Free Affiliate Marketing Training: What's Actually Worth Your Time

Free affiliate marketing training is worth your time when it gives you a clear next step, live help, and small tasks you actually finish. If it's just a pile of videos, it usually ends up as one more half-watched course.

I know, because I had a graveyard of them. Free courses, paid courses, webinars I meant to finish. The problem was never a lack of information. It was too much of it with no clear next step.

Disclosure: I'm an independent OLSP affiliate and may earn a commission if you join through my links. Results vary and aren't guaranteed.

• A clear order. Step one, then step two. Not 50 videos you can watch in any order.
• Live help. Someone you can ask when you're stuck, in real time.
• Small missions. Tasks you can finish in a day, so you build momentum.
• A finish line. A point where you know you've completed it.
• A way to practice for real. You learn faster by doing than by watching.

• YouTube tutorials: great for single questions, hard to follow as a full path.
• Free courses from tool companies: often solid, but focused on their own product, like SEO tools.
• Webinars: can be useful, but many are mostly a sales pitch.
• Guided programs with live sessions: the closest thing to someone sitting next to you showing you what to click.

• Income screenshots in place of actual teaching
• "Free" training that turns into a big pitch within minutes
• No way to ask questions
• Promises of results with no work

The free Affiliate Launchpad checks every box above for me:

• Clear order: Today, Week 1, Week 2, Day 15.
• Live help: founder Wayne Crowe teaches live every week.
• Small missions: one simple mission at a time.
• A finish line: you graduate on Day 15.
• Real practice: in Week 1 you get a result yourself; in Week 2 you help someone else get it.

It's free for new members and no card is needed. And because there's a built-in way to earn through the MegaLink, you can get paid to learn marketing instead of paying to learn it.

More on why the order of learning matters in Why "Learn First, Earn Later" Is Backwards and Burned Out on Make-Money-Online Courses?

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Talk soon,
Mark Dayton