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“Is Affilorama Good for Bloggers to Learn Affiliate Marketing?” Let’s do a Review.
It has a ton of free lessons, which give some insight into affiliate marketing. After the free stuff you then have a choice of whether to buy individual modules, or buy them as a “bundle.” As for whether it is any or not good for bloggers wanting to get into affiliate marketing and make money, depends on how quickly you can pick-up good content/copywriting skills. It would also help to have some cash for promotions. Mark Ling the CEO of affilorama is, and has been for a long time heavily involved with Clickbank,
Affilorama even promotes itself on Amazon with this e-book,
It has been around for nearly as long as Wealthy Affiliate and Solo Build It, although they say you should not mention the latter two in the same sentence.
I think its time to step back a little from those two and take an in-depth look at one of the “minnows” of Affiliate Marketing.
In this post I will be covering:-
- Is it Affilorama a Scam?
- Who is Affilorama
- Who is Affilorama for.
- The type of training Affilorama offers
- To what extent is Affilorama useful for bloggers.
Is Affilorama a Scam
Short answer No.
Although funnily enough, the only black mark I have seen against Affilorama, came from an experienced blogger in the gambling niche.
That was 4 years ago!
This how Affilorama describes itself.
There are a number of other reviews, which are not exactly flattering to say the least, but rather than throw rocks, just for the sake of pushing you towards something else.
I will focus on what they offer as a stand alone entity.
The owners Mark Ling and Simon Slade have a well-known, 20+ years reputation in the internet marketing world for honesty.
Who is Affilorama
| Founder(s) and Year | 2006, by Mark Ling and Co-founder and CEO Simon Slade |
| Owner | Affilorama is division of Doubledot Media Ltd, |
| Country of Origin / Head Office | Head office is in Christchurch, New Zealand. |
| Members | 1,085,440. I am assuming not all are paid up members. |
| Awards | Numerous business awards, including New Zealand government entities, business rating companies and Tech Companies.. |
Awards.
- Deloitte Fast 50 – 44th fastest growing company in NZ: The Deloitte/Unlimited Fast 50 index celebrates the innovation, growth, and success of growing businesses in New Zealand. Doubledot Media was ranked the 44th fastest growing company in New Zealand. This was our second year in the index.
- Air New Zealand Cargo Canterbury Export Awards – Small to Medium Exporter of the Year Finalist : The Air New Zealand Cargo Canterbury Export Awards celebrate and recognize the outstanding achievements of exporters in Canterbury.
- Champion Canterbury Awards – Global Operator Finalist: The Champion Canterbury Awards, celebrate business excellence, passion and success recognizing the contribution both small, medium and large enterprises make to the vitality of the Canterbury region. We were a finalist in the Global Operator category.
- Vero Business Awards – Finalist: The Vero Excellence in Business Support Awards recognise excellence in the field of business support. The Awards honour those entities and individuals who make real contributions in providing quality products and services, making life easier for business owners. We were a finalist in the one to many category.
- AmCham Export Awards – Exporter of the Year Finalist: The AmCham-UPS Awards celebrate success and innovation in the import, export and investment sectors between New Zealand and its second largest trading partners the US.
- Deloitte Fast 50 – 23rd fastest growing company in NZ: The Deloitte/Unlimited Fast 50 index celebrates the innovation, growth, and success of growing businesses in New Zealand. Affilorama was ranked the 23rd fastest growing company in New Zealand.
- Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific – Winner: The Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific program recognizes technology companies that have achieved the fastest rates of annual revenue growth in Asia Pacific during the past three years.
Is Affilorama Worldwide?
Affilorama has a worldwide team of affiliate consultants, writers, designers, video artists and software geeks, who take care of world wide members questions and site problems, add courses and make videos.
Other business’s Mark Ling and Simon Slade are involved with, include Salehoo.
This goes back to their day’s selling on E-Bay.
After being ripped off a few times by unscrupulous suppliers, not providing products he had sold on E-Bay using the dropship model. He decided to build a verified suppliers directory.
These day’s Salehoo is now part of Shopify’s product sourcing tools. Although Salehoo still has a verified supplier directory and “Lab” report on the best selling items on E-Bay and Amazon.
A heads up. I am a former Salehoo client.
Pros and Cons of Affilorama
| Pros | Cons |
|---|---|
| Free to get started, Over 100 Free Lessons | The number of lessons can seem overwhelming |
| 60 day Money back Guarantee for the Premium courses. | Costs can accumulate if you don’t bundle the Premium courses |
| A Virtual “Lesson Book” to keep you on Track | Doesn’t have the level of interaction between members other sites have, where experienced members help newer members with their problems. |
| Advanced Techniques are explained in an easy to understand way | The free lessons are only to give a grounding. They are still relevant for the most part. |
Affilorama has undergone some updates but no where near the same extent as other platforms. Wealthy Affiliate for example.
All up, Affilorama has a legitimate place in the internet marketing space.
Mark ling and Simon Slade had used these methods for earning online, before they set up Affilorama, so it is a proven methodology.
Any paid course comes with a 60 day money back guarantee, so there is no risk to you.
So far as I can see, there have been no issues with people unable to get a refund of their monies. I can tell you it would be a very rare event if it did happen.
Unlike some of the MLM’s I have reviewed on this blog.
Who is Affilorama for
Obviously it is for those who don’t want to take the dropshipping route to earning online, or writing for other businesses.
A word of warning: The reality is will take time and consistent effort to become successful.
For a new blogger joining Affilorama, you have at the minimum these 4 benefits.
- Free and unlimited access to over 100 video tutorials with PDF lesson notes.
- Build your own website with their site building lessons
- Promote it using SEO, and monetize it with affiliate marketing and PPC
- Get exclusive interviews with internet gurus as they share their success stories on how they have earned millions of dollars online.
The Type of Training Affilorama Offers
As I mentioned above Mark Ling likes to promote Clickbank offers. So expect to learn copywriting techniques.
They give examples on their FaceBook page occasionally.
Affilorama like a couple of other affiliate programs has website building tutorials on building websites with WordPress.
They have created their own theme (Affilo themes), and focus on the four most important ingredients for any blogger wanting to make money with a website.
- Having a optimized website
- Content
- Traffic
- Affiliate Products.
As a new blogger you will be taken through the whole process step by step, from setting up hosting to connecting your site to Google Analytics.
Critics say the Affilorama free course is outdated.
I would agree, most experienced affiliates will find it “old news,”
Maybe they are thinking,“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.“
Pathway to Passive Resources
This is probably the least expensive, of all the quick start guides I have seen on affiliate marketing.
It covers all the main points to get you set up for earning some income.
A complete step-by-step blueprint for building passive profit content websites the right way.
- Build search engine optimized websites
- Find profitable affiliate products to sell
- Generate monetizable content ideas
- Build a solid funnel that moves people towards a sale
- Create a website with content that people want to share
- See the complete details by clicking the banner below.
This is not only for beginner affiliates, but also experienced affiliates who want an easy to understand system to improve existing sales, boost search engine rankings, and find new profitable keywords to target.
To What Extent is Affilorama Useful for Bloggers
Probably the amount of free lessons and videos available, so you know the ins and outs of affiliate marketing, making a website along with some basic SEO and motivation.
We all need motivation don’t we ?
The best part is the lessons are all in the one place. Shopping around on Google or U-Tube looking for Free information is only going to provide mountains of conflicting information, and most probably you will not be able to put it into a coherent structure.
In addition to the lessons created by Mark Ling, users can access a range of interviews and videos, from other professionals within the industry.
Passive Income for Bloggers
The Passive Income for bloggers, could be like finding that pot of gold at the bottom of the rainbow, for those who follow through on it.
At the very least, it will save you months of figuring out how to…
- Build search engine optimized websites
- Find profitable affiliate products to sell
- Generate monetizable content ideas
- Build a solid funnel that moves people towards a sale
- Create a website with content that people want to share
Plus a lot more.
The best part is, it is not going to break the bank. You will still be able to put food on the table after purchasing it.
It is easy to be skeptical of reviews, and Affilorama has been around long enough to know that if you fake it, you will be caught out.
Conclusion
If you are thinking of starting a blog, then Affilorama is as good a place as any to begin the journey to becoming a successful blogger, and creating a profitable blog.
If you run into problems you don’t have the active community support available on other platforms.
Wealthy Affiliate has probably the best.
Although the free lessons may not be of much use to an experienced affiliate (in my humble opinion), although refreshers often reveal more information that you skipped over in the past.
A beginner will need to know them. As these are the secrets to having a profitable blog.
At least they are in one place, where a beginner affiliate or blogger can go through them in a coherent structured fashion.
Joining is easy and Free. The 100+ Free lessons and a virtual “lesson book” to keep track of the lessons you have covered, keeping you on track. You can go premium my paying nearly $1,000, or take the premium modules in small steps from around $19.00
If you are offering over 100 free lessons, and then a 60 day money back guarantee on the premium course then you need to have a lot of confidence in your product.
I don’t know anyone else who is doing that.
P.S.
There is also Affilotools, which can be added when you sign up for the premium package.
Affilotools is months trial for $1.00.
Click the banner below and get started for Free.
Thanks for reading.
I have more reviews on Affilorama coming up.
Michael.
I am familiar with Mark Ling but never looked into this specific product, Affilorama. I appreciate the information on this. Based on your information this does seem like an okay program to learn affiliate marketing. Pathway to Passive Resources seems to be a helpful guide and as you say it is priced modestly based on its content. I also agree with focusing on one model until it is working well. Thanks for sharing this information on Affilorama.
We certainly get around Jenni.
I am from Australia as well, but am living in Colombia at the moment. There are too many roadblocks for me to go back, no flights from Sth. America to Australia for over 12 months now.
Affilorama have a good product that is helpful for “newbie” affiliate marketers and others who want to make money online. They have other things as well, but the fact that it has a proper business structure should give people the confidence they need to try their offerings.
All the best in Florida
Michael, your article on Affilorama is very comprehensive and full of good information. I was particularly interested that is is a NZ company as I am from Australia, though live in Florida now. When I lived in the Southern Hemisphere, though, I was certainly unaware of affiliate marketing and what the online world offered. After reading your review, I would have to agree that Aftfilorama would definitely be of great benefit to beginning bloggers. Thank you for this honest and interesting review.
Thanks Steve,
I have been through there free stuff and the paid stuff too. And yes, it is easy to understand.
Compared to Wealthy Affiliate?
I have seen so many people sign up to wealthy affiliate, and not have a clue how to set up a WordPress blog.
And other basic things too.
Why would you pay money to learn how to do those, when you can learn for free on other sites?
Wealthy Affiliate only has a 7 day free trial. Affilorama has 120 free lessons. I think from that perspective,
you might gain a better insight into what goes on with affiliate marketing in 120 lessons with no time limit. Compared to a 7 day free trial. Many people might only have a couple of spare hours in a day to go over the program.
Probably the Affilorama lessons could be a little more in depth (it’s an opinion), but look at Wealthy Affiliate, and a newbie could easily be overwhelmed with all the different topics staring at them.
Thanks for a very well written and unbiased review. They actually sound OK even though I have never heard of them before. Have you joined them and done any of the training? And if you have, is it easy to understand? You mentioned Wealthy Affiliate, in your opinion who provides the better resources and training? I must admit the lack of social interaction can focus you more on the work, so I don’t see it as necessarily a bad thing.
Thanks
Stephen