The process of starting an affiliate marketing business(or whatever business model you have chosen) requires a lot of hard work and persistence. You’ll also need to acquire lots of skills and the proper tools, in spite of what you may have read elsewhere on the internet, especially if you are serious about having a successful online business and not just a hobby.
However, if you don’t happen to be the “techie” type, that doesn’t mean that you can’t still enjoy the rewards of starting your own business online, and you don’t have to buy into all the hoopla that is being hawked all over the internet just trying to get money from people who are new and feel like they have to buy every ebook and ecourse offered out there to learn how to build a successful business.
Many of you have probably heard of Ken Evoy’s SiteBuildIt, which is a suite of internet tools that reportedly will save you many hours of your time building your internet business because you won’t need to learn HTML, FTP, domain hosting, search engine optimization and so forth, in order to build a website.
In a nutshell, SiteBuildIt is purported to be an all-in-one site-building, hosting, marketing, and site brainstorming, step-by-step system of software tools that makes it much easier for even the most technically challenged amongst us to have a professional looking, traffic-pulling, income producing website, designed to accommodate “newbies” to internet business, as well as sophisticated webmasters.
Clearly, designing and creating a website can be difficult for someone who is not technical-minded and who does not have graphical or programming skills. But if you are willing to put in the time and effort necessary to learn what is involved in building an internet business, there probably is no need for you to fork over the moola that sites like SiteBuildItcharge.
Everything you need to know and every tool you need to use to build a business online can be found right here under your nose and it doesn’t have to cost you a fortune. Your biggest investment will most likely be your time.
The Perfect Blueprint For Starting Your Own Business?
Two years ago when I decided I wanted to stay at home and have my own internet business, I was just like many others who come here hoping to find that “perfectly laid out blueprint” that will launch them into a successful online business.
I had no clue what to do, where to turn, or even where to go to try and learn what to do. I was willing to do whatever work needed to be done, I just had no idea “what work”!
I looked at so many different “programs” that promised to be just the ticket I was looking for, that I was soon in information overload, more confused than ever and knowing that I could not afford to buy every single “business in a box” offered, and yet I didn’t know which one – if any – might be helpful to me.
I don’t remember how I found out about SiteBuildIt several months later, but I sure remember the excitement I felt at the thought of not having to go through that dreaded learning curve, and having someone to “provide everything I needed, including 24-hour technical support that was second to none”, and I didn’t even need programming skills. Are you kidding me? Sign me up!
With Site BuildIt, I was going to have more than 70 “programmed” modules and sub-modules (whatever that meant), they would cover all of the tedious, technical jobs that are normally required in the process of creating an online business, and my primary focus would be on building my business. Yup, I had found my magic blueprint – and yes I forked over the $300 (that I certainly couldn’t afford) for my brand new “all-in-one business in a box” so to speak, that was going to make this process so much easier for me to get through.
Well, I’m not sure exactly why my big plans of a successful affiliate marketing business through SiteBuildIt bombed, but I’m relatively sure that because I was so new and inexperienced, my expectations were probably entirely unrealistic, and the fact that I chose a niche that was big time saturated didn’t help either. But I will say that the few months I spent trying to create my “perfect SBI! website”, I felt like I was somehow cramped and stifled (maybe I knew more than I thought).
Sinking all of my time into building just one website seemed to be awfully restrictive, and I sure as heck couldn’t sink another $300 into this thing just to have one more site. And anyway, the more I read, the more (painfully) clear it became – even to a newbie like me – that you could do this a whole lot cheaper – if you could find anybody willing to just point you in the right direction without charging out the ying yang.
I just somehow felt that there had to be something different than this information overload called SBI! So I commenced looking again, not really believing that I would ever find the help I needed without poring even more money that I could not afford into what would most likely be just another pipe dream.
But, through hours of searching every little nook and cranny I could find, I gradually began to find sites where I could gather a lot of the information I needed – much of it absolutely free, and in many cases I was not required to buy anything to get it.
Practically everything I needed to know, every tool I needed to use – it was all right there in front of me and I just hadn’t known how to go about finding it. If you’ll go to some of the internet marketing forums like warriorforum.com, you can get tons of free information that will help you get going.
Think Site Build It Is For You?
My purpose for this post is not necessarily to bash SBI! – like I said, I’m sure it was my fault that it didn’t work for me (no one product works for everybody) and Site BuildIt does offer some very informative free material such as the free Affiliate Masters Course, and Make Your Knowledge Sell, as well as some others.
I have also found a couple of (much less expensive) fee-based programs that have further helped me to pull together the tons of information that I have learned along the way (that I consider money well-spent, by the way).
However, I do feel an obligation to let other people (who are where I was just a short time ago) know that you don’t have to continue to shell out this kind of money to have your own online business.
Instead of paying $300 per year (per website) with SBI!, wouldn’t it make more sense to purchase your domain names for around $10 each (per year) through hosting companies like BlueHost or HostGator, have them host your domain names for less than $10 per month (and most will host unlimited domains for that same 10 bucks), and take advantage of all the free tools they have available?
Before you decide to shell out your hard-earned cash, do your homework. Do a Google search for free online business building tools or check out Free Affiliate Marketing Website Tools and Training for some great free resources.
