Wealthy Affiliate’s Premium And Starter Memberships Compared

Updated: Feb 13, 2019

If you are still on the fence about which Wealthy Affiliate membership to go with, then I have all the FAQs you need to know about Premium & Starter memberships.

I’ve been with Wealthy Affiliate since 2016 and there’s no other way I would go about doing affiliate marketing.

Their training has proven to work as I will show you in this post below with my own proof as well as others, so you don’t have to worry about that.

What you want to know here is whether to go for Starter first or jump right into the Premium membership and I can give you my thoughts on both.

Plus I will give you tips so that you are better equipped to make it in this affiliate marketing business so let’s check out these sections:

• Wealthy Affiliate’s Awesome Starter Membership
  1. Is The Starter Membership A Free Trial?
  2. Who Is The Starter Membership For?
  3. What’s Included In The Starter Membership?
  4. Could I Make Money With The Starter Membership?
  5. How Do I Close My Account If I Don’t Want to Upgrade To Premium?
  6. Could I Get Coached As A Starter Member?
  7. What’s The Purpose Of The Starter Account If I Can’t Make Money With It?
  8. Is It Really FREE For Everyone?
• You Cannot Succeed Without The Premium Membership (Period)
  1. How Much Does The Premium Membership Cost?
  2. Who Is The Premium Membership For?
  3. Who’s Eligible For The Premium Membership?
  4. What’s Included In Premium?
  5. When Do I Upgrade To Premium?
  6. When Do I Upgrade To Yearly Premium?
  7. Does Wealthy Affiliate Have Sales On Their Premium Membership?
  8. What If I Need To Take A Pause Or Break In My Premium Membership?
  9. Are There Any Refunds?
  10. How Long Does It Take To Make Money Once Premium?
• Side By Side Comparison of Starter Vs. Premium
• Success Is All Over The Wealthy Affiliate Platform
• Get Coached By A Wealthy Affiliate Super Affiliate Ambassador

 

 

If You Want To Get Coached By A Super Affiliate:

 

 

WEALTHY AFFILIATE’S AWESOME STARTER MEMBERSHIP

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Wealthy Affiliate sure has an awesome FREE membership called Starter!  There’s no better way to show what you’ve got than offering a free membership for all to try first.

This is how confident Wealthy Affiliate is about their affiliate marketing training platform, and they should be, because they are simply in a league of their own.

Let me go over the FAQs of the Starter Membership:

 

1. Is The Starter Membership A Free Trial?

The Starter membership is not a free trial as it’s a free membership for life if you don’t ever want to upgrade.

The cost is absolutely $0 for as long as you want.

The only thing trial about it are the Premium features you get to test out in your first week, then you’ll still everything else that a Starter membership is eligible for.

 

2. Who Is The Starter Membership For?

It’s for anyone who wants to get started with affiliate marketing and building their own business.  This is for those who want to make sure it’s what they are looking for first before they put down money.

 

3. What’s Included In The Starter Membership?

• First 10 lessons in their main course for any niche
• First 10 lessons in their affiliate program course if you want to promote Wealthy Affiliate
• 2 out of 12 Classrooms to learn from
• 2 free websites
• Web hosting for your free websites
• SiteBuilder
• Keyword research tool – limited searches
• SiteContent with templates to use
• Live Chat for instant support – limited use

 

4. Could I Make Money With The Starter Membership?

You can make money with your free websites if you know what you’re doing already.

If you’re brand new to affiliate marketing, then I would have to say no from my experience of what I have learned and how you will build this business.

Even if you have tried affiliate marketing before without proper training, then I would still have to say you probably won’t make money without the training at Wealthy Affiliate.

This is because there is so much to learn, it’s not just create a blog and start writing some stuff.

There are many aspects to learn about SEO, how to write, how to speak to your audience and how to do all the little things that will eventually get your website to start attracting its own free organic traffic.

Unless you know all this stuff already, then you wouldn’t even be looking at Wealthy Affiliate.

 

5. How Do I Close My Account If I Don’t Want to Upgrade To Premium?

You really don’t have to “close” your account because you didn’t buy anything so there’s nothing to cancel or close.

You simply just logout and never go back again.

 

6. Could I Get Coached As A Starter Member?

It depends on who you sign up with.

If you sign up with me, of course I will answer all your questions and help you every step of the way.

But some affiliates just do just that, get sales.

I actually enjoy helping others start their new online businesses because I’ve been there and I know how scary it could be, especially those who’s been scammed online before so I help as much as I can to ease people’s mind.

Here is some proof of my willingness to help: Some product owner has been bribing me thousands of dollars to take down one of my honest reviews about them.

Their scheme is really awful and literally will steal thousands of dollars from people.  I have not taken their money and will never take such money so I can leave my review up and help more people from getting scammed.  Here are the details of this bribe.

Rest assure you will be helped every step of your journey if you stick with me, “littlemama” (my userID on Wealthy Affiliate).

 

7. What’s The Purpose Of The Starter Account If I Can’t Make Money With It?

The Starter membership was never meant for you to make money with because you’re a beginner so how are you going to make money with your free websites if you don’t know what you’re doing?

The purpose of the Starter membership is so you can test out the platform, especially testing out the Premium features like Live Chat and Live Weekly Webinars.

You’re able to test things out, check out I’m real on the platform, and actually get started with your very own website, all without pulling out your wallet.

I think that’s pretty cool.

 

8. Is It Really FREE For Everyone?

Unfortunately, no, the Starter membership is not everyone.

Starter membership is not available in 10 countries and this is because these are countries that have more cases of fraud and scams happening and to protect the community in Wealthy Affiliate, they are not eligible to have the free Starter membership.

The countries that are not eligible for the Starter Membership are:

1. Bangladesh
2. Egypt
3. Ghana
4. India
5. Kenya
6. Morocco
7. Nigeria
8. Pakistan
9. Philippines
10. Vietnam

However, they are eligible for the Premium membership at $49/month, $234/6-months, or $359/year, so if you’re in one of those countries, please sign up here now.

 

 

YOU CANNOT SUCCEED WITHOUT THE PREMIUM MEMBERSHIP (PERIOD)

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I’m making that bold statement because it’s true.

I see people come and go all the time, this is because they don’t use their Premium membership to its fullest potential.

It’s the reason my website is where it’s at and why I’m earning a 4 digit online income without a boss from the comfort of my own home.

Let me now go through the FAQs of the Premium Membership:

 

1. How Much Does The Premium Membership Cost?

It costs just $49/month, $234/6-month, or $359/year.

If you are eligible to sign up for free Starter account first, I can offer you a discount for your first month that is over 61% off.

Sorry, people who are not eligible for the free account will not get the discount for their first month unfortunately.

 

2. Who Is The Premium Membership For?

Premium membership is for anyone who’s serious about learning how to build this business and ready to get really learning the core of what will make your website get traffic (visitors) and making money.

It’s also for people who are willing to work hard for their successes and diligent enough to work hard even when they are not earning money yet.

This is for those who are willing to go the long distance to make it to the other side of that SEO train when Google will just give you tons of ranking love.

 

3. Who’s Eligible For The Premium Membership?

Everyone is eligible for the Premium membership. Yay!

 

4. What’s Included In Premium?

Everything! Lol

• All 50 lessons in their main course for any niche
• All 70 lessons in their affiliate program course if you want to promote Wealthy Affiliate
• 12 out of 12 Classrooms to learn from
• 25 free and 25 custom domain websites = 50 sites!
• Super fast and secured web hosting for your websites, fastest in the industry
• SiteBuilder
• Keyword research tool – unlimited searches
• SiteContent with more templates to use
• Live Chat for instant support – unlimited use
• Private Message for 1-on-1 Coaching
• Weekly Live Webinars
• SiteComment – get comments and engagement on your website
• SiteFeedback – get feedback on how your work is thus far
• SiteSpeed – makes your websites super fast to load, a ranking factor
• SiteProtect – amazing spam protection
• SSL Certificates
• Thousands of free tutorials to learn from created by other members
• Wealthy Affiliate profile blog
• Make money on Wealthy Affiliate by creating your own training
• Help from the community that I depended on so much for my journey
• Access to founders Kyle & Carson! (Who I’ve met in January, 2019 because I achieved Super Affiliate Status!)

 

5. When Do I Upgrade To Premium?

You can upgrade to Premium anytime, the earlier that you do, the earlier you’ll start your journey to making money online!

 

6. When Do I Change To 6-Month or Yearly Premium?

You can change to 6-month or Yearly Premium anytime as well because your 6-month or yearly rate will always be prorated if you still have some days left in your current Premium monthly plan so you’re never going to over pay at any time.

 

7. Does Wealthy Affiliate Have Sales On Their Premium Membership?

They only have one sale a year during Black Friday weekend and it’s for their Yearly Premium membership which drops down to $299.

It’s not a guarantee they will have this sales every year on Black Friday but so far, it’s been that way the last few years and that’s the rate I’m on.

Once you lock in to this low $299 rate, you can renew every year at this rate!

 

8. What If I Need To Take A Pause Or Break In My Premium Membership?

That is no problem at all, you just have to remember your login info which is your email and password you signed up with.

Once you have that info, you can cancel your Wealthy Affiliate subscription under your Account Settings in your profile menu.

When you’re ready to come back, you just resubscribe at that point.

If you don’t want to resubscribe, then you have 30 days after you cancel your subscription to move your website out of Wealthy Affiliate’s hosting to your own hosting like I have at HostGator, use my coupon code “WORKANYWHERENOW” for 60% off.

 

9. Are There Any Refunds?

No, there are no refunds because all the information on the platform is digital and once you get on, everything is opened and available to you.

 

10. How Long Does It Take To Make Money Once Premium?

I can ask you right back, how long does it take for you to make money with any business you build?

The honest answer is that I have no idea how long it will take YOU to make money once you go Premium.

I have no idea if you’re going to work or not once you go Premium, I have no idea how well you will absorb the training.

There are basically too many variables to tell you how long it will take to make money online with Wealthy Affiliate.

What I can tell you is what typically happens if you are diligent in your training, do all the training as organized, do all the tasks in the training, and then continue building your online business after you’re done with the training.

If you do all that, you could expect to start making your first dollar in the 3 – 6 month period.  I made my first dollar with my website just in my second month but that’s because I hustled on Twitter in the beginning.

This business is not like any other.  This business will really take off once your website catches the SEO love from Google.

When my site did that, it was just after a year old, and then I started making a 4 digit online income at a year and half of sheer hard work.

This graph will show you how this business really works if you put in CONSISTENT work effort in the beginning before you start making good money:

 

 

Now that I’ve done it, I’m able to maintain such an income with less work but still publishing at about 5 posts a week.

When you’ll make money depends on your niche (mine is VERY competitive), your work ethics, your determination, your willingness to learn, your consistency and persistency.

Many variables affect when you start earning, but the training is there and you’ll have to work the training to have the training work for you.

Success is entirely up to you, no one else’s and nothing else is responsible for that but you.

Let’s take a look at success stories next.

 

 

SIDE BY SIDE COMPARISON OF STARTER VS PREMIUM

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Here is a summary of the features for both Starter and Premium memberships so you can see the difference in a side by side comparison:

 

 

SUCCESS IS ALL OVER THE WEALTHY AFFILIATE PLATFORM

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Here is my 2 year results (Sep/16 – Aug/18, the above chart was through Dec/18) using Wealthy Affiliate’s training and should answer your question about whether the training works:

 

The red line represents my work effort and the blue line is the money I made each month. The period of this chart covers September, 2016 (when I joined Wealthy Affiliate) to August 2018.

You see how slowly my online business grew in the first year even though my work effort was massive?

This is the essence of who a blog works and why most will quit during their first 12 months.

Most people will quit just before they hit that SEO love from Google and miss out on what could have been.

Look at the nice exponential growth of my monthly income in the last half of my 2nd year, I think that’s pretty amazing.

And look at my work effort, I was slowing down towards the end of my second year as well but my income kept growing!

That’s the beauty of this business and how it works.  See my income proof on my “littlemama” profile!

 

Let’s look at some others:

 

 

Zarina’s website was just making $500 a MONTH in September, 2018 and a week ago, her October is already making $500 in 2 DAYS.

Her site is now catching on that SEO love and she will break 4 digits in 12 months, not 19 months like I did because her niche is less competitive.

Check out her story here!

 

At the beginning of each month, there are tons of success stories being posted and it’s always so fun to see: