One word: SiteBuildIt!Last year I researched online business and one name kept coming up over and over again: SiteBuildIt! (also known as SBI! within the community). This website was in fact built with SBI! - and I am a highly satisfied customer. I bought it and spent some time going through the learning materials and understanding the details. I could sense a vague outline of all the possibilities inherent in SBI!. Their motto is: "Why build just a website when you can build a business!" What really brought it home to me was what our eLearning instructor said in the very first class. She said, "Traffic starts building once you reach 30+ pages." That really made a big impression on me. SiteBuildIt! is not about setting up a website. It is truly about building a successful and profitable online business that has legs. What IS SiteBuildIt!?SiteBuildIt! is an integrated suite of tools you need to launch your online business. Sometimes it's hard to communicate all that is included with SBI!. You might be thinking that it's just a "sitebuilder" or just "hosting." Nothing could be further from the truth. SBI! is actually a "process" with a massive set of tools that leads to a successful online business.
It's pretty amazing when you see all these tools & processes listed all in one place.
OverviewThe SBI! process is divided into 10 "days". These are not calendar days, but more like tasks that build on each other. It all starts with understanding the Big Picture of developing a profitable web business. For an offline business, it's all about "location, location, location," whereas for an online business it's "information, information, information." Great information or content is what builds traffic online. Days 2 through 4 are spent brainstorming all your possible website ideas to see what kind of demand & supply exist for them. This is one of the best features of SBI! I learned a lot about my site concept in the brainstorming stage. Only in Day 5 do you actually finalize the look and feel of your website & actually register your domain name. Once you have the domain name, a lot of SBI! opens up to you. Then you create your Home Page and start creating the look-and-feel for your site. There are many templates available for that. SiteBuildIt! then guides you through the process of creating your Sitemap and submitting it to all the major search engines. Then you start creating the content. As you create more & more content, you start getting traffic. After building about 20 or 30 pages, SBI! prompts you to add more layers, such as adding a Site Blog, RSS feed and adding buttons for social media. It is a very well-designed process with a lot of hand-holding, guidance and support. And I haven't even talked about the discussion forums where SBIers pay it forward by helping each other! That by itself would be worth the price of admission! SiteBuildIt! vs. SEOSEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. It is all about raising your rankings with the major Search Engines such as Google and Yahoo!. However, in the absence of high-quality, targeted content, SEO necessarily implies manipulating the Search Engines by reverse-engineering their ranking algorithms - which keep evolving day-by-day anyway! Trying to manipulate the SEs is a game that is not worth your time. The reality is that SEOers are doomed. Why? Because "faking reality" is getting more and more complicated. It is not possible to stay ahead of the smartest minds on the planet at Google, Yahoo! and other Search Engine developers. SiteBuildIt! goes way beyond SEO by keeping it real. They emphasize lots of great content and then help you with link-building strategies with other sites that have great content. The search engines like that. That is how you build a successful online business. ConclusionSBI! is a really great set of tools and it all comes down to following their process. You owe it yourself to check out SiteBuildIt! You may not be interested right now, but you never know what creative connections it might spark. Still unconvinced?
Take a look at these case-studies.
These are people just like you who launched their own online businesses using SBI!.
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