Is there anyone who started out with zero knowledge in building websites and was able to use SBI to build a successful website that made money? Could you tell me about your experience. Would you say the system is very user friendly, even for people who are technology challenged, but have good computer skills?

Thanks for your help.

Ronnie

Hi

SBI can be used by anyone, no technical skills needed.

You have guides and books to take you slowly through every process. If you get stuck you have thier helpful forums, or Lisa who runs this forum is an SBI expert.

You get to build a website correctly with SBI. One that will recieve traffic.

I used many online web building programs to start with and failed with all of them.

I now do seo for other people because SBI taught me how to do it while building sites through them.

I have 2 SBI sites now, they have all the tools you need and guidence which gives you more time to spend on your website or business.

Don't go expecting a get rich quick, think of sbi as a hobby that will in time grow into a succesful busy website. Building a busy successful site takes time, could be 6 months could be 2 years.

I do believe if you are going to be successful online then using SBI quadroples your chances.

Hope this helps

Take care

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Elad of http://www.coolest-kid-birthday-parties.com/ started with no experience. This is not the norm for most people but he started making $2,000/month after 6 months of owning his first site. Now I believe he has 6 or 7 SBI! sites.

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Lisa, do you know how Elad made the money?

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I don't believe he gave specifics but you can read his case study here...

http://case-studies.sitesell.com/

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Don't go expecting a get rich quick, think of sbi as a hobby that will in time grow into a succesful busy website. Building a busy successful site takes time, could be 6 months could be 2 years.


Are you serious, why would I invest $300.00 on a hobby, in these lean times, when just about everyone has been downsized? Would it not make more sense to get a free blogger or wordpress site to use as a hobby? Also, are you saying it could take two years to build a website with SBI?

I was just getting ready to order the thing, but you surely have turned me off.

Thanks a lot!

Please revise your thinking on this if you want to achieve real success in life. For nearly thirty years I have been a serious student of personal success and I think I can say that I know a little about the subject.

Successful people think ahead; almost every really success person plans in terms of ten years or more. Small achievements take small amounts of time; large achievements take years. Two years is not long to launch a business that has almost infinite potential.

$300 is not much for a training program either if it provides the help you need. If at the end of a year it enabled you to earn only $100 a month more than otherwise that would produce over $1,000 a year for the rest of your life. Personally I have spent thousands on training and it has been worth every penny.

And as far as the economic times, it opens as much potential as it causes heartache. Successful people don't consider themselves at the mercy of others or anything in their environment. They see everything as an opportunity. Even an economic downturn.

It is easy to listen to the voices of doom and gloom. But I am not looking for a way to fail; I am only interested in learning the way to succeed. And if you listen to the excitement and expectation of some of the people on this site you will see that it is a much better option.

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Excellent point James. And ronnie52, you are not investing in a hobby. You are investing in the training materials on how to make money from your hobby. Can you do it with blogger or wordpress? Of course you can. Many people here have done just that. But the majority of people who start blogs and websites fail because they don't plan and educate themselves on what it takes for a website to succeed.

A big part of that $300 fee is the advice, training and having all the tools you need in one place. There's solid advice on planning and how to create a site that has the best potential for traffic and sales. Sites don't just start getting traffic and succeed because you launch them and I think a lot of people believe that. "Hey, I'll just go to blogger and throw up a free blog and in a couple of months I'll start making money."

You have to learn how to market your site and that's where a lot of people have trouble. I know many people who tried on their own and came back to SBI! because they needed the additional guidance. Not everyone needs it. Some people can do it on their own and perhaps you're one of them. But I wouldn't be paying $300 out of my pocket every year if I didn't think SBI! did not provide great value. You should watch the video tour so you see exactly what you're getting http://videotour.sitesell.com

In any event, I hope you find what you're looking for. I respect SBI! greatly for not putting up unrealistic expectations. Most people don't make money quickly (weather they use SBI or not) so they make sure you understand that before jumping into it with false hopes.

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ronnie, my friend I'm afraid you're missing the point. If you just look at SBI! as a $300 hosting product and compare it to the free blogger or wordpress.... you're right... it looks like a complete rip off. But SBI! is not just a web host. It's a complete training system that teaches you not only how to build a site, but how to market it. I hope you're not going to blogger and expect to start making money quickly.

And to all the sbi nay sayers.... yes you can learn a lot of what SBI! teaches you buy googling various information. But the VALUE is having everything right at your fingertips. I just bought SBI! recently and as a personal friend of Lisa's I would always grill her about SBI! because I didn't understand the value either. I kept looking at it as a $300 web host when I could go to Blogger for free. (Didn't I Lisa???)

I was looking at it from the WRONG perspective. Sure you can go to blogger and throw up a blog in 2 seconds. But what's your next step? And how do you know you chose the best topic? What are the top ways to promote your blog so you can get traffic? What about getting ranked well in the search engines? How do you do that? Are you going to have a mailing list and what company are you going to use for it? Since you're using blogger you're going to have to pay for it. What is a sitemap? Do you need one?

My point is all this help and information is located in ONE PLACE with SBI you get the site building tools, the mailing list manager, the marketing help, the suggestions for how to build traffic, search engine submissions and rankings, access to a forum with tons of other sbi newbies like you who have questions.

And here's my favorite part. When new web technology arrives that affects how you need to market your site.... SBI! keeps you informed in NON TECHNICAL TERMS. So instead of learning how to create an XML sitemap to keep your site up to date with Google, SBI! does it for you and keeps Google updated for you. If you didn't have SBI! you'd have to learn it on your own.

Of course you can do it by yourself. Like Lisa said many people here are doing it. But not everyone learns the same way and some of us need the extra help. After 4 failed blogs I now see what I was doing wrong. I didn't understand the importance of the marketing part and I'm now getting that with SBI!. Plus I learned I should be building a website and not a blog. There's a BIG difference. Some people build blogs when they really need websites. Don't take this the wrong way but you are making a bad judgment based on limited information and assumptions. Comparing SBI! to Blogger is like a major slap in the face/insult to SiteSell. We're talking apples and oranges.

And if you are looking to make money fast, my advice is to not use sbi or ANY tool (even blogger) 'cause there's no such thing my friend. Take care and good luck!

@James
I am glad that you are a member of this forum. Your advise is always outstanding and I learned a lot.

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So true! When My husband purchased SBI, he did so with the mindset that the $300 was the initial investment to me starting my own small business. If you look at it from that point of view the price seems pretty low!

He bought SBI in May 2008, I put up my first page in June, started monetizing November and have so far made (in adsense alone) enough to cover my intial investment and pay for next years renewal fee. Any money I make from now to June 2010 will be profit. To me that's a pretty good return on my investment !

I was lucky enough to have the time to invest, which is a big factor for my situation. I had left my job and we had enough savings to cover my salary for 2 years. I worked 6 hours a day, 6 days a week for the first 6 or 7months. I now spend about 10 hours a week on my site.

I certainly haven't started making enough to match the salary from the job I left, but I think I can get there in a year or so! I think you have to be in it for the long haul.

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Just wanted to add my two cents - I agree with what's been said above.

I started SBI as a complete beginner in October 2007 and I'm making a little money now - I get around 500 visitors a day. (I'd have made more if I'd put more time into it - that's my fault, not SBI's!). I thought the information and everything I learned was worth the price several times over - maybe you could find the info on the internet, but it's all in one package in SBI, very easy to digest, and the forums are amazing if you get stuck. I think it's really worthwhile to spend money on my education, and building my SBI site has been a really useful learning experience.

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As far as the time involved, you would spend that time or longer trying to
do it all yourself. It is not just the actual building, it is also the planning,
the marketing, the time it takes for the spiders to index your pages,
the time it takes to get enough traffic to make it worthwhile to start
putting up ads, etc.

Are you actually thinking you can throw something up in a few weeks
and get enough traffic to make money? You have to get backlinks,
have enough pagerank for the search engines to bring your site up
on the first 2 pages, and work hard to get your site out there.

You have to build credibility with your visitors if you expect them
to buy something.

You need to look at the bigger picture of what you want to accomplish
and all the things that need to happen. If you do your research and
pick just the right topic, you might be able to get there in 6-12 months.
If you work really hard. If you can't devote full time to it, then it will
take longer.

Hi guys
I'm also new here and have some questions (maybe I haven't just seen it yet in this great big forum) about SBI:

- do I get one domain for one site for 299$?
what when I want to create another page, do I have to pay again the fee?
- how flexible is the shop builder? Can I for example sell an ebook for example 10$ and say if they take an other one, the second one will be 6$ (automatically recognized by the system)?
- I'm still also considering wealthy affiliate, does anybody have experience with them and have a comparison?

thanks for your answers.

Maybe hobby was the wrong word to use.

I just find SBI so enjoyable.

Great feedback from James, Lisa and the others though.

Mike

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