SBI!
-- Much More
Than Just Web Hosting...
Or, the difference between "traditional web hosting"
(and
"traditional site building tools") and SBI!Hi, I'm Steve
M Nash - owner of 2 SBI! Sites - and I'm writing this page to try and explain,
in my own words, just why SBI! is so much more than just web hosting. Yes,
SBI! includes web hosting, just as it also includes an ever-developing
list of tools to help you build your site (including a Block by Block Site
Builder for those unfamiliar with HTML or a facility to Upload Your Own HTML for
more experienced web-professional types) and a step-by-step Action
Guide that shows you how, exactly, to use those tools to build a successful
website. SBI! also includes a state-of-the-net keyword research
tool, called Brainstorm It!. And anyone who knows anything about websites
knows you have to do keyword research these days - either to get free traffic
from the search engines, or to succeed in the much more expensive realms of pay-per-click
search engines. In short, SBI! provides everything you need to succeed
with your own website! 
Now
let's see how it works going the more 'traditional' way...
( Or check out how SiteSell explain the
difference
betweeen SBI! and old-fashioned web hosting* )
Traditional
Web Hosting -- Build It! and They Won't Come!The traditional way to build
a website is do it yourself (and find a web host) or use the services of one those
site builder sites (e.g. moonfruit.com) - that's supposed to do it all for you. About
Site Builder Services... Now in all my years building websites I've
never used one of these 'magic' site builders! All I know, though, is this: building
the website is the easy bit! And that's because site builder tools show you
how to build your site but not how to get visitors. And just because
you now have a website online means absolutely nothing unless you've got visitors
coming to the site. And I should know. I've been building websites the 'old
fashioned way' since 1998. And, that means I know all about the steps you need
to take to build a website, and then promote it, and then try make money out of
it. And the first step always starts with web hosting. About
Web Hosting So I've hosted my websites with various web hosts, all of
which offer me the usual options (typical example taken from FatCow.com) Disk
Space -- UNLIMITED
Bandwidth -- UNLIMITED
POP Mailboxes -- UNLIMITED
MySQL
Databases -- UNLIMITED
Domains Hosted -- UNLIMITED
Domain Name -- FREE
Website
Builder -- FREE
Shopping Cart -- FREE
Script Barn -- FREE
WordPress,
phpBB, Joomla & More
SSL Secure Server Yes
FTP Users & SubUsers
UNLIMITED And all for less than US$5 per month. Which is great, I
guess until you realise that this is US$60 per year for a website that includes: - Little
or no guidance as to how to build the site
- Little or no guidance as to
how to promote the site
- Little or no guidance as to how to profit from
the site
- No guidance as to how to use the tools you get for free
- No
interest at all in whether you succeed or not from the web host
Yes,
you can work out the answers to all these questions yourself. And many do. But
even more fail to do so, and so their sites fail too.
That's why SiteSell
(who operate Site Build It!) are so proud of the success SBI! owners are seeing, and have proof of this success. Traditional
web hosts can not offer you this kind of proof and these kind of results. Basically,
the web hosting situation looks like this... 
And
the only people 'guaranteed' to succeed with this equation are... the
web hosts!
( Check out how SiteSell explain the
difference
betweeen SBI! and old-fashioned web hosting* )
So You Don't Need SBI! to Succeed, However...It's
true, it is still possible to go the traditional way - do it all yourself, rely
on your abilities to find the right information and the right tools and the 'right'
web host, etc. - and still succeed online. And if you are already succeeding
online then maybe SBI! isn't for you! The truth of the matter is - and this
is my personal opinion, but I am one of thousands who share it - it's simply
much easier to succeed with SBI! Anyway, I'll leave it up to you to
decide which path you want to take: - Traditional Web Hosting Route
-
I can recommend Clook as an excellent web host
http://www.clook.co.uk
or Clook.com
(or
visit http://www.hosting-review.com/ )
- I can recommend Wordtracker
as a keyword research tool
- I recommend you read
my how to build a website article
- And then just do a search for site
builders on Google
- And make sure you keep-up-to-date with how to promote
your website, and how to make money from it etc. which means
you'll need to find a good newsletter to subscribe to (I can
recommend
Planet Ocean's Search Engine News but there
are literally thousands
out there) and join a good online forum
Oh, and good luck - I
think you'll need it!* ;-)
- Success-focussed SBI! Route
-
Simply buy SBI!, and then follow the Action Guide
A suscription to SBI!
includes memberhips to a fantastic
success-focussed SBI! forum, an SBI eZine that is similarly
focussed. All you need!
Sometimes
a picture explains a thousand words. So I'm going to leave you with the words
of Erwin from CustomerServicepoint.com (yes, this is an SBI! site). I think the
'picture' of the Lego in this "I
Love SBI!" video sums it all up perfectly...
Thanks for checking out this "SBI! is much more than web hosting"
page. Cheers,
Steve M Nash
PS SiteSell have a page that explains the difference between SBI! and traditional web hosting*. Should you want to know more. :-)
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