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What is Site Build It?

February 11, 2009 by John Dilbeck
Filed under: Affiliate Marketing, Sitesell and Site Build It, Webhosting 

This originally started out as a reply on my friend’s blog, but it was too long and it looks like the reply was not accepted. Hopefully, it won’t duplicate what may still appear on his blog.

Mitch Mitchell recently wrote an article called The Ads On This Blog and we got to talking about Site Build It.

He asked…

John, I have to admit that I kind of don’t get it then; we’re talking about Site Build It. I was under the impression that it was a program to help you build websites; that would seem to be inaccurate. I read this post of yours, I did watch the video, but I’m still missing it. Can you explain it better?

I wrote what I hoped would be a better explanation, but when I submitted the reply, the page reloaded and didn’t show the comment or state that it was awaiting moderation.

So, since it may be too long for a comment, here’s what I tried to say in reply to Mitch’s question…

Good morning, Mitch.

I’ll try to do a better job. Sometimes I over-complicate things. I’ve been told that I could describe a pencil and make it hard to use.

Here is what I think is the central concept of SBI: the C-T-P-M process.

The idea is that people don’t search for us on the Internet. They search for information about something, a solution to a problem, or something that will scratch their particular itch.

If they knew about us, they’d come right to our site, but they don’t.

So, they go to Google and type in something they want to learn more about.

If our site offers information about that topic, we want to be on page one so the person doing the searching will find us.

To do that, we offer quality information (C = content) that the search engines rank well.

When someone finds us on the SE, that leads to free traffic to our site (T = traffic).

While the visitor is on our site on a page that is targeted to what they are looking for, we want to provide information that will help persuade them that we have something that will satisfy what they were looking for. (P = PREsell).

Then, if they decide to click on one of the links or perform an action for which we get paid, we can earn an income and build our business (M = monetize).

That’s the C-T-P-M process in a nutshell.

This may sound like common sense if you’ve been marketing on the web for any time, but it was a rather remarkable idea a few years ago when Ken Evoy introduced it.

So, our goal is to place ourselves between the person searching and the merchant from whom they can buy.

To do that, we research the keywords and phrases that people are actually searching for and compare the number of searchers to the number of competing websites.

Ken coined a term for this comparison: profitability. He probably wishes now that he had chosen to call it something different, because some people think it is some kind of absolute measure of how much money they can make. It’s not. It’s a simple comparison of Supply (website pages) versus Demand (number of searches). Still, it make it easy to find the low-hanging-fruit so we can create pages targeted to those searches.

SBI offers a bunch of integrated tools to help us make pages that rank well and get free visitors.

Brainstorm It! is the keyword research tool and I can do more research in a couple of hours with it than I can do in days with other tools I use.

As a result of using Brainstorm It!, we build a master keyword list (MKL) that is stored on the SBI servers.

All of this is done from a browser. It is not a program we buy and use locally. It is a series of integrated tools on their servers.

As we complete the process of brainstorming, following the SBI action guide, we can identify a niche that matches our interests and looks like it will be profitable based on the keyword searches and competition.

In fact, the Action Guide recommends researching three different niches and comparing them to choose one that we’ll develop into a site.

This is a radically different approach than just posting a few pages about us that nobody will find. I’m talking about the typical “brochure” website that most small businesses put up.

Now, if someone doesn’t want to use all the tools that SBI offers for less than a dollar a day, they can go watch the video version of the Action Guide or read the text version and build a site following those principles. They would not have access to Brainstorm It, the MKL, the world submitter, the ezine management module, nor any of the other integrated tools that SBI offers.

I’ve used what I learned from following the SBI method to build other static sites and write blogs. I have found, however, that they are harder to manage and don’t get results as good as I can get from using SBI and all it offers.

Site Build It! does include a simple browser-based site building module that operates similarly to posting to a blog. For anyone who does not want to master the complexities of writing HTML, it takes what we enter into the sitebuilder, parses it through a format we can select for presentation, and produces the HTML page. It then hosts that page, submits it to the major search engines automatically, and adds it to the RSS feed for the site.

It does other things in the background, as well.

Over the years, some people have complained about the templates (themes) that are available for SBI customers. I think there are a couple of dozen basic designs.

So, a few years ago, the ability to customize the themes was added.

Later, the system was upgraded so that a customer could use any design tools they preferred to build a page and could then upload the HTML to the SBI database.

One of the major differences between Site Build It! and typical hosting is that SBI is a huge, integrated database that helps us analyze what we write, preview the pages, publish them, and then hosts and serves them to our visitors.

Some people get hung up on the lack of FTP, because they’re so tied to traditional webhosting.

Lately, a lot of SBI sites have gone to three columns. I think this is partly because of WordPress blogs, but don’t know it for sure.

I choose to continue to use a simple two-column design on my SBI site that has a navigation menu in the left column and the page’s main content in the larger right column.

Let’s go back to considering the beginning webmaster for a moment.

The included sitebuilder module makes it easy to use headlines, text, graphics, links, and even tracking links, even for someone who knows practically nothing about HTML tags.

Most will learn to use simple bolding, italics, and the like. Some will progress to unordered and ordered lists.

But, they don’t have to.

Anyone who wants to concentrate on writing quality content around their topic of choice can do so easily using the sitebuilder.

I did that for years with good results.

Eventually, instead of using many different modules per page, I started dumping all the content I wrote into a text module. I wrote my own HTML and used the sitebuilder in a way in which it wasn’t designed, but still worked.

When Mom went into the nursing home last year, I spent about six weeks reprogramming the Radio Userland database I use to build all my other large sites so that I could write HTML pages that would work properly with the SBI database.

The reason I did this is because I’ve spent years programming my system to make it particularly easy to include links, navigation bread crumbs, and other things that I’ve grown used to using.

Now, I have rewritten my SBI site and put it into my own database. This allows me to make major changes to an entire site, or section of a site, very easily.

It took a lot of work and a lot of time to make this an easy process, but I believe it was worth the effort. Most people would never approach building a site as I have.

So, with SBI, you have your choice of tools on how you’re going to create a page. You can fill in the blanks using the sitebuilder; write your code in a text editor; use a WYSIWYG HTML editor; or even do something like I did.

If you use the sitebuilder, it’s as easy as filling in the blanks and pressing a button.

If you upload your own HTML, it’s a simple matter of creating the page using the tools you prefer and then uploading the page to SBI. This is similar to uploading a photo to a blog or photo hosting site. Browse on your computer, select the file, click upload.

The difference is that, once your page is in the SBI database, you have access to the analyze it module that helps you optimize the page using common SEO techniques, coupled with advice from the system on how you can make it better.

Then, you click publish, and SBI does its behind-the-scenes work helping you promote the page.

The majority of people I talk to get hung up on one of two things: (1) the sitebuilder and its lack of the options they want, or (2) the lack of FTP.

The actual process of creating the page is not the important part of SBI. What is important is the process of planning, researching, and presenting a well-organized site related to a single theme, with each page being written and optimized to rank well in the search engines for a particular (usually long-tail) keyword phrase.

By creating quality content that people are searching for, and then following the steps to help the site rank well, the site starts getting visitors. Once that is accomplished, and relatively late in the process, we can start monetizing the site.

Most people want to start with monetizing as the first step, before they have created the information that leads to free traffic, and that doesn’t work nearly as well.

If you read the Action Guide, you can learn the SBI systematic approach to building a site – for free.

You won’t have access to all the tools, support, and forum, however.

There is no magic in Site Build It! It’s just a systematic process for building a tightly-focused site on a particular topic of your choice, coupled with a lot of tools that makes the process easier and/or more effective.

Does that explain it better?

Act on your dream!

JD

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21 Comments on What is Site Build It?

  1. Mitch on Wed, 11th Feb 2009 11:15 am

    2. Hi John,

    It did end up on my blog, in the spam area, but I approved it. Let’s see what happens with it all.

    Meanwhile, I’m still slightly confused, trying to fit it into a place I understand. So, here’s my biggest question; is Site Build It kind of a hosting company? Lesser question, based on what you said, does each individual domain name rank on its own, or does it rank based on Site Build It?

    Mitch´s last blog post..Book Writing Series Part Seven – Contacting Publishers

  2. John Dilbeck on Wed, 11th Feb 2009 2:18 pm

    3. Good afternoon, Mitch.

    Again, I’m sorry for the confusion.

    Here are the short answers for your questions…

    The simple answer is yes. Sitesell is a hosting company, but that is only one small part of the equation.

    Each domain ranks on it’s own with no help from the Sitesell domain. When I was actively working on my site, it ranked in the mid-600,000 range. Currently, it’s in the 1.5 million range on Alexa. The Sitesell.com domain currently ranks around 4,000 on Alexa.

    Here’s are the longer answers and some background…

    Sitesell was founded by Ken Evoy to sell his Make Your Site Sell! ebook, way back in the 20th century.

    All sales were driven by affiliates – the 5 Pillar Club.

    Many of the affiliates at that time had no idea how to build a website and blogs didn’t exist.

    Many were using free classifieds and Ken introduced a simple page builder called, get ready, here it comes, Page Build It. Using some of the concepts from Make Your Site Sell, the Page Build It! tool made it easy for us to build a page targeted to a specific keyword and use that to help presell MYSS.

    The tool allowed us to use our browser to build the page and Sitesell hosted the page for us, for free.

    Over the next few years, the tool started evolving. Before long, it became possible to build a site instead of just a stand-alone page. Some of the first customers of SBI were 5 Pillar affiliates, but as the system evolved, it became usable for sites in many different niches.

    More tools were developed, procedures were tested, and eventually Site Build It! became the big seller, easily eclipsing all the ebooks, which have now been reissued as free downloads.

    I used what I learned from the MYSS ebook to rebuild GeorgiaDragRacing.com and the site started getting around a million page views per year – dramatically higher than before the rebuild.

    We started ranking on page one on Google and Yahoo, instead of being buried somewhere nobody could find us.

    Later, I rebuilt JohnDilbeck.com using the same techniques, and it, too, started getting more than a million page views per year and I was ranking better than Amazon.com for some of the books I promoted that linked to their store with my affiliate links.

    At one point, I had several dozen pages that ranked very well for books.

    (My poor old JohnDilbeck.com site needs a complete rebuild. I’ve changed my focus over the years and didn’t have time to update the site. I haven’t done much there in a couple of years. As a result, it’s dropped from the mid-500,000 range on Alexa down to the 3.2 million range. Still, it gets a lot of traffic and makes regular sales. I plan to delete many pages and entire sections on that site and redo the remaining pages later this spring.)

    (I haven’t looked at the stats for that site in quite awhile, but I just now went there and it shows that the site received 357K page views from about 27K unique visitors in 2008. Not as well as it used to do, but still respectable for a site that’s just been sitting there. With a little work, I think I can rebuild it to be more successful.)

    But, I’m digressing.

    JohnDilbeck.com is a non-focused site where I write about anything I want. That is not the optimum way to build a successful, profitable site.

    Even my SBI site is a poor example of a content-rich, theme-focused site. I picked an obscure niche that isn’t easily monetized. Even half the people that find it are looking for interpreting sleeping dreams rather than motivation and inspiration for achieving our dreams and aspirations.

    Still, it has been remarkably successful. It took a couple of years to decide what direction I want to go with it, but now I have a plan I’ll be implementing this year.

    If you look at the SBI results page, you’ll see many sites that are better targeted to their niches and are performing very well. Some of those sites are earning thousands of dollars per month.

    We’ve discussed previously that you and I are interested in many things, but passionate about few.

    This year, I’m going to build a new site powered by Site Build It to promote locally-owned businesses in Murphy, NC. I have no doubt that I’ll be able to dominate the search engines for the phrases I target and I’ll be able to send visitors and leads to my marketing clients.

    I started a test site at MurphyNCBusiness.com and, while it ranks well, it’s much harder to do all I want to do than if I were to do it with the tools SBI provides.

    So, eventually, that domain will be redirected to one section on my new, unnamed site.

    That will allow me to focus my efforts for maximum results for my clients.

    Still, it’s not a good niche for an SBI site. The market is small and searches are relatively few, but it’s what I want to do.

    One of these days, I’ll discover another niche that really excites me and I’ll build a truly successful, profitable site – maybe.

    In the meantime, I’m enjoying telling others about how SBI can help them do what they want and I’m enjoying the success they are achieving.

    If you have any other questions, I’ll do my best to answer them – and I’ll try to do it much more concisely now that the groundwork and history are established.

    Act on your dream!

    JD

  3. Mitch on Wed, 11th Feb 2009 10:48 pm

    4. Hey John,

    Thanks for that first bit of information. Of course, it prompts me into a couple more questions, if I may.

    So, we’ve established they’re a hosting company, of sorts. It sounds like the model is twofold. One, if you don’t have a website and don’t know how to build one, you can create some keywords and they’ll build one for you, complete with the SEO stuff, as long as you pay for it. That’s probably not totally it, as I assume the person has to work with the tools to at least do some designing of the thing. Am I correct on that one?

    Two, if you do know how to build websites, but are weak on the SEO portion that will help generate visitors, they can take care of that part for you also, as long as you supply keywords of things you want to be found for. Am I correct on that one?

    And three,… well, three is a little different. Is the process all automated, or are there people who help do, or actually just do, all the background work?

    Four (wasn’t sure there would be a four, but there is), I took a look at johndilbeck.com, and I assume it was built when 13″ monitors were all the rage. Did you create all those different links, or did SiteSell actually add all those links? I noticed some of them, most specifically the “books” link, has some bad code showing once you get to that page. I’m assuming that’s something that’s happened over time through the neglect you mentioned. I’m looking at that site and my mind is saying “wow, there’s a lot of stuff on this site, lots of sales links, then news links, and on and on and on. Kind of freaky, top and sides, which is why I’m asking if you did that, or did they do it?

    First, a personal question; I didn’t know your family history included blacksmithing. Did you ever learn the craft or did you just decide to go in a different direction?

    Okay, that’s enough from me; thanks for your indulgence.

    Mitch´s last blog post..At Least Be Professional In Your Writing

  4. John Dilbeck on Thu, 12th Feb 2009 10:07 am

    5. Good morning, Mitch.

    No indulgence at all. I’m enjoying talking about this with you.

    Let’s take your questions one at a time…

    One: So, we’ve established they’re a hosting company, of sorts. It sounds like the model is twofold. One, if you don’t have a website and don’t know how to build one, you can create some keywords and they’ll build one for you, complete with the SEO stuff, as long as you pay for it. That’s probably not totally it, as I assume the person has to work with the tools to at least do some designing of the thing. Am I correct on that one?

    No, I don’t think you have the concept, yet.

    Site Build It! is a do-it-yourself system that offers hosting, but what sets it apart are all the tools that are available and the process.

    You still have to do the research, identify topics you think will be profitable, and write the content.

    The people at Sitesell don’t do any of that for you.

    You do have access to the members-only forum and someone there can answer just about any question related to building a site.

    Recently, Sitesell introduced Sitesell Services which is closer to what you describe. If someone wants an experienced SBI webmaster to build a site for them, this is the way to go. We can call it a do-it-for-me service.

    It costs quite a bit more than the basic Site Build It subscription, but I think it is still reasonably priced.

    The process of designing the site can be separated into two areas: appearance and content organization.

    Defining the appearance can range from very easy to as difficult as one wants. On the easy end of the continuum, it’s a simple matter of selecting a theme, modifying the header text, and choosing the navigation style. That’s pretty similar to choosing a theme for a blog, but offers much fewer options.

    On the more-complicated side of the continuum, one can choose to design a page as complicated as is wanted, but then it would obviate using the sitebuilder tool.

    There are choices.

    The target market for Site Build It is someone who wants to build a website without getting bogged down in all the details that we have to master for traditional webmastery.

    Does that explain it better?

    Two, if you do know how to build websites, but are weak on the SEO portion that will help generate visitors, they can take care of that part for you also, as long as you supply keywords of things you want to be found for. Am I correct on that one?

    No, that’s not part of the service, either.

    There are experienced SBI webmasters who offer consulting services such as you describe to help others do better with their sites, but it’s purely optional.

    Just as you can hire someone to research and write content for you, it’s an option to hire someone to help you with the technical side of things.

    But, if one has the time and motivation to learn these things, the Action Guide and all the help files should be sufficient to take someone through all of this so they can do it themselves.

    We all know that each of us has a different set of skills and aptitudes, so it would be true to say that not everyone can learn how to do all of this, no matter how much help is provided.

    I think, however, that most people who really want to do so can learn how to build an effective site with Site Build It. I will not make that prediction for those who choose to use traditional hosting or any of the popular blogging platforms.

    As far as keywords and finding topics to write about goes, that’s part of the brainstorming process.

    Although the majority of brainstorming occurs early in the process, we can use Brainstorm It any time we want to re-evaluate keywords and phrases.

    What most people don’t realize is that people don’t find you by searching for the keywords you expect. They find you by searching for phrases you’d never think of entering.

    Brainstorm It helps you find those keywords. For example, if you enter a specific keyword, then brainstorm it can find other phrases that contain that word that are being searched for. It ties in automatically with WordTracker to do this research.

    If you want to widen your keywords, you can choose to enter a keyword and have Brainstorm It do a search on the top-200 rated sites on Google for that word and then return the most important keywords and phrases that are on those sites, but which do not include the word you entered. That can be a good way to find keywords you probably would not think of.

    Additionally, after the site has been active for awhile, you can look at the stats to see what kinds of long-tail keywords are finding your site and can do further research on them and write new content pages targeting those specific phrases, if you want.

    And three,… well, three is a little different. Is the process all automated, or are there people who help do, or actually just do, all the background work?

    These tools are automated. There is nobody to help you or to do the work for you with the basic SBI subscription.

    Of course, you can ask for help on the forum or hire someone to do the work you can’t, or don’t want to do.

    What we get with the annual subscription is a detailed process to follow, automated tools to help us, and a forum where we can help and be helped.

    Anything above that would require hiring someone else with the skills we need.

    Most of the people I’ve followed on the forum over the years have managed to do what they need themselves. Almost all of us have asked for help on getting over a particular hump or understanding something, and most of us have offered help to others when we can offer the answers they need.

    Four (wasn’t sure there would be a four, but there is), I took a look at johndilbeck.com, and I assume it was built when 13? monitors were all the rage. Did you create all those different links, or did SiteSell actually add all those links? I noticed some of them, most specifically the “books” link, has some bad code showing once you get to that page. I’m assuming that’s something that’s happened over time through the neglect you mentioned. I’m looking at that site and my mind is saying “wow, there’s a lot of stuff on this site, lots of sales links, then news links, and on and on and on. Kind of freaky, top and sides, which is why I’m asking if you did that, or did they do it?

    JohnDilbeck.com was not built by Site Build It. I did all of that manually, but I based the SEO and navigation on techniques I learned by reading Make Your Site Sell!

    I did have a 15-inch monitor, but I built the site so that it would print comfortably on standard letter-sized paper. I also don’t like wide sites, so I created it for a size that was comfortable for me.

    Sometime in the last few months, I experimented with a three-column design in some of the sections, but I’m going to go back to a two-column theme in the future and I’m going to delete a lot of the extraneous stuff on the home page. Those were just experiments I tried.

    I plan to delete the entire bookstore section, all the links at the top of the pages, the art store section, and others.

    If it’s not earning a nice profit, *poof* it’s going to disappear.

    I’m also going to delete the musings blog and the other blog that is powered by Coranto.

    I’ll probably syndicate the RSS feed from my new JohnDilbeckAndFriends.com blog on most pages of the site, but I’m going to kill most of the blogs I’ve built other than the three primary blogs I’ve decided upon.

    No, nobody else is to blame for any of that site other than me.

    What you see on JohnDilbeck.com is the results of me getting a wild idea and then trying it, and then not going back and deleting what didn’t help.

    All the links at the top of the page were very effective about three years ago, but not so much now, and I just noticed that quite a few of them are broken – although they worked the last time I checked.

    The links in the sidebar(s) are not as effective as they once were.

    When I have time to do the rebuild, you’ll see a much simpler site with most of the links in the content column.

    That’s the beauty of building a large site with the database I use. I can change the template for a section, click a button, and have the database generate all of the pages for that section. Then, I just delete the old pages and upload the new ones with FTP.

    If I don’t change the content of any of the pages in a section, I can rebuild and upload an entire section in a matter of minutes and it can look very different.

    It’s just a matter of letting that task percolate to the top of my to-do list and then doing it.

    Don’t let JohnDilbeck.com or GeorgiaDragRacing.com or any of my other sites confuse you about Site Build It. The only thing they share in common are some concepts and techniques. Any site I build with SBI will be more structured and much less cluttered.

    First, a personal question; I didn’t know your family history included blacksmithing. Did you ever learn the craft or did you just decide to go in a different direction?

    There have been blacksmiths in every generation of the Dilbeck side of my family for at least 200 years and probably longer. I wrote a little about that a few years back on my Dilbeck Metalsmithing page.

    Way back in the 1930s, Dad was a blacksmith for the Tennessee department of transportation when they were using oxen and mules to cut roads through some of these mountains.

    When I was a teenager in the 1960s, he taught me the basics of the craft as it applied to tools.

    I taught myself the artistic side of the craft.

    Have you seen The Rose That Never Wilts ™?

    I had planned to reopen my smithing business, and still may in the future. However, a few months ago, I lost my balance and fell, catching most of my 300+ pounds with my left hand and bent my middle finger backwards. It’s a wonder it didn’t break.

    Since then, however, that finger has been numb and I just don’t have any strength in my left hand. (I’m also finding it much harder to type when I can’t feel one of my fingers.)

    I’m regularly exercising that hand and hope to regain full use in the coming months. If I do, I’ll resume some artistic smithing and knifemaking.

    I love heating iron to a nice cherry red and reshaping it with a hammer. It is a very satisfying craft and I hope to do it again one of these days.

    Maybe one day I’ll tell you the story about how I knocked out my two top front teeth and found a piece of red-hot steel in my mouth, very unexpectedly. (shudder) I still don’t like to think about that. It could have been much worse.

    So, did I answer your questions?

    Act on your dream!

    JD

  5. Mitch on Thu, 12th Feb 2009 10:37 am

    6. Hi John,

    I’m getting a better handle on it all, finally, after what you’ve written and seeing some examples of the sites people have built using Site Build It. I also enjoyed the steel roses; what talent!

    I was working hard trying to get my mind around all of it, so I’m glad we’re finally there. In its own way, it sounds like it’s obviously still a lot of work, but that’s not a bad thing. It’s probably automating everything I do on my own, and faster, and it’s geared towards sales. Good stuff.

    What’s GREAT stuff are your roses; wow! I don’t have that kind of talent, and with the couple of injuries you mentioned, you know why I don’t do any of that type of work on the house; if it takes more than a screwdriver I don’t do it. Former piano player; I just won’t take those types of chances as it pertains to my fingers, or my body, as I’ve also never broken any of my bones (bones of other people, but that’s for a different conversation lol).

    Thank you for your time in answering my questions. I shared this link on Twitter yesterday, so maybe some other people have had their questions answered also.

    Mitch´s last blog post..Why I Don’t Want To Follow Some Twitter Folks

  6. olivia on Fri, 13th Feb 2009 12:40 pm

    7. Coming on this page gave me an headach, too technical and too much things to read. I hope you are not blogging for traffic or money…

    Olivia

  7. John Dilbeck on Sat, 14th Feb 2009 4:32 am

    8. Good morning, Mitch.

    I’m happy to hear that you’re understanding Site Build It better.

    Yes, it’s still a lot of work, but there is a process to follow that makes it easier. The tools also save time.

    Truly, I don’t think there are any shortcuts that lead to long-term success.

    If you have any more questions, please feel free to ask. I’ll try to answer them.

    Thanks for the very kind words about my steel roses. I love making them. Maybe I’ll be able to get back to it in a few months.

    I’m not very handy around the house or working on cars. People who know me won’t let me help them. Talent in one area does not necessarily transfer to others.

    ;)

    Thanks for the link. They’re always appreciated.

    Act on your dream!

    JD

  8. John Dilbeck on Sat, 14th Feb 2009 4:35 am

    9. Good morning, Olivia.

    Welcome to our discussion.

    If you’re looking for shorter and less-technical posts, I’m sure you’ll find something else that suits you better.

    Act on your dream!

    JD

  9. Social Network Marketing on Sun, 22nd Feb 2009 11:52 pm

    10. I just saw Olivia’s post. I didn’t think it was too technical. For me you explained it all very well. Thanks for sharing that.

    Tony

  10. John Dilbeck on Mon, 23rd Feb 2009 10:42 am

    11. Good morning, Tony.

    Thank you for your comment. I appreciate it.

    I know that what I have to say won’t be interesting for everyone, and there are many sites and blogs on the Internet, so almost anyone can find something that resonates and is a good fit.

    If you have any questions or other comments, please feel free to fire away.

    ;)

    Act on your dream!

    JD

  11. Firany on Thu, 26th Feb 2009 4:21 am

    12. Wow this really is too long for a comment! Anyway thanks for sharing this amazing service with us. I’ve been always doing all that stuff by myself I’ve never realised there was an easier way. Thanks for sharing that JD.

  12. John Dilbeck on Fri, 27th Feb 2009 12:03 pm

    13. Good morning Firany.

    Welcome to our discussion.

    You’re welcome.

    Act on your dream!

    JD

  13. Firany on Tue, 3rd Mar 2009 10:07 am

    14. Hi John!
    I wonder why my pic isn’t showing there. I think I used my 2nd email without gravatar. Or is it other plugin?

  14. TheVanMan on Tue, 3rd Mar 2009 11:37 am

    15. I really like long blogs to help me to learn. We have just started our own van blog – It is a long road and we need all the help we can get!

  15. John Dilbeck on Wed, 4th Mar 2009 6:25 pm

    16. Good afternoon, Firany.

    I don’t know why your pic isn’t showing up in the previous comment, but it looks like it’s working, now.

    Act on your dream!

    JD

  16. John Dilbeck on Wed, 4th Mar 2009 6:41 pm

    17. Good afternoon, TheVanMan.

    Welcome to our discussion. Good luck with your blog.

    As you can tell from how I write, I’m not afraid to write long posts. Some may not like it, but I try to say what needs to be said.

    Sometimes we can do it with short posts, other times it takes more details.

    Act on your dream!

    JD

  17. Mitch on Wed, 4th Mar 2009 8:36 pm

    18. John, I think our non-fear of writing longer posts when necessary is what separates us from the crowd. lol

    Mitch´s last blog post..The Keys

  18. John Dilbeck on Thu, 5th Mar 2009 8:03 am

    19. Good morning, Mitch.

    It certainly separates us from the crowd.

    Whether it is a good thing, or a bad thing, only time will tell.

    ;)

    JD

  19. Kichler Lighting on Thu, 12th Mar 2009 3:35 pm

    20. SBI sounds like it could be really helpful in getting the attention of people out there in the real world. nice post.

  20. John Dilbeck on Fri, 13th Mar 2009 9:45 pm

    21. Good evening, Kichler Lighting.

    Welcome to our discussion and thanks for your comment.

    Yes, SBI is a very powerful system for getting visitors to learn what you are offering.

    That’s why I’ll be building a new SBI-powered site for promoting local brick-and-mortar businesses in Murphy, NC. It’ll be part of a three-pronged approach that also includes a community on Ning.com and a WordPress-powered blog.

    I believe that the SBI site will bring in the visitors and the other two will allow for better interaction and community building.

    So far, it’s just a plan. I’ll be putting it into action in the next couple of months and then, I’ll know by the end of the year whether my suspicions are correct.

    But, even though I believe that is what it’s going to take to promote my local marketing clients, I don’t want to take away from the relative simplicity of building an online business using SBI.

    For someone who wants to focus tightly on a niche and build a content-rich, keyword-focused set of informational pages, I don’t think there is anything better than SBI, and I’ve been looking and building sites since WWW stood for the “World Wide What??”

    ;)

    Act on your dream!

    JD

  21. Nick on Wed, 29th Jul 2009 1:50 pm

    22. This is a great concept and you guys have a lot of good ideas. I think that there is definitely a market for a product like this and would be interested in learning more about the integration process with existing platforms such as Web CEO, etc…

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