Build A Website Now with No Prior
Experience!
"Can a Newbie Build a Website for
Work at Home or Other Business Opportunities With No Prior
Web Site Building Experience or
Training?"
Or maybe you
already have a website, but it’s just sitting
there, and you are not getting the traffic you need to
sustain your online website, auction site, small-business
site or home-based Internet business
site?
-----The story of one newbie website
builder’s journey----
Below, I will share with you a
condensed account of how I built my first
few websites** and got them up and running in no
time at all, and how these sites have consistently
generated top-ranking traffic in their few months of
existence--and all this without spending one dime on
advertising.
But feel free to
skip this section and continue browsing
if the thought of sharing some passion you
have with others online or if the idea of building your
own successful website or home-based business has never
crossed your mind…(Editor's Note: This story was moved
from our primary site which was launched in late
2003)
A little
background…
I became interested in building a website after
attending a one day seminar in Atlanta last July (2003).
The main topic was not on building websites, but on how
to receive government grant money to buy your first
house, etc. They wanted $900 to show me how. I opted
out.
I had already
purchased a new townhome with cash back at closing thanks
to the ideas presented in
Carleton Sheets NO DOWN PAYMENT
Program. (Though I have to confess I was not that
impressed with the program Sheets sells, but the one
thing that I did learn from it was that everything is
negotiable, so I not only got into a new home for less
than $200 out of pocket, I also negotiated a built-in
microwave and other amenities for my townhome as a part
of the
deal.)
Perhaps because I had no social life at the
time, and was having a slow day, I stayed to hear what
the last speaker at the seminar had to say on a
completely different topic. I do think the job of this
speaker was to keep the rest of us busy while the first
company collected money from the paying customers (i.e.
those who were giving up the $900 dinero for the grants
program). As it turned out, the speaker’s topic was on
the world wide web and how it was a multi-billion dollar
industry—or did he say multi-trillion dollar
industry—that continues to
grow.
Testing the
Waters
So, I made my first investment in the web
hosting program this company was selling, paid about $130
for the subsequent workshop, $99 to sign up for a
merchant account that would allow me to sell products or
services on my site at about $49 a month, and paid
another $60 upfront to get hooked to an automated
business phone answering service, that would cost me
$29.95 monthly to sustain--all this to get me started in
style with my new online website and new home-based
internet
business.
Now, mind you this is all before I even had a
website up and running. (Yeah, yeah I know I was
green, but that’s why I’m sharing
this story with you, just in case your coat of green is
of a richer luster than mine was at the
time:)-
Lessons
The lesson for the newbie: Don’t invest in a merchant
account right away. There are plenty of ways to accept
money over the net (if you are selling something directly
from your site) without making that initial upfront and
monthly investment. PayPalis one of them. And there are so many software
programs that can answer your phone that you can save
that extra phone bill too and focus instead on building
your website and your
business.
Check out the EZ Voice answering software when you have a
minute. It comes with a free download so you can try
before you buy. And the cost was less than $20, total.
There are other software systems out there to answer your
phone; you just have to do a little browsing to find the
right one for your needs. Of course if you just have
money to spend, PBNext does offers a 1- 800
professional business answering service for about $30 a
month. Yes, all of my friends were impressed with their
service—but I didn’t have a website up at the time so I
did not really need the
service.
I currently have my
800 number through my long distance carrier which
redirects my 1-800 calls to my local phone number, and I
pay about 6 to 8 cents a minute for the actual minutes
used, with no monthly surcharge. I get rates as low
as 3.5 cents/minute Unlimited Long Distance at
LowerMyBills.com!
I have saved
tons of money on international calls and long distance bills
since signing up through
them.
But back to the
story…
Stumbling upon SITE BUILD
IT...
Lucky for me I had some time on my hand after
making the investment in my first web-hosting company—did
I not say I have no social life--and started using the
net to do some research. I figured if this was going to
be my new part-time pursuit that I probably should get a
little more familiar with the World Wde Web. Somehow I
ran across a website while surfing late one night where
the site host gave high recommendations for the Site
Build It program. When I clicked on the link to SITE
BUILD IT, I found out
why.
[As an aside (and as a note to save face), I
should mention that I did get my money back from the
first hosting company I joined—you know the one that sold
me all the things I didn’t need as a newbie to the web. I
used the three-day cancellation clause to get my refunds.
I couldn’t get the workshop money back, but that was okay
because the company had introduced me to the possibility
that someone without experience could build a website
and learn to work from home and make a living
online. That had to be worth something.
Right?]
Still after I got the code to go in and build my
site using their program, I was sooooo lost. It was a
nightmare. There was no way I would be able to use the
program to build a website. It was not very user
friendly. And I am a firm believer that in this day and
age, things can be and should be friendly to the end
user. Then I tried Yahoo’s Site Builder program, using
their thirty-day free trial offer. After about a week of
trying, l had reached the same conclusion—not very user
friendly for this
neophyte.
So when I was finally able to get my hands on
the SITE BUILD IT program about the first of September
(2003), I could hardly wait to get started using it
because I knew that if it delivered even half of what it
said it would, that the money would be well spent to
launch my new online part-time, work from home website
business.
I was NOT disappointed. Ken Evoy, the creator of
the system, walked me through it every step of the way.
The program was so personable that I really felt I had a
personal coach that was training me day by day on
everything I needed to know to be successful in building
my online web
site.
At the end of the program—a 10-day course which
took me a little longer to complete ‘cause I was only
doing it part-time--I knew all the terms, most of the
jargon, and more importantly, I had all the tools I
needed to build my site. My confidence level and belief
that I could succeed
grew.
Content-based
websites
American Express used to say "Don't leave
home without it", and Coca-Cola told us all for the
longest that "It's the real thing", and now Ken
Evoy tells us "content-based" websites are the wave of
the future for anyone wanting to succeed on the
internet.
Ken’s program suggests / strongly encourages /
demands website builders construct content-based or
theme-based websites in order to get the maximum amount
of online traffic to their sites. And this philosophy
made a lot of sense to me, since information ranks in the
top five categories of what website browsers are
thirsting
for.
The SITE BUILD IT manager program taught me
how to structure the content of my site so the search
engines could find their way around in it and rank it
high when their “spiders” did their crawling (yeah, I can
now talk about spiders and webs and crawling—it’s a whole
‘nother language, mate—as Ken might
say).
The automated keyword brainstormer program,
included in the SITE BUILD IT package--among a host of
other goodies--helped identify words that internet
browsers would most likely use in their searches to find
information that my site offered; again, this for the
sole purpose of getting more folks to your site. And
that's important whether you have information to share, a
service to provide or products to
sell.
I like to think of it this way: what if you
owned a brick and mortar store and on
Monday morning you went in at 6:00 a.m. and opened
shop, but all day only ten people walked through the
door. What if on Tuesday morning you did the same thing,
but somehow word had gotten out that you were now open
for business and instead of 10 people showing up, 50
showed up. Now, the $1000 dollar "Who Wants to be a
Millionaire" question: On which day do you think the
owner of the shop made more
sales?
To illustrate the point with a more concrete
example I'll share this one real-life story with you,
then move on. Recently I went to an Arts Festival held at
a mall, and stopped in to chat with a vendor selling
nutritional supplements and vitamins. I naturally asked
her if she had a
website.
She responded that she had tried it but had
not gotten any good results so I naturally mentioned my
website and all the targeted traffic that I was
getting on my site to which she responded, "I don't care
about traffic, I am only interested in the number of
people who purchase my products." I remembered that--as I
opened my mouth to respond--all I could say
was "Da...ah", before the next couple came up to the
counter.
What’s your
Passion?…
Another component which I really enjoyed
about using the SITE BUILD IT program initially was how Ken
provided an exercise which helps the website builder to figure
out what their true passion is and what stimulates them so that
they bring that idea to the internet. So that your web
site is more of a fun thing to build rather than just another
part time work at home job. These days, I have to force myself
to go to bed because I find the theme of total health so
fascinating…
Did I say this would be brief…okay…let me wind
it
up
Even before buying the SITE BUILD IT program, I
was so impressed with SITE BUILD IT’s presentation and
just compelled to make the investment, which came with an
iron clad “satisfaction guarantee or your money back”
attached to
it.
Now is a good time to
investigate SITE BUILD IT!
What are you waiting for? A new year? Well
it's here and full of new possibilities for creating your own
website from scratch, of creating your own home-based online
business, creating your own profit making website or just
sharing a hobby with the world. The choice is yours. You can do
it. I did it. And it is the most fun I have ever had in front
of a computer.
The sooner you start, the sooner you get used to working with a
web host that puts all the tools in one package for you and
takes out all the guestwork so all you have to do is
concentrate on building your business by providing your
customers with great content and great products--either your
own product or service or someone else's (affiliate
programs). I invite you to get started at the SITE
BUILD IT “university”
today.
Looks like I am going to need a Part
2…
I had hoped to tell you about the second
program used in building our websites, but because I was so
longwinded about SITE BUILD IT, I will have to promise to do it
at another
time.
But before I go,
let me direct you to the Site Build It site so you can take a closer look at all
the features this program has to offer. Click here to go
to the special SBI page I built listing most of their
resources. You will even be able to compare their
package with other programs, feature by
feature.
Feel free to email
me if you have other questions about building your first
website using the SBI program. Though I am still a
newbie, I now have connection in high places (i.e. Site
Build It! support team). In fact you can ask questions
directly to the experts at Site Build It here
I’m wishing you all the best as you go online
with your new or enhanced
website.
Best
Regards,
Lo
Editor
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PS
1
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already done so, and you will see what I mean about our
sites ranking in the top 1 to 3 % of all sites
visited on the net. The download takes just a couple of
minutes and the toolbar will also come in handy when you
have your own website up and want to keep up with your
own site statistics. Or if you have a website, take the
traffic check test at Site Build It.
P.S.
II
"You CAN
build a website that draws your customers/vistors in, as
well as welcomes the search engine robots in with open
arms.
"And, no, it does not matter whether you are selling e-goods,
hard goods,
infoproducts or infopublishing,
whether you are an auction seller, a
network marketer, or into
sales and rentals, or like
referring people to offline
businesses. Site Build it will
help you succeed, showing you
how to profit with your affiliate
business, how to make your content
presell, how to
write for the net (netwriting),
how to make your words sell , make your site sell and so much more.
"Other things like traffic,
linking strategies (value exchange), store building,
ecommerce
and courses for seasoned webmasters
are all available--and most of them
free.
"Or maybe you just need more information on Adsense and Adwords or
have a few questions you need
to ask before you embark on your new website. SBI can help. Do
a traffic check on
your own site to see how it currently ranks,
take a quick tour of successful SBI sites
and see
case studies, or do a
search
for keywords, or find
linking partners or directories. The list goes on and on,
but as they say...
"The
PROOF is always in the pudding.
Check out the FREE DOWNLOADS available from Site Build It
first OR if you are looking for a
trusted company to provide website hosting for your new
web site, visit Site Build It Comparison page
to see what the competition is
offering AND then just go ahead and get started with
positioning your online business for internet
success today. Get all the tools that you need to build your
internet business from
the king of website development, Ken Evoy and
his team of professionals.
P.S. III
"Finally, after you learn all the ropes, do like I will be
doing in the next few months. Quit your day job (if that
is your goal) and take a holiday while cruising on the road to
living your dreams.
"That has to be why the
Special Free(dom) Prize inside every Site Build It
box is my personal all time
favorite
link."
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