Name: Affilorama
Website url: www.affilorama.com
Price: $1 thirty day trial, $67 monthly, $497 for three years + upsells
Owner: Mark Ling
Overall Rank: 7.5 out of 10

Overview

Affilorama is one of the rare true online business opporunities that actually can earn you some money. Additionally, they have been around for a long time, having started in early 2005. This says a lot about the company. Thier training creates a solid foundation and most of their principles have a concrete basis and not built to simply line the pockets of your “upline” as do so many scams or schemes out there.  While not as robust as Wealthy Affiliate (see my Wealthy Affiliate Review here), Affilorama still has a lot to offer.

Affilorama is an online business community solely built to teach the newbie (or advanced online marketer) all about affiliate marketing and how it works. They will teach you from the ground up. I joined them a couple of years ago and was quite impressed with their foundational training. I wasn’t so impressed with their upsells though.

Unlike most of the make money from home opportunities out there, Affilorama actually updates their training materials and changes strategies depending on the current online market. In this Affilorama review, I’m going to cover all that you’ll need to know to about why Affilorama is one of the top affiliate programs online and help you determine if this business opportunity is for you.

Pros Vs. Cons

Pros

• Free Membership available and you can check it out before investing a small fortune like many scams out there
• Solid and intuitive training courses
• Access to one of the best internet marketing communities available online anywhere

Cons

• There are quite a few upsells that can confuse the newbie
• The basic membership is limited and doesn’t give you all the tools needed to succeed online
• There is some considerable pressure to upgrade
• The general support is from free members or a ticket to their support team which isn’t very quick
• Outdated training material still exists within the system and can actually do more harm than good

Who is Affilorama For?

Since Affilorama offers many different levels to select from, they also offer beginner, intermediate and advanced training. So, you can actually get in dependging your experience. Well experience and how large your online marketing budget might be.

Affilorama Reviews: Training and Tools

Upon initially joining for free, you’ll get to experience the Affilorama training videos and tools. Again, the training is indeed intuitive and easy to follow. It is a solid step-by-step training format that will teach you the basics of affiliate or online marketing. Additionally, there are a good many interviews with successful five or six-figure earners revealing some great tips and strategies.

The Affilorama Blueprint is one of the best on the Internet for teaching your how to build a website (on their platform) and begin successfully marketing. But, they will attempt to upsell you on their other tools and that can get pricey. Do they help? Yes, for the most part. But, not always. There are other venues available for free. But, their philosophy seems to be to access everything under one roof. This isn’t new and not entirely a bad idea, simply lacking in some arenas.

Affilorama Support

Just like with many successful Internet-based communities, the bulk of their support comes from with the community itself. Members helping members, which can be a strong facet and helps members learn from each other. So, if you do find yourself at a sticking point, you can always ask another member or anyone in the forums and get a response.

Although, when you support in this fashion and need a response quick, you’re at the mercy of that particular member that decided to help you and it may not be as timely as you wish.

Affilorama Pricing

While you can get in free, the Premium membership begins around $67 per month – this membership package included the software needed, LIMITED access to their hosting platform, training materials and of course, the community forums. For more information on Affilorama Premium, please click the image below:

AffiloBlueprint Membership – Again, one of the best around, but comes with a $197 one-time fee and then a monthly $67 thereafter – this membership package includes 13 varied lessons and a list of about 90-95 that cover a myriad of topics from niche selection, affiliate marketing and 6 different themes for your website. In my opinion, this is somewhat limited, but still a solid deal that works.  For more information on the AffiloBlueprint membership, click the image below:

AffiloJetPack Membership – this Premium package will set you back about $497, but it’s only a one-time payment. The AffioJetPack includes your choice among 5 niche (topic) packages, a series of 15 autoresponder messages (see What is an Email Autoresponder for an explanation) 3 eBooks for your particular chosen niche, acccess to the exclusive Affilotheme built on WordPress, the best CMS (Content Management System) available, images for your chosen niche and PLR (Private Label Rights) articles for your content management. While you can many aspects elsewhere, it’s available in one neat package.  For more information on AffiloJetPack, click the image below:

As somewhat of an ala-carte’ item, they also offer the Affilotheme at a one-time payment of $97 – which includes the exclusive WordPress them on it’s own along with training on how to install and develop the theme, a private-only members forum, one year of hosting for your WordPress website and a graphics creation tool.

The Affilorama Reviews Final Verdict:

If you check out the best of the best internet marketing programs or the top affiliate marketing programs on any of the discussion forums (affiliate marketing forums) online, you’ll hear very little negative about Affilorama. It is indeed a solid online business opportunity and you can (many have) do well with it as your beginning point OR next level training.

Some of the material is outdated, but this is indeed one of the few that doesn’t focus on building income for some UPline. The tools and training are top-notch and there is a good guarantee that comes along with your membership.

That being said, one of the problems I had with their varying membership packages is the upsells. These can be hard on the budget conscious and while the entire goal isn’t to market Affilorama solely, if you choose to do so, can make it difficult. It’s just my humble opinion, that a program should be able to stand on it’s own and just about sell itself with clarity and transparency. I recommend you truly look at all the facets of each membership before making a decision – again, even though their are some great tools under a single roof, many can be obtained at a much lower price point or even free.