Starting An Online Business

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The beginning......

Okay, okay! I've heard enough about SiteBuildIt! I'm going to give it a try. I've invested the $299 and I guess we'll see if it really delivers. This lens is going to be about that journey. Good, bad or indifferent. You're welcome to come along for the ride!

Justifying the price 

$299! Sounds like a lot of money but is it really?

If I built a website the old fashioned way, I would need to dish out:

Webhosting for a year: $84
Autoresponder for a year: $110 (if I purchase through my own aweber affiliate link)
Wordtracker 1 week subscription: $30
NVU website builder: free
SEO Elite: $125 (if I purchase through my own clickbank affiliate link)
html code book: $4
TOTAL: $353 and now all I have to do is figure it all out!

With SBI:
Webhosting for a year: $0!
Wordtracker subscription: $0
Autoresponder for a year: $0!
Don't need SEO knowledge: PRICELESS!
Don't need html knowledge: PRICELESS!

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Elad of coolest-parties.com shares his life-liberating "Site Build It" (SBI) story.

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I bought SiteBuildIt! 

Well, I spent the first day just watching videos on how SiteBuildIt! works. I can see now that this is going to be a long process but it really is designed with the beginner in mind and there appears to be a lot of ways to get help.

Finding my niche 

They suggest creating a website about something you love. I used the BrainStormIt! tool and it didn't take long to find my niche.

Well , it looks like I can get enough good keywords that fall into the guidelines that SBI suggests. They have the neatest BrainStormIt! tool to help you find and sort through your keywords.

Well, that was pretty easy and kinda fun!

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Figuring out if it will be Profitable! 

There are lots of great articles at SiteBuildIt! that talk about the many different ways you can monetize your website. They also have a lot of neat tools that will also help you to figure out if your niche will make you money. I believe I've found several ways to do this but they tell me that all I need to do for now is to make sure that my niche is going to be profitable and then put it on the back burner.

Okay, let's move on to the next step!

Developing my blueprint 

Okay, using the keyword list of 500 or so words that I was able to find for my niche using BrainStormIt!, I developed my three tier blueprint for my site.

Now I've got a whole of reading to do to learn just how to build this site with SiteBuildIt!

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Building my Homepage 

Well, I've learned A LOT these past two weeks and now I selected the perfect domain using the SearchIt! tool. I have learned how to write to presell and I have built my homepage using the SiteBuildIt! building blocks.

You don't have to use the building blocks, you can use your own html program to build your pages. If you want, you can even start out using the building blocks and then switch over to your own html after you build a few pages.

They have a neat little tool that will analyze your page to make sure that you have optimized it correctly for the search engines. If not, it will tell you how to fix it.

Okay, on to the next step, my tier two pages!

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I've reached the 30 page mark! 

Well, it took awhile but I reached the 30 page milestone. Now, according to the directions, I need to start getting some inbound links. There is a Make Your Links Work Ebook that I am going to read and study next. It's going to take some time, but I'll get there. It's been right at 4 weeks since I purchased SiteBuildIt!.

If your intersted in looking at my site, here it is:

Mama's Southern Cooking

Continuing to Put Up Content 

Okay, I've submitted my site to quite a few directories and posted to a couple of cooking forums. I've signed up with Value Exchange and gotten a couple of inbound links from there. I'm also continuing to build content. I've added a total of 33 recipes and am working on putting up pictures of each of the recipes.

This is going to take some time because I am what's known as a "dump cook". I have baking recipes but when I am cooking, I rarely measure anything so I'm having to measure everything out instead of just "eye-balling" it. That way I can write it down for the recipe and then take a picture of it when it's done.

7 weeks! 

I've reached my goal of 50 unique visitors a day and about 60 pages so now I'm going to start monetizing my site and see if I really can make money! I plan to add google adsense and a few affiliate links to start as well as an about me page where I will sell SiteBuildIt!

It's been 10 weeks! 

It's been 10 weeks and I am up to 70 unique visitors a day. Incredibly enough, I've already made $224.47 off of my site!!!!! Who knew!!!

I'm going to continue to monetize, write articles, build at least 3 to 4 pages of content and submit my site to 5-10 directories per week and we'll see what other exciting things might happen!!!!

Wish me luck!

Infopublishing

New Milestone! 

Checked my stats this morning to find that I topped 100 unique visitors yesterday. 115 to be exact!!! How about that I had 115 unique visitors, a bounce rate in the low 30's, averageing 7.5 pages per visit! I think I'm really going to like this!

I Love SBI!

Pay Day! 

Well, I've gotten my investment back and a little more! It's all profit from here! I think this is going to be a winner!

SBI! talks about the snowball effect with your snowball rolling downhill faster and faster. Well, it may be April but all I've got to say is "Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!"

12 weeks! 

I noticed today that Google has give me a page rank of 2! Pretty neat after only 12 weeks!

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Check out the SBI! forum! 

If you think you might want to try SBI! but you're still a little skeptical, you can visit the SBI! forum as my guest. Just click on the link:

SBI! Forum

and enter mamas-southern-cooking.com as both the username and the password. You'll be able to read until your heart's content but you won't be able to post anything. ENJOY!

You'll have to forgive me..... 

I've been at this for a little over a year now. I've not been posting to this lens regularly like I should have.

Let me update you on my progress. I now have another SBI!site called America's-Best-Places-To-Retire.com and am working on building a third website that I will reveal in the next month.

To be honest, I've not put forth the effort that I should have mainly because my daughter got married a couple of weeks ago and a lot goes into planning a wedding so my websites were neglected.

Under the circumstances though, I couldn't be more pleased with SBI! I don't make a whole lot of money through Affiliate Sales but I am very pleased with the money I make with Google Adsense considering the amount of time I have had to spend working on my websites. I get a check from them EVERY month for between $250 and $300. I have been getting checks from Infolinks every couple of months for a little over $100.

Now that the wedding is over, I'll be getting back to building my websites and hope to see my profits grow even faster. I'll keep you posted on my progress.

 

Check back for more developments!

Do you think SiteBuildIt! will work? 

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rvandame

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ReplyPosted July 05, 2009

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ReplyPosted November 18, 2008

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ReplyPosted August 14, 2008

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ReplyPosted August 09, 2008

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Attraction wrote...

Great Lens! I'm always looking for ways to improve myself on ways to make money online and I'm glad to have found your lens. My lens is about Step by Step to Start Making Money Online, would love to hear your comments :)

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ReplyPosted May 30, 2008

 
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