in Affiliate Marketing strategies back in 2005: Mr. Carson Lim and Mr. Kyle Loudon.

Considering the Value of Wealthy Affiliate

It’s rather cool that these gentlemen are keeping up with the training that they’re inviting members to constantly remain active within.  They add new things regularly, make themselves available for their members, and provide other things in the premium platform of their coaching program. 

In all fairness, the content they provide seems to be outdated for the 2019 marketplace of digital advertising and search engine rankings. 

Here’s the overview of Affiliate Marketing, very plainly stated:

1. Pick an Industry that you like
2. Find obscure, uncommon, low-hanging fruit of what you want to go after to make a profit with
3. Make your presence known online with awesome content on a website that talks about those “low-hanging fruit” search terms that might have low competition but are definitely being used by ideal customers and can bring you a few sales from the free traffic that it’s generating in search results

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it over and over if I need to…

You can be successful in affiliate marketing if and only if you have the uncanny ability to bring targeted buyers in swarms of web traffic to your affiliate website, where they’ll find your offer.

Ready for the major issue associated with this business model?

Back in 2012…

• the competition was low-balled so much that you could post anything anywhere on the world wide web. 
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO) experts weren’t flooding the marketplace like they are today and beating out non-competitive, not as trustworthy web properties for the targeted traffic and buyers in 2019

These are the reasons why I chose the #1 online business pick to be bringing referrals in for local businesses by ranking your own website in local service provider industries and in local markets of reasonably-sized cities. 

Everyone in this industry – at one point or another – started. 

When I got my start – and even to this day – it’s still ridiculously simple for a beginner…

And I don’t mean a seasoned pro that’s now trying a new coaching program (but this could work for them, too)…

The beginner in internet marketing can come into the lead generation coaching program, outperform the local plumbers in Troy, OH, and see a profit come shortly thereafter – as opposed to trying to beat the global heavy hitters for affiliate offers on the Google search engine. 

Don’t get it twisted here; the principles are the same no matter where you try to place a website or get it climbing the search results…

You can still do this and you can rank any website anywhere online with enough time, love, and resources. 

That’s a fact! 

What’s also a fact is that in order to compete in the marketplace in the way that the Wealthy Affiliate training program has advised, with the strategies that they’re introducing to newbies, the digital marketing landscape of the 2019 industry is pretty much requiring you to be a Mike Tyson of Search Engine Optimization (SEO)…

I hate to say it, but that requires more training beyond what Wealthy Affiliate is giving you for that annual price that they pretend is going to save you some dough. 

That, my friend, is NOT biased opinion when I’ve ranked websites online for over several years now and thoroughly comprehend the nature of the competition in search results. 

I’ve lived it, and I’ve competed against the people who don’t play small-ball when it comes to this game. 

I’ve won against some of them, too. 

I have over 45 local service providers that are clients of mine who rely on my knowing how to not only get their website climbing to the top of Google search results but to place it strategically so it gets their phone ringing with more service and customer requests so they can make a profit. 

The discussion here is coming from me; someone who has walked what is being talked about and gets how the Google search results work these days. 

If you’re still convinced that you want to go after the Wealthy Affiliate program, then I’ll happily share with you what all it’s going to take in order for you to win at the game that they’re introducing to you when you seek their advice for starting a business online. 

I’ve been through their program, I know what they’re offering, and I also know what they’re either not telling you or not giving you. 

If you want to start up against the major league affiliate marketers on search results, you’ll need something called a network of blogs. 

What they are composed of encompasses powerful, industry-relevant blogs that are hosted independently and under their own domain names which carry tons of authority, credibility, and trust, and all of that power can then be passed over to the affiliate site you’re trying to rank…

And it’s not very cheap to build your own. 

Once you have those, however, you can send backlinks to your referral link site and help it to begin climbing the ranks of Google search so that you can be found by the people who are actively seeking to buy something related to your offer – and they might even pick yours if you’re the first result; chances are good. 

How do I know this? 

These are the tricks of the trade which I use to push my websites up the search results for local clients, and it’s exactly what I’ve used for my affiliate offer websites, too. 

The people I network with on a regular basis are at the top of their game in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and even at a high-level, this is what they leverage to be the best at what they do. 

If you want an easier time ranking in Google search results, you’ll have a much more affordable and enjoyable experience trying your hand (and winning fairly quickly) in the local search terms and industries than globally for affiliate websites that you’ll spend tons of time building. 

FYI, among the top factors required to be the #1 search result in Google, they require – in fact, expect – you to have authoritative, high-quality, reputable, relevant backlinks pointing to what you want to rank from actual, real, authentic websites online. 

That means you can’t just throw a website up and point a backlink from it; it has to have some juice that can be squeezed out of it or won’t do any good for what you’re trying to do. 

What won’t work in this day and age includes…

• Backlinks of low-quality
• Forum acquisition
• Commenting on blogs (like this one – sorry, SEO guy reading this!)
• Signals coming from social media posts or comments
• Poor content quality on a website

So how does one actually get to the top of Google search results? 

It’s not really that difficult, but the investment of effort and resources is often what deters most away from trying at all. 

When you get a powerful, credible website on the world wide web sending a link over to your web property, what happens is Google recognizes that as – very simply – a vote. 

The website with the most votes wins the search results game. 

If only it were that simple now; the rules have changed slightly here…

You have to get a certain kind of backlink, in large quantities, over a gradual amount of time, consistently, from topically relevant and high-quality websites in order for you to improve your Google ranking result. 

Adding to that, you’ll also need what I like to refer to as “quality content.” 

Content, for a website, is nothing more than words on a page that talk about a specific topic. 

Typically, anyone building a website is going to have a topic to it and keep everything focused on that topic in the website – if they know what it takes to rank in Google and they’re good at what they do. 

This quality content also has to be added, passively, over time, while being kept in the range of high-quality…

And each of these factors, combined, helps a website to rank over time. 

In the old school days and methodologies of ranking websites on Google, quality content written for the website was sufficient. 

The website with the most content, pre-2012, was considered a heavy hitter and authority in the marketplace. 

That ancient, prior to 2012 SEO strategy is not going to fly in this day and age, darlin!’ 

It’s 2019 – times have changed and we’re getting more and more digitally calibrated – shifting from the analog era – rapidly! 

In order to get on-board with your ranking game, you’ll need both the high-quality content (which isn’t always easy to write for most people) and the network of powerful backlinks to get you to a position of profitability in the affiliate marketing game. 

It’s been said that a person can further assess the nature of someone’s net worth based on their network. 

It may be a stretch for SEO purposes – at least initially – but that backlinking network we’ve been talking about is of such high-value that it can position your web properties to help you turn a profit online. 

All of this can be done from a laptop in the affiliate marketing world – but it’s a lot of work, and takes an enormous amount of time, energy, and funds out of your pocket just to get in a position to do something like this. 

If you’re a beginner, there’s no question that you will struggle in the affiliate marketing game. 

The competition is seriously abundant! 

If you haven’t read the rest of this blog yet, then let me save you the trouble and acknowledge that I’ve essentially tried (and reviewed) just about all the coaching, mentoring, online business opportunities that are available on the market. 

Let me see if I can rearrange this into a better perspective. 

When the Wealthy Affiliate program casually urges you to find what they like to refer to as low hanging fruit in the marketplace, then they know darn well that it’s not possible for a newbie to step into this game and go after what is a medium-sized search term – because the competition is overwhelming, even if you were to start there. 

The Wealthy Affiliate training approach to posting what you want to in the affiliate marketing competitive arena of digital marketing dates back to 2012 and earlier, further facilitating students back then to generate approximately $50 dollars on the low and as high as $100.00 for newbies that built and aimed websites topically at these niches that were deemed to be some low hanging fruit options. 

That’s just not an option in the 2019 market. 

There are reasons why the fruit is so low-hanging and easily identifiable in their training program. 

When the search volume for that keyword is beyond obnoxiously low in the search engine results – and tools that assess this online also prove it (depending on what you’re using, since not all tools are reliable to find this type of information), then mentors of the Wealthy Affiliate know what’s going on here. 

They’re attempting to steer you in the space of tackling what no one else has a desire to do.  There might still be some search volume and you might still be able to achieve some resemblance of “success,” but for the work that you’re going to put in, it’s not going to pay out to the level or volume that you or I would have hoped it to deliver for you. 

It’s as if you really are fighting for the table scraps from those who’ve actually been playing this game for a lot longer. 

Further, you also have the competition coming from the other students of the Wealthy Affiliate program – who just might be going after the same things you are. 

This can be especially true if the coaches pointed you to something and said give this a try. 

People hired experts to listen to what they had to say; and if they so go after this, then popular notions suggest that you’d be a fool not to listen to the people that you’ve paid to train you… right?

The point is that those low-hanging fruit industries are so low that no one in their right mind in the affiliate game would go through the trouble of trying to compete for those search terms and put the low-profit-margin affiliate products on the world wide web with so much work involved just to get a laughable couple of bucks (if that) in return. 

It would actually cost more to keep the website up than what profits you would be receiving for your efforts. 

When you work more and earn less, would you refer to that as a profitable skill? 

Have you considered looking elsewhere for a better, more profitable, or dare I say – a high-income skill instead? 

Imagine having the skill that brings you more money from less work –

I can attest to such a thing actually existing, by the way, in the local lead generation business model. 

Since the 2016 Google Panda option for updating the search algorithm online, meaning redefining who gets regarded as the top option in their marketplace, low power, low authority websites can no longer send a backlink to a website to help improve its ranking position. 

Pre-2016, the person with the most backlinks and high-quality content won the game – it was lights out on the competition. 

We now live in an era where authority breeds trust; and Google appreciates the authority figures in the digital world telling others who they think are credible – in the form of backlinks, of course. 

They’re only about the authoritative resemblance in websites online – much like the blog you’re reading. 

Let’s keep things in perspective, though.

If you want an easier gig – you don’t have to make a website like mine here.

This blog is not for the local marketing focus – and you don’t have to write a thorough review regarding something in order to turn a profit with our coaching program. 

With the volume of wannabe’s and hungry entrepreneurial-minded, committed individuals searching for an opportunity to bring in the cash quickly online, that emotion can often-times cloud the ability to discern – in a logical fashion – what the best fit in a business model on the internet might be for them. 

This mistake occurs more often than we might be willing to believe, unfortunately. 

As a result, there are tons of our friends, family, and neighbors who decide to try a business venture online and end up spitting back at the training company they had invested in and blaming others for their lack of success.

When you’re in business, everything is your fault and it’s important to take responsibility for your actions and where you’ve found yourself – not just financially, but everywhere and in every case. 

As such, people who “try” a business venture out and it doesn’t work for them, then they end up spitting back the company and blaming the training program or the platform instead of owning up to their mistake…

Maybe that whole scenario could have been avoided if the future and hopeful entrepreneur reading blogs similar to this actually landed on THIS informational platform and got the full story on an option that really could deliver results. 

Nothing can be guaranteed for results online, but good things come to those who put the work in.

The work begins long before paying a mentor to be a part of their coaching program and have that mentor in their corner. 

It begins with making the decision to have something better.

Then that choice continues with action put into researching where the best place to get information which can help that person turn a profit online could be. 

For me, I’d rather not make the tiny commissions that come from being an affiliate online. 

My indulging in the local lead generation for local businesses is because…

• Local businesses have a marketing budget – which is a budget I can tap into
• Higher-priced services mean higher commissions and profit margins for me
• If I can bring service providers like that even a smidgen more of market share, I can do very well for myself financially while also helping their business to grow

What kind of local businesses and service providers am I referring to? 

Think about the expensive things in your marketplace that people roll their eyes at when thinking about how much it will cost to ask for their specialized help around the house, for their health, or for a unique problem that might have rapidly sprung upon them…

• Roofers
• Dentists
• General Home Remodeling and Contractors
• Masonry Specialists
• Personal Injury or Divorce Attorneys
• Plastic Surgeons

The list could go on and on with all the people in various cities, across multiple industries, that need help with local marketing of their business. 

When the jobs that are asked of those service providers can rake in a direct revenue (either before, or including, upsells) of $1,000s or even tens of thousands – a few can reward the business with upwards of $100,000.00 or more…

Do you think you would enjoy taking a sliver of that kind of action? 

Would those kinds of profits make more sense to compete with 10 to 20 local businesses online than to challenge an enormous amount of competitors globally for – hopefully – a couple hundred dollars a month in affiliate commissions?

Additional Resources within the Wealthy Affiliate Members Area

When you get started with the Wealthy Affiliate program, getting signed up, registered with the website, obtain your login credentials, and are prepared to take some good notes from the training you’ve just chosen to invest in…

Here are a few other gems and features you get as a member and affiliate:

• Templates for your website; an enormous amount, actually – upwards of 3,000 (give or take)
• Access to Siterubix (which is a website builder, intended to help you get started faster)
• Hosting for upwards of 25 websites (something that could get expensive if you were to purchase each platform for each website separately)
• Have the leadership and members critique your affiliate website and provide pointers for improvement (if necessary)
• Website health assessment; remember, we live in the digital era – you need to make sure things are safe and in proper working order both regularly and often
• Website commenting – they are under the impression that an audience interacting with your web content can deliver better credit and results in the search engine rankings
• Wealthy Affiliate claims to offer easy access and/or discounts to domain name registrars who are advertised to students to be cheaper than one of the most affordable companies – namecheap.com (this is not a true claim – I’ve researched this extensively)
• A software (intended to compete with Cloudflare) can increase your WordPress website speed with something as simple as a plugin (if you’re not clear on what a plugin for a website is, it’s not hard to research it with one of your free, unlimited Google searches; it’s a WordPress website thing) 

Nearly each and every one of these mentioned features can be easily accessed through web hosting at a famous place like GoDaddy, NameCheap, or any one of several other companies that also deliver meaningful, reliable hosting for websites. 

Each of those other brands of hosting also provide equal – and in some cases, better – website hosting security and outstanding support should any technical issues arise. 

Unfortunately, the confusion can come when Wealthy Affiliate attempts to make things seem exclusive to their premium members when all they’ve really done is rename some of the very simple things that you can access at other hosting platforms for the same or – in some cases – a cheaper price.

My guess is that the founders of Wealthy Affiliate get a cut from anything that you buy that they advertise in the member’s area. 

I’m under the impression that such is another way to monetize their following. 

As for their critique and feedback on the website, as this is an advertised point for support with the Wealthy Affiliate coaching program, it appears to be limited to what the founders “believe” matters in 2019 with helping a website to rank on the world wide web:

• Engagement of Content through Social Media
• Page and website loading speed(s)
• The quality, and intrigue, behind your written content (remember, words on a page) on your site

Since the game has pretty much completely changed from what these gentlemen “believe” they are doing to meaningfully serve their premium members at Wealthy Affiliate, I can attest that following this advice in 2019 will cause you to waste copious amounts of time and fail to see any improvement in your website’s rankings on Google. 

As a result, you may not be a fan of the program if you actually follow what they’re training and don’t see a return on your investment (ROI). 

Some people tend to claim that you just haven’t given the project enough time; well, if they offer a return and/or refund policy with their program, perhaps the encouragement to give your project enough time could be just to allow a notion like that to lapse. 

I haven’t read their fine print and I don’t know if they do (or don’t) offer such a thing, but with the way I’ve seen things orchestrated in Wealthy Affiliate, I don’t wanna ask and I wouldn’t put the recommendation past these guys. 

Conclusion and My Opinion on Wealthy Affiliate

The content, strategies, and ideas proposed in Wealthy Affiliate are outdated – and I think the whole idea of affiliate marketing is past its prime. 

Even when the search terms have low volume and incredibly low search competition, we just don’t live in the days where you can toss a website together with some menial content and expect profits to roll in. 

Let’s evaluate the industry to the gap of time from when Wealthy Affiliate had actually started their movement and impact in the world…

They started in 2005 with a company launch.

They garnered more competition by 2012 as the internet grew and more “experts” flocked toward making money on the internet – thereby, attempting to tackle affiliate promotions to position themselves for tons of money with free traffic on search. 

As the years progressed, affiliate marketing became more complex as the volume of people that flocked to it grew exponentially, the expertise of the people in the marketplace expanded, and the changes to Google algorithm (via Google updates, like Panda) mandated more careful strategies to make money. 

Today, the name of the game is to be the person that collects enough relevant, high-quality, industry-specific backlinks – then you can be considered for ranking in the top spot and turn a profit online with your affiliate offering website that you’ve spent so much time carefully crafting. 

It would be a challenge for me to believe that I could find a Wealthy Affiliate member, even a new one, this year, making a reasonable income when they’re not a founding member of the coaching and mentoring team but actually a student. 

Let’s also address why tons of people online are found advertising good things and singing praises to the Wealthy Affiliate coaching program and the business opportunity that they present to the marketplace. 

Earlier, we had mentioned that 50 percent in affiliate commissions are given to the people who join Wealthy Affiliate; and even if they’re brand new, they are able to be an affiliate of Wealthy Affiliate (funny how that works) and rake in for helping various people to become premium members of the program –

Their commission percentage to promote Wealthy Affiliate is much higher than the affiliate industry average for other people’s products; and with such a handsome profit margin, why would anyone want to explore the training and try their hand at affiliate products marketing other than the coaching program anyway?

This began to foster an online climate where non-successful, premium members of Wealthy Affiliate – who have no business bragging about the program and have never seen it work for themselves – advocating that it is powerful and can work for you “too.” 

If you’re a seasoned entrepreneur, it’s easy to spot the phonies that pitch things like this. 

If you’re promoting Wealthy Affiliate, then my guess you’re probably among the select few who actually turn a profit from being associated with this training –

I really don’t see the training helping any students to market products in an effective way with free organic search results if they can’t even train on how to properly get a website moving up the ranks of Google search in simple directions of what the marketplace currently requires. 

Let’s dig a little further for clarity and exactness.

I’ve explored a handful of Wealthy Affiliate student sites which promote the coaching and mentoring platform for their coveted 50 percent profits (when someone buys through their referral link). 

I’ve noticed that there are approximately 8,100 Google searches for the phrase “Wealthy Affiliate Review”, on average, in a monthly cycle. 

You get to see review sites like eliteaffiliatehacks.com in the top search results, or newonlineincome.com – both of which are Wealthy Affiliate students promoting the program to turn a commission from the advertising of the course: would you say these are really their “top” premium members? 

They might be, but the thought makes reason stare. 

Let’s consider using a tool to assess this further.

There’s a company called Moz that is polite enough to make available an authority checker tool for any domain that you would like to assess. 

With this resource – the domain authority checker from Moz – you can figure out just how “authoritative” this website really is. 

Take a look for yourself what I had found. 

Eliteaffiliatehacks.com hasn’t impressed me with an authority rating on the domain of only 18 (out of 100). 

Let’s compare this to one of my other coach, mentor, and product review websites called journalreview.org.  It has a value of 30 for the Domain Authority. 

With a DA of only 23 for newsonlineincome.com, I’m seriously not impressed with the power that these so-called top students have been able to capture for their website. 

With a little elbow grease, intelligent SEO practices, and a little bit of a time investment, each of those websites can be beaten by an authoritative website like my blog. 

I have one of my lead gen sites in Grand Rapids, MI that matches what these guys are doing with a domain authority of only 23 as well.  (If you’re following along with your own Moz authority checker tool access, you can check it out for yourself at grandrapidstree.com). 

FYI, this tree care website generates for me an extra $2,000.00 every single month. 

Let’s assess the search results of the first page when we Google the phrase “Wealthy Affiliate Reviews.” 

A quick overview helps to find out that these are weak sauce and extremely low competition to beat out. 

If I really wanted to make a review site and outperform each of these assets, I very well could. 

Let’s go into actual search terms that an affiliate marketer might use to promote a product. 

For starters, let’s explore: “best indoor heaters”

This is where the game begins to heat up as the Domain Authority for each of these websites skyrockets to 40 and 80 – some might even go higher. 

Is it beginning to make sense why local lead generation and ranking websites in the local markets first are a more intelligent newbie approach in online entrepreneurship? 

To get something up to that kind of power, you’ll need some highly influential authority. 

In the search engine game, that kind of authority is only going to come from the powerful backlinks of powerful websites. 

Let’s peek at the number of referring domains (which is another term for backlinks) that eliteaffiliatehacks.com carries:

With this alone, we can easily assess how little — if anything – of search engine optimization (SEO) could be taught in the Wealthy Affiliate program. 

I tell ya what, this could be a fluke, so let’s explore the quality of some of the backlinks coming to that website.

Let’s give this a fair shake, okay!? 

Remember, tons of backlinks that are of low-quality will do more to hinder your website from getting to where you want it to go. 

Let’s see what we find together here. 

Have a look for yourself (see below):

Have you ever heard of Tony Omary? 

I haven’t. 

What I have heard of is that blog comments and other low-quality backlinks won’t do much to help your website get to where it needs to go – which, in a perfect world of affiliate marketing, that’s to the top of Google search for the search term you’re trying to rank for so you can get more buyers and more money from the company you’re marketing on behalf of for the measly commissions you are requesting…

What you see above are what, in the industry, we identify as no-follow backlinks. 

When you have a no-follow backlink, you get zero authority passed over to your website. 

That means the backlink might as well have never occurred. 

It’s a waste of time in some cases. 

I’m willing to go so far as to say that the 30 do-follow links – which are what actually give him some credit to rank up the search engines – are keeping this web property at the top of the search results; that, and, this amount of quality, good backlinks are more than I’ve seen on most of the Wealthy Affiliate review websites that I’ve come across. 

They might not be the most powerful or the most high-quality of referring domains, but I can attest to the fact that whoever owns this website has worked sufficiently to do more than the competition and be found at the top of page 1 (for now). 

A brief analysis around each of these Wealthy Affiliate review sites gives me a lot of answers about what skills they’ve acquired through the coaching program’s Search Engine Optimization (SEO) training – and what they haven’t received. 

Here’s a not-so-cheap shot to those that have bought into the Wealthy Affiliate – but it’s honesty and someone has to say it –

The nature of these backlinks prove to me that most premium members that have ever been exclusively trained through Wealthy Affiliate mentoring just might never generate a dime of profit online or in the affiliate marketing industry. 

When I know what I’m doing and it takes me a long time to work my magic just to turn a couple hundred dollars a month in profit when competing on search results with an affiliate product review website, there’s no doubt that these students are at a disadvantage as their affiliate search terms will be extremely difficult for them to compete in and hopefully be found at the top for Wealthy Affiliate program-relevant keywords. 

Hey, you can’t change facts. 

The Good Things Wealthy Affiliate Contributes

If you’re reading this and you had already joined Wealthy Affiliate long before ever coming across this review, it is my hope that your time within their mentoring has allowed you to open your eyes to the vast array of business opportunities online, and what options you have to generate a side income through the internet. 

To be able to think like an entrepreneur isn’t always something that can be acquired through sheer training – but there are, no doubt, exceptions. 

While we discuss there being plenty of opportunities to make money from home with the use of the internet, let’s get real about what actually makes money…

Skills that you have and use to solve problems. 

There’s no 2 ways about this…

If you don’t have the skills to pay the bills, then you don’t have a business model because you can’t make a sale when you have nothing to offer someone. 

It took me several tries to get this right. 

What do I mean?

I mean that I had invested – and wasted – tons of…

• time,
• resources, and
• money…

…trying to find a good internet-based business opportunity that I could work at in my spare time which also had a mentor who could show me a legit-ass skill to make some money online. 

By the way, thanks to those who’ve been reading this blog already – you know this very well already…

That high-level skill I’ve developed is called Local Marketing – and I use free organic web traffic from search results to make my magic income happen. 

There’s really no magic to it, but to the business owners that I help, it’s amazing to them because they get to stay busy with all the business I flood their phone lines with. 

I have to give props to the Wealthy Affiliate for at least pointing their premium students into this direction –

They know that free traffic is what it’s all about. 

Even in the affiliate marketing realm, I’d still recommend that beginners tap into free traffic generating options to try and find buyers instead of paying for your web traffic through platforms like Facebook Ads. 

How come? 

When it comes to free web traffic, it’s organically found and carries high buyer-intent. 

In other words, there’s very little chance that an everyday citizen like you are I would be searching into Google a keyword similar to what our product is showing up for if they didn’t want to make a purchase. 

That means you don’t have to try and buy your buyers through paid traffic strategies.

That also means you don’t have to pay ad spend – which can dip into your already marginalized profits should anyone from the traffic that you purchase actually make a decision to buy the product you’re affiliated with. 

It’s through this method that you also know that you can begin putting more web properties out on the world wide web that generate similar buyer intent web traffic to your website, thereby allowing you to

• expand your empire
• generate more income without having a second job
• move your future towards one of freedom from financial woes and time constraints

You can start making money on AutoPilot, every month, with the more websites that you…

• Build on the fly
• Superglue to the first position on Google search results for search terms buyers are looking for
• Send to small businesses and reap the rewards

Think about the things that you can do and the life that you could have if you worked hard to fabricate multiple streams of income for yourself in this manner online…

Could you retire early? 

Would your bills be taken care off with the passive income you’ve got flowing your way online?

I walked away from my 9 to 5 by the age of 25, all because of the local lead generation sites that I posted up online over the course of my first year in business. 

Thanks to no longer having to spend my day slaving over a desk job that paid me a whopping $35,000 a year…

I can evaluate other business ventures and coaching programs online and keep you better informed about what’s on the market these days. 

I can indulge in multiple streams of income…

I can travel if I want…

And I can enjoy exploring more about what is in the online entrepreneurial world through a blog like the one you’re reading right now. 

This website –

This Authority website – is credible because it is now being found in multiple first position search results on Google for various key terms. 

This take a lot of work, tons of resources, and you really have to have something to talk about. 

I’m not saying new entrepreneurs don’t have important thoughts to share with the world. 

However, I am willing to say that doing what I’m doing requires more of your time and money to make happen. 

It’s just not something that I’d recommend for someone to start online and make their first $10,000 per month in passive income with. 

By all means, you can do this. 

I didn’t know anything about search engine optimization (SEO) or how to move a web property in Google until a short few years prior when I stumbled upon this local lead generation coaching program only a short few years ago. 

Thanks are in order for their helping me to get…

• my big start
• awesome testimonial
• control of my life
• real freedom

I can do what I want with my time and money now that all of my bills are paid for and I’m comfortable with where I’m at…

The passive income of $50,000 on a monthly basis doesn’t hurt, either. 

 When you’re new to the internet and just making your first decisions on where to invest and get started making a quick few dollars online, you’ll want some training to guide you on how to not only make the cash upfront…

You want something that you can make a sustainable, long-term cash flow out of while also getting that upfront money. 

Why Local Lead Generation Can Position You for Massive Profits in 2019

When you’re looking for a business opportunity online, especially if you’re browsing for one while the laptop is on your lap in the living room of a cold, low-rent apartment in the dead of winter in Detroit –

At zero below and you’re wishing you were warm, fed, comfortable, and rich…

It’s really hard to separate that emotional sting of wanting something better away from your ability to assess a business opportunity. 

I can tell you all of the successful things that I’ve achieved with local lead generation for small businesses. 

Until you’re ready to learn more about the tactics and techniques of what can deliver you incredible results as it has for me and tons of others in our coaching program, no amount of mentorship or recommendations can help you get out of your slump – you’ve gotta take some initiative and do that on your own.

When you’re ready to make a change, though, that’s what we’re here for. 

Dan – the founder of our lead generation mentoring course – worked the local lead generation industry on his own for several years before he even considered putting together a coaching program.

What else is cool is that he’s still working this business model while coaching and actively putting into place more cash flow assets for himself. 

That’s exactly what this business model is about. 

Take a look at my limo lead gen site that produces enough results for a business owner to pay me a recurring, passive income of $750 every single month –

I haven’t touched that site for more than 4 years (at the time of this blog post being written) and it continues to pay me year after year…

How? 

It’s producing results for the business owner that is taking more of the market share from his competition with it. 

I’m making them money – they’re making me money – and all I have to do is keep my lead gen site at the top of the marketplace, just like this…

I’m not the only success story, but I’m happy to share my story with anyone who wants to know about it. 

Local lead generation has been good to me, so naturally, I’ll brag to others about the course and how good it could be for them if they’re actively willing to take action on the lessons taught within.

However, I have…

• engaged in tons of coaching programs
• bought into a lot of mentoring courses
• tried several different business models which others have claimed would work (and a lot of them, well, yeah)

I’ve done this for your betterment – so I can speak from experience when reviewing programs that you might be considering looking into and/or investing with. 

When it comes to local lead generation, here’s what else you’ll get if you stick with the process…

• A mentor who gives a darn about your success
• A team of people in a private Facebook group is rather active and interested in getting your questions answered so there are no hang-ups between your getting started and receiving your first paying client
• Top of the line training
• Current updates about how the market changes and shifts, and how that might influence your business model (Hint: Google likes to shake things up, but we’ve been doing the same things through several years of updates, and our plan is solid with what Google likes)
• Recurring coaching sessions
• Assets and options to outsource your work if you ever want to step away from the daily operation of your business model and be more of a manager of sorts

By the way, I never had the option to outsource when I first got started; it’s easier today for you to get a check in your hands with this business model now than it was when I got started in 2014. 

While you always have the option of…

• Hiring virtual assistants (on places like UpWork or Fiverr)
• Establish your business, getting an EIN and hiring employees (which can come with a lot of headache and overhead that I personally am not a fan of but it keeps the costs of doing business rather low)
• Outsourcing the work to a third-party agency that handles a lot of what we do in the coaching program anyway

You can also keep it in the coaching program group if you’d like. 

Who better to handle the work that you either don’t have the time to do, or simply don’t want to do, that you don’t have to train because they already know what it takes to have a successful business like what you’re building.

Mind you, all of that is completely optional and there are no hard-selling pressures in the coaching program. 

We want to keep things welcoming and duplicable so you can have the highest chances for success in your online entrepreneurial endeavors.

When the marketplace is more ready for you to profit several years after the coaching program was launched, that’s when you know you’re in a good place! 

I like the lead generation business overall because…

• You can expand your business any time you want by throwing up more lead gen sites
• There’s close to no competition, so you can tap into any industry in any city and get to work on building your fortune for your future
• If you’re hungry to find an opportunity that will let you quit your job, or at least be more comfortable while you work at the job that you enjoy, both can be a great privilege to have, and you can make either of them possible with this business model
• Big Profit Margins: no more answering to companies you affiliate with who expect you to take all the risk and pay you a laughable, tiny profit any time you make a sale for them (without reimbursement for any expenses you’ve incurred to land that sale for them, by the way)
• Acquire your next client in your city, in a city near you, or reach out and acquire a local service provider in a city across the world – make your business officially operate internationally, if you’d like
• Pick your own hours and places to work: no dress code requirements, no grooming standards; you get to make the rules because it’s your business
• Secure your future and financial freedom with the reassurance that you have a skill that can make you more money any time you please
• Use the same business model as Lyft or Airbnb: send leads, get paid, repeat!

This has to be done right, ethically, effectively, and efficiently for it to work in the way that I remember I wanted it to less than a handful of years ago. 

We’re here to present a coaching program that can get you to where you want to go – which could be the very reasons you were motivated to scroll all the way through this article and get to here.

The small or quick wins of profitable income, upfront, in this business can keep you positive and excited to keep grinding on this process…

Which can keep your passion and fire alive with this business model all the way to the land of success which you are looking to reach! 

The marketplace holds a massive opportunity for someone in this business model. 

Unlike affiliate marketing, you can dominate your marketplace with ranking local lead generation websites. 

Click Here to see about our coaching program so you can get started building your own lead generation business as I have. 

Click thru so we can talk already! 

When I was indulging in the whacky and unusual world of affiliate marketing, I stumbled across some videos from ODi on his YouTube Channel, popularly known around the water cooler as “ODi Productions”. 

Modeling himself and his brand after some of the best which came from the top coaches in selling courses and making digital products available for entrepreneurs to find the best version of themselves in their endeavors, his diligence in delivering high-quality content through his channel is rivaled by none.

Why did I choose to invest in Affiliate Marketing Champ by ODi Productions and explore what is available through this mentoring program? 

Less than a handful of years ago, I was just getting started with my local lead generation business.  I was working a 9 to 5 at the time so I didn’t have the means to try anything else. 

All I did was throw together a lead gen site, paste it to the top of Google, and let the rankings do the heavy lifting for me as I profit more than I ever have before with affiliate marketing.

Take a look that the little work I did and how generating calls for limo and party bus in Lansing, MI returns back to me a whopping $750 monthly in passive income; that’s the power of lead gen for local business.

Slowly, however, the side hustle turned into annual revenue that greatly surpassed what I was collecting on my full-time gig; so, I chose to walk away and spend my days exploring all that the fascinating world of digital entrepreneurship has to offer. 

In fact, that’s kind of how this blog came about in the first place. 

Fast forward to a not too long ago, I’m raking in 6 figures several times over in annual, and passive, income, and I’ve decided that it’s time to begin diversifying my income streams. 

That’s when I specifically began exploring the opportunity of connecting with products or services that others owned and trying my hand at marketing them on the world wide web for others to buy. 

That’s the simple industry of affiliate marketing.  Nothing to it, right? 

Yeah, that’s what I thought. 

I knew from investing in a coaching program previously – the same one that helped me to get started with what is now a wildly successful lead gen business online – that success can be modeled after someone else who also has displayed success with their approach to a way to work online. 

I mean, to reinvent the wheel when someone like ODi seems credible and has his stuff together in affiliate marketing; they could know what they’re talking about so there’s no need to start something new if there’s a way to accelerate your success by following another successful person did.

ODi might have a couple of tricks up his sleeve that I haven’t heard of yet…

Things that could turn into a strange, yet excellently profitable new revenue stream for my bottom line. 

In addition, the previous courses I had invested in, which attempted to teach me the best marketing strategies in selling affiliate offers, I chose to give Affiliate Marketing Champ a shot. 

It was time to go big or go home, and I wasn’t going home so it was all about going big here. 

This isn’t my first time writing reviews on products and coaching programs.  I’ve given something like this a good, fair shake for a number of tries. 

For those of you that haven’t launched your first business venture, thank you for checking things out here; you’re in for a real treat. 

Since I became a successful entrepreneur long before exploring affiliate marketing, I guess you could say that I have a unique perspective on what it takes to make money online; I could afford to invest in this program and not have to worry about it not turning out well. 

Profits would still be coming in on a monthly basis – especially to the tune of $50k, passively (thank you, lead gen business model) – so even if this risk didn’t pan out, then no harm and no foul. 

Food would still be on my table and in the fridge so I really have nothing to worry about except giving this affiliate coaching program a try. 

Today, I’m happy to report you what all I’ve found in my experiment with this – whether it’s something that I would recommend newbies or seasoned entrepreneurs have a go at. 

Be sure to keep an eye out for my considerations regarding the other online business opportunities in comparison to the affiliate business model. 

The landscape has changed over the years, and new challenges face affiliate marketers in 2019; I hope to touch on that here as well. 

Lastly, we get to consider what being a successful affiliate marketer looks like, and what it takes today to earn a title like that, and whether it can compete with the local lead generation business in 2019.

Affiliate Marketing Champ Overview: What You Get Upon Joining

Think you know everything there is to know about affiliate marketing? 

When I got started, I thought I did. 

Guess what? 

I was dead wrong! 

There are tons of aspects to this business model – so much that I’m not sure if I’ll ever comprehend this industry entirely. 

Check how what all you have to do (and this is from an extremely high, bird’s-eye view):

1. Select an Industry that You Intend to Market Within.  If you can look forward to reading about it, writing articles about it, and don’t mind thinking about it often, then that might be a good industry to start with. 
2. Get a web domain.  For those not familiar with computer talk, that’s the website address, like yahoo.com. 
3. Set up website hosting.  This is where you would actually have your domain set-up at.  You can build it here, design it however you’d like, and then the address (like yahoo.com) would be what people would type in the address bar of a web browser in order to visit the location of your website (meaning, where it’s hosted). 
4. Install a type of website builder on your hosting platform; the most popular type that I’ve seen, and used, is called WordPress – you may have heard of it.  Once that step is done, and it doesn’t take long to actually do, then it’s time to actually go to work building it out.  To get an idea of what a sample product might look like, take a quick browse around this blog.  It’s a whole website designed from a WordPress that was installed within the platform of a hosting company.  It costs a few bucks, generally speaking, but it could be worth the effort. 
5. Register as an affiliate for a product’s program or a network that hosts multiple offers you can get connected with and begin promoting.  FYI, ODI is very accomplished in having worked with a vast number of Amazon.com associates. 
6. If you’re not that strong of a writer, you could get some Dragon software (at least, I think that’s what it’s called) where your voice can be recognized by your software and it will actually type what it is you’re speaking into the microphone.  If you don’t want to put some of your own content on your website, or you’re not a fan of drafting and proofreading your own work, I’d like to recommend something called outsourcing.  This is where you can either ask someone to write the content for your website on your behalf (for a price), or an affiliate offer might have some information that they expect all affiliates to have and you can simply copy and paste what they’ve provided for you.  It could be as little as a few emblems or pictures, or it could be as vast as words, phrases, paragraphs describing the product that you want to promote and you could fill entire pages on a website with it.  The choice is yours – there are pros and cons to each option. 
7. Engage in effective SEO (search engine optimization) strategies.  At this point, you’re starting to fine-tune your work and get it ready to compete for positions in search engines.  Why is this important?  If you get free buyers from search traffic, often times they are high intent buyers because they’re searching for what you are offering, then you could get a lot of sales from the work you’re doing right now.  It could be worth its weight in gold someday.  There are places to learn about Search Engine Optimization best practices for a WordPress website.  My top recommendation would be to start by installing a plugin called Yoast SEO.  It’s a great way to at least get you off on the right foot.  (Hint: once it’s installed, please remember to turn it on; plugins aren’t helpful if they aren’t flipped to the on position.)
8. Promoting Your Affiliate Offer Through Social Media.  This is where you engage buyer traffic quickly by spending your own money to get attention for your offer.  There are pros and cons to this step as well.  However, the important thing to remember is that no attention means no sales.  The loudest person in the marketplace that gets the most attention might just have the most sales.  Although, the internet is a finicky place, so choose wisely how you wish to proceed.

Yeah, that’s about it.  Just 8 aspects to affiliate marketing. 

Does it sound overwhelming? 

Does it sound like a piece of cake?

In evaluating what ODi teaches in his training program…

1. Building affiliate marketing websites in this nature, especially with ranking in Google search engines, you may be able to generate as much as a few hundred dollars in commissions to upwards of nearly 2 grand in profits… and if you do this right, that could be entirely from free traffic acquired from being found at the top of search results. 
2. With the way the marketplace is right now, you’d be lucky to get that top position of ranking your website within the approximate time of 1 year.  2019 has brought a lot of changes, some of which are now making it increasingly difficult to compete with people who’ve been giving search engine optimization love to their website for years now. 

If you’re looking to escalate your website to new heights – we’re talking upwards of $10,000 in profitable revenue, it’d be best to consider finding a coaching program elsewhere that gives you the high-level skills in search engine optimization… it’s safe to assume that you’re gonna need them in order to achieve a farfetched goal like this. 

There’s just something you know about being able to see through the glossy shine, smoke and mirrors, dog and pony show charades that pitch artists and hype people might give if there isn’t much substance to what they have to train with. 

There could be some merit to the content inside of Affiliate Marketing Champ coaching program.  

For now, all I see are marketing and promotional materials for his mentoring course that reflect the idea of being rich and successful through material possessions, shiny and flashy cars, and other awe-striking content packed into his YouTube videos. 

This guy, however, goes above and beyond what most are willing to do; he exercises skills that competitors in the affiliate coaching game either don’t have or aren’t willing to make the effort to achieve when it comes to pitching his program. 

On that note, I’d have to give this guy props and say well done for putting up a good show to inspire others to buy into what you’re attempting to deliver. 

With consistent YouTube video generation and posting habits, ODi has been known for being the type that is…

• Entertaining
• Informative
• Charismatic

…and he’s fully aware of how to tap into the psychological triggers required to sell a dream that you have for your future self in real life. 

He doesn’t stop there, though. 

His videos are packed with nice cars, epic homes, and he crafts all of his content with the effort to influence buying decisions within viewers; oh yes, the value is delivered in high quantities on YouTube to build his affiliate coaching program. 

How well is the YouTube Channel, ODi Productions, really doing these days?

From initial inspection, some videos are achieving views upwards of 1 million when they’ve been published and viewable for under 6 months. 

Can ODi attempt to turn this high volume of traffic into profits? 

Absolutely! 

• Pitch the affiliate mentoring and coaching platform that he’s built
• Collect emails so he can market products that can turn profits for ODi specifically – although, it helps if what he’s marketing is directly correlated to the industry and audience he’s targeting
• Depending on how much YouTube values his channel, he could very well be receiving compensation for the volume of views and the ads that are seen when people visit his videos under the Free YouTube Platform. 

(FYI – for those that don’t know, YouTube is attempting to market their commercial-free, premium YouTube program; I haven’t personally looked into it but a way to get rid of the commercials you’re seeing is to consider investing some cash into that.)

There’s a common saying in the field of entrepreneurship, and that is that you get to consider the nature of your sizeable income based almost entirely on the level of value which you choose to deliver to your marketplace. 

When you’re able to generate massive volumes of web traffic (like this guy), since he knows how to generate content that drives people to respond, that’s also a high-level skill that can pay someone well. 

What you happen to see in this program, however, involves slapping up some cheap content from a $5 fiverr.com gig for your review of a product – that you’re hoping will turn you tens of thousands in profits. 

That’s not exactly the way to go with this. 

How do I know? 

I’ve tried it! 

I’ve followed the training as it was designed and attempted to acquire the results that I was told I should be able to reasonably anticipate. 

Less than a handful succeeded and the majority of these types of marketing efforts ended up failing miserably. 

Even the ones that were managing to rank high enough to acquire search traffic (meaning, getting close to the coveted ideal of getting free buyers to come through my web page to take action) still didn’t deliver the type of return on investment (ROI) that I was hoping for – especially considering how much work I had invested in this type of a project. 

I’m sorry to say – I just might not be the only one with this kind of experience after investing in Affiliate Marketing Champ. 

Sniper websites were the name of the game back in 2016, where less than appealing quality websites could abundantly target one keyword search phrase in an ugly manner and still achieve ideal results; Google’s update with something called the Panda algorithm put a stop to that rather quickly.  

Now, your posted review site is expected to develop trust and carry authority in its reputation – or it doesn’t get seen. 

Knowing all of this – and having experienced a lot of it in very recent months – the tactics and training provided in this coaching program either aren’t up-to-date or simply won’t work well for a newbie (sorry, Charlie). 

If you’re proficient in search engine optimization (SEO) to an unusually high degree, and know how to borderline instantly acquire gobs of targeted traffic due to consistent high value that your following appreciates through YouTube videos or blog posts, then you might have a shot at capturing the attention of your viewers long enough to pitch a product you affiliate with. 

This volume of traffic, along with the trust of your web page, just might be enough to get you to the top of the search results – but then you still have to work at this for a lengthy period of time. 

And time in search engine optimization (SEO) is something you simply cannot fake. 

If you’re new to the game or unclear about how challenging or what kind of a fight you might be in for attempting affiliate marketing in 2019, the investment in this course will probably only give you a rude awakening to your business endeavor – I would hope you get to turn a profit, but I wouldn’t hold my breath. 

My Personal Take on Affiliate Marketing

At this point in the game, and with this approach (meaning, not through paid advertising strategies), your ability to succeed in this game is all about your ability to rank web pages quickly and in great abundance for the appropriate keywords. 

Especially for affiliate marketing purposes, ranking on the top of any page 1 search result is brutal in Google. 

If we were to rewind back to the era of 2012, strange terms for product names attached to the word “review” could have been all that was required to get in front of some buyer traffic, provided you had the capacity to write a well-versed review article on the product in question. 

Fast forward to today, the 2019 rigmarole mandates tons of votes back to your web page (what I call “backlinks”) just to reach the bottom of page 1 (which only has 10 organic search results anyway). 

From there, you can anticipate another year’s worth of labor just to compete for the ideal volume of traffic for any search term’s results.  

In my #1 top pick for online business models to start in 2019, I chose local lead generation due to the extremely low volume of competition and the opportunity to superglue a lead gen site to the top of search results in very little time, and with low costs and effort required. 

You’re still capitalizing on the free traffic available from the high-intent, buyer-rich traffic that some from those ideal search terms you’re capitalizing on, while the local markets allow you to have an advantage with as few as 10 to 20 companies competing for the internet audience’s attention – and the vast majority of those businesses really don’t have a clue of what it takes to acquire all of those clients online. 

That’s not to make fun of the entrepreneurs that are slaving away for 80 hours in a week, trying to find the key to make their business flourish; I’m simply identifying that there’s an opportunity for you to learn a high-income skill like lead generation and step in to profit while helping those small businesses to become better contributors to their community by helping more customers and expanding their bottom line in the process. 

This is in severe contrast to affiliate marketing, where the competition is so steep that you’re virtually competing with people who know what they’re really doing well and comparing your knowledge with that of people who’ve been doing this for years, and from across the globe. 

As a newbie, affiliate marketing and attempting to garner free traffic from Google search results could be more daunting than the potential profits it is worth.

Take the SEO-informative downloadable toolbar for your web browser from a company called Moz, and see if you can figure out what the Domain Authority (DA) numerical value is for that individual website. 

Here’s a hint to evaluate what it means for you: if the value is above the number 25, you might as well stay away from it as a newbie – it’s gonna quite some time, with lots of extra effort, and not to mention your learning curve in order to figure out what you can do to beat that person out of the top spot. 

I can appreciate ODi’s insights on SEO – he seems to know what he’s talking about. 

However, I’ve gotta stick with my conscience and be in full disclosure with you; the algorithm that Google has adapted to meet the changing needs of the market (and their profit goals) for 2019 suggests that Affiliate Marketing Champ could be teaching tactics that simply won’t be effective for you to implement and confidently look forward to turning a profit with these days. 

Face it: using SEO to generate profits with affiliate marketing might as well be an ancient strategy that is far too costly to pursue these days. 

The free traffic for a product is ideally, and ultimately, found at the top of page 1 search results; beat that website out and you might have a shot… that is to say that if the demand for that product (by the time you get into that position) is still hot enough for consumers to still carry enough desire to buy it from your review site. 

Remember the Moz toolbar that we had mentioned only moments ago? 

Feel free to explore with that asset for a bit to see that I’m not pulling your leg. 

You can figure out for yourself rather quickly that product-relevant search terms will most like find a heavy hitter of a powerful, authoritative website duct taped to the top of search results. 

To compete with a monster like that would require something that takes more seasoned, professional knowledge and experience to attempt to compete with. 

That’s not an insult to newbies; we all start somewhere and there’s no reason to say that you can’t get in the ring with Mike Tyson to try and survive 10 rounds to hold your own. 

I’m not interested in battling it out with such an authoritative site when I can find easier, faster, and higher profit-margin wins in local lead generation for small businesses. 

When affiliate marketing really hits and turns a profit for you, it’s one of the most exciting feelings for a newbie. 

You’ve put in the work to rank a web property to the top of Google search results and you can be confident that the work has paid off. 

To add to that excitement, unlike the Amazon FBA Business model or the dropshipping model of physical products selling in places like a personal Shopify store, you really don’t have to handle any customer service conversations, complaints, or do anything to move the products or provide services to the consumer. 

The consumer makes a purchase, and it’s only a matter of time before your commission is deposited directly to your checking account. 

Long after the 2012 to 2014 year-group – which preceded the Google updates for search results – search terms related to common products in affiliate marketing are just exponentially greater in difficulty and competition now. 

That’s why I’m saying this isn’t a wheelhouse for an entrepreneur that’s just starting out.  The expenses required to get into a fight with someone for that top spot is going to be through the roof…

Even then, you’d still be learning the ropes and practicing your art long before you ever got your web property to the top of Google search results to begin winning profits (which, I’m sorry to say, real buyers don’t always buy overnight the very instant you reach the top of page 1). 

As coaches and mentors in the affiliate products marketing arena started coming out of the woodwork (and I can only imagine that they’ve started becoming coaches because of the increased difficulty of seriously turning a profit in the affiliate marketing skill set now), Google has focused on making it more difficult for web properties to be found for long phrases of keyword search terms. 

Namely, the name of the game back in the day was just to have the most backlinks and you won the top spot.  That’s just not the case anymore! 

Now, you need to connect not only a solid and authoritative backlink to any web property you are trying to help climb the search results of Google, but that website that’s linking back to it must have high relevance to the topic being discussed as well. 

When you attempt to get buyers from free organic traffic in search for digital camera products, what you’re getting referring credit (in the form of backlinks) from really ought to be topically relevant for digital camera products or the industry of digital cameras in subject matter and in nature. 

You could go it the long route and attempt to ask, beg, borrow, and buy those backlinks from people who’ve spent years talking about the topic at-hand – with whatever kind of affiliate product you’re attempting to prove authoritative about on your website you’ve just started up as a new product affiliate…

Or…

You could build your own group of high-quality, highly relevant backlinks, much to like what I have done lately, and it’s working awesome for winning over the competition – and the customers – in 2019 digital marketing concepts. 

Want to know more about something like this? 

Check out our local marketing coaching program which goes into greater detail about this kind of advantage that you, too, can have when you get started with your own local lead gen business online. 

Affiliate Marketing or Local Lead Generation: Time to Compare

As a brand new entrepreneur that wants to launch a side hustle, I’m confident you’re getting started for the same reason that I have – at least in the beginning…

You want more money with having a second job. 

I get it; the idea of a side hustle that allows for both passive income, with profitable margins of revenue to make it worth your time and energy, and the ability to work this business in your spare time. 

That’s exactly what I was looking for! 

Of all the business opportunities to work from home that I had found, and of all the programs I have reviewed on this website thus far (yes, the very one you’re reading from right now)…

Local marketing is able to deliver on those very things – and oh so much more. 

When you rank an affiliate website that you’ve started from scratch, it’s a baby; it’s brand new and has zero trust, credit, or authority in the marketplace. 

You’ve gotta start it off slow or it’s not going to turn profits for you in volume or longevity if you’re not careful. 

Moving an affiliate site up the rankings – take it from someone who ranks websites for a living now – will require more than just time; for the affiliate model you’re considering competing in, the costs will simply be thru the roof. 

Let me give you a side-by-side comparison here between an affiliate product and a lead gen site. 

One of my affiliate websites I was able to put at the top and begin competing for attention over an indoor grill cooker netted me a monthly return of nearly $400.00. 

The catch: it took at least a year – and plenty of additional costs – to compete for top rankings, but the free traffic is kind of nice. 

Now, my Grand Rapids, Michigan tree service lead gen site was pasted to the top of Google probably within days or weeks (maybe even less, but I don’t remember because it’s been so long since I’ve touched the thing), requiring a lot less resources and costs to get the website producing results. 

The catch: there really isn’t one, as I’m raking in a passive income of $2,000.00 every single month, all for that little investment of time in the lead gen site. 

If you were to find as many SEO-specific web tools as possible to throw at the indoor grill website and evaluate, you’d find that searches for indoor grills occur much more frequently – and in greater numbers – than searches for help with trees in the large city on the west side of the state here. 

In fact, from what I’ve found, there aren’t any searches according to the standard SEO tools’ metrics. 

Not many SEO agencies either know this or are willing to admit it, but those industry tools are just that; machines with computer-generated assessments.  

Those tools were made by human beings, which also means that they, too, are imperfect. 

Since no SEO tool is perfect, then, we can agree that no search results volume for tree service in a city surrounded by densely wooded suburbs doesn’t necessarily mean that businesses offering tree care are dying. 

I have a call-tracking phone number that counts how many calls come through that lead gen site, and I have empirical data to prove that the SEO tools say “0” for the actual search volume, but if that were the case then I wouldn’t be able to forward sales leads to a tree service company that now pays me a couple grand every month – and has been doing so for years (like clockwork)! 

At the end of the day, just about everyone that happens to be laboring in a local service industry probably doesn’t have the foggiest idea of how to monetize internet/web properties nor how to gain 100% of potential control over lead tracking. 

Inside of the coaching program where we teach how to generate leads for local service providers and small businesses, you’ll get the exact method I’ve used for the last several years to generate a whopping $50k per month while working on this part-time. 

The reason we keep it in our coaching program is due to its valuable knowledge and wisdom; we don’t let just anyone into our coaching program either. 

Further, the strategies we simply aren’t so obvious as getting a referral link to post online when you sign up to be an affiliate with a product and acquire a measly little commission when an ideal customer actually buys through your referral link. 

Most internet marketers simply can’t hang with the hustlers in our coaching program – and that’s okay because we’re only looking for those that have a willingness to do whatever it takes to win in business. 

We don’t want to bring into our coaching program someone that is just a toe dipper. 

You can look at several other coaching programs that I may have (or may not have) reviewed and toss your hard-earned money away elsewhere, or you can invest it and get your tail in gear with the top internet business model around in 2019: local lead generation! 

Let’s not get things confused here, now…

While I promote this coaching program openly and shamelessly, I do so because I can back up my claims with the lead gen business I have personally built part-time since 2014. 

If you’re concerned about our students having too much competition as we continue to look for hungry people that are sick and tired of their situations and ready to launch their own online business, rest assured that you can work this business model in just about any city and there are multitudes of business industries you can personally choose to work with. 

The possibility of competing with another person from the coaching program for leads exists, but it’s slim, at best. 

After having put my best foot forward to give the affiliate marketing the old college try, I’ve come to a decision:

Local lead generation is – without a doubt – the fastest way to generate an annual 6 figure passive income online. 

If it were up to me, I’d place business opportunities online in 2019 as follows:

1. Local Lead Generation for Small Businesses using free organic search traffic
2. Amazon FBA or Shopify (the selling of physical products online through a personal product listing)
3. Affiliate Marketing

If you’re reading this and you’re considering getting started with your very first business venture from home, you have just seen what my rankings are for quality entrepreneurial endeavors — all provided by someone who has tried them all…

And the only one who has continued to prove itself time and again for passive income from part-time work and high-profit margins is the lead gen business model. 

In fact, I’m still in a number of these programs right now – and seeing a positive return with each of the revenue streams. 

So not only have I dabbled in training programs that teach these principles and business models, but I’m using them actively! 

With my first-person know-how in each business model, I don’t think anyone will be able to convince me otherwise. 

Here’s a brief, visual breakdown of where the majority of my online business profits are generated…

The reason the majority of my income is Lead Generation is that the only thing which provided me with the recurring, stable, and predictable income – along with the time freedom – to explore these training programs, review them, and leave information about them on this blog site so you can be informed.

Of course, I began my online business venture with local lead gen. 

Some might accuse me of being bias, but when I’ve tried and continue to successfully perform other business models, I can attest that lead gen is the most profitable with the least amount of work. 

I know I’m simultaneously promoting a coaching program, but if I liked any of the other programs better then I’d refer you over to those because then they might make more sense. 

However, only a few students that were hand-selected by the founding mentor (his name is Dan – he’s cool, and he’s done lead gen for years before putting together this coaching program) are permitted to promote the coaching program. 

Of the few that have permission to do something like this, I’m also happy to say that I was one of his first students in the mentoring program and have achieved great success to testify of the validity of the program. 

Conclusion

As I’ve ranked the business models discussed in this article earlier, eCommerce is still challenging for a newbie because of all the research and follow-on steps necessary in order to actually get your online listing of a physical product into position for a buyer to actually buy from you –

It’s all preliminary work prior to actually getting some attention to your product and then hoping that the attention you’ve acquired in web traffic equates to targeted buyers seeing your offer and bringing them to a buying decision (or, at the very least, a percentage of them so you can gain the belief that there is an opportunity to make money – and profits – for yourself with the internet). 

If you’re still considering affiliate marketing after the above discussion points, let me remind you that the volume of marketers all trying to promote similar affiliate offers has saturated the industry to the point that the level of competition compares to that of getting enough positive, high-rating reviews to get your product listing to the top of the Amazon marketplace search results. 

By the way, that’s competitive across the globe. 

The same is true for wanting to get a review site ranked to the top of Google search results for an affiliate product that you’ve got your heart set on. 

Although, I would question why you have your heart set on affiliate marketing only because local lead generation can give you higher profit margins, with less work, and probably even help you find your first belief check (meaning your first paycheck) for your own business profits in a lot less time than affiliate marketing probably ever could (at least, without buying paid traffic with every other aspect of your marketing funnel being absolutely perfect and well thought-out). 

Take it from someone who has been in business for a few years and knows what it takes to generate a multiple 6 figures annually from a laptop. 

I’ve done it. 

I’ve started in a similar position to where you are, too. 

I’ve started with a $35,000 salaried 9 to 5 that I had to walk to in the outskirts of downtown Detroit, Michigan all year round – which included the cold-breezing winter’s windy days of zero-degrees and a wind chill factor added to it. 

I’m glad I don’t have to do that again, especially since I was able to walk away from my job after reaching nearly $10k per month in part-time income from this side hustle of local lead generation. 

I’m not the only success story from the coaching program, but I don’t mind sharing if it helps you to better see for yourself the difference between the headaches of affiliate marketing and the challenging, but forever rewarding passive income that you could be making in the lead gen business model. 

If you’re gonna play in the affiliate marketing program, you’ll have to be prepared to play your hardest in that game for the table scraps from the big dogs that have been playing the game long before you’ve ever heard of it. 

If you’re still hung up on getting started, I say do what you want. 

My recommendation would be:

Establish your business and get successful online in another endeavor first, please. 

You can go into eCommerce, or local lead generation for small businesses, you know, the local marketing thing we’ve been discussing here. 

Find your passive income and financial security of at least $10,000 per month so you won’t be struggling anymore…

THEN, when you’re feeling up to it, set your affiliate marketing budget into another account and allow your ability to wait out the time and patience factors as you passively work to rank your affiliate review website to the top of the search engines be padded by the passive income that’s helping you to enjoy life as you try affiliate marketing for yourself. 

Those of you looking for…

• a quick win and a belief check
• to start a side hustle that can deliver profits fast
• a coaching program that has successfully driven into the process that you can trust
• zero guesswork and just a proven system you can follow
• a place you can invest low start-up capital to position yourself to have the opportunity to see profitable returns (nothing is guaranteed in business, but you’ll laugh when you realize just how simple this is to expand your business online with so little effort)
• a business you can start right away

Affiliate marketing doesn’t give you any of those things, and it’s simply going to take way too long to build. 

If I had the resources to passively work my know-how and skills of ranking web properties online, with the assets necessary to put into the process, and it still took me at least a year to see a return on my investment (ROI), then I’d invite you to reconsider the affiliate marketing platform of an online business.  

I’m not saying to forget about it permanently; I’m only recommending that you get a good, solid base of success before delving into something else so that your financial health and future are secure. 

The last thing you’d want to do is wait for another economic bubble to pop (similar to what was experienced in the American economy in 2008), that ended up placing a lot of people in such bad shape that they couldn’t afford to invest in coaching like what we’re offering you now. 

No coaching program on the market (and I’ve experienced darn close to most of the credible ones) that focuses entirely on affiliate marketing is going to yield the very things that our coaching program can deliver on. 

Why I Adore the 2019 Business Model of Local Lead Generation

If you’ve made it this far in the blog – and since you’re reading this, I know you have – then I applaud you for investing the time and due diligence in researching the content in the marketplace that reviews various programs that you could be investing your sweat and blood of working for the man into. 

It’s really your life, and it’s ultimately your decision. 

One of the most freeing things I have had the distinct privilege of experiencing was when the local lead generation business I had built allowed me to wake up one day and decide that my time was better spent not going to a 9 to 5 that always threatened to fire me and take away my measly $35,000 a year income. 

When I could decide how I wanted to spend my day, and that I no longer needed to hold on to this security blanket of what is now chump change for me in a year of cash flow, I could really wake up the next morning and hit the snooze button 10 times just for the satisfaction of being able to. 

No need to get up and get dressed while half asleep and crust in your eyes as you drag your lifeless carcass around the apartment and into the shower that never has cold water in the morning. 

Instead, I can go to sleep and wake up whenever I want. 

The joys of freedom really are priceless, and it all came about because I made a decision one-time to launch a business online that revolved around local lead generation instead of any other business model that had too long of a cycle to position me to “maybe” see a return on investment (ROI). 

Convinced yet? 

Take a look at this limo site from Lansing, Michigan that continues to spit of a whopping $750 monthly.

Time invested in the project: Less than 6 hours

Time the lead gen site has been paying me for: over 4 years now. 

You can do the math – nor not – and just accept that it doesn’t take much to get yourself into a position to profit massively from this business model.

Here’s proof of that limo and party bus rental site I told ya about…

When you’re ready to enjoy the fruits of this business model, just take a few more moments and think of what else you get to gain in this line of business – and very few opportunities have these…

• The opportunity to produce more income in an annual salary than lawyers and doctors (and I know some people who are making 6 figures in their monthly revenue – but that’s another conversation for another day)
• Where whenever you’d like and as often as you want.  When I’m ready to bring in more revenue, all I do is throw up another lead gen site and send leads to a business owner so they can cut me a check as my sliver for delivery
• Take your laptop wherever the internet access is good and work from wherever you wish.  Wanna get some work done really fast from a remote location that you’re enjoying an exotic vacation at?  No problem.  Feel like staying at home and making it a pajama day?  It’s your day to enjoy from home while you sip a cuppa’ joe and enjoy the home life of entrepreneurship
• Like, no competition, bro: with countless cities and various industries to elect to work with, you can more than likely find a small business you can help out
• Biggest Profit Margins: no need to pay fees or surrender a portion of your profits to someone who owns the affiliate offer or physical product you’re selling.  Also, no taxes or costs of goods sold because you’re not handling any of the products or dealing with the origination of the buyer’s funds
• Ready to quit your job?  Kill it with local lead generation, if that’s really what you want to do and you’re ready to invest the time, resources, and energy necessary to get to $10k per month FAST

It’s safe to say, at this point, you’re better off with opportunities within the local marketing space, especially when it comes to considerations with search engine optimization (SEO) and local lead generation. 

I had killed my job in under a year… think you can beat my record timing for victory and freedom? 

Local lead gen is a quick turnaround opportunity to acquire 6 figures as you work from home and use the internet as your place of business.  With the best coaching program around, you’re in good hands and the opportunity is ready for you right here. 

Please, seriously applicants only.