Comments on: There Are Web Sites and Then There are Online Businesses That Make Money

By: Nathanael

Nathanael — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:57:39 +0000

You I have heard of Site built it but I never really spend the time to really check them out. I am looking to build an online business so I will be sure to read more about them thanks for this post very informational…

By: Danny

Danny — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 04:19:25 +0000

It is actually a great system for filtering people that will make it and people who wont.
If you try sbi and find it too much work and give up, then at least it saved you the time of making your own site on wp or whereever, then not putting in the work needed but just fumbling around for a long time and then giving up.
You either put in the work needed and succeed, or you see that it’s too much work, making money online is just not for you and you don’t quit your day job.
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By: Antonia@Conversational hypnosis

Antonia@Conversational hypnosis — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 19:44:31 +0000

Those that build websites for a living have no way of knowing how to do all those things, because the information volume is huge. That’s why i find it better to team with at least another competent and experienced webmaster. You’ll have to share the profit but you’ll grow a lot faster.
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By: Ayden @ Look At BigCommerce

Ayden @ Look At BigCommerce — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 06:30:26 +0000

I’m all good CMS systems. I think they’re brilliant. I often use one whenever I build a website. But would you ever consider building a site without a CMS platform these days?
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By: growmap

growmap — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 19:57:30 +0000

Hi Joe,

I totally agree that the SBI process is simply brilliant because I understand what it is doing – having done the same things manually. I suspect many who try it give up not realizing the importance of the tons of work required up front, but if they will stick with it they WILL end up targeting the right niche keywords to make money.
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By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 18:27:16 +0000

The most amazing thing about SBI is that if you follow the action guide till the end, and do everything they tell you to the best of your ability, you will succeed with your new website. You will rank high in the serps, you will get visitors, and you will make money. It is not easy, you have to do the work, and a lot of it. But in the end, you will be very very happy that you found it in the first place.
No regrets.
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By: mark

mark — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 04:47:43 +0000

Well I agree with your points. Good content is must for building a better web site. Nice article.

By: Dubai Traveler

Dubai Traveler — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:09:27 +0000

Quite well said there is a huge difference between building a site and building a business. Although money is not everything but it sure is the driving force behind all businesses.
Thank you for sharing such a nice post

By: Roger

Roger — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:12:46 +0000

I’m looking for the right platform to build an ecommerce website. I’m currently looking for some references.
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By: growmap

growmap — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:26:39 +0000

Hi Roger,

There are three platforms that I have recommended most over the years because their shopping carts worked best. Those are Volusion (best independent platform), Yahoo! Stores (which you pay a percentage of sales to because they have existing traffic) and ProStores (which had a great reputation but I have never had a client that actually used it).

It has been some time since I worked closely with a lot of ecommerce stores. There are now ways to add a shopping cart to WordPresss that MIGHT be suitable. That would require more research and may depend on the size of the store you have in mind.

I am assuming that by ecommerce site you mean one that has a shopping cart and uses your merchant account. If you mean an affiliate site all you need is WordPress although some prefer Joomla.

Which you prefer may depend on whether you are going to hire someone to build it or you plan to do it yourself.

I highly recommend Rob Snell as one of the very best http://ystore.blogs.com/“>Yahoo Store experts around. The main reason to work with Rob is that the default design of Yahoo! Stores does not convert nearly as well as the upgrades he uses and most importantly, Yahoo! Stores were severely hit by the Google MayDay Update with many of them losing 20-30% of their traffic ands sales virtually overnight and what they are doing will continue to affect more and more small businesses and ecommerce stores. Rob’s customers were not affected because he had advised them wisely.

If you prefer an independent store I may be able to reach the Volusion expert I used to work with most closely.

Be very careful of many of the most popular shopping cart solutions. I found that they declined far too many sales for all kinds of reasons from the person’s name being too long for the field to not recognizing a particular abbreviation when entering an address – and the worst thing is declining sales but not providing a specific reason.

Most buyers will NOT contact a site when they have difficulty checking out – they simply leave – so many stores are turning away a large percentage of sales and don’t even know it. It is challenging enough to make money without doing that!

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