Wealthy Affiliate Vs The Home Business Academy

Wealthy Affiliate Vs The Home Business Academy. This review will take an in depth look at both platforms and compare the good and the bad. If you are here now, congrats for doing the research to help you decide which is better before you make a purchase.

Both platform teach how to create your own business. I will try to break down all the features and see the true advantage of using either one. In doing that I will help my readers decide which course suits them best.

My goal is to place the features of each side by side and make it easier to understand how each platform works. That will allow a better opinion of what both platforms offer.

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An Overview Of Wealthy Affiliate Vs The Home Business Academy

Wealthy Affiliate:

Wealthy Affiliate (WA) is an Affiliate marketing program for teaching you to create your own business by marketing affiliate products. You create your own business website and use a blog to obtain organic traffic. Then, directing that traffic to any affiliate product you may choose to market on your website.

You have 3 directions to choose when marketing with the WA training program. You can market a product of your own, or create a niche of your own and market related products, or become an affiliate of WA and market The WA Training Program. What you choose to do is up to you.

If you choose to market WA, everyone you recruit to join WA, is assigned to you forever as your member. You have the responsibility to mentor them with one on one coaching, and provide any help they may need. But, there are no points or level increases for adding members, because WA is not a Multi-level marketing (MLM) Company. You do earn recurring monthly commissions from your members, but you do not earn anything from their individual sales.

WA also has courses on email marketing and email list building, but they are recommended later when you have a good traffic source to your website. They recommend concentrating on ranking your site first.

Home Business Academy:

The Home Business Academy (HBA) also teaches marketing using an Affiliate marketing program type of business. The difference between WA and HBA, is mainly that HBA training is focused more on Affiliate marketing of HBA. Their method is referred to as creating a team and building a business selling HBA. They also promote email marketing and creating an email list as a priority from the beginning.

HBA also suggests that the training they teach you, can be applied to any other product in Affiliate marketing.

HBA requires several products be purchased to create sales funnels, and use ads (both paid and organic) for marketing yourself as a brand. They have additional training you can purchase for linking your sales funnel to your autoresponder for building your email list as well. It is an intense course to get set up

Everyone you recruit as an Affiliate of the Home Business Academy is on your team. However, no bonus points or level increase is applied to your team members. It is not a MLM company. You do earn the monthly recurring commissions from people you recruit to join as your team members. But, like WA you do not earn anything from their individual sales.

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Similarities Of Wealthy Affiliate Vs The Home Business Academy

Both Wealthy Affiliate (WA) and The Home Business Academy (HBA) are teaching Affiliate marketing. And as I said, HBA is focused primarily on promoting HBA. With HBA training, you are taught to brand yourself as your business. In fact, they recommend that you to buy a domain in your own name.

This is a good idea, but building an email list is not easy, so this can be overwhelming for beginners. HBA sells you an additional product for doing this. That makes it easier, but again increases the costs for entrepreneurs who are strapped for cash.

WA offers separate training in two different areas. A Certified Training Course in Marketing Products, and a “Bootcamp” WA Affiliate Marketing Course for those interested in marketing the WA Training product.

WA teaches two different approaches for those promoting WA, and those who choose to brand themselves as Affiliate Marketers, or brand a website in the Make Money Niche.

Building a Brand

Whether you decide to brand yourself or build a brand around your niche is entirely up to you , and with WA you learn how to do both methods. If you decide to market WA as an affiliate, they lean toward branding yourself, much like HBA. But, they don’t promote buying the website in your own name, but that is an option.

Again, the choice of direction is up to you. Videos are provided to show you how to set up an autoresponder and start your own email list. But, the WA focus is on getting your website built and and using your blog to rank well in Google with good SEO for getting solid organic traffic to your website.

Then, when your website is established with good quality content, you start to build an email list. Building an email list is not easy, so WA concentrates your efforts on establishing a good ranking quality website first. It also incurs additional costs by requiring the autoresponder and set up training.

Let’s look at both programs in a side by side comparison.

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Differences Of Wealthy Affiliate Vs The Home Business Academy

The most obvious difference between WA and HBA, is the cost. HBA is double the cost of WA. Both platforms have a good proven system for creating a successful business. But, for the person creating a new business, the WA model is more cost effective.

HBA Freedom Launchpad ™

HBA is using additional products like their Freedom Launchpad™, that add additional cost to the expenses each month. This product give you the step by step training that you need to connect the HBA Funnel product to your landing page and your email autoresponder.

The Ultimate Email & Traffic Swipe File™

HBA also offers an email marketing product as and extra fee to help you with the email list you are being taught to create. It offers training to help get you started with your email list quickly.

The HBA Funnel Builder™

The HBA Funnel Builder is another extra product you will need that gives you the ability to create sales pages and marketing funnels to use in your business. HBA uses this product in their training, so you will need to purchase it to follow along in the training. This is a monthly extra fee you will also have to pay each month in addition to your premium HBA monthly fee.

One thing I would like to mention, is the fact that with WA you do not need a funnel builder because you learn to create you own landing pages without needing to pay extra for a funnel tool.

Wealthy Affiliate Pros And Cons

The Home Business Academy Pros And Cons

Wealthy Affiliate And The Home Business Academy Are Legit

After spending about 72 hours researching and comparing these products, I found them both to be legit products. Anyone who buys either product will be able to create their own business. The HBA Product costs quite a bit more, but is not a scam.

I personally like the Wealthy Affiliate product more because of the lower cost, and it delivers more bang for the buck than The Home Business Academy. Both products are good products and it comes down to how you want to make money, and what you want your business to become.

I like the idea of a high ranking website in google with a lot of quality content, verses a landing page with a sales funnel. When you build a solid foundation under your business, it will last longer and rank better. Why not build a business with a solid foundation?

Thanks for taking the time to read my review. If you have any questions or comments, please leave them below and I will get back to you as fast as I can. I answer all my readers!

Chas