Before I begin listing off a bunch of new features I will just briefly recap what Site Build It is and isn’t. As I have stated before SBI is NOT a get rich quick scheme. In fact, I can’t even guarantee that you will make money using it.

You will get out of it exactly what you put into it. If you are looking for empty promises of fast money then you will be sorely disappointed with SBI. However, if you are willing to work towards your own success then I think Site Build It is probably the best tool out there for you.

To put it more simply Site Build It can help you to build a long term successful online business. BUT only if you are willing to commit the time and effort to make it one.

Site Build It is a tried and true way of making quality niche sites that the search engines love. It includes everything you need to be successful right out of the box. Not only do you get web hosting for your web site but you also get a step by step action guide explaining exactly what you should be doing to start and then grow your own internet business.

I have built two successful sites using the Site Build It process. However, I recently sold both of them for thousands of dollars each and agreed that I wouldn’t disclose what topic they were on. I did this because the new owners don’t want lots of new people competing with them. But, I can tell you that both sites together were earning me as much as $500 a month with little effort beyond creating the sites in the first place.

And while I can’t show you my sites I can show you lots of other great sample SBI sites here. I can tell you first hand that these sites a good example of what you can accomplish with Site Build It. Without the Site Build It action guide I am sure I would not be where I am today.

The reason I haven’t build more websites with SBI is because at the time when I first started using it there were certain technical limitations to their platform that wouldn’t allow me to create blogs. However, this has been one of the first major improvements to SBI for 2009 is that now you can now easily create a blog for your site.

A second important new service offered by Ken Evoy is SiteSell Services. This is for people who have an existing business and need a web presence. Not only does it offer the complete Site Build It package but also includes a complete content writing service for you. You can find out more about this option here.

The third great feature added for 2009 is that Ken is now offering all his ebooks free of charge. These are great guides that used to cost up to $49.99 each. Each one deals with a different aspect of starting a business online. The fact that he is now giving them away free shows me how confident he is in his product. Click here to see all the great free ebooks he is offering.

Now all of these great new features are on top of the already existing ones. You can use Site Build It to start almost any sort of internet based business. For example you can create a website that takes advantage of Google’s Adsense program as outlined here. Or, you could use it to grow an online auction business as outlined here. Or, you can even use Site Build It to expand your local business: either on your own as outlined here or through SiteSell services as outlined here.

So there you have it. If you want to start an internet or online business in 2009, Site Build It is the platform to do it with. But, don’t take my word for it click here for proof that Site Build It works. Or, click here to watch videos of people who love SBI. Or thirdly you can take a video tour of all that SBI has to offer by clicking here.

Remember, that you can try Site Build It totally risk free. The only person who can make you a success is you. Take the first step today by seeing how you can try Site Build It risk free only by clicking here now.

Well now you can! You can find out the strategies Alborz Fallah uses to generate huge income from his blog each month with this interview. Best of all you don’t need to pay anything or even enter your e-mail address to read all about it. You can read or listen to the interview for free here.

Also, Yaro Starak has just released two videos showing you how he makes his money each month. The first video shows you how he does it and the second video shows you how much he makes. Again you don’t need to pay anything or even enter an e-mail address to watch these videos. You can watch them free here.

So, what can you take away from these two professional bloggers? I think the number one lesson is determination. Both of them kept working through the difficult times to succeed. If you want to succeed in your Internet business you will have to do the same.

However, you don’t have to do it alone. Yaro Starak is going to reopen his blog mastermind mentoring program tomorrow (July 29th, 2008) to new members. He will provide personal coaching to help you get started towards starting your Internet blogging business.

Now the price is going to be $97 a month, so it may not be for everyone. However, joining his program will allow you to hit the ground running in terms of starting a blogging business. You can get started now by downloading his Blog Profits Blueprint ebook for free.

There are basically two types of bloggers in the world – reporters and experts – and some people perform both roles (usually the experts, it’s hard for reporters to become experts, but it’s easy for experts to report).

If you have ever taken an Internet marketing course or attended a seminar specifically for beginners, you have probably heard about the two different methodologies. Whenever the business model is based on content, and if you blog for money then the model is based on content, people are taught to either start as reporters, or if possible step up as experts.

I’ll be frank; you want to be the expert.

Reporters leverage the content of the experts and in most cases people start off as reporters because they haven’t established expertise. Experts enjoy the perks of preeminence, higher conversion rates because of perceived value, it’s easier to get publicity, people are more likely to seek you out rather than you having to seek others out, joint ventures come easier, etc… experts in most cases simply make more money and attract more attention.

Most Bloggers Are Reporters

The thing with expertise is that it requires something – experience. No person becomes an expert without doing things and learning. Bloggers usually start out without expertise and as a result begin their blogging journey by talking about everything going on in their niche (reporting) and by interviewing and talking about other experts (reporting again).

There’s nothing wrong with reporting of course and for many people it’s a necessity at first until you build up some expertise. Unfortunately the ratios are pretty skewed when it comes to reporters and experts – there are a lot more reporters than there are experts, hence reporters tend to struggle to gain attention and when they do, they often just enhance the reputation of the expert they are reporting on.

Don’t Replicate Your Teacher

If you have ever spent some time browsing products in the learn Internet marketing niche you will notice a pattern. Many people first study Internet marketing from a “guru” (for lack of a better term). The guru teaches how he or she is able to make money online, and very often the view that the student gleams is that in order to make money online you have to teach others how to make money online.

The end result of this process is a huge army of amateurs attempting to replicate what their teacher does in the same industry – the Internet marketing industry – not realizing that without expert status based on a proven record and all the perks that come with it, it’s next to impossible to succeed.

Even people, who enjoy marginal success, say for example growing an email list of 1,000 people, then go out and launch a product about how to grow an email list of 1,000 people. Now I have no problems with that, I think it’s fine to teach beginners and leverage whatever achievements you have, the problem is that people gravitate to the same niche – Internet marketing – and rarely have any key points of differentiation.

How many products out there do you know of that all claim to teach the same things – email marketing, SEO, pay per click, affiliate marketing, and all the sub-niches that fall under the category of Internet marketing. It’s a saturated market, yet when you see your teachers and other gurus making money teaching others how to make money (and let’s face it – making money as a subject is one of the most compelling) – your natural inclination is to follow in their footsteps.

If the key is to become an expert and you haven’t spent the last 5-10 years making money online, I suggest you look for another niche to establish expertise in.

Report on Your Process, Not Others

The secret to progress from reporter to expert is not to focus on other experts and instead report on your own journey. When you are learning how to do something and implementing things day by day, or studying other people’s work, you need to take your process and what you do as a result of what you learn, and use it as content for your blog.

It’s okay to talk about experts when you learn something from them, but always relate it to what you are doing. If you learn a technique from an expert it’s fine to state you learned it from them (and affiliate link to their product too!) but you should then take that technique, apply it to what you are doing and then report back YOUR results, not there’s. Frame things using your opinion – your stories – and don’t regurgitate what the expert said. The key is differentiation and personality, not replication.

Expertise comes from doing things most people don’t do and then talking about it. If you do this often enough you wake up one day as an expert, possibly without even realizing how it happened, simply because you were so good at reporting what you did.

You Are Already An Expert

Most people fail to become experts (or perceived as experts) because they don’t leverage what they already know. Every person who lives a life learns things as they go, takes action every day and knows something about something. The reason why they never become an expert is because they choose not to (which is fine for some, not everyone wants to be an expert), but if your goal is to blog your way to expertise and leave the world of reporting behind you have to start teaching and doing so by leveraging real experience.

Experience can come from what you do today and what you have done previously; you just need to take enough steps to demonstrate what you already know and what you are presently learning along your journey. I know so many people in my life, who are experts simply by virtue of the life they have lived, yet they are so insecure about what they know, they never commit their knowledge to words for fear of…well fear.

Blogs and the Web in general, are amazing resources when you leverage them as a communication tool to spread your expertise because of the sheer scope of people they can reach. If all you ever do is talk to people in person and share your experience using limited communication mediums, you haven’t much hope of becoming an expert. Take what you know and show other people through blogging, and you might be surprised how people change their perception of you in time.

Reporting Is A Stepping Stone

If your previous experience and expertise is from an area you want to leave behind or you are starting from “scratch”, then reporting is the path you must walk, at least for the short term.

Reporting is a lot of fun. Interviewing experts, talking about what other people are doing and just being part of a community is not a bad way to blog. In many cases people make a career of reporting (journalism is about just that), but if you truly want success and exponential results, at some point you will have to stand up and proclaim yourself as someone unusually good at something and then proceed to demonstrate it over and over again.

Have patience and focus on what you do to learn and then translate that experience into lessons for others, and remember, it’s okay to be a big fish in a small pond, that’s all most experts really are.

This article was written by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time. Moreover, he also offers a free Blog Profits Blueprint. You can find out more about both programs by visiting his site here.

Very simply, I don’t make my money online through this blog. It currently represents only about 1-2% of my total online income. I assume that this proportion will rise somewhat as it becomes more popular, but I never expect it to be more than about 10% of my total online earnings.

I enjoy writing this blog because it helps me to think through my own ideas about Internet business and because I want to help people improve their lives by starting their own Internet business. Obviously, if I can make money from this blog so much the better, but the earnings from it could disappear tomorrow and I would hardly notice.

OK, enough about me for one post, what does this have to do with you? In fact, I think this point is extremely important, because it is the biggest single mistake I see people online making online.

Why Do People Think Writing or Even Creating Products About Making Money Online Will Make Them Money?

I think the simple answer is that they see other people doing it and decide to copy them and do it themselves. For example, they see supper bloggers like John Chow who report incomes as high as $30,000 a month, writing about making money online and think well that looks like a good idea, so they copy it.

If that sounds like you, you need to read what I am about to write next. John Chow and other Internet marketers and bloggers like him are the exception not the rule. Most people who blog about or even create products about making money online are not nearly as successful as the top people in the field.

The Internet marketing and make money online fields are very good examples of a winner take all market. A few people at the top do really, really well but most people don’t. To illustrate this point  think of popular music. Bands and artists like U2, the Rolling Stones, Celine Dion, Jay Z etc. do very well for themselves. However, the vast majority of musicians do not make millions of dollars and most end up struggling for their very livelihood.

The few people at the top make most of the money and everyone below struggles to earn enough just to scrape by on. Contrast this with other fields where there is far less disparity. The best neurosurgeon in the United States, probably earns more than the 500th best one, but the 500th best one still earns a very good living.

You can try if you like to make money in the Internet marketing/make money online field but there is another important reason why I don’t think it is a good idea.

You Need A Huge Volume Of Traffic to Be Successful

The fact is visitors to make money online or Internet marketing sites are actually not that valuable. Again using John Chow as an example in February he earned $29,643.01 from 134,931 visitors, which means his average visitor was worth about 22 cents.

Now, nearly $30,000 in a month (over $1,000 a day) certainly sounds impressive (certainly far better than I am doing) but it was only archived by having an even larger number of visitors. I am not trying to belittle John Chow’s achievements, in fact I suspect the amount he earns per visitor is much higher than the average in this field.

Nevertheless, 22 cents per visitor is still not that much. I have some websites (admittedly with far less traffic) where each visitor earns me roughly $1.50. Moreover, I run some Pay per click campaigns where each visitor is worth $5. Note, none of these campaigns or sites has anything to do with making money online or Internet marketing.

In my experience, Internet marketing and make money online affiliate programs are among the worst performing. This is also, why Internet markets have to create such huge e-mail lists. Selling 600 ebooks at $47 is not that difficult if you have an e-mail list of 60,000 people. It’s creating an e-mail list of 60,000 people that is the difficult part.

It is very hard to generate lots of traffic because of competition. Sure there is a demand for these types of products but there is even more competition. I also think this is why visitor values tend to be so low for make money websites and blogs. Visitors get confused and often give up because everyone just wants to make a quick buck off them.

When you have 10,000 websites all trying to do this people naturally get suspicious and are reluctant to buy. Finally, many people who search for make money online are both cheap and lazy. They want to make money with no effort and no cost. Well I have news for people like that, that is not the way business works.

If you are just starting out why would you want to get into market like that?

Starting An Internet Business Versus Making Money Online

For these reasons I urge you to start and Internet business and not focus so much on just making money online. The two may sounds similar but the mindsets are totally different. If you are looking just to make money online you will always be looking for the next hot trend, product, ebook, etc. On the other hand, if you start an Internet business you want to create real long term value (or you should if you want to be successful).

However, I am sure that there a few cynical people out there who think that I am only saying all this to avoid more competition. Let me assure you that there is more than enough competition out there and you deciding to enter the market will have pretty much zero impact on me.

Save yourself the hassle and create an Internet business in an area other than Internet marketing and/or making money online. You will be able to make more with less competition and less hassle. At least this has been my experience maybe I am just a really bad Internet marketer.

Have your own story to tell about making money online or starting an Internet business? Tell us below in the comments section. (Comments have to be manually approved because I get too much spam)

Most runners either want to improve their running times or increase the distance they are able to run. However, it is (almost) impossible to do this overnight. You can’t go from running 2km a week to running 100km a week right away.

You have to gradually work your way up. Each week you want to slowly improve how far you are able to go. This is the same as running an Internet business, you are not going to be the next Google overnight. However, if you work on your business each day pretty soon you will start to see real improvements and results.

At any given point your results may seem small, but when you add them together you start seeing real progress. If you want to improve in both running and business you need to set goals AND ways to go about achieving them.

It is important to plan but it is even more important to put your plan into action. For example, say you want to have a site that generates a full time income for you. In this example we will assume that you earn $50,000 a year and you want 100% of that income replaced.

Now, $50,000 a year seems like a big number so I find it easier to break it down into how much money you have to earn each day. So, I would divide $50,000/365 days, which equals $136.99/per day. Now I divided by 365 days because your Internet business should be able to earn you money 24/7. If it can’t earn money in this way, you have not created a business but just created another job.

OK, so we have our $136.99 a day figure, now what? Well, work towards getting there. If you are just starting out you might aim for $1/day. Once you reach that aim for $10/day, then maybe $25/day etc. until you hit the $136.99 a day figure. Going from 0 to $136.99 a day seems really hard but going from 0 to $1 day seems pretty easy.

Stay focused on your goals and keep working towards them. The most difficult time, at least in my opinion,  is after your initial excitement has worn off, but before you start making big money. It can be difficult to feel excited about only earning $1/day. But you can’t run before you walk, which brings me to a second important comparison between running and business.

Once you stop running you maintain your level only for a short period of time, before you start declining. This is the same with running a website or a blog. If you give up on your business, you will keep earning your daily average for a period of time, but eventually your income will start to fall off.

This blog is a perfect example of that. In the fall of 2007 I started it and spent some money promoting it but then I got side tracked with other project, the holidays etc. It was still generating a little bit of traffic when I revived it but it has yet to return to its previous levels.

The same thing has happened to me numerous times in terms of my running ability. At the end of high school I was running so much that I trained and ran a marathon (42.2km). Now, I am happy just to be able to run about 8km (both because of my fitness level and due to time constraints). However, to keep myself motivated I have tried to improve my running time and so far the last few months I have been able to knock a full 10 minutes off it. Now, I will be the first to admit that I am not very fast, but it goes to show that determination, perseverance and patience do pay off in running as in business.

So whether you are running for exercise or running your won Internet business the key to success is patience, dedication and most importantly perseverance. You might not be able to run a marathon today, but if you keep working at it you will be able to some day. Same goes for success in running your own business.