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Site
Build It: Scam Or Not?
Site
Build It
(SBI) is an all in one website and web business building solution. But
is it a Site Build It scam as some say, or is it the holy grail of web
business building as others tell you? There are fairly passionate views
on both sides of the argument, so who is right? Or is the
answer
somewhere in-between?
Site Build It Reviews - Paid Affiliate Pitches?
I
like to read reviews of products before I buy but there's always a
thought at the back of my mind, Is this person saying how marvelous
the product is just to make a sale and get the commission? You don't
really know if you can trust what is being said, and that is true of
SBI reviews too.
Will you get
an unbiased opinion here?
This
website is about making websites, and Site Build it is just one web
building product out of many that I could promote. In fact, it's not
even the best paying, so there's no point in me saying it's good unless
it's good.
For example, if I get just 6 people per month to buy
HostGator website hosting, I would get paid $75 per signup, the same as
I would get paid from a SBI signup. If I get 11 people to sign up for
HostGator I'd get $100/sale!
SBI pays a recurring commissions,
meaning if the person subscribes for a second year I would get paid
again. But if it is a scam there will be no recurring sales and I'm
better off selling Hostgator, which is one of the best "normal" hosts
out there.
For
a successful website or web business you need tools such as a
keyword tool and an autoresponder. (See the rest of this website if you
don't know what they are or why you need them). I
could get a commission from selling these tools and others you need.
Then there's the e-books and e-courses telling you how to make a
successful website. Some of the commissions from these make
Site
Build It's commission look sick.
For me, promoting a Site Build It scam would be insanity.
"Site Build It Is A Scam" Websites -
Paid Affiliate Pitches?
It's
just the same for websites that say Site Build It is a scam. Usually,
they are by people promoting another affiliate program, for example
"The Keyword Academy". That pays 35% of a $33 monthly charge which is
even more generous than SBI, so it you also have to ask the
question, are these websites slamming SBI just to sell a different
product?
And, maybe should I be selling "The Keyword Academy" to you.
Can You Be Successful Without Site Build It?
A
successful website is one that brings in loads of interested visitors
and turns them into clients. If you don't do that, then your website is
a failure. It doesn't matter how
nice it looks, it's still a failure, and it needs work to make it work.
And yes, of course of it's
possible to build a successful website without SBI, and I spend a lot
of
time on this website telling you how to do just that. People have been
building successful websites for years without SBI, and they will keep
on doing that.
Why Not Do It Yourself Then?
People
that make successful websites have knowledge, and they have tools. The
newbie website builder has neither, and it takes time and money to get
them. Using a program with all the tools you need and a system that
takes
you step by step through the process of making a successful website can
save you time, save you money and what's just as important, can haver
you earning money quicker.
Even for an experienced webmaster using a program that saves you time
makes a lot sense.
Saving Money
For
a successful
website at the very least you'll need a website builder, (Kompozer
is a good free one), a keyword tool, an auto responder and
hosting. You can use free ones, but the web is like anything else, you
get what you pay for.
Hosting is $9/month plus, and aweber, a
popular high quality autoresponder is $19/month. We're already within
$2/month of the cost of Site Build It. Then Nichebot, a popular,
quality keyword tool is over $17/month. Add in the cost of e-books and
e-courses to help you be successful and the price keeps going
up.
Site Build It has every tool you need, much more than just a site
builder, a keyword tool and an autoresponder, and probably
more web
site and web business building information than you could probably ever
read, and it's all top quality.
The price $299/year or $29.99/month is less than buying everything
you need individually.
Another
cost you need to look at is the cost of failure or delayed success.
What would that be?
$500/month or $2000/month or $5000/month?
Saving Time
With website building, you need to look at 3 different time frames.
1. The time to learn how to do things
2. The time to build the site
3. The time it takes to be successful
There
is a lot to learn with building any website, let alone a successful
one. There's the web builder tool. They do take time to master. There's
the marketing side. Just how do you get visitors to your website, and
how do you turn them into buyers? There's all the techie bits. How do
you submit sites, how often do you submit them, how do you build a xml
site map for Google. There's the marketing side, how do you build a
search
engine friendly page etc etc etc.
It all takes time, and a steep
learning curve. If you value your time, and most of us do, paying for
easy to use tools and a successful system makes a lot of sense.
But what if you're a mum at home, or between jobs or whatever?
It's
still worth paying for tools and a system to become successful faster.
Doing it by yourself takes a lot of time just to learn what to do, and
most websites fail from not getting enough traffic to make them
worthwhile. Just think, all that time, all that effort, all that money
and at the end of a year you still don't have a successful website and
you have no idea on how to get it working. That is the reality for well
over 95% of websites.
Having a beautiful website and no traffic is no good.
Does Site Build It Really help?
Now
we're getting to the nitty gritty. Can using Site Build It
make you
more successful or make you successful faster? Can it save you time or
money?
As far as having a successful website goes, Site Build It
gives its own statistics. 35% of SBI sites are in the top 1% of
websites for traffic. 62% are in the top 3%. That really says
it
all.
SBI does help save time. Use a preexisting template and the
block by block web page builder and you've saved time by cutting down
your learning curve, and by not having to design the page
yourself. Whats just as important is that it saves time by
automating the boring techie stuff.
And it shortens the time it takes to get
interested visitors to your website because of its step by step web
business building system. Learning by yourself is a slow process. I
know, I've been there and done that. And, when I first used Site Build
It I learned a lot that I didn't know. There were a lot of "aha"
moments, and I could see so many ways that I had been going wrong.
The
Site Build It system does take time to follow properly. You need to do
a lot of research before you actually begin to build your web pages,
but that time is what makes the difference between traffic or no
traffic or between success and failure.
If you're impatient and don't follow the system your chances of success
are fairly low.
Does Site Build It Work For Everyone All The Time?
Absolutely
not. If you don't follow the system your chances of success are low. If
you take shortcuts your chances of success are low. If you don't do the
work your chances of success are low.
There can be other problems too. You may have chosen
the wrong site concept. Your website might have too broad an approach
to work, or maybe too narrow. Then, it's a case of redefine your
website, or start again from the beginning with a new site concept, or
give up. Following the action guide carefully minimizes your chances of
these having these problems.
I've used Site Build It for several years now,and in my
opinion SBI does everything in its power to help you succeed, but
nothing in this world is perfect, and there is no 100% guarantee of
success in anything you do. Even airplanes in one of the most
regulated, tested, well trained and well maintained environments in the
world, still crash.
Remember the SBI success rate though.
The Guarantee
Site
Build It now has a 90 day money back guarantee. That gives you 3 months
to use it and if you decide it's not for you, to get your money back.
SBI used to have a 30 day money back guarantee which was a bit on the
short side. With the 90 days though, you have time to get a real feel
for what you're paying for.
If Site Build It was a scam, the guarantee would put them out of
business.
Protect Yourself
One
of the complaints on the SBI scam websites it that you're locked into
SBI and can't change your site. That's not right. You can cancel SBI,
use the guarantee to get your money back and use all the content you've
already created with another web host.
SBI even lets you keep the domain name if you refund.
What you should do though is to make
sure you save all your text on your own computer, so that if you do
decide to give SBI the flick, you still have your your content
to use with a new host.
What I do when I use the SBI page builder is
write all my content in a word processor, save it as a plain text file,
and then paste it into the page builder blocks. But I do make changes
in the page builder to make things better, so my final web page text is
different to my word file. If you do the same which you probably will,
you'll need to save your final text so you still have it on
your computer if you did decide to stop using SBI.
SBI Credentials
Apart from my opinion what evidence is there that there isn't a Site
Build It Scam?
SBI statistics on traffic rankings is a good start.
Then
there's the fact that SBI is the only such program in the world offered
at major colleges and universities at all levels, from undergrad to MBA
to Continuing Education.
Then there's the thousands of SBI sites out there on the web. You can
have a
look at dozens of different sites
here. They cover a lot of categories from
electronics to cooking to fitness and a lot more.
SBI Hype
SBIers
tend to be enthusiastic promoters of SBI. It's not just the affiliate
money they make from promoting the product, it's that they are true
believers. Some of their reviews are hard sell (unintentionally,
usually) and rather hypey. It's that they truly believe this is the
best way to build a website and they are over the top trying to
convince others of their beliefs.
My Opinion
As I've
said, my site is about how to make a website, and I can make as much or
more money promoting other site building software, so my views aren't
influenced by the dollars. I'm a Site Build it user, and I started off
building websites without SBI.
Yes you can make a successful
website without SBI, but using the tools and the SBI system will save
you time and money, and give you a much better chance of success.
You'll be able
to build a successful website in a shorter period of time than you will
without it.
There isn't a Site Build It scam, SBI is an integrated
set of tools and a system designed to help you succeed that's already
been used successfully by thousands of people on a multitude of
different types of web sites.
It 's worth the money, and it's no
more expensive than buying the tools you'll need individually from
other vendors.
In fact it will probably save you money as well as help you make more
money than you would without it.
My Suggestion
If you've been thinking about buying Site
Build It but don't want to pay for a year's subscription up
front, get on the monthly plan and give it a try.
But
don't subscribe to SBI until you are ready to give it a serious go for
three months. I believe you'll find it easier, quicker and cheaper to
build a successful website/web business than any other means
you'll find, and I'd hate to see you fail because you didn't
give it a fair go.
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