SBI is NOT a tool for creating a website.
If you want to make a website, go use WordPress or any of the other free tools. Make it as modern and snazzy as you'd like. Get cheap hosting for less than $10/month. Seriously.
SBI is a tool for building an online business, one that generates a solid income for the site owner. That's what it's designed for. That's what it's good at. That's why I recommend it and will keep recommending it. To date I've found no other service that can deliver what SBI provides in this area. I've challenged people to show me a better service. So far no one has.
Sadly, many people seem to think that a website equals an online business. A blog isn't a business. A CMS isn't a business. A wiki isn't a business.
One of my local friends is currently making her own SBI site right now (she was on Day 6 last time she updated me). She bought it because of my recommendation. She already has a website. But now she wants to have an online business that drives traffic and generates income for her family. That's why she's using SBI. And I know she'll succeed with it because she's very driven.
If you bought SBI because you wanted to make a website or because you need a site with certain aesthetics, you should indeed get a refund because that's not what the service is for. SBI's purpose is to help you create and deliver value to people and to generate income from your work.
You can try SBI and then quit and complain about what you didn't like and suggest alternatives, but then you still don't have a business.
Alternatively, you can actually follow their steps, create an online business, and enjoy the income it generates for years to come.
I could give you a long list of tech and design improvements people say I should make to StevePavlina.com. But very few of them will actually matter in terms of the service being delivered. The visitors to my site care about the content and what they get out of it, not what CMS is used in the background.
You don't need to go high-tech to generate lots of traffic and abundant income. If anything the fluffy tech is just a distraction, and the more complex it is, the more burdensome it is to manage.
In the time it takes to write a negative review of SBI, you could also create a nice content page for your own SBI site.
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