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My Site Build It experience and making it online! December 09 update!

So to continue in more detail about Site Build It, how I made this wonderful website, and how this software has changed my life, read on....


We have an update at the bottom too!

Site Build It (SBI) was established by Dr. Ken Evoy in 1997. His series of books have helped hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs and small businesses. Make Your Content PREsell! and Make Your Words Sell! formerly books sold by SiteSell, are now free.

Needless to say, I like free .  I was reading for several days, as the books were packed full of information.  Some of which were applicable to my commercial site!  I put some of it into action immediately.

I then did additional research on their Site Build It(SBI) web site, and read about their performance record. (I've not found a single web-hosting,web-building, promotional package yet that did this). And looking closely at their testimonials and finally calling to talk to a rep.

Being bitten by get rich schemes before with empty promises and pie in the sky guarantees, even though my excitement level was hi, I still didn't buy.

Going over in my mind the process as explained, and rereading the e-books, I couldn't sleep for 2 nights. My intuitive side kept stepping in and saying this was so right!  After the 2 sleepless nights, and many discussions with my closest advisor, my wife agreed, lets try it!   I took the leap and bought into the package.

One of the promises was that the site, once put together, would build traffic quickly and help direct it to my original site. But this isn't a get rich quick scheme! It took several weeks before I felt I had enough info ready to even begin publishing pages.

Site Build It helped me those first critical weeks to figuring out what exactly to write about, selecting a great domain name, and thinking of ways that the site could bring in income (monetizing). Site Build It removes the technical barriers allowing me to concentrate on building my business.

Many functions are completely automated. I don't need to know anything upfront about building a Web site in order to succeed. The tedious, "under-the-hood" stuff is handled automatically so I focus on other important business-building activities. Take for example this "about easy painting" page. After typing up my text, I do a simple copy paste into their software, a wholla, you see what I've written!

My other site had the same fuctionality, but none of the front end help, or automatic features for promoting the site or building the site right the first time!

And I'm not ashamed to say, I paid 20 times more for my original site. It still serves it's purpose as an e-commerce site, but as time goes on, and I learn more about shopping cart technology and payment gateways, things may change on that front.

As an artist, I also dream of that super duper 2000 square foot studio. But I still have children in middle school, so their college comes first! Yes, its been alot of work putting the site up, but I've had great help along the way with the guides, and the forums! I don't consider myself a "webmaster" or "computer geek". My html knowledge is very basic. What is "java-script?" Who cares, I don't need it to paint my paintings. Or in building this website with Site Build It.

So whats happened to the site these last few months?   Guess what? 

Easy painting techniques is already ranked in Google!  

Not the home page, but I'm in the top 30 for some of my other pages. And guess what else? They were right! Following the step by step guideline, (I used the video guide) in less than 60 days, the site was and is receiving as much traffic as my old site thats been up and running for over 2 years! 

And I've not spent a cent in "pay-per-click" advertising,or any other advertising for that matter! Not only that, but I've received sales already!  Sorry if I'm coming across as being very excited!  But I am! SBI is helping me make my dreams come true!

Interested in learning more about SBI? Click here for a better explanation by Video! It opens in a new window so you won't lose your place here. What does the extra income mean to me. My passion is painting. Anything that helps to increase my time at the easel is worth the effort. We all have hobbies that we sometimes are very passionate about. Click here to see what you can do with your knowledge and your passion. It too opens in a new window. 

As this site is a work in progress, I'll keep you posted on its successes as time goes by.


December 2009 update!

This site has now been up for One Year! I want to pass on to you what has happened. In a nutshell, it has surpassed my commercial site, so much so that we have decided to shut the original "I can't name the vendor" e-commerce site down. This SBI site has truly out performed it. We are now in the process of developing the commercial side of
"Easy-Oil-Painting-Techniques" and it is so exciting. This week, we have crossed into the low 200,000 page ranking for Alexa which means we are fastly approaching the coveted 100,000 ranking realm! You can check out my stats right here. Use your browser back button to get back to here. The number in the box is our present 3 month average.



Be sure to click on the "traffic rank" tab to see the right numbers. The lower the number, the higher the rank! It runs on a 3 month average, but if you click the box, you will see the full report, and for the last week, we are in the 200,000 range. I know, only computer geeks get excited about stuff like this, but for me, it is concrete evidence of the effectiveness of SBI!

What does that really mean? There are 29,000,000 websites like mine out in cyber world. (google "oil painting techniques" and you'll see at the top of the page something like this: Results 1 - 100 of about 28,900,000 for oil painting techniques. (0.18 seconds) ) My home page is now ranked in the top 20 of all these sites. Wow! Can you imagine what your site will do?

So what are you waiting for! Join the SBI family now, and click this link to start living Your Dream!

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