If you're thinking about
buying (or you are already using) Site Build It to build a
website for yourself or your business, I'm extremely relieved that you've found my blog because not only will my story shock
you, it'll almost certainly save your sanity, your money
as well as a lot of time and heart ache.
I will tell you exactly
why over a 3 year period, I built and failed with two different
SBI websites, how I built two more sites that sort of
worked... and how I
finally managed to unlock the secret that could be the difference between you succeeding and failing with
Site Build It.
My name is Rocky Tapscott and like so many
people from all over the world, I got the work from home
bug and wanted to know how I could use my experience to
build some sort of business using the internet.
In December 2003,
after working for 20 years in the construction and mining
industry, I decided that I'd had enough of working
nights and weekends and I was totally burned out from 80 hour
work weeks and being away from my family. I began
searching for a way to make money from home, so I could
relax a little and be with my family, while making a
good income doing something I enjoyed.
But
as
you've no doubt discovered yourself, there are so many
scams around that it's hard to know what works and what
doesn't.
I
purchased thousands of dollars worth of junk, every
ebook and course I could find (many that I couldn't afford) and
every piece
of software that was being promoted by the
latest guru. Even though
these things all sounded so good in the sales letters, the problem was
that none of them worked for me.
I
worked like a slave for weeks on end, using up every
free moment I had, trying to build a home based
business, but nothing worked. I was sleeping less and because of the
work load it actually became quite stressful, and I
started thinking that I'd be back working in the mines
in no time at this rate. The money was going down, my
wife Debbie was looking at me sideways as the bills
started piling up, and I was starting to get desperate.
The Inevitable
Started To Happen
My enthusiasm slowly started to wane for the whole
Internet Marketing thing and
pretty soon I was about to give it all up as a bad
joke. The 80 hour weeks working night shift were starting to
loom on
the horizon again, and I was getting so depressed I
really didn't know what I was going to do.
Then
something amazing happened. I stumbled onto Ken Evoy's
Sitesell site and what he wrote really hit a chord
with me. I spent weeks thinking about buying
Site Build It, but every time I had my finger hovering
over the order button, I hesitated. I was worried that
this would just be another waste of my time and
energy, and after my experience so far, I nearly
didn't go through with it.
Eventually,
I just thought 'hang it' and ordered SBI.
The
first topic I chose was something that I was extremely
passionate about, and although it took me 8 months of
constant work to get it to where I was making any real
money, I
loved the challenge. I was working at a job part time which
took the pressure off financially, and the future was
starting to look much better.
As
we humans can tend to do, I started to extrapolate the earnings I was making
each month in those early days way out into the future, and thinking to myself, hey this is
easy, I'm gonna make a fortune.
Long
story short, around 6 pm one evening I got a phone call, and
when I got off the phone, my
new internet business was dead. I won't go into the
details, but to say I was devastated would be an
understatement.
It
took me about 4 months to recover after that, but
I knew that the SBI process worked, so I purchased another Site
Build It site and
started over in a different market.
Then
I Had A Harsh Reality Check
I spent
nearly 12 months building content for my second site,
but it never
made more than a few dollars each month. No matter
what I did, I simply couldn't get it to work like the
first one.
Eventually
I gave up on that site (again, long story), and
started a third one, again full of enthusiasm and hope
that I could repeat my first experience with SBI. After yet another
year of hard work and hundreds of hours spent in front of
the computer,
I had another failure on my hands and I was about
ready to give up again.
Yes I was getting
found in the search engines and
people were visiting the site, but I wasn't making any
money. The success of the first site had made me think
that this was so easy. I was starting to get a reality
check, and it was a terrible shock to see all that
work go down the drain for a third time.
After going back into my old habits of buying all sorts
of get rich quick rubbish, I decided to give Site
Build It one more chance, this time with a partner who was
an expert in a niche closely related to the one I'd
built my first successful SBI site around.
After
working on the content of that site for about two
months, we launched, and we had an instant hit on our
hands. People
loved the content and the products we were selling, and even though we only
had a few visitors, we made thousands of dollars in a
few weeks. Plus it was the most fun I had ever had in
business, because I was totally engrossed in what I
was doing.
We
made around $16,000 in net profit in our first month
of actively promoting the site, and then to my horror,
my partner decided to raise our prices substantially.
In fact, he raised them so far that the market simply
couldn't bear it, and that killed
our new business stone dead.
I
tried lots of things to resurrect this business over a
period of several months, but with the overpriced
products and a partner that couldn't see the writing
was on the wall, eventually I just gave up. I
retreated into my cave again to lick my wounds.
Now
I'm
not that sharp, but after this experience I was starting to see a pattern
forming, and after thinking
about all the things I had been through over the last three years with
sites that had succeeded to some extent, and others that had failed,
I hit on the two key factors that had made all the difference
between success and failure.
Fast
forward to now, and I have three profitable Site Build
It websites, and I'm part owner of a forth one. Once
you get the system right, it certainly makes life much
easier.
So
Here Are The Two Secrets To Succeeding With Site Build
It
1)
You need to find a mentor who has been where you want to go, and
ask for their advice. Then you have to follow it!
This is critical. Sure you can
muddle through building your website and use trial and
error to see if it works out.
If you are already using
Site Build It, how's that working out for you so far?.
But
the smarter way is to find somebody who has actually
succeeded in doing exactly what you want to do, and
ask them for
their best advice before you go too far and waste a
year or more of your life (like I did the first couple
of times).
Now you've got to be careful
about who you ask here. Of course, you
can get 'advice' from the Sitesell Forum, but if
you've tried that, how did it work out? I
can see you smiling right now :-)
2)
Build your web business around something that has lots
of irrational, passionate people who are spending money feeding
their wants and desires. There's more to it than this, and I'll
be happy to share it with you if you'll allow me to, but this is one of the
main differences I've found that will increase your
chances of being successful by a factor of 5, and is
the difference between the sites I see that succeed,
and those that don't.
Would You Like A
Personal Coach And Mentor?
I'd
like to help you to succeed with Site Build It the way
I have, so here's what I'm going to propose.
If
you are currently using Site Build It to build a web
business, but you're not succeeding the way you'd like
to be, then visit
this page and take a free two week trial of the personal coaching and mentoring system I've called The
Site Build It Mastery program.
If
you take the free trial, you'll have instant access to
a new 4 part video series I created
for my coaching students called The 4
Keys To Building A Successful Site Build It Site, where
I'll expand on critical factor #2 above, and give you the exact
formula for knowing whether your existing SBI site has a chance
of succeeding or not, and what to do about it.
You
owe it to yourself to watch these videos, and if you
decide to cancel your membership during your two week trial after
watching them, that's fine. No hard feelings, and at
least you'll know the strategy to follow to improve the results
you are currently getting.
I'd
really encourage you to visit the page below and see
what it's all about, especially if you don't want to
waste the next year of your life building a website
that isn't going to make it.
If
you are already using Site Build It and you really want to
succeed, click here
If
you are about to order your first Site Build It
package, and you would
like an experienced SBI owner to mentor and guide you
through the process instead of trying to do it all on
your own, visit
this page and I'll show you how you can arrange
that without it costing you a dime extra when you
order SBI.
You'll
also get access to The 4 Keys To Building A Successful
Site Build It Site so you'll have the exact formula
for knowing whether your SBI site has a chance of
succeeding or not before you even get started.
If
you'd like me to personally coach and guide you as you
build your first Site Build It site, click here
I'm
looking forward to helping you to succeed.
The reason why I'm doing
this is because I'm sick of seeing the scammers who are selling crappy
products and services to unsuspecting buyers winning - the fact is that Site
Build it actually works, as long you know what you are
doing and you have somebody to guide you.
I
can help you to succeed with SBI, if you'd like me to.
Sincerely,
Rocky
Tapscott
If
you are already using Site Build It and you want to
multiply your results, click here
or
If
you'd like me to personally coach and guide you as you
build your first Site Build It site, click here
And if you'd like to ask me a question
about Site Build It, you can do that by clicking
here.
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