Looking For A Better Way To Learn Affiliate Marketing?

There are many ways to learn affiliate marketing that don't cost you forty dollars a month on a rebill. Having basic information all in one place is a great idea, but you don't have to pay for it. Later on, I'll list the best, most effective and inexpensive places to learn affiliate marketing, but let's begin with what happened with me.

I joined Wealthy Affiliate to further my knowledge base with regard to affiliate marketing. I've had web based businesses in the past and had been itching to try my hand at this. A Google search brought me to the Wealthy Affiliate University homepage.

The video is great advertising, appealing to many of the wants and frustrations that marketers typically experience. We could learn a lot from Kyle and Carson's (the founders of WA) marketing of their own site. Promises abound ranging from a great forum and one on one help from the owners.

These promises are not fully met in the case of forums, as they're not much to write home about. With regard to help, this is false advertising, at least in my own experience. Repeated requests for help were met with half hearted (and half something-else) answers that didn't address all of my questions and didn't answer any one of them fully. Maybe they're busy, yadda, yadda, yadda, but if it ain't available, don't advertise it.

Also, 40 bucks a month is outright silly and the cost is supposed to go up real soon. Sure, they include web hosting and all that, but I can get unlimited hosting for unlimited domains for a fraction of that. Also, this is a rebill, which means they charge you automatically each month. Instructions are not easily found for cancellation of the service, which was a major reason for me spending more than a month on the site.

Here's the goods

Here's what my experience has shown me to be the most economical way of learning affiliate marketing- and it will cost you a total of jack.

1. Begin with Travis Sago's Bum Marketing lessons (which are free)

2. Sign up for the Abestweb forums, where you will get all the help you could ask for a plenty of free resources and tutorials to get you started. Membership is free and you'll find that the forums are full of knowledgeable and helpful people that will welcome you into the fold with open arms.

Take that WA money and save it for some other things you'll want to have once you get the hang of the basics.