Discover the 7 secrets to creating a website that actually MAKES you money!

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Here’s why: Over 98% of all websites fail to make their owners money. It’s one of the ‘dirty secrets’ of the internet world that no-one wants to tell you. But I probably don’t need to tell you, do I? Your own website is a drain on your financial resources (a ‘Cash Dog’), rather than a contributor to your profits (a ‘Cash Cow’), isn’t it? Yes, I know… because I was in the same boat until early 2004. Yet, using a proven process, you can design and build a website that becomes a ‘Cash-Cow’, not a ‘Cash-Dog’. Now, I know you’re probably skeptical. That’s normal and healthy. Let me give you four good reasons why I can back up what I claim: Four Reasons To Believe What I Say Reason one: By using the CTPM process (you will shortly read about it), I have taken this website from an Alexa ranking of 4Million to a ranking of around 400,000 in just 12 months. Reason two: I add at least one new warm, willing, ‘open to buy’ subscriber to my newsletter/contact list every day—and they choose to subscribe via a double opt-in process! Reason three: I am finally making money with this website. It has taken me seven years of internet activity and a dozen websites to get to this point — seven wasted years! Reason four: I have spent close to $10,000 on internet marketing material — videos, courses, books, seminars — and wasn’t able to generate more than $250 from my website IN SEVEN YEARS. I now generate more than that each month! About SiteBuildIt! Site Build It! (SBI!) is the only all-in-one site-building, site-hosting, and site-marketing product that makes it easy for you to build a professional, popular, and profitable business. Sites built using SBI! consistently get high traffic, as a recent Alexa.com survey shows. 51% of SBI! sites fall within the top 6% most popular sites on the Internet; 30% fall within the 3% most popular; 17% fall within the 2% most popular. SBI!’s success is based on it’s development and use of an incredibly powerful paradigm, that of Content Traffic PREsell Monetize. The SBI! Process of Content Traffic PREsell Monetize, Is Based Upon The Fundamental Reality Of The Way People Use The Web. Online, people search for information, look for solutions — they are not looking for you. Give them what they want by converting your knowledge into high-quality, in-demand CONTENT. Your theme-based topical content ranks high at the Search Engines, attracting free, targeted TRAFFIC … interested, open-to-you visitors. Develop trust and confidence (“PREsell”) by OVERdelivering relevant, original, high-value information to these motivated pre-customers. Then… and only then… MONETIZE your warm, willing-to-buy visitors in various ways. Sell hard goods, e-goods, your personal or professional services… or all three. Or become a “pure infopreneur” and earn substantial income without selling at all, through Google Ads, affiliate fees, finder’s fees and other techniques. Diversify into multiple streams of revenue to maximize income, growth and stability. (SBI! provides excellent opportunities to develop multiple streams of revenue.) In fact, Monetization is the easy part — it flows from traffic the way electricity flows from a river through a dam. But monetization does not matter until your “visitor-river” delivers hundreds (at least) to your site (every day)… and your content PREsells them. Unfortunately… PREsold traffic is the hard part — this is where 98% of small businesses fail. And this is what SBI! delivers. Once you have PREsold traffic, then you blend in monetization options to build a thriving, diversified business. (More information on how to PREsell is here…) Remember! No one is looking for you. After all, if they knew you existed, they would not be searching. They would already be customers. No one is looking for you at all. This is so important, that it is worth repeating… No one is looking for you at all. Your prospective customers seek information. And yet… What Is The Most Common Mistake Made By Startup Online Businesses? They fail to start at the beginning… CONTENT. Instead, they start at the end… MONETIZATION. They spend time and energy setting up a shopping cart and a merchant account or some other way of “collecting the money.” That’s putting the (shopping) cart before the e-horse of traffic. As we have just seen, MONETIZATION comes last… it’s the final result of doing everything else (CTPM) correctly. The easiest part of any small business site is plug-n-playing any kind of e-commerce MONETIZING module into a site. There are literally thousands of such services. The hardest part, where 98% of small businesses fail, is in attracting TRAFFIC, the visitors who convert into income. Yet they start with the cash register! The solution? The only solution?… Recognize the fundamental reality of how people use the Web. Eliminate “offline thinking.” On line, people look for content. Content Traffic PREsell Monetize is the only way for a small business to do business online and succeed. Here is a summary of the benefits you could receive by using the SBI! suite of tools… Easy to setup your website: You spend less time on building your website and more time on creating the content that will earn you money Behind-the-scenes search engine submission: You can spend time sourcing and creating content, rather than wasting time re-submitting your pages to the search engines every month In-built search engine page optimisation ‘guru’: You can focus on writing compelling content, rather than worry about how to repeatedly ‘massage’ your pages for the search engines every month Comprehensive visitor statistics: You can see how many people are visiting you, what pages they are viewing, and what search terms they are using in the search engines, so you can tailor your pages to meet the public’s needs Desktop software to help you find the ideal ‘niche’ to target: You use the most amazing software to help you find the market segment that is actually looking for a solution to their problem — AND IS LOOKING TO BUY SOMETHING TO SOLVE IT. As Marlon Sanders says, “why go fishing where the fish ain’t biting?” Keyword research tool: You can rapidly and extremely comprehensively find the keywords that will generate you traffic and (more importantly) MONEY Extensive user-support forums: Hundreds of entrepreneur peers are willing to share ideas, tips, hints and joint venture opportunites with you — tap into their expertise Pre-built professional templates: No need to know HTML, CSS, Javascript, Java, PHP, ASP or other codes! Webmail facilities: You can receive and reply to emails anywhere in the world – just find a web cafe and log in to your account. You are NOT chained to your desk to run your business! In-built Mailout Manager: Manage your online newsletter automatically, without needing any additional software to download or learn Mailout statistics: See how many people open your emails – a valuable way of seeing how much ‘value’ your emails are to your subscribers! The higher the perceived ‘value’, the more likely they are to open and read them, and pass them on to friends and colleagues… Pre-schedule your emails: Write your emails now then send emails now then send emails to your subscriber list later. Handy if you want to send your newsletter out while you are actually enjoying a well-deserved holiday Newsletter Auto-subscribe function: Visitors can automatically subscribe to your online newsletter without the bother of you manually adding them to your subscriber/contact list Double opt-in subscription: Added security for you and your subscribers—no-one can subscribe someone else, which means no legitimate SPAM complaints! Even just ONE spam complaint at some ISPs will have your site shutdown INSTANTLY, cutting off your online communication oxygen! eStore add-in module: For a small additional cost you can easily and rapidly add the ability to sell online, take credit cards securely, for the added protection of your customers and your business; or you can tap into FREE 3rd-party payment collection sites like PayPal and Clickbank Link exchange program: Link with other websites to help boost your traffic and credibility Link tracker function: Track your incoming links from any ebooks you sell or give away, any newsletters you or others write, any articles you write, or any advertising you conduct. See how successful any advertising or branding tactics are, instantly Free affiliate membership: Generate valuable extra revenue from referring other entrepreneurs to the full range of SiteSell products — including SiteBuildIt! and a comprehensive range of fantastic books on marketing, selling, writing for the internet, writing to pre-sell, and building a website that actually works for you, not against you (a list of these books is here) Personal support: Tap into the expertise of a real-life human being who will stay with you, email after email, until your issue is resolved. No being ‘hand-balled’ from one anonymous support email address to the next Automated upload process: No need for you to learn the intricacies of FTP (File Transfer Protocol)—SBI lets you upload any or all of your pages quickly and simply Priority Search Engine Submission: Submit your key pages to the search engines on a priority basis—no waiting to get your best pages submitted to the search engines PPC and Paid Search Engine ranking and keyword monitoring: rapidly tap into the phenomenal traffic-boosting power of Pay-Per-Click sites and paid search engines Multiple Auto responder sequences: sell online courses, automatically delivered at the time intervals you dictate, without you having to be there SBI! is an integrated desktop application and website management system. You use the desktop application to research the most profitable niche for you, then use it again to research and determine the most profitable keywords and phrases that will allow you to create a website that: doesn’t cost you anything to run actually pays its own way, and helps you become a world-recognised expert in your field Don’t take my word for it. Listen to what SBI! customers say… “… you could not have been more right when you said that my life would change forever when I got SBI…it is so, so true.” Marney Makridakis’ www.ArtellaWordsAndArt.com “With the different ways and means of income that can be produced from an information web site like ours, anyone’s dream of becoming independent can be realized in a very short time. It’s not hard to do with SBI” Merle Long, AKA “gypsytu” on eBay, antiquedolls-collectors-onlineadvisors.com “The distance patients would travel, when they found us online, was MUCH GREATER than normal. I got patients from distances of 30, 40 and even 50 miles away! This happened, I believe, because I am able to present so many benefits on my Web site, and add to it so easily using SiteBuildIt. (The SiteSell folks call this PREselling – the site builds my credibility to such a degree that patients will travel to see me.) The second big unexpected benefit was that my online patients often needed and accepted larger amounts of treatment than normal. I am not sure why this is, but maybe it is because – again – we can display more content that is specific to their needs. As well, my site’s content builds trust and credibility before my patients even see or talk to me in person.” John L. Burch DDS; www.drburch.com “Feb/2004 ::: I am lost for words!!! I just checked my site stats and I am simply amazed… Over the last week my daily visitors have been increasing. However the now the “numbers” are in for yesterday I can see that I have beaten my record. 8,223 visitors in ONE day! WOW………… And not just that…. my newsletter now has 10,361 subscribers. An increase of 371 in just 24 hours. Go back to “traditional” (soon-to-be-called “old-fashioned”) hosting plans? NOT LIKELY!” “Update July/2004 ::: I finish work on the 13th August!!! My SBI site is making what I earn full time as an IT Manager – yippee!! We move around the 30th August and from then on I am FREE :-)” Marc Liron Microsoft MVP – Digital Media http://www.updatexp.com “Ken, Axiom and I are so delighted with the SBI program that we are expanding the program in two ways… 1) We’ll be building out more sites, targeting a variety of themes and niches. Please excuse me for not being more detailed, but we do believe we’re onto something and have some rather non-obvious ideas for how to create the “traffic-funnel” that you talk about. 2) On top of that, and I don’t mind telling you this because I’m sure other companies have figured it out… I went to your truly mind-boggling results.sitesell.com site and recruited a few of those successful sites into our affiliate program. Guess what, last month one of those sites, stereo-speaker-buyers-guide.com, was our leading affiliate, having generated over $100,000 in sales. (Could you search your database and send me any others that match a list of our keywords?) Ken, axiomaudio has grown into the Top 25,000 in Traffic Rank at Alexa, receiving thousands and thousands of visitors every day. We’re approaching 8 figures in annualized sales, all of it online (yes, we’ve made the transition!). And we could not have done this without you. (Oh, I forgot to mention that MYSS! was our bible for creating our primary e-commerce site!). One closing comment/question, and please don’t take this in the wrong way. The SBI product costs less than the price we pay for ONE Bell Telephone business phone line (we pay approx. $60 per month per line). Ken, SBI costs less than THAT, and the average value of ONE sale for us at Axiom is many, many times that. One product sale covers 3 years of your service! So, um-m-m-m… I am not sure if I should bring this to your attention — maybe you will figure out that you are vastly under priced for what you deliver. ” Alan Lofft www.audiolofftreport.com My own experience As you can see from the chart below, my own traffic figures have risen dramatically in the last few months. Every day more and more visitors are coming to this site, each of them a pre-qualified potential customer. Imagine what it could do to your business if you converted just 1% of them into a paying client! Similarly, my own Alexa ranking has improved… from 4+million to this: The most number of subscribers I have ever had to an online newsletter of mine was 124, comprised mostly of people who hadn’t asked to be subscribers, but who were in my Outlook contacts list. Now I add at least one new subscriber to my list every day—and they choose to subscribe via a double op-in process! And as every marketer ever born will tell you, “the money is in the list”: the bigger my ‘contact’ list, the more chances I have to contact them, remain in their mind, and suggest products and services of value to them. UPDATE – October 2005 : I have just landed a lucrative training contract in Dubai – all as a result of my website. Warning: Do NOT buy any website design and/or hosting package unless it meets the following 7 criteria There is a lot of confusion surrounding the website design and/or hosting field. I want to give you 7 criteria or elements you absolutely, positively must have in any solution you obtain: You must have an all-in-one hosting package that includes comprehensive, easy-to-understand statistics and full webmail hosting You must have a web host that automatically and regularly submits your pages to the search engines You must be given a powerful desktop application that allows you to research your preferred market niche and maximise your keyword revenue You must ensure that your hosting package allows you to either use ready-made, easy to use, and professional-looking templates or upload your own self-designed and built webpages You must have a web host that drives you to network with successful entrepreneur peers to maximise your revenue potential—and has set up the most dynamic forum on the internet for interacting with them Ensure that your host allows you to build a profitable website without needing to know HTML, FTP, CGI, graphic or programming skills (although SBI! is compatible with FrontPage, DreamWeaver, GoLive, CSS, JS, Flash, anything you care to throw at it if you are more technically inclined.) No Search Engine expertise required — no expensive tech, Web or graphic consultants necessary. The complete set of CTPM tools make it easy to build, market, and manage your site effectively Ensure your website host shows you CLEARLY how to monetize your warm, willing-to-buy visitors in various ways. Sell hard goods, e-goods, your personal or professional services… or all three. Or become a “pure infopreneur” and earn substantial income without selling at all, through Google Ads, affiliate fees, finder’s fees and other techniques Using SBI! you get at least 10 times your money’s worth! Ask yourself, first, as a business person… What is a successful business worth? How can you put a value on hundreds, even thousands of new lifetime customers ( do you know the value of a single lifetime customer? )… and what is the addition of whole new streams of income worth to you? More to the point, what is it worth not to waste a year and thousands of dollars? Any company can offer you a site-builder, Web hosting, and scads of add-ons at ever-increasing “premium package” prices. Yes, your site will be up in 24 hours. But months later, that is all you will have. No visitors, no business, no chance. Other companies do not provide the SBI! process, the “tech-free” tools and the guidance, all of which are necessary to create a site that works… a thriving self-sufficient Web business. And you know what? Web hosting companies simply don’t care, because they do not think that your success is their business. Let’s break this down and look at the cost involved for each of these services: Function, if bought separately USD/year Brainstorming and researching tools $200 Web/html/graphic designer $2,000 Hosting of your site (yes, SBI! even hosts your site with state-of-the Net speed & reliability, no limits) $240 Domain name annual renewal (Automatic) $15 Submit unlimited URLs to search engines $120 Ranking Reports for search engines $240 Unique Keyword search reports for search engines $120 NEW! Ranking Reports for Directories $240 NEW! Unique Keyword search reports for Directories $120 Search engine optimization $200 SBI! Xpress, Tips HQ and Resources HQ $120 4 Traffic HQs $120 Pay-per-click research and mass-bidding $220 Click-in and Click-through Analysis $200 NEW! E-zine Subscription and Delivery (E-Newsletter, including SpamCheck and OpenRate) $240 NEW! Value Exchange $180 NEW! Form Build It! (Automated Forms and Sequential Autoresponders) $400 JUST RELEASED! Link Fix It! (No more bad links!) $120 Guide/”Guru-in-your-ear” “Priceless” Total (in USD), if bought separately $5,095 Now, consider that with SBI! you get ALL of the above list included in your one annual fee. Look, you don’t have to believe me. But do yourself a favour and check out case studies of other users of SBI! If you want the 30-second, ‘cut-to-the-chase’ version of why your business really needs an SBI website, please visit this link. If you respond right away, you pay only US$299. Act immediately and receive the following bonuses Since I know it’s 100% to your benefit to act right away, I personally want to sweeten the pot and give you every possible reason to say YES today! If you respond by , I will also personally send you the following: Free bonus one: How just one simple letter can grow your business, slash your costs and dramatically improve your bottom line! I’ve written a mini-ebook that explains in detail exactly how YOU can capitalise on the power of the “three e’s”. My powerful ebook that I sell on this site for $19.97… yours for free just for taking your online business to the next, most successful level Free bonus two: Your Web site either makes the sale, or it doesn’t. Ninety-nine out of a hundred sites still don’t get the order. We blame that on suspicious, scared Web-consumers. Make Your Site SELL! 2002 is about joining the one in a hundred who sell, really sell, on the Net. And the newly expanded, updated MYSS! 2002 Edition shows you how to sell better than ever! Free bonus three: The Netwriting Masters Course is the first and only course that shows you how to get the whole process correct.. Join the “Top 2%” on the Net. PREsell with information-packed content, then sell with benefit-focused sales copy, smoothly converting your visitors into customers. This “1-2” power strategy is the core to building traffic and earning income on the Net. Right thinking… right process… profitable results! You can do the same. Free bonus four: Unlimited free online consultations with me on how to best promote your new SBI! online business. Incalculable value You can’t lose with SBI!’s 100%, ironclad, moneyback guarantee Purchase SBI! today. Use it. Even register your domain name (it’s included in the price). If at any point in time SBI! does not exceed your expectations, SBI! will refund you immediately and you can keep the domain name that you registered as SBI!’s thank-you for giving them a chance at your business. Only by trying can you discover what you and SBI! will accomplish together. And SBI! will take all the risk while you try. By the way, these bonuses are yours to keep even in the unlikely event you decide to take advantage of SBI!’s ironclad moneyback guarantee. Click here how to order right now! To your success, Lee Hopkins P.S. Don’t forget—you have until to claim your bonuses. Better get moving! Go to the SBI! website now P.P.S. Just in case you are still unconvinced about the power of SBI!, here’s some more testimonials from happy SBI! users: I can’t say enough about SiteBuildIt! Every month my traffic grows and grows. This month, I’ve been getting well over 2000 unique visitors a day strictly from search engine traffic resulting in sales of close to $50,000 with commissions of $200 to $400 per day and I haven’t even started advertising, sending out my ezine, or requesting links yet. And this was the very first website I’ve ever built!Darryl Barnes, Starkville, MS, U.S.A. rccartalk.com I have a great site, fantastic traffic, a subscriber base that loves my e-zine, and a profitable business. I have even opened a store using PayPal, which works great with SBI!, as well as a Yahoo! Store. I run the occasional eBay auction, too. (My SBI! site actually sends my Yahoo Store and my auctions more traffic than Yahoo! and eBay do!). But I have a problem… My site (yes, a specialty niche, just as you recommend) has been growing greatly — I hope that you don’t force me out due to the success, since I love teaching college, too!” Jim Nelson, Kentucky, U.S. www. jugglenow.com I started my first SBI! site in May 2003. In August, just four months later, my site generated almost $6,000 in sales! The site is ranked 50,821 and I’ve got close to 500 subscribers to my Birthdayography newsletter. Oh yeah, and during August I was also on vacation for a week of Scuba diving in the Red Sea while my site continued to work as usual. Without a doubt, SBI! is It! Elad Shippony, California, USA. coolest-kid-birthday-parties.com Building my web-site was easy and fun. Site Sell delivered everything it advertised and more, including results. I still can’t believe the incredible price for such a complete program. Thank you Site Sell! Joe Vassallo, Ontario, Canada www.vgirlskincare.com I created my first SBI! site as regional manager for a medical imaging company. It was so successful, generating $300,000 in sales per month (head office couldn’t figure out how I did it!), that I figured, “Why not do this for myself.” My new SBI! site is MY business. It generates leads like mad, helping me sell medical equipment in California. Yes, SBI! did it again! We’re already averaging $10,000 in COMMISSIONS per month and this time WE OWN IT! Every salesperson in every industry should use SBI!. Jerry Mack, Forrestville, CA, USA www.sonomahealth.com My site remains (for 2 years!) #1 at Yahoo, despite 344,000 sites now competing for my most important keyword. #1 and #2 at Google. #5 and #12 at MSN. Top 10s in the others. And so many top 10s for so many keywords that my site now ranks in the top 120,000 sites on the Web. Last month I had 7,581 visitors, increasing month after month. SiteBuildIt has helped me remain on top of my market. I feel victorious each time I am listed above the ‘heavy-hitters’ in my market. Thank you for SiteBuildIt, it has been my GREAT EQUALIZER! Michael Boyter, Alaska, USA www.familyhistoryproducts.com We are just coming up to our second anniversary and will break 50,000 visitors for the first time this month. Since August, our traffic has tripled. Our first year we had 77,000 visitors and this year we will have 293,000. We have had visitors from over 90 different countries the past few months. 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Particularly valued the opportunity to have a separate session to look at the specific needs and potential uses for my own business.” “Great to talk to someone who is expert in their field and passionate.” “The ability to interact one on one with Lee, as well as seeing new technologies and how they can be easily implemented into current business processes [was great]” “Great. Lee was very engaging and presented info in easy to understand language and examples. Use of music, video, PowerPoint etc keep contents fun and educational. Great stuff!” “Great! Even I could understand and appreciate the content. Excellent examples, wonderful presentation. I’m going back to share with my team. Thank you. ” “Lee was a great facilitator and his energy and passion for social media was evident.” “Excellent, enthusiastic presenter who is right into what he is talking about. Walking the talk.Just the right amount of info about the different topics. Not too geeky. Strong emphasis on how the tools can assist effective business communication. Relaxed friendly atmosphere. The workshop opened lots of doors, stimulating. I’m strongly encouraged to try things out. Many thanks.” “Lee was great – knowledgeable, enthusiastic, generous in sharing his expertise. I liked the demonstrations.” “Great Workshop… helped me crystalise my thoughts on social media and now I feel ready to develop the strategy and make use of this great new medium” Would you like me to run a workshop in-house for YOUR company? Contact me to discuss how we can bring your company into this new and exciting communication universe. Twitter LinkedIn FacebookDelicious FlickrLast.fmFriendFeed Assoc. of Virtual Worlds Plurk Plaxo Skype me View many of the presentations I have given over at Slideshare Why does employee communication matter? 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