[gutsmcd]

My head is aching.

All I've been doing the entire day long is reading the pros and cons about SBI, and people who either worship or hate it. Following this paragraph are my conclusions based on my findings from many different forums and blog reviews. I post them because I'd like to know if I'm wrong (or partially wrong) in any of my current beliefs about the program, for I am seriously considering purchasing it and like to know exactly what I'm getting into first:

- With SBI, you ultimately get a domain name and hosting, tools to help you in a variety of ways, invaluable knowledge to apply to your website/ websites, and an active community of people who will give you advice on relevant matters if you ask for it.

- SBI will not provide you with more of an education on how to create a profitable website than all of the free information out there. That said, it will save you the time and hassle of what to do with so much information, because SBI puts good information together, and leads you through things systematically and logically, which I take it no other product does (or does as well as SBI). In short: SBI is a package of good information that is laid out in a way proven to make you money if you have the ability and motive.

- SBI provides you with tools that you might otherwise pay exorbitant amounts for, so some would say that it might ultimately cost you more to not use SBI than to use it.

- SBI will guide you kindly through the technical side of building a good website, but - when all is said and done - content is king.

- SBI is generally about long term passive income, and you have to put in a lot to get a lot out. So don't expect everything immediately.

- Ken goes on and on, about this and that, in the SBI tutorials, but it does all eventually help you to build a great website, and that's the point! Also, Steve Pavlina likes both SBI and its captain, so there must be something special to all of this. I mean, Steve is the man whose recently released the copyrights to all of his materials, to anybody in the whole friggin' world to use as they wish, so whatever he says, I'll definitely initially be quite receptive to, even if I don't ultimately agree with him. But I probably will, because I normally do. Sigh.

- Blogs can generate income, but websites are better because they don't need to be maintained like blogs do, and also they look more business like (whereas blogs are commonly made by random folk all over the place). That said, blogs can be made to act like websites too, but will never exactly be the real-deal.

- It's not about creating an attractive site though, it's about creating a business that has healthy amounts of traffic, and that you can eventually moneytise.

- Wordpress is a favourite site to build a blog with, concerning many people who don't like SBI, although certain SBI'ers also value WP.

- Most people (or possibly all people) who badmouth SBI never badmouth it from a personal perspective. It's more that they say 'there're other ways to accomplish what SBI does for you, and all for free (or mostly all for free) so paying $300 for SBI is crazy.

- Many people who badmouth SBI never really badmouth the product itself, just the fact that you have to pay for it.

- Most SBI'ers don't hide the fact that you can be just as successful by not using SBI as when you use it, but usually state something to the effect that it makes more sense to use SBI if you're a nooooob.

- Mostly everyone who speaks about SBI (having actually used it) is positive about it. Even if it's just to say that 'to begin with, SBI is great, but you can get rid of it once you're more savy about creating websites that draw traffic, etc.'

- Many people who badmouth SBI don't know how to communicate that well (to put it mildly), although a rare selection of them do. On the other spectrum, the other lot of people who badmouth SBI seem so well-informed about all the things you might do to create a profitable website, that they can't understand that there're people out there who really do know next to nothing about such things, and don't want to just dive in, especially considering so many nooooobies who do dive in don't make it. That may be too dramatic a way of phrasing my point though, but hopefully it came across as intended.

- SBI is good value for money, and often has specials. Furthermore, they don't try and cheat you out of money if you wish to opt out of the program for whatever the reason.