Our SBI Journey So Far
And How To Make Your Own Website

All You Need Is A Passion Or Hobby And You Can Make Your Own Website Like This....

This page is a continuation of About SavvyHomemade, it explains in much more detail how we used the Life Changing SBI System to build SavvyHomemade.com and it tells the story of what happened to us and Our Adventure So Far......

SBI stands for Site Build It! and it has helped us to turn our hobby into a viable online business. You probably don't even realise that almost any topic can make money with a website! SBI is a great system that allows anyone to build not just a website but a thriving online business.

The crazy truth is that you don't need to be an expert to make your own website and succeed online.... Angela and I creating Savvyhomemade.com is the living, breathing proof of this.

I won't tell you that it's been easy....It hasn't...We had to work hard and it did take some time. But what I will say is this.

If you have the motivation it is definitely possible to build a website in your spare time and make it successfull enough to give up your day job...... It will take you a year or two, but it is definately doable!

Before you read Our SBI Adventure, I first need to give you a very brief overview of the SBI system and show how it takes you from start to finish, through an easy to follow process that ends with you owning your own little corner of the internet. You don't need any prior web knowledge or technical skill, all you need is an understanding and a passion or interest for your subject.

A snap shot of the SBI process

All of us have something to share, something that we are good at, and as you follow the action plan SBI helps you identify that passion or interest.

The system does this by evaluating what you know and enjoy in your life, the software then looks at what profitable subjects you could build a website around. In a nutshell it finds you a profitable subject to build a website around that receives free search engine visitors.

Site Build It! does this by finding key search phrases based around your chosen subject that are being searched for on Google and other top search engines. It then looks at how many websites focus on the phrase, and this (along with other factors) determines whether it will be profitable to create a website based on the subject.

What's that you say? "I can't think of a subject"..... Don't try this yet, you need to have an open mind and let the SBI system guide you to your subject.

The system follows a process eliminating ideas that will not fit the profitability blue print, narrowing or expanding subjects until you have identified your Website Concept. The software then focuses upon your concept, identifying hundreds of profitable words and subjects to write pages for your website. These pages will be easy to write, because you either already have the knowledge of your subject or you have a passion or interest in the subject that helps you research information.

At this point the SBI Website Builder takes over; you chose a template and start to write pages of interesting information focusing upon the chosen keywords. SBI turns them into search engine friendly webpage's containing all of the correct 'on page' criteria to make them rise to the top of search engines and provide you free traffic. At the same time the system is finding many profitable areas to monetise your website.

As the months go by you receive unlimited help from SBI support. You also learn and apply a vast amount of techniques available on the SBI forum. This private forum contains the collective mass of SBI knowledge and information, it is home to many extemely sucessfull online entrepreneurs that have tried, tested and helped to evolve the SBI process over many years.

As you move forward your website grows in reputation and creates a snowball affect gathering pace, increasing traffic and revenue each month, and you are well on your way.

This is just a very condensed snap shot of SBI. The process contains so much more, but there's no need to give you information overload right now.

For sure you can find many places online that allow you to build a website or blog, but none of them focus on what counts....You want to build a business, you don't want to simply pop up a website and hope that it's a big hit.......Just believe me when I say that anyone can do this, our story below proves this.....

Our SBI Story

By Brian and Angela Wills - Authors of SavvyHomemade.com

Today it's the Seventh of October 2009

Savvy has really started to buzz this month (that's SavvyHomemade.com, Angela and I refer to it as just 'Savvy' it's kind of like our fourth child ;-) Things are going better than I expected..... and I'm a little annoyed with myself!

The reason I'm annoyed is that I've known about SBI for more than 5 years and I didn't get around to building a website that works.

At the end of 2008, bored with my work I decided to have a go at building a website (it only took five years!) I figured that if I spent a few years building maybe ten websites all earning $500 per month I could end up with a $5,000 per month passive income forever!.....In reality this was actually a silly misguided plan, but I guess it was a lucky one, as it lead me back to have another 'closer' look at the SBI system.

So during the 2008 Holiday I revisited SBI for about the tenth time...The whole SBI process had moved on a long way since I first saw it in 2004, Everything was more streamlined, with a clear step by step path to follow, if this was all in place back in 2004 then I missed it.... What a big miss that was!

So things had moved on quite a bit, I was reading several amazing Case Studies from other, ordinary people that had tried SBI and succeeded, people that had started their SBI websites way after I first found SBI!....Can you can imagine how anoying this was?

I watched a very interesting new Video Tour that showed how a website should be created and it all made total sense. I bought the SBI package on the 29th December 2008.

I was determined to suceed in this, and I vowed to follow the SBI Action Guide to the letter. So with the added security of a 30 day money back guarantee backing us up, we started this very site (whilst both holding down full time jobs Angela and I got to work in our spare time).

Using SBI's Niche Finding and Keyword Brainstorming Tools we took more than a month to define a site concept based around something that we enjoy and something that ticked all of the SBI boxes.

We did push the envelope a little on the broadness of our concept (for some reason I always have to push it or do it a little different!). The SBI Action Guide would probably prefer our concept to be a little tighter. Choosing 'Homemade' as our main site concept keyword was taking a bit of a risk and giving ourselves more work, but we decided it was OK as we could share the load.......

And savvyhomemade.com was launched early in February 2009.....

This years traffic stats, followed by the first week in October

We have now spent 9 months of our spare time using the SBI concept to build Savvy's content and internet presence as hard as we can.

In May we implemented Google Add Sense to earn a little revenue, but didn't push it. We didn't seriously start monetising the site until we got above 200 visitors per day in July and since then our traffic and income has steadily grown almost weekly.

Traffic is now increasing by more than 50% each month and has just passed 800 visitors per day. That puts us in the top 1% of trafficked websites on the Net, but we feel it is only the tip of our traffic iceberg.

Revenue on the site comes from Google Pay Per Click Advertising and commissions from sales at EBay and Amazon. Basically Savvy gets lots of free search engine traffic and we get paid to send some of those visitors to advertisers. Don't worry, SBI covers all of this in the Action Guide.

Right now we are averaging around $40 per day revenue, that's $1200 per month, and a very good result in less than nine months, it's not passive income right now as we are working hard, but it will be in the future.

Of course the internet has billions of users and as Savvy grows we only have to do the numbers to project future income. If Savvy traffic hits our initial target of around 2500 visitors per day we have an income of over $3000 per month. And if it continues to grow from there at a steady 10% per month (it's growing at more than 50% right now) we will have 10k per month in a couple of years...

.....This is a conservative estimate as we know of many SBI businesses that have in excess of 10,000 visitors per day...... It's just a numbers game.

Hopefully we will hit our 2500 visitors per day and then we'll be giving up the day jobs!
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How To Make It Online

SavvyHomemade.com is the perfect example of how to make your own website and what you can achieve with SBI. Our website is now among the top 1% of trafficked websites on the entire internet and we managed that in just under 6 months with hardly any prior web knowledge or technical skills!

The power of internet has changed what we once thought was hard work. What is usually considered work is doing something for a month, getting your pay check and then you have to work all over again to receive the same.

The inherent problem with this structure is that as soon as you stop doing the work, you stop getting paid. This doesn't happen on the web. You work hard once to make your own website and the pay from that work keeps coming and coming, in the form of passive income...You can work just occasionally but all the work from before keeps sending you the benefits.

This is not one of the get rich quick scams. This is a real way to make your own website, or should we say make your own web business and work towards being financially and physically free whilst doing something you enjoy. Isn't that what we all want?

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P.S. Do you have any questions left about SBI or how to make your own website? Want to know how exactly it could work for you? You can ask any questions here.