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Ok, so if you’ve read some of my previous posts than you know I’ve tried many online money making ventures. Let me rewind the clock a few years and tell you about my FIRST introduction to SBI…

I had been dabbling with creating web sites for a bit – nothing terribly special and earning virtually nothing for my efforts.  The only way I was earning money online was through selling things on eBay.  Sure, at that point I had read a number of e-books about HOW to make money online, I just wasn’t necessarily applying all that I had learned.  So, I stumbled upon SBI as it was mentioned on a site I visited often by a blogger I trusted.

So I checked out this whole “SBI” thing and I was quite entrigued.  There were regular every-day people building quality, content rich sites which were, over time, bringing in a solid income.  And the neatest part was that I didn’t have to know HOW to do everything to build a truly successful site – SBI made building a HIGH QUALITY site quite easy.  Pages chock full of advice and directions, video instructions, awesome forums and much more!

SBI’s BIG thing is that you DO NOT just slap up a site quickly with a bunch of adsense on it and assume visitors will find you.  First you thoroughly research your proposed niche/subject to see if it could really be successful.  If I remember correctly, this preliminary step takes up the first 5 days of the 10 days of training.  Only AFTER you’ve thoroughly researched do you choose a domain name and start to build the site.  SBI makes it VERY easy to put up a good looking site – you DON’T have to know HTML, no coding, no PHP stuff !!  Just fill in the boxes as directed and click on “Build It!”.

So I had done my research and put up my site – I was thrilled with it.  I had my whole site layout done – which keywords were going to be used where…etc.  And the big thing with SBI is consistent action – keep at it, add a little each week or each day – but staying steady and FOCUSED is the key.  I went full steam ahead for I don’t know how many weeks……..then life got in the way, I got distracted, stepped away from the site and eventually followed the next “make thousands in a day with little effort” shiney object that bounced along.

Needless to say, I never got to see my SBI site prosper.  Yes, I built it up and had at least 60 pages of GREAT quality, UNIQUE content!  But then I flaked.  I never got to the part where I would start to monetize it.  I did, however, get some great positive feedback from visitors to the site.  And I remember checking the site’s stats often – that’s also integrated into the whole SBI thing.  Traffic to the site was growing….it truly is a shame that I didn’t stick with it. I flaked and a few months later my 1 year subscription ran out as did my domain name registration for the site

I did end up resurrecting the site and re-doing it on a WordPress platform – virtually the exact same site – same keywords, very similar lay-out, very similar internal linking structure…etc.  And you know what?  I’ve been VERY disappointed!  It’s the SAME site – but the traffic has not come even though I’ve made some effort to drive traffic.  The hits stink, not making any money on it – WHA!

I’m to the point now where I am done with online money making ideas that are full of baloney.  I KNOW that SBI is the real deal for real people who want to add good quality sites to the Web.  I’m in the process of reviewing all the SBI materials I had printed out the first time and in a few weeks I will again be purchasing SBI, following their steps  & directions to the letter and STAYING FOCUSED!

CLICK HERE to Watch a GREAT video about SBI!

I’ll be blogging about my progress….