Corny as it might sound, Site Build It isn't so much website builder software as a community of web-masters who nurture you while you build your first website using Site Build It's web-based software.
It's now the flagship product (with over 100,000 members and more than 20 support staff.)from Sitesell.com, founded Ken Evoy, who became a meteoric internet marketing poster boy in 2000 & 2001 with his best-selling ebook Make Your Site Sell.
Ken Evoy introduces Sitesell
Ken Evoy is a physician who used to teach and practice emergency medicine at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
Besides Sitesell, he's an inventor, with 23 products that have generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenues for various companies. Ken has also developed several software products, including one for the stock market.
I was one of the tens of thousands who purchased Make Your Site Sell, thought I knew better and wasted a trunkful of cash making all the mistakes that Ken warned me about.
A couple of years later, industrious Evoy unveiled a new product, Site Build It (SBI), which took all the lessons of Make Your Site Sell and integrated them into a pretty nifty website builder, designed to attract web traffic to every page...and make you money. Not a lot, neccessarily, not like some get rich quick scam, no, Site Build It!was designed to help you make money from your hobbies, interests or passions. If that turned into a serious business, great! SBIwas (and is) low on hype and big on results. Slow results, admittedly...but consistent, incremental (seasonally adjusted, of course) results.
So, what do you get with Site Build It!?
Well, before I get to specifics, I should firstly point out what you won't get with SBI:
you won't receive a turnkey website
you won't have a topic or niche chosen for your website &
you won't have the text on the pages written for you
In general terms, what you will get is:
the tools, training and software to create one website, which, if you wish it to be monetized and are prepared to use the SBI training, may well be making you a profit within a few short months. That, in itself, is a selling point and a half:
Amber's SBI success story
SBI is presently getting into video in a big way, showing its members how to integrate it into their websites and Ken Evoy, smart as always, lay down a challenge to SBI's members to create imaginative home-made videos about their SBI experiences. The result: videos (like the one above) are littered across the internet on various members' sites, as well as Web 2.0 sites like Youtube & Myspace, telling the world about SBI.
I consider that a pretty good advertising ploy and that's one of the priceless benefits of being associated with the SBI community: you learn to think laterally...and if you apply yourself, you can use that capacity to start seriously monetizing your site.
When you join Site Build It!, you receive as an all-inclusive package:
your domain name
an online web builder with templates, customize-able header, navigation buttons etc. that's spontaneously creating both Google & Yahoo sitemaps as you build your site (these help with search engine rankings), an internal link checker (and more)
guidance in how to optimize your web pages for the search engines, including in depth lessons about keyword research, using Yahoo's Overture Keyword tool, SBI'sown Brainstorm It & 25 searches at Wordtracker, for many, the industry standard keyword research tool
instruction about how to edit RSS (relevant syndicated links from news feeds) into your pages, which help boost your search engine rankings
FREE web hosting
stats about your site's visitors, your pages' search engine rankings
advice about online advertising
instruction about blogging (a personalised adjunct to your website)
instructions & software to set up your own newsletter & autoresponders
shopping cart (if needed)
excellent training videos about every aspect of SBI
If I could have my time again I would definitely have started my online marketing career with SBI. The cost is negligible in comparison to the training and confidence that you'll receive instead of being lost in a sea of hype-filled internet marketing. Better still, I would have seen profits in months, instead of years and that's the bottom line, really. If you want to be mentored and learn about creating a website in a stress-free environment, you can do no better than Site Build It!. Ken Evoy's brainchild gets my strongest recommendation.