My SBI, Site Build it

My SBI - Site Build it Sometimes people ask me how I, a 74 year old woman, wound up building this web site. And when I tell them that I have 2 other web sites now, they are even more surprised.

Well, I did not start out thinking of building an online business. Nor did I ever think I would have 3 web sites....and be thinking about doing another.

MY SBI story is a bit 'roundabout'. When I was close to retirement (As I said on the About US page, I was a professor at a small college in New York state) I realized two things:

• It would be good for me to find a way to earn some money in retirement. Oh, I had enough for right now. But I remembered older friends back when inflation was rampant in the United States. Some of those friends slipped slowly down the economic ladder. I recall one who was in her seventies, not in the best of health and began updating her resume because she really needed to earn some money. I did not want that to happen to me.
• Because I had residual problems from an auto accidents I did not see myself able to do many of the sorts of jobs that are open to 'seniors'. I needed something where I could work from home, set my own hours and take days off when I needed

My first thought was that an out of print book selling business would fill the bill. I loved books, knew a good deal about them are really liked the idea of 'bringing a reader and a book together'. That was my first attempt at an income producing home business.

After a few years, the sites where I listed my books, ABEbooks, Alibris, Bibliofind were bought out by larger companies. They changed. Suddenly prices dropped through the floor. Good for buyers. But not for a small, specialty bookseller. Although I still list some books on line, I have been reducing inventory and I shall be out of the online book business as soon as I clear out a few more books.

My second though was to earn money through the web. I am not very technically oriented.(When the college where I worked first got computers, I over head one of the faculty in the computer science area say of me "If Kate can learn this, anyone can." That says something of my technical skills.

Not daunted, I began subscribing to web business newsletters. I tried many of the programs promising me financial success on the web: membership sites, metawebs, traffic money, blogging for profit. I even traveled across the country to Los Angeles to attend an Internet Marketing seminar.

I paid my money, worked hard at each program I tiedbut in the end I was not successful. I finallydecided that as far as I was concerned, the people earning money from the programs were those selling them. I was not having success. ( Thank goodness that SOME of the owners gave 30 day trials and I could get my money back.) But in other cases...well, I concluded it was 'tuition' for learning what would not work for me.

My SBI business - success at last!

I went to his site and watched this slide show. Click to view: Slide show

I thought about what I had seen.

What it was saying made sense but what REALLY convinced me to give it a try was Ken's 'money back guarantee'.

Try it out, Ken said, and if it is not for you, I willgive you ALL your money back, every cent so I started MY SBI trial.

So that was the beginning. And have I gotten an education wiht My SBI! First of all I learned that my first 3 ideas for web sites were not likely to be business successes. ( Although many people were interested in my topics, there was just too much competition.) Saved from one mistake.

I kept allowing SBI 'brainstormer' to research my ideas fortheir success factor. On attempt #5 I had what looked to be a winner for an 'information site'.

So I got my domain (SBI pays for this) and used one of their templates (you can upload your own design if you want), built my first web site. Each week I added some pages, SBI'analyze it' reviews each page for 'what search engines look for' and I took the suggestions and made some page revisions. SBI did its thing...sent each page to the search engines etc. Slowly I began to build traffic.

I worked steadily. And after a few weeks, I had more traffic. As I wrote more pages, my ranking in the search engines began to improve. (That site now has over 100 pages on page 1 of Google search returns.) And as my traffic increased, I found the web site began to earn money.... even when I was asleep..or sick or taking a short holiday. I felt really good.

OK, I thought. I understand this. So I decided to create a 2nd web site. BUT I was too cocky. I did not follow each step in the SBI program. Result? My second web sitehas been online for 3 years and I just do not earn much from it at all. It is not a business success - though I decided to keep it on line as a service to those interested in the topic.

So when I decided to create a 3rd site, I did follow ALL the steps. This Anti-aging-articles.com site is the result. I am still building it - and yes, I am not fond of the name 'anti-aging' because I am NOT against aging.

But SBI showed me that people search for 'anti-aging' and I now now enough to realize that I must use what people want if I am to get traffic and have a successful web business.

I have learned soooooo much in the process of using SBI. And I have made some great online contacts. ( The FORUM section of SBI offers me practical help and a sense of camaraderie.)

For me SBI is providing a reliable retirement income. It also allows me to provide a service - information - to those wanting or needing it. AND is gives me a purposeful work in areas I enjoy. I love it....

In the forums I have met students paying their college tuition, single moms supporting their family while being their for their children, adults who have actually quit theirold jobs because they are earning more than they did in those jobs, people with physical limitations (including some who are blind) and lots of seniors. There is even one woman in her 90's with a SBI site!

So that is my story. If you want to review Ken's video click on the image below.

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