Review - Is SBI! Worth It? - My Experience Thus Far
1) In January 2011, I purchased SBI!, a website-building software. At the present writing - April 2011 - I am in my third month of using SBI!
SBI! is many times the price of other tools for building websites and presents itself as remarkably useful, which can have one reasonable assume SBI! is mostly hype and simply not worth it. Is SBI! worth it?
1 - Despite My Numerous Concerns, I Purchased SBI! and Had Few Expectations -
2) Prior to purchasing SBI! I had experimented with internet entrepreneurship. A few years ago I had a small business and I built a website for the business using Microsoft Office Live.
Prior to purchasing SBI!, in addition to having built a website using Microsoft Office Live, I had a Wordpress blog and a Blogger blog named Crisis to Profit.
3) In May 2010 I decided to begin writing a book about the global financial crisis, entitled Born to Die: Rising from the Explosion of the Global Financial Time Bomb, and knew a website would be a useful platform for Born to Die.
As I was researching for Born to Die I was also researching the internet and website-building. I found many people making significant incomes from their online endeavors and some of these people were quite young - in their early twenties.
The first names I found include BJ Min, Michael Goudelock, the Internet Marketing Center, Yaro Starak, Gideon Shalwick, Michael Dunlop, and Bob Gatchel.
I decided to use Bob Gatchel's free Internet Riches Made Easy program and listen to the audio while developing Born to Die.
4) I implemented Gatchel's strategies for creating a blog with Blogger and use the blog to publish snippets of my findings for Born to Die and also to re-introduce myself to the internet.
5) Shortly after publishing my first Blogger blog, named Crisis to Profit, I realized that blogging is simply not the way to meet my particular intentions for internet entrepreneurship and Born to Die, because it was difficult to properly format and seemed too generic
6) I was seeking a higher quality platform for Born to Die and for this global financial information business.
7) During my search, I discovered SBI! The first point about SBI! that sparked my attention was the price. "Why is this so much more expensive than the free blog I just created?" I thought.
8) I watched the videos on SBI!, read the articles, and extensively questioned SBI!'s customer service team. My questions were generally answered and I figured that since this was a website-building package that was quite popular and seemingly expensive, it could be the higher quality platform for Born to Die that I was seeking.
Further, I remembered that if I was dissatisfied with SBI! I had a couple months to return it for a full refund - which I was planning to do.
2 - Why Would I Purchase SBI! -
9) As previously mentioned, I had some experience with blogging and website-building and knew what I did not want.
10) SBI! seemed to be popular among its clients, seemed to be managed by knowledgeable individuals - more knowledgeable then myself, at least - also SBI! was presented as a full package that made extensive research unnecessary, and it had a full money-back guarantee.
This is why I decided to purchase SBI!
3 - Has SBI! Been Effective? -
11) SBI! has been effective, indeed, much more effective than I expected..
12) Firstly, SBI! was of much higher quality than I expected. I was expecting a website-building software such as Dreamweaver that I would have to figure out myself. SBI! revealed itself to be a website-building software with numerous built-in resources, as well as - a video guide.
13) The SBI! video guide has thus far proven to be the most useful characteristic of SBI! The guide walks me step-by-step through choosing the proper keywords based on traffic potential and profitability, using SBI!'s many tools, writing in specific ways to please clients and search engines, organizing the site for success, and much more.
14) Further, the guide is in video format, which can make the process so simple, and even entertaining - which can also be important, because the process can require focus and effort.
15) As previously mentioned, I had some experience blogging and website-building prior to SBI! In each experience, I was missing at least one of two major needs for a successful website - traffic and revenue.
16) Having tasted the bland meals of low traffic and low revenue, I was seeking a robust website that brought both traffic and revenue.
19) Prior to SBI! my highest traffic amounted to 30 visitors a month. Since the first webpage of my SBI! website, TheGlobalFCzone.com, traffic has at least doubled every month.
January 2011 was the first month for TheGlobalFCzone.com and traffic amounted to 5 visitors per day - already five times my previous traffic highs. Traffic has grown from 5 to 10 to 40 per day and now in April - the time of the present writing - 120 visitors per day are reading into TheGlobalFCzone.com
I was not expecting this growth in traffic, considering my previous experiences.
After three months of being live, TheGlobalFCzone.com is ranked by the web research company Alexa at number 622,000 out of the over 100 million websites currently in existence, and is thus in the top one percent of all websites.
20) I cannot say much regarding revenue from TheGlobalFCzone.com Why? I have been building content up to this point and have just begun looking into monetization methods.
SBI! has assisted in TheGlobalFCzone.com performing well by bringing increasing waves of traffic, although whether SBI! can reflect this assistance with monetizing, remains to be seen.
To see how SBI! can improve the quality of your content, visit my early blog - crisisprofit.blogspot.com and compare this to TheGlobalFCzone.com
4 - Who Is SBI! For? -
21) Firstly, SBI! is not for the casual blogger. Save your time, money, and energy and set up a blog for free. SBI! is not for the veteran. SBI! is a guide - if you can already do acrobatics in the webspace, then the SBI! support system would not assist you and may even be a hinderance.
22) SBI! is for anyone who is seeking to develop an online presence with substance - and with traffic.
SBI! is a support system for online success that is for the person seeking an all-in-one package that provides the majority of the tools necessary to succeed online - for a low price.
23) The price. In fact, contrary to my initial belief, the price of SBI! may be SBI!'s greatest feature. Why?
When we add up the plethora of great features SBI! is providing, we find that we are receiving these features for the same price of a typical Wordpress or Squarespace website with an autoresponding email service such as Aweber or Mailchimp and a hosting service such as Host Gator - totaling approximately $25 per month, which is the price of SBI!
5 - Moving Forward -
24) In conclusion, I have found SBI! to be a success thus far. I am continuously learning more about the web space, as well as improving my online skills such as html coding, therefore I am also gradually growing independent of some of SBI!'s tools and guidance.
SBI! is providing vastly more than I expected and can be a useful tool for most people who are seeking to build a quality online presence.
25) SBI! is worth a look. Feel free to investigate SBI! with a sharp and focused eye, as I did.
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