Site Build It Sucks?
Posted on September 7, 2008
Filed Under Site Build It
You really think Site Build It sucks? Let me share my thoughts on whether SBI (from Sitesell.com) really sucks…
Actually before I continue, let me show you a picture:
I saw quite a few times that people actually typed the “Site Build It sucks” phrase in a search engine and somehow found my site.
So I’ve decided to optimize a blog post on this keyword to hopefully get more people here and help them make the right decision.
I’ll try to be objective and approach the “SBI sucks” topic from 2 angles:
1. Why Site Build It Doesn’t Suck
- it’s not a normal web hosting thingy. The SBI Action Guide will teach you how to create a content site relying on free search engine traffic bringing visitors and money day after day without much work
- if you ever get stuck at any part, you can access help for every topic, you can ask a question on the forums and you can even hire an experienced SBI-er to help you out
- I’ve achieved financial freedom with SBI and am earning over $10,000 per month with just a few sites. I did work very hard to get here but thanks to free search engine traffic I don’t have to work so hard any more. I even have time to write posts about whether “Site Build It sucks” or not…
- there are hundreds of Site Build It sites built by ordinary people with no prior knowledge of HTML and SEO. If they can do it, so can you.
2. Why Site Build It Does Suck
Key Evoy (The CEO of Sitesell.com) said this:
The “bad” news? SBI! does not eliminate the common-sense, universal laws of business and economics…
It takes time and work to build a genuine, profitable, long-term business with equity.
It takes a persistent, slow-steady-sure approach, fueled by passion, steadied by patience and reassured by faith in a system that both makes sense and is proven to work.
Bottom line:
If you are looking for a magic pill that will create a site which will earn $100 per day in just a month or two, then yes, Site Build It sucks. It’s not that good.
If on the other hand you want to learn how to build a successful website and want to have all the tools in one place for only 0.82 cents per day, then no, SBI does not suck at all.
In fact, feel free to explore my blog and see how I used SBI to free myself from slavery of a 9-5 job.
And if there’s an SBI-er reading this post I’d appreciate if you share your thoughts on whether Site Build It really sucks or not. Thanks!
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My father recently signed up with SBI and ended up cancelling during the trial period because he just felt too bogged down with details, even though the guidance and documentation were all good. It was still overwhelming and money is so ridiculously tight (as in, not so much tight as far into the red) he just couldn’t justify the $250 committment. I was reading through the program with him, though, and we were both impressed with the detail–it was just too MUCH detail!
Tomaz
I wanted to comment on your post.
I am author of the book Internet Empires which is a book interviewing people who have onlne success.
I have interviewed “several” SBIers who have had tremendous success like you have so I know it is not a fluke.
Also, I have several SBI sites all of which ave made me money so I have first hand experience with the system.
It DOES take work but my TOP 2 success secrets are:
1) Follow the 10 day video action guide
2) Get involved in the forum because there are literally hundreds of successful SBIers in there answering questions because they are good people.
Hi Deb,
I know what you mean by being overwhelmed. But here’s something to think about; you ONLY get overwhelmed if you read stuff that you DON’T need to do at a certain point of building a site.
That’s the biggest mistake people make. They are at day 2 and they read everything up to day 7.
If you follow the steps the way they are structured then there is NOT too much information on what to do.
But you need to take the time and digest it.
The second biggest mistake people make is trying to complete steps quickly.
Compare starting an SBI site with starting a new restaurant (offline of course) and all the planning that needs to go into that…
The SBI Action Guide is a detailed and tedious process because it wants to PROTECT you from making a mistake.
If you follow it, you’ll do well.
If you take shortcuts, you might even conclude that Site Build It sucks…
SBI is a brilliant web development tool for those wishing to work online on a website. What I mean is you need to be constantly online in order to build your site.
My first site was built using SBI and I learnt a huge amount from Ken and his words of wisdom. I have to admit I have since applied his teachings to my new website development program which I guess could be called the offline version of SBI.
I won’t mention it here as I don’t want to appear to be promoting someone else but I am very glad to have spent the money on SBI when I did. It has helped tremendously.
I totally agree with regards to the work needed to get a site up and running and earning money. But once you do it can be very exciting.
Good luck everyone with your sites.
Well Tomaz, I have had an SBI website for a little over a year, and I just have reached traffic of 100,000 pages a month.
Because of the SBI Action Guide, our website, http://www.all-about-houseboats.com was just recently on the front page of MSN.com for one day, and that alone generated almost 300,000 pages of free traffic.
Because of the free traffic from MSN, our Google Adsense revenue alone paid for SBI many times over.
So do I think “SBI sucks”, hell no, personally I think that “SBI blows” the doors off any website building package out there.
I want to BUILD a SUCCESSFUL website, not just a website amongst the 100 million websites out there.
Just my 2 cents worth, Ian…
Thanks for sharing, Ian!
I have two SBI sites, (I did the buy one get one for $100 special), and I am so happy with them both. I have barely put any work into my second site, which is geared toward helping with my offline stand-up comedy career, and my site already gets more visits than my fellow comics that have Comedy Central specials. They are FAMOUS and have been online for YEARS. SBI sucks? Not for me. My first site helped me ditch the day job completely, and now let’s see if how SBI helps me tackle Hollywood.
As what they always said, building an online business is just like building any offline business. Looking at the bright side, with online business, you just have to sit in front of your computer and do all the work from there. You experience all the hard work, including any headaches, in one place. What’s best of all, you can do it in a comfort of your home with no commuting needed and working near your family.
Of course there’s a lot to learn when building any kind of new business, but with SBI (and a good mentor ;)), it is always nice to know that a kind helping hand is always there for you.
But is SBI good for sites that already exist? I haven’t yet figured out how it can work with existing sites…
If you have an existing site I suggest you register a new domain and build a keyword focused content rich site tightly related to your original site. The SBI site will eventually get lots of traffic which you can then “send” (link to) to your first site. Links will at the same time help with the rankings…
I bought site build it recently and feel that it is a total rip off. The website templates are horrible.
Hey anonymous,
That’s a very good point. Do you think traffic from search engines like Google depends on the color of your template?
My tennis site http://www.tennismindgame.com is based on the basic SBI template where I only had the header designed for $50. It gets more than 1200 visitors per day and earns around $2,500 per month. Do you find it ugly and not very user friendly?
What is your next complaint?