Deranged Penguin

Exciting news from the folks at Wealthy Affiliate University – they’re revamping the entire site, adding new functionality, and improving existing tools to make the most of the incredible community of affiliate marketing gurus that call WA home. I’ve already gushed about the depth and quality of content at Wealthy Affiliate. The level of support available for everyone – from novice to veteran – is reason enough to give them a try. But starting on September 15th at noon, there’s another reason to give them a shot: They’re offering a $1 trial of the entire site. This gives them a chance to show off the new digs, and it gives you an unprecedented chance to try out the site for a fraction of the normal subscription rate.

Let’s say you’re the type of person who looks at “10 for $10″ sales at the grocery store and immediately tracks down every item in the store that qualifies for the promotion. You’re going to get good value! Everything’s a dollar! Well, I’ve been thinking a lot about the $1 trial promotion at WA and decided to come up with the ten reasons to pay a dollar on September 15th at noon EDT:

1. Within the trial period, you can learn more in the forums than you have in the past year.
2. Within the trial period, you can earn more in the forums than you have in the past year. If you dive headfirst into the forums and give quality advice to all the other brand new trial users, you will be establishing trust, engaging potential partners, and probably getting great mentorship yourself.
3. If you can convince a friend to join, you’ll cover your dollar instantly (convince two friends to join and you’ll pay for a standard subscription for a month).
4. The “action plan” and other introductory materials are great value in and of themselves. If you are new to this type of marketing, you will get off to a great start by actually doing what must be done.
5. But, if you’re an old hand at this, or already have a product or products in mind, you can dive right to the good stuff. There’s a ton of intermediate and advanced curriculum that’s available for free in your Learning Center.
6. You can rock the keyword tool for all it’s worth during the trial period.
7. You can rock the clickbank trend tracker for all it’s worth during the trial period.
8. You can access one niche-marketing deep-dive in nicheQ during the trial period. This is a stand-alone product that provides incredible market research on a particular product or service group.
9. You can download all of the website templates for marketing site, review article sites, and more. Even if all you use are some of the creative assets for another project, that’s worth a dollar right there.
10. You can tell me I’m an idiot. If you don’t think you got your dollar’s worth, send me an email or post a comment here telling me what you didn’t like and why. It’s valuable information for me and others who are interested in best practices.

Obviously, it’s my hope that you will hit the site on the 15th using my affiliate link, but I’m not your mother. If you feel like you get good value out of this blog, please use the link above. (Note that I don’t get a commission on the dollar – if you don’t sign up for a real membership at the end of the trial, nothing happens).

I’ll remind you all when Tuesday rolls around (heck, I’ll probably remind you a couple of times before that as well), so in the meantime, roll those pennies!