Interview With Ken Evoy – Part IV – The Future Of Internet
This is part 4 of the interview with Ken Evoy. Here are the links to part I, part II and part III.
Tomaz: What do you see as the future of the Internet? What’s the future of SiteSell?
Ken: Some years ago, I wrote that search engines were essential to the Internet and they were like the best bargain in the world. And search engine optimizers got it. But I don’t think the average small business person really got it.
And now, eight or nine years later, people still say that one should not get used to them because they can’t last forever.
There was this ridiculous interview of a Forester researcher were they asked her if Facebook will replace Google. And she actually thought it could. Her reasoning being, “Well, you know if you want to go to Hawaii now, you can just ask a friend on Facebook instead of doing the search in Google.”
Now, how stupid is that? Because thirty years ago you could ask a friend if you’re going to have a vacation in Hawaii without using the Internet.
You know, Facebook is an activity. It’s fun, it’s valuable, it connects people and all that stuff, but its not a gateway to the Internet. The search engines, as far as I can see for the next five, ten years, are still the main highway to the Internet.
And that sounds obvious, but it’s a bold statement to say because to predict anything beyond six months in the Internet is very dangerous. Things change. Gigantic killers come out of nowhere. Major new technologies happen.
But people use the Internet to search for information.
Interview With Ken Evoy – Part III – Can You Become Financially Free With SBI?
To read part I and part II of my interview with Ken Evoy just follow the links…
Tomaz: Since my blog is about financial freedom, I want to ask you this question:
What do you think is a typical journey of someone who has achieved financial freedom with SBI? And how much do you think they usually earn per month?
Ken: It varies so much, Tomaz. And some people start part-time because they have a full-time job where they work sixty hours a week.
Some people start full-time like a stay-at-home mom whose children have just gone off school so she has six hours a day to really work. She picks a good niche, starts to see traffic, and starts to make income three to six months, which becomes the main family income in a year or in eighteen months.
Interview With Ken Evoy – Part II – The Biggest Obstacles Of Online Success
This is part II of the interview with Ken Evoy…
Tomaz: What do you think is the biggest obstacle of success for the technical part? And of course what stops people from succeeding (personality traits)?
Ken: The biggest obstacle is lack of knowledge. For a small business person who wants to start his own site, there are just too many barriers in terms of themselves learning HTML and FTP is just a scary concept.
People don’t even understand the concept of a server, how a website works on the Internet. Something as basic as that. So what FTP does and where those pages go sounds so simple to you and me, but it’s fundamental as that. People hear about search engine optimization and their eyes are really getting scared.
So the whole thing starts to look like it’s impenetrable. So what do they do? They hire a webmaster who they think knows these things but most of them really don’t.
Interview With Ken Evoy – Part I – The 80:20 Of Building A Successful Website
This is the first part of my interview with Ken Evoy which took place on the SBI cruise in January 2008.
I am very grateful and honored that Ken took the time to answer my questions and allow me to publish this interview here on this blog.
Just a short introduction to the first question: if you are not yet familiar with the 80:20 term, then follow the link to the Pareto principle to understand it better.
I first wanted to ask Ken, what he sees as the most important parts of building a website – from the view of tools and from the view of personality traits…
Tomaz: What is the 80:20 to building a successful website? What is your opinion from the view of tools?
Ken: There’s an 80:20 to process, and there’s an 80:20 to tools. The 80:20 to process is you have to fundamentally understand how the Internet works. And one of the primary functions that people use the Internet for is to search for information.
Site Build It Q&A
A friend recently contacted me about my online business, Site Build It and achieving financial freedom using SBI.
This post is the Q&A we had about all of the above and I encourage you to ask more questions about SBI or anything else in the comments below.
It makes it the easiest for me to come up with a useful post.
Q: Tomaz, what you write sounds fascinating! I have some questions:
In your high traffic sites I expect hundreds if not thousand of postings per subject, instead I see one or two, isn’t this pretty anemic for an high traffic site?
And example of this high count postings are tennis forums like:
http://www.tennis.com/messageboard/category-view.asp
http://www.menstennisforums.com/
A: The only way to really get that much content out there are forums where many other people write content for you.
Buying Site Build It – Should You Invest $299?
The goal of this post is to help you understand the cost behind Site Build It and why Ken Evoy has decided on this pricing model. Then it’s going to be much easier to decide whether SBI! is for you, or not.
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If you are not yet familiar with Site Build It, then follow the link to Sitesell.com (opens in a new window) and take some time to learn what Sitesell offers you with this comprehensive package to start your own online business and journey towards financial freedom.
The cost of the Site Build It package is $299 per year, and this makes it very different from typical web hosting packages where you can pay only $6.95 or $9.95 per month for a reasonably good hosting account.
(Note that paying $9.95 per month still makes it 12 x $9.95 = $119.4 per year.)
This $299 per year often stops people from taking that first step, and there’s a reason for that.
Best Affiliate Program With Lifetime Commissions
The affiliate program that you’re about to discover has been rated as the best affiliate program by many well-known internet marketers, like Allan Gardyne from Associate Programs and Clint Pheeney from the Affiliates Program Directory.
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In fact, as soon as you hear the words “lifetime commissions” they should make you very excited.
The program in question is the Sitesell.com affiliate program.
Why has this affiliate program received so much praise? Read more
Top Commentators Special Thanks
I’ve decided to organize a special thanks for all of those who contribute to this financial freedom blog by commenting on the posts.
There are 3 main reasons why I am doing this:
1. I want to thank the best contributors for making this blog more interesting
2. I want to encourage and inspire the readers to achieve financial freedom
3. I want to give someone a chance to try Site Build It for free for 1 year
Sitesell.com offers only once a year a special promotion where they offer two SBI packages for the price of one. This promotion starts just before Christmas and runs for about two weeks.
I plan to buy my fifth SBI site at that time and I will get another one for free. Sitesell.com allows the buyer to give the second site to a friend or a family member.
It’s the second free SBI site that I want to give away this year to someone with the most valuable comment on this blog.
Ken Evoy and Site Build It (Step 4)
This is the fourth post in the 10 Steps to Freedom series that shows you how to achieve financial freedom by working at home.
If you’ve missed the previous posts, then you might want to start reading at the beginning:
Step 1: The Freedom Starts In the Mind
Step 2: 5 Reasons To Follow Your Passion Instead Of Money
Step 3: How To Make Money Online and Enjoy Freedom
Just a quick reminder from the previous step: you learned that there are three main strategies or ways of earning money online, but only one of them gives you the freedom of working whenever and wherever you want (so long as you have an internet connection). Read more
