Tayrak: I don't think Ken will prove much help either; I've had dealings with him through the private forums on SBI! and you know what, he's a businessman who knows his business...and the sort of issue I described is somehow intrinsic to the way his business works -- something about their content management software just won't allow a relative path name for the first src attribute of an image-swap -- and he's not about tweaking his business over a little thing like that. I could go into more detail if need be, but suffice it to say for now that Ken knows his customers and I'm not the kind of person to whom they mean to market their service.
As for SBI! "backing up their claims"...you need to look closely at what they're using to back up their claims. They're using Alexa ranking -- that's the **sole** basis for their claims! And even then only a very tiny minority of their sites are Alexa 100K...believe me when I say that I hate to say it, but SBI! is just another late-night TV infomercial product. Think of all the juicers, steamers, ab-rollers, real estate schemes, and other such products you've seen on late-night TV infomercials: perfectly fine in theory, but you can usually get the same thing done on your own with only a little more fuss.
Not to get "down" on SBI! now, but you know what, they're selling their system, their way of doing things (well, what they're really selling is dreams of happiness, same as any other late-night TV infomercial)...now if they're selling their system, but there are still "triumphs and failures" same "as with everything" in life, as you put it, then what does anyone need their system for???
SBI! is like them ab-rollers or any other such ab-workout device sold by TV infomercials...you can just do crunches at home, but some people need a "gimmick" to get them going, you know? Same thing with SBI! I think. One could just visit the local library and google the web (that's how I found Steve Pavlina and then SBI!), but some folks just can't be bothered to do that. The ironic thing is that, like an ab-roller sold on TV, SBI! still requires **you** to do the actual work!! You wind up doing almost as much work as you would have before, anyway...you just don't realize it because SBI! provides a *fellowship* of sorts...that's probably the secret to its success as a business -- the need they serve is not, actually, webhosting, but a kind of fellowship for would-be entrepreneurs....  |