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There are so many ways to market and sell an ebook, once you have the traffic. One is to use one of the E-Com solutions mentioned in SiteSell s Best of Breed Resource section -- just copy-and-paste -- it s plug-n-play. I m choosing ClickBank. The main idea is to provide my visitors with a painless way to purchase and download it. laptop battery

• Five Pillar Club Affiliate Program

  : Because I ve spent all my time on Best Kid Games Online so far, I haven t spent time pursuing SiteSell as an affiliate. Nor, of course, is there any obligation to do so -- SiteSell s affiliate program is completely independent of SBI! thinkpad

But I know a good thing when I see one. Like everything Dr. Evoy does, the 5 Pillar Program is truly state of the Net. I recently wrote my About Me pages and will actively promote an affiliate relationship with SiteSell.com in that context. microsoft

• Game!News eZine

  : It s true that a web site s worth is found in its mailing list. Because of this, I will spend more time and energy on developing mine. Along this line, the first week of February I finally sent out my first newsletter, the Game!News eZine. A newsletter is an important tool in developing a sense of community. These are the people that liked what they saw when they visited my site. They liked it enough to part with their email address. That s a big thing and it s something that must be treasured. The newsletter will help cement these relationships. laptop computers

• Stickability Issues

  : Looking at my visitor statistics, I m finding out that a majority of my visitors have been one-time visitors. I want that to change and there are several ideas I am beginning to test. laptop computer

• Free Online Games

  : One of the methods I am using is uploading games to my site so that visitors have a reason to come back over and over again. I find this is working, but it could be backfiring for me. I am getting many repeat visitors on my 18 free game pages but to date, it hasn t paid off monetarily. I need to tell myself to just wait...just wait and see if this stickiness translates into the community of visitors that use my site for their purchases. I have a tendency to want the changes to happen NOW! desktop computer

Of course, one of the real beauties of the Net is that it s so cheap to test. If something does not work, drop it. If it does... monetize it! notebooks

• BKGOnline Blog

  : Since I like the idea of community, I am toying with the possibility of starting a blog or a Message Board -- SBI! makes this a snap, too. A blog is short for web-log which is essentially an online journal by which you and your visitors can communicate. This is a difficult decision though. At what point do I want to cut down the time I spend on this site and begin moving forward with another one lenovo

I ve come an amazing way in a short time. I m building something that is real, that is mine, that has value and generates income. And it s just the beginning. I ve invested in three more Site-Build-It sites. I m researching the keywords now ... we ll see where we go next. Rob Oskins www.best-kid-games-online.com Close Window hard drive

SBI! - Local Business Local Businesses/Professions

Dr. John Burch My name is John Burch. I am a dentist, practicing in Mountain View, California. About two years ago, I decided to look into various ways to market my practice. The first thing I noticed was the high cost of traditional marketing. And, I was not able to get much of a response with the various methods I tried (coupons, new homeowners, yellow pages, newspaper ads and an expensive newsletter). travelstar

Then, someone recommended that I build a Web site, and use the Internet to market my practice. I did some research, and found SiteBuildIt. I downloaded the Action Guide, and began learning how to do it myself. gateway

I chose drburch.com as my domain, and Mountain View Dentist as my primary search term. The first month my site was actually up was May of 2003. My average daily unique visitors that month was just 1, and I converted none of the 26 visitors who came to my site into a dental patient. Still, I was encouraged - we all start somewhere. The site was young, and I was just getting started. I followed the SBI! Action Guide to build more content, to improve my natural search results, and followed the advice and strategies in their Traffic, Resources, and Tips n Techniques HQs to purchase keywords on Google and Overture. laptop parts

I read everything I could get my hands on from Ken Evoy at SiteSell. My daily visitor count began to rise. First to an average of 5, then 11, and finally all the way up to 47 average daily unique visitors by the end of 2003. (Remember, this is for a dentist in Mountain View - those numbers are WAY better than any offline advertising I could do). software

I continued to build up my site s content, and groomed my pages to convert better. One key factor in this for me was the enhancement of SBI that allowed me to upload HTML. When this was added, I bought and learned FrontPage. hard drives

By January of 2004, we were getting an average of 63 daily uniques, and converting better than one in one-hundred visitors into a new patient. I analyzed my Return on Investment. I was getting about 1800 monthly unique visitors, and seeing 22 new patients each month. So my conversion was really better than 1/100. Dentist Office In the dental field, the average new patient needs about $1000 worth in treatment. And of course, the lifetime value of a new patient is several times that amount. electronics

So, in addition to the free natural search engines, I can also afford to advertise at Google and Overture. The net result, when all is factored in, is an extremely high Return On Investment. And I can fine-tune this, dropping the unprofitable keywords, keeping the profitable ones, and experimenting with new ones. I can now input the actual numbers and predict exactly what my maximum Pay-Per-Click expenses should be. For a health care professional such as myself, this has been very helpful. We enjoy a high income per new patient ($1000), which allows us to bid fairly high for traffic. canon

Ken s note:

Overture and Google are both heavily investing in local search technology. So expect to be able to bid for local customers soon, increasing the ROI even more. desktop pc

Best of all, of course - I was seeing that about half of the patients who contacted our office actually would come in and begin treatment. I tracked the actual income we were receiving from our online marketing, and, sure enough, we had generated just over $10, 000 additional income per month since October from the Internet! Now there are variable expenses that must be figured against that income. But the sheer fact that I was able to use SBI to stimulate my practice was what I was excited about. As Ken says, the only thing I had to do was bring my brain and motivation to work - there is no such thing as get rich quick - the great thing about SBI is that all the barriers are gone. I just focus on business. desktop computers

And here s the really interesting, surprising part. Naturally, our geographic reach is quite small - I m a dentist in a California town. At first, I thought this would make the Internet not work for my purposes. After all, the Internet is for the world, I thought, and my dental office relies on very local traffic. Ken s note: Dr. Burch gets it. Most local businesses have not yet seen past their local noses. Dr. Burch explains that mentality well. The major Search Engines are pouring tens of millions of dollars into local search. It may take a year or three, but the paper-bound Yellow Pages are doomed. Those local businesses that get it now will thrive and jump way ahead of their competition. But I ll let Dr. Burch tell you the rest in his own words from here on in... think pad

What I found was just the opposite. The Web is a bonanza for local businesses. I modified all of our search terms geographically to give us the edge over my local competition (yes, also explained in SBI - in one of the online HQs). And Pay-Per-Click advertising yielded better than offline ads. repair

And here s a very interesting and unexpected benefit:

The distance patients would travel, when they found us online, was MUCH GREATER than normal. I got patients from distances of 30, 40 and even 50 miles away! This happened, I believe, because I am able to present so many benefits on my Web site, and add to it so easily using SiteBuildIt. (The SiteSell folks call this PREselling - the site builds my credibility to such a degree that patients will travel to see me.) data recovery

The second big unexpected benefit

was that my online patients often needed and accepted larger amounts of treatment than normal. I am not sure why this is, but maybe it is because - again - we can display more content that is specific to their needs. As well, my site s content builds trust and credibility before my patients even see or talk to me in person. cisco

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In summary, my experience with SBI has been a true love affair. The program has worked flawlessly for me. Ken Evoy has led the way, and I don t see anyone even close to his precision, passion, and honesty. I have also learned a lot from Sharon Fling, and her wonderful e-book, How to Promote Your Local Business on the Internet. Having two children in college, and not finding much success in traditional marketing, SiteSell and SBI have made a tremendous difference in my life. And from what I see here in Silicon Valley, local search is just starting to take off. The best is yet to come!! keyboard

Sincerely, John L. Burch DDS www.drburch.com Dr. John s Updates 1) How SBI! has increased his Asset Equivalent Value by $2, 000, 000. Computer to see how. 2) A quick update:How does a LOCAL business crack the Top 100, 000 sites on the Net 3) February/2005: Guess who s telling HIS clients about SBI! Dr. Burch s accountant! monitor

4) May/2005: The Power of C T P M Dr. Burch s patients come from up to 120 miles away. 5) October/2005: Patient who needs $70, 000 of work finds Dr. Burch 6) February/2006: 25 new patients/month, more than $180, 000 due to SBI! during 2005 Close Window SBI! - Rental Agency Case Study Life is not a rehearsal - John Lennon by Fiona McCardle and Jim Andrew

How did Rent a Villa in Tuscany (our Web site) end up in the top 1% of the Internet and how did two Scottish designers end up living in a medieval village on top of a hill in Tuscany Vinyard It s all Sophia Loren s fault! Well, sort of! If her childhood next door neighbor, Paolo, hadn t moved to Tuscany and if winemaker, Paolo, and his family hadn t renovated a farmhouse on a hillside and if they hadn t asked us how they could find rental clients for the farmhouse, then we would never have started Rent a Villa in Tuscany . desktop

In a strange way, all our previous experiences, which at first glance seems a million miles away from what we are doing now, were actually good preparation. Both Fiona and I are art school graduates in Textile Design. For many years we ran our own knitwear design studio in a warehouse on the banks of the River Thames in London. It was probably around this time that the seeds of our fascination with Italy were sown. Over the years, we ve also built up experience in sales, customer service, technical support and photography. These skills, combined with our fluency in Italian (we ve now lived in Italy for 14 years), led us to look into the possibility of setting up a web based villa rental business. infosys

Like thousands of other people round the globe, we d read all about the power of the web and how it was possible to run a totally flexible, international business from a computer in your front room. Great, but the big question was, how refurbished laptops

OK, we were creative and I had played around with some programs designing a web site with photos of Rosie, our baby, but I didn t have a clue how to start setting up a proper site. It was at this point, late one night, surfing through the thousands of get rich quick schemes on the net that I came across something that stood out as being very different, written by a Canadian Doctor called Ken Evoy. The product was called Site Build It . wipro

Maybe it was something about his friendly style of writing, maybe it was because it seemed to include everything (and more) I was looking for but right away, I whipped out the old credit card and instantly hesitated! It seemed too good to be true . More research was needed. lap top

I checked out their independent results page (very impressive). I checked out the opposition. Again, SBI left them all standing. I even checked out respected web gurus , Ralph Wilson and Jim Daniels, who both gave SBI top marks. I had nothing to lose (SBI has a money back guarantee) and everything to gain. Little did I know at that point that we were about to set out on one of the most exciting, bizarre years of our lives. refurbished

So what s happened in the last 12 months a.. We ve been invited round to world famous designer Salvatore Ferragamo s villa (you can now rent it from us for your summer hols!) b.. Whilst lounging by a swimming pool, a Hollywood production company called on the mobile wanting the biggest villa you have for 2 months (we thought it was a friend winding us up) c.. We ve been asked to organize a mega wedding bash for Chuck Berry s ex-piano player s son. Only one problem! Can the Guinness tanker get up the hill memory

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A world famous New York photographer asked us to find a venue for his Tuscan photo course. e.. An award winning journalist from a quality, Irish tabloid, the Banbridge Leader , wants to do a feature on us. We reckon he just fancies a free holiday! f.. We get daily calls from beekeepers, gardeners, carpenters, fashion designers, chemists, pizza makers, cheese makers, winemakers, web designers, piano players, 2nd hand car salesmen, and others who just happen to have a 14th century castle or two lying around, all desperate to be on the site. intel

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Last month, folks from over 60 countries looked at almost 30, 000 pages of our site and we re not even finished building it yet. Sounds like a dream! But the most bizarre thing of all is none of this would have been possible with out SBI. Sure, we were hungry, motivated, hard working, determined, had design skills, people skills and liked working with computers. We had researched our market and knew it had potential. BUT we don t have an exclusive on any of these. So why did we do it when 98% of small business on the net FAIL. What makes SBI different as400

In one word, TRAFFIC. Most (almost all) small business web sites (some are even very pretty with all the latest bells and whistles) sit out there in cyberspace all alone, no one ever looks at them. A web site that no one looks at is a very expensive hobby! The owners wonder why! There s nothing magic about SBI s servers, of course. It s all in the step-by-step logical process, and the tools that do the process. SBI doesn t just give you the tools to build a web site, SBI helps you build a successful web business. As I said, I checked out the Net completely, and I had never seen a page of success stories like this one... and now we are on it, too -- one of the top-ranked sites (sorry for bragging a little). averatec

The process is just so logical... Content - Traffic - PREsell - MONETIZE. Starting with content (after all, that s what people search for, so that s where we begin, too). Right from the start, SBI showed us how to brainstorm our idea to find out if it was valid. It helped us choose and register our site name. Then it supplied the tools to create a content rich themed site, which the search engines love. hardware

Since the traffic-building is built right into the content (thanks to more SBI tools), you have the TRAFFIC. But I m not a techie, I hear you say. SBI is child s play. If you can put one building block on top of another, you can build a top ranking site. The materials are written using a user friendly, step by step method. When your site is up and running, SBI also has a newsletter mailing program (you have signed up, haven t you ), saving you time and allowing you to get on with writing great content. dual xeon

And how do we know we re doing it right We use SBI Site Central , which analyses, submits and tracks our pages, giving us all the essential information we need to tweak our site to top position on the net. storage

Once you have the traffic, your site gives your visitors what they want. Answers. Solutions. Information. And that is what PREselling is all about. Now that you have warm, happy visitors, you are ready to MONETIZE that traffic. How you monetize will vary according to your business. We do it by renting villas in Tuscany! Yes, it s a tough job, but someone has to do it. It s so logical, so efficient, and the tools make it so do-able. But you still have to do it. While SBI made this possible, we built this business. So if you are looking for a get-rich-quick, Dr. Evoy would be the first to tell you to chase after these false dreams elsewhere. If you want to own a business that makes it fun to wake up each morning, I can t say enough how much SBI has impacted our lives. seagate

I love to talk about SBI and I love to rent villas in Tuscany! So if you d like to do either, you can reach me at... http://www.rent-a-villa-in-tuscany.com/contactus.html I always felt safe because SBI has a no quibble, money back guarantee. They even let you keep the domain name if you don t want to continue. Who would ask for their money back on a product like SBI Those seeking the holy grail of get-rich-quick -- remember, you are really building a genuine business of your own here. As long as that is what you want to do, you ll love it -- but they refund you, no questions asked computer sales

Do your homework, research the market (we did). You ll find nothing that compares to SBI. What does the future hold for us We ve almost finished building Rent a Villa in Tuscany, we re about to take on help and we re already working on ideas for another site. Meanwhile, I m busy fending off email from people pleading with me to tell them how we did it . Every now and then whilst sitting in the shade of an olive grove sipping on a glass of Chianti, one of us will say can you remember how this actually started so much has happened in the last 12 months. Yes, it s taken some work, but SBI turned the impossible into done. computer hardware

Without a doubt it s been one of the most satisfying years of our lives. Instead of getting all nostalgic about the past we are more excited about plans for the future, adding new luxury properties, working on a new Tuscan Thermal Springs page and one of our most exciting projects is investing in new wi-fi mobile technology. printers

If you d told me 12 months ago that a couple of ex knitwear designers with very little experience of the web would now be running a successful web based villa rental company I d have found it hard to believe. If you then tried to convince me that their plans are now to run it from a poolside, looking out over the Tuscan hillside, sipping on a cocktail, I d probably think the Tuscan sun had got to you! technology

You know what, up until a year ago, before I found SBI, I would have been right. But we jumped in with both feet, as Ken says... And now .......cheers! See 2005 Update See Dec/2006 Update Fiona McCardle and Jim Andrew Italy http://www.rent-a-villa-in-tuscany.com Contact Close Window mainframe

SBI! - Sales Agency Case Study SALES AGENCIES Why Did I Quit My Day Job Because With SBI!, I Can Do It Myself And I Can Do It Over And Over Again

By Jerry Mack Ken, You may not realize it (although I suspect you do), but Site Build It! is much more than the only all-in-one site-building, site-hosting, and site-marketing product (I think that s what your site says!). It s actually a 9-to-5 life liberator. samsung

Of course, I wish I really knew that before I tried it, as my story will tell. In my former (pre-SBI) life, I was a regional manager for a medical imaging company. My headquarter s website was just not getting us any new customers (or leads). And that s how my first Site Build It! (SBI) website started. Starting from scratch I needed a way to generate leads to help me sell medical equipment in the office I had just opened in California for a medical distribution company based on the east coast. Basically, I figured that if I had control over web-based sales promotions and marketing programs, I could build sales significantly in my region. Otherwise, I was going to starve, because their expensive, fancy, gorgeous site was not sending me any business at all. computer repair

I built my SBI site with some pages based on keywords from the brainstorm tool in SBI and also built pages where the keyword was the model number of the products I sell (so obvious, yet so powerful). The pages I built based on keywords from SBI s brainstorm tool brought in traffic from my general target market. The traffic came because these keywords were in high demand by web searchers and not supplied by many websites on the net. The pages I built based on product model numbers brought in traffic because they were usually ranked very high in the search engines -- and that traffic, while lower, was super-targeted. used computers

SBI submitted these web pages for me and then managed them to the top of the search engines rankings. You know what s great about being as Net-dumb as a guy like me I just trusted SBI! to do its job, while I did mine! (I ll bet you get some smart tech-types who try to outguess SBI -- HA! HA!) network

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