So you’ve realized that affiliate marketing is a very profitable business model you would like to venture into. However, you find it a challenge to choose where to learn the ropes. After you’ve filtered all the choices you have online, minus the scams and unprofitable models you are finally down to two choices: Clickbank University or Wealthy Affiliate. Now the hard part is choosing which of the two trainings would best work for you. Let’s consider what each of the two could offer so you would be in a better position to make the right choice.
Wealthy Affiliate
Wealthy Affiliate is the biggest internet marketers’ online community in the world. It consists of a lot of comprehensive instruction on methods about making money online. Many times, it has been quoted as a commencement of successful internet marketers that are making five to six figures each month.
It offers a free sign up. There is no requirement of card details, just email address, then you’re good to go. You are then able to access the 10 lesson course about setting up your personal online business. The main method it teaches is affiliate marketing.
In a nutshell, affiliate marketing is a business model where a marketer is paid for driving sales to another seller’s product. This is an ideal choice for those who still don’t have enough funds to create their own digital products or stock products of others. Anyone can start doing affiliate marketing by capitalizing initially on a computer and internet connection.
This business model is specially designed for the beginners. It walks beginners through a step-by-step process of starting up the online business. Upon signing up it provides two websites that you can freely create. Starting with just one though would be wise for amateurs in order to master the process first. Later on, you can add another site.
Wealthy affiliate also has a live support team that is ready to help you at any time of the day, 24/7. These are experts you can contact for instructions on how to create a website and get it started with minimal to zero headaches. If any errors occur on your website, the support team would be ready to help out. Also ready to help out are the affiliate marketers who earn five to six figures mentioned earlier. Questions, doubts and issues will readily be addressed by them.
This community allows beginners and amateurs rub shoulders with the high-ticket earners every day. After being able to establish the site, earning potentials would maximize to a level you might have not expected.
Moreover, Wealthy Affiliate includes training on setting up WordPress affiliate websites. Other than that, an article creation tool with a wide range of easy to insert free images is available that is compatible with any niche market.
It also allows for auto-posting of the articles and images to the WordPress site you created. Added to that is the keyword research tool called Jaaxy that is integrated into Wealthy Affiliate.
Clickbank University
While Wealthy Affiliate puts more emphasis on affiliate marketing and promoting other seller’s products, Clickbank University is more focused on trainings of creating your own high commission digital product and then earning from it.
Clickbank University teaches how to create tech-friendly goods that are easy to access and can be downloadable online such as eBooks and video based products.
Also, since the training is spearheaded by Clickbank itself, they also include essential insights into how the Clickbank marketplace can be used by having affiliates to promote your product. It teaches you how you would be able to sell through the solidly established marketplace, the top ranking provider of high ticket digital products that has been operating for a very long time.
However, the downside is that this doesn’t involve a free sign up. Though good to note is that Clickbank University is not a scam hence you would not have to worry about shedding some funds for this training since Clickbank is a reputable company. Added to that is the 30 day money back guarantee when you feel that this business model is not for you.
Clickbank University also has an impressive faculty and credible, high earning marketers to learn from, they are able to teach aggressive marketing techniques that will land you the earnings you desire.
What does the training involve? It discusses how to create a product that will sell easily, using a three step method.
Number one, you will be encouraged to find something you are good at. This doesn’t have to be related to a personal profession. The key is finding a hobby, or a passion that you are good at or highly interested in. It could be card tricks, painting, gardening, adventure trips and even cooking, whatever you want really.
Second, when you established a niche you are highly interested in, you need to identify what people need within this niche. It could be a problem and your product being the solution. After that, the third step is creating a product that would satisfy that need or become a solution to a problem. When you have crafted a product that fulfills a need in a specific niche, then you are good to go.
Not a Get-rich-quick Scheme
Neither Wealthy Affiliate nor Clickbank University brings you instant money. Whichever you choose, it would require some time and effort to earn real income from any of them. As a beginner, you could opt for Wealthy Affiliate, since it is free you would incur no monetary loss. If you decide that this is something that doesn’t work for you, you wouldn’t have to be hassled with getting a refund. You can stop anytime.
Also, Wealthy Affiliate is cheaper when you want to upgrade. They have an option to become a Premium member and get unlimited access to all the training available which includes discussions and up to 50 websites you can make. At $49 you get a web hosting, training, technical support and an integrated keyword research tool. This would be worth the money you spent.
Upsells Versus No Upsells
With Wealthy Affiliate after paying the membership fee, you would not have to pay again to access undeclared secret trainings. There are no upsells in Wealthy Affiliate. This is unlike Clickbank University, where the monthly fee is almost the same rate of the one-time Premium membership of Wealthy Affiliate. With Clickbank University, you could end up paying around $600 to access everything available that they have to offer.
With Wealthy Affiliate, you wouldn’t have to be frustrated with costs that were not mentioned earlier on when you started the training. Many would prefer knowing up front how this would cost them in its entirety rather than spending little chunks every now and then.
Wealthy Affiliate caters to those who have no idea how to make money online at all; hence this is very ideal for the beginners. However, it also provides useful insight for those who know the ropes.
One could just dive into Clickbank when already experienced with internet marketing, but for the amateurs, Wealthy Affiliate would work best, especially when you don’t have the funds to invest into something large. Clickbank University is great for people who want to scale up their business and make another stream of revenue.
Conclusion
Choose Wealthy Affiliate to get a free start with the online business endeavor. Choose Clickbank University if you want to, and you are ready to create your own high-ticket digital products.
However, in reality though, you don’t have to choose one over the other. Wealthy Affiliate and Clickbank University complement each other very well.
After being able to create your own website with Wealthy Affiliate, you can flood it with free traffic from search engines. When you have achieved that, you can then start selling your own products using that website to maximize the earning potential.
You could also start with Wealthy Affiliate to identify what niche and product sells most, then when you have established that part, you can start creating your own product to sell instead of those of other people, by doing that, you put yourself in a win-win situation.
The key point here is being able to distinguish what interests you most, what business model would work for you. When you are highly interested in what you do, you will be able to undergo the hard work needed to make the products work. You wouldn’t give up easily when things don’t go as smoothly as you imagined. Because these are not get-rich-quick schemes, you don’t only invest monetarily; you also invest time, effort and energy. However, when everything is set-up, then you could start enjoying your return of investments.
While Wealthy Affiliate has many advantages for the beginners, Clickbank University still remain a choice for those who would opt for this business model.
Great review of Clickbank University vs Wealthy Affiliate. I am familiar with Wealthy Affiliate but haven’t tried Clickbank university (yet). I have had some sort of knowledge about Clickbank university and reading your article made my thoughts even stronger. From my view, both works, are not get-rich-overnight alike nonsense and wealthy affiliate sounds to be better for people without long experience or skills in terms of creating content or making money online.
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Hi Chris. Thank you for your article on Clickbank V Wealthy Affiliate. I understand that Wealthy affiliate is a cheaper version and teaches you all the fundamentals of affiliate marketing. But you state you could use both. I get a bit confused about clickbank. Is it correct that if I wanted to join clickbank I would have to pay extra to attend their various courses . It all sounds a bit expensive to me. It sounds like Wealthy Affiliate gives you everything you need without the expensive upgrades that are offered by clickbank. At this stage I couldn’t possibly afford to take on Clickbank but I could afford Wealthy Affiliate. I think it’s a no brainer on which one would be the better one to join. Thanks again. Jim
Hi Jim,
Yes, WA is not only better, but the sign up is straightforward and unlike in Clickbank, there are no upsells in WA. So, you’re right, it’s a no brainer.
Clickbank would be recommended for the people who have their own product and want to learn how to sell it with the help of affiliates. Otherwise WA is better.
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Thanks for sharing the difference between two. Clickbank itself does not do business with you if you are from South Africa. So luckily I found WA as well. It is a great way to start your online business. I do think that your suggestion to look into both of them.
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