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06-13-2009, 05:42 AM
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putting together your blueprint I would suggest to use an Excel spreadsheet, not the one SBI gives but your own what you do is choose a major area, lets say Time Management, and in it you make your tier2s, as separate spreadsheets and put the name of each tier2 in the tag below, now on each page you go and make a list of all the tier3s that you will have under yout tier2 ...if you do not understand, ask me, and plus creating the content the ultimate way to do it, is in Word, and from there straight into the Block by Block builder, and any corrections you can make there, once you get good, you cn make 2 tier3s per hour, by the way using this method the best way to look at the tier structure is like this, the tier1 Home Page is the trunk of the tree, the tier2s are the branches and the tier3s are the leaves, and if you want to start off on the right foot read this thread in the SBI forums, and there are links in it to the SBI article that Anellie wrote for SBI how to choose the right tier2/tier3 keywords Site Build It! Forums :: Log in login to SBI first, and then use this link, otherwise it will not work, but before you start creating your content make sure you completely grasp this | |
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06-21-2009, 06:48 AM
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| Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Bristol, UK
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I have been debating whether to start an e-business using SBI but have recently seen a lot of negative news / blogs and articles about it. Having read a lot of them they seem to be mostly of the mark as to what the product is (and most seem to be linked to an article that is still up but has been rebutted as containing falsehoods and outright lies - though the articles remain). Most of me suspects this is just a hub trying to get their own sites boosted, however there are doubts over SBI which have now increased. Does anyone have any success stories (other than SBI affiliates - or selling SBI related things e.g. templates ect ?). I know I am often overly cautious, but having recently lost my job due to the total collapse of the local job markets I have little money to invest in something that I do not feel positive about. Many thanks for anticpated replies. Gewyne |
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06-21-2009, 07:06 AM
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| Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Sweden (Soon Spain)
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Hi Gewyne, I do not sell SBI nor do I sell anything related to SBI. It is natural to feel sceptical but there comes a point where it is just you looking for bad things about X so that you can say that nothing is really good. All I can say is that I couldn't recommend SBI more IF you want to make money on the internet writing about what you love. I have been showing my girlfriend how to do it and she is going through the SBI action guide and is doing well with a site on small dogs. You don't have much to lose if you check it out, they have a money back guarantee. I even used their money back guarantee a few years ago when I was trying everything and didn't have time for SBI, but I came back and bought SBI again and haven't looked back since. Now let me clarify, you CAN learn everything that SBI teaches you from other places, but in my opinion it is highly unlikely that you will. There are too many things out there that will confuse you and you have to take care of the technical aspects of website building yada yada. Conclusion: Yes SBI is worth it in MY opinion. Try them, call them, ask them questions. Hope this helps! |
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06-21-2009, 07:09 AM
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similar results! This is just simple reality! I use SBI for creating my site, and I have a million reasons for this, the major one being that I do not want to waste my time with HTML, or anything that has to do with that area plus the forums that you become a member off are *invaluable* for anyone trying to create a successful online business but taking into account that is sounds like you want to make money as fast as possible from an online business, here is the truth it will take you at least a year to start making any kind of income that you can live on, this is minimum, of course there are always exceptions, but they are about as rare as people hitting the lottery so your best approach would be to find a job, and then sign up for SBI, and start creating an online business, using a long term approach. All the stuff written about making money fast online is mostly BS! Making money online is just as hard as making money offline, and very few business models actually allow you to put your business on complete autopilot and go to the islands for vacations. There are exceptions as always but the majority of people making money onlin spend many hours daily running their business from their computers, and most likely will continue to do so if you can't spend five to ten hours per day on your online business, do not expect that it will make any serious money, this is a myth that you can spend an hour per day and make $100,000 a year from a site, maybe $10,000 a year after a few years working on it, but definitely not much more | |
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06-21-2009, 10:37 AM
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I re-read my post, I sounded rather negative which was not my intention. I had thought about doing my own site a long time ago but with work, home and family I never had the time. Since I have been unemployed though I am chomping on the bit to find something to do and it seems like a good time to do this instead of wasting days at a time whilst out of work, I have no illusions of making a lot of money, but it would be nice to have a side income even if it ranks into just takeout meal a month. I have been onto I'd like to see your SBI site - Website Babble Webmaster Forums which I also stumbled across - with the comments here and the site there I ahve decided to take the plunge, so today I am going to commit and see where it goes. See you on the SBI forums - thats once I work out what the hell I am doing :-) |
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06-21-2009, 11:14 AM
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actually register with SBI, I am always posting there, plus HenriJ, another SBIer that posts there, is always letting us know about the most effective approaches toward creating a successful online business whatever happens, any questions that you have you can ask in this thread, in the SBI thread that I mentioned, or in the SBI forums where that question is appropriate. The most important thing is to ask no matter how dumb it might seem, and make sure to read the thread about making tier2/tier3 pages that Annelie has going, once you sign up you can come back here and go to this link (it won't work until you are an SBIer) Site Build It! Forums :: Log in good luck to you, and remember to stay focused on your major goal and always to keep tracking current reality in relationship to that goal, this will always help you to produce the right steps toward reaching that objective Effective Goal Setting just in case you are interested here is my article about how to use effective goal setting to reach your true wants and desires | |
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06-21-2009, 11:39 AM
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| Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Sweden (Soon Spain)
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Cool Gewyne! Remember to stay active in the forums and ask people if you're not unsure. The most important process is the beginning where you're choosing your keywords. If you go wrong here, you're doomed, to put it mildly  |
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06-22-2009, 03:31 AM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2009
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Hi Rebecca, I love your site! I, too, have an SBI! site that I started in January 2008. If you don't mind, I'd like to ask you to elaborate on what you mean when you talk about tips for titling your article. Are you talking about the title of the article that appears on your site (the headline) or the title in the description box that people see in the search engines? Thanks! Diana |
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06-22-2009, 06:28 AM
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thread, me and HenriJ post there on a daily basis, and lots of good stuff is posted in that thread and updates about the best posts in the forums also good luck to you with SBI, from personal experience, want to repeat what HenriJ wrote in a previous post: spend some time brainstorming the best possible keywords and read the thread about tier2/tier3 pages, that can truly make the biggest difference in the taffic that you will be able to drive to your new site | |
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06-22-2009, 09:03 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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Thanks for the feedback! I'm not entirely sure what I said before about titles...  In my book, a title is the headline of an article, which is also the title tag and meta title tag in your HTML code. It is designed to please both human and robot readers (Google & co). It should be 70 characters or less, because that's how much the search engine shows, and the rest will be cut off by ellipses. It must contain your keyword, the sooner the better. The description tag (in the HTML code) supports the title in Google's results, and should be no longer than 155 characters, or again will be cut off. I count my characters religiously and aim for the perfect number, to maximize how my results look on Google. And they are crammed (carefully) with keywords. This is something I actually learned outside SBI, and has noticeably improved my page rankings. Hope that helps! | |
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06-22-2009, 09:19 AM
| #253 (permalink) |
| Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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Gewyne Well done for making the decision to go for it! I'm a proud SBI affiliate (most SBI users are also affiliates - they all have working website examples, so its an ideal sales platform). However I just wanted to add that since my site started delivering real financial return, lots of people I know are jumping to start their own SBI sites too! My brother... my dad... my boyfriend... his best friend... if I thought SBI wasn't worth the money, I wouldn't have let them go ahead with it. It also speaks volumes that 50% of SBIers renew their membership after the first year. Good luck with your new career! |
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06-22-2009, 03:42 PM
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I'm thinking I'll start with the one I'm most passionate about. Being happy and not "worrying" about income has always worked for me. Once I get that one going, I may start the second one. | |
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06-23-2009, 08:46 AM
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I've been getting that status message at the top of my screen saying I haven't posted on the forum in a while here, so I think this will be a good place for me to start.  I've read through a lot of the stories and experiences with SBI here, and I must say I'm feeling a lot more positive about making a venture into starting a web based business. But I have a bit of a different situation than some people who just started on SBI. Not long ago I had signed up for a telephone-conference style program which lasted 6 weeks; the goal of it being to help the participants manifest as much money as possible within the time frame of the program. Now, when I had entered the program I was in a pretty tight situation with my money/job status which had me worried intensely, and I regret to say I didn't get as much out of the program as I probably could of if I had given it more effort. But it did give me a solid start in a way. Out of it, I got some server space and added a wordpress blog to it, but beyond two or three articles and a couple of affiliate links I haven't done much with it. I ended up paying a good amount of money to make this all possible, and I guess so far Ive let the disappointment of not earning at least what I spent on it get to me. But I've decided that I can't let the apathy get to me any longer. My money situation is tighter than ever, and finding a job has so far been much harder than ever before. However, this website has been sitting here for the longest time, calling out for me to finish it and start making some income. So I'm thinking I need a bit of accountability. Maybe thats the real reason why I'm posting this. I know it may sound approval-seeking, but I tend to do better when the peer-pressure's on. But practically, I'd also like to find perhaps an online group, like a mastermind group, to help push me along. And I do realize this thread is for SBI users, but that's sort of why Im posting this in this thread. I'd like to have some people on my team, or at least chat with some knowledgeable folks, on things that I could do to improve my site that maybe I would have missed by not getting all the tools SBI offers. I've spent a lot on the site already, and I can't dish out the extra cash just yet to convert the whole thing to an SBI site.So I guess my next question for a good practical step would be to ask if I could send some friend requests to those people who use SBI (warning, I might have some questions for you guys and gals); OR if you know of any groups or places where I can meet like-minded people, Id certianly be interested in hearing about that too! |
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06-23-2009, 08:54 AM
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and you can also sign up as an affiliate for SBI, and use the forums for free, but you will be able to post in the section for affiliates selling SBI, but you can still read the rest of the posts that everyone writes in all the threads, except the monetization part, since this only shows up when you have SBI site an create over thirty pages so as the first step sign up as an affiliate for the 5 pillar on SBI, and then ask questions here and in that part of the SBI forum, this would definitely be the most effective approach for your current situation | |
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06-23-2009, 04:15 PM
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Hey there, I have just a short question respectively I have an offer to make. I ordered SBI last christmas, when they had the special 2 for 1 offer. At the time I am fully streched with working on my first SBI site about trading the financial markets, what is great.  But unfortunately it also means that there is not enough time for me to start another one for the next months.Therefore I would like to ask is there or do you know anybody who's interested in an extra or first SBI for less than 299 bucks? PS: I asked the SBI support about the legality of selling the second SBI and the they agreed to it. |
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06-23-2009, 07:30 PM
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| Family Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Eastern Long Island, USA
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Don't worry, there will be lots of opportunities to buy SBI for $99. They are having a special right now until June 30th. You could have gotten it if you had gone in through anyone's site.  I have just gotten past my first year, and past the hump. Things are flying fast and furious as they say. I am about to start doing joint ventures. There is a great opportunity for any of you who already have lists. Best fortune to all SBI'ers! Just follow the guidelines and check in with the forums once a week or so, and you'll know what to do. | |
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06-23-2009, 08:05 PM
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06-23-2009, 08:10 PM
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Ah, I had a feeling. $99 would be nice but I'm happy with the price anyway. $1 a day to help keep me motivated and provide tools to build a new site and possible business is worth it to me. I already have a web site that has been popular on Digg and currently averages around 1,000 unique visitors a day. My highest days (due to Digg) were over 10,000. I built this from scratch with little knowledge starting in 2002. It's going to be fun to see how SBI helps an experienced webmaster. Thanks! |
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06-29-2009, 04:19 AM
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| Banned Join Date: Jun 2008
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I finished Day 5 today and secured my domain name. I'm keeping it a surprise for now. My Initial Impressions The good: The information in the SBI action guide and forums is great. SBI talks OVER and OVER and OVER about delivering quality content to your users. SBI basically promotes the attitude of, "You need to give your users something useful or you DON'T deserve to make money!" And I agree with this completely. The process of researching your interests and finding the right domain name to focus on is very long, but compared to the process of starting any other kind of business, it's very quick! The tools provided are excellent, though you could do a lot of good research for free if you know where and how to look. The video action guide tutorials are nice. They show you exactly what to do using words, sound, and pictures. The bad: I have some minor quips. A lot of the action guide is repetitive. I sometimes scanned the page like yes... yes... I get it... next! I guess this is helpful to some people but to someone who "gets it" the first time, this is unnecessary. The action guide has some missing images. You'll see words that refer to a figure or image, but the image is missing. Oops! This is a NEWBIE mistake which I would not expect. Fortunately you can easily understand what's going on without the images. SBI's site layout itself is dated and a tad annoying with all the pop-up windows. As a member, why am I getting pop-up windows asking me to purchase SBI? I already purchased it -- leave me alone! Conclusion So far SBI is worth the money. I'm having fun with the process so far and look forward to creating the site and getting to know the people in the SBI forums. They all seem very friendly. SBI should hire a designer to improve their overall look and feel. However, they have recently released a beta version of their new Brainstorm tool, and it looks and works great. |
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06-29-2009, 05:37 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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Hey Daffy I agree with your comments, the Action Guide loves to hammer stuff in to your brain... over and over! Still, the overall result is very effective. You are right they need a professional designer to spruce up the template selection! Fortunately they are having an iDesign contest soon which should produce many new submissions. We'll certainly be taking part! |
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06-29-2009, 06:00 AM
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Hey Daffy, You're right about the action guide and the other stuff. You kind of get used to it after awhile You'd be surprised how many people get it wrong even when the action guide is repeating itself over and over, people just don't get it, especially the keywords part. There's an awesome thread by Annelie in the forums (she has over 5,000 visitors a day and her site is under 2 years old), and she explains how she uses keywords. I can give you the link if you want. |
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07-03-2009, 06:38 PM
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Thanks for the link. This question is directed to Rebecca, but anyone feel free to answer. Rebecca, I noticed on your site with your left-hand navigation that you seem to link to many of your pages from the home page. I know that normally we only link to Tier 2 pages from the home page, but if it makes sense for the navigation, is it okay to link to Tier 3 pages as well? My progress: I've finished reading the action guide and some of the other materials. I'm now focusing on writing all of the content, which is probably the hardest and most enjoyable part. I have a few pages written already. I hope to "launch" the site by the end of July. |
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07-03-2009, 11:15 PM
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| Family Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Eastern Long Island, USA
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I am not a business person, and if I had not had Site Sell to guide me, I don't think my site would be doing well now. I am just learning how to develop the money side of things. The writing was easy for me. - Nancy | |
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07-04-2009, 09:44 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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SBI reckons you should only link to T2 pages on your homepage, because Google prefers it this way. I'm not sure why... However, they don't say "NEVER DO THIS!!" - seems more like a general recommendation so I kept my options open. I decided to show my T3s on my homepage when I looked at Steve's blog and saw he had all these good article titles listed, compelling people to click deeper into the site. So I got Peter to make an expanding menu in my new design and allows people to see all their options at a glance. I'd be interested to hear from others, from a technical/ SEO perspective, which is better and why. | |
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