My Site Build It! Diary

Kind of funny how tough registering my domain was.

You’d think with as many funky domains out there, that do just fine, one wouldn’t freak out so much. But I did.

Hesitation, Anticipation, Obfuscation.

This is also telling about decision making. Reminds me of the Nike slogan Just Do It that is so wonderfully motivational and critical at the same time depending on the context. Or Frank Zappa’s Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar.

Well I took the plunge and finally registered a domain. The one I wanted was taken, but I think the one I chose is even better. I think it’s perfect really but I was very surprised how I hesitated.

Which brings me to clutch time.

As powerful as Site Build It! is, and it just gets better and better - (lose the freaking resizing windows!!! drives us tabbed browsers crazy!!) in the end it’s the human being who makes the decision. No software, no one else can tell you what to do. You have to decide.

I make a living doing internet marketing - web development, email marketing. I have a good amount of domain names but certainly don’t mess with hundreds and the not so ethical practice of making automated mini-portal gateway pages with them.

I’m a stickler for total control, nameservers, dns, ftp, backend hosting server access, code access and on. So embracing Site Build It! was a real challenge at first.

I couldn’t stand the idea of not having these controls. I was so let down by my initial purchase I almost refunded!

But I didn’t. And I’m still working. And now I’ll finally build the site.

So I continue to be impressed with the scope of the tools, the tools, did I say the tools?, that make everything so much simpler, or at least congregated in one place. I still build my own blogs and site using all those technical skills, or shall we say need to know based technical skills, but I’m really seeing the power of an all in one, set and forget, online business builder.

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Today I reflect on nearing my subscription renewal and how, though I promised myself that I wouldn’t, I managed to yet again let life, work, business, play and other things stop me from having a web site up and running before my Site Build It subscription ran out.

This is about discipline and lacking discipline. One of the things that Ken Evoy talks about when defending the $300 per year subscription is commitment, if you pay, you are more likely to be committed. You do get 30 days to try and then back out if you don’t like it, but ultimately plunking down three hundred dollars should serve to weed out the tire kickers, or the cheap tire kickers.

In my case, well, I just don’t seem to value $300 that much, even though I know that this can set me free of all the things that are keeping me from building the site, so to speak. I know that we are our own worst enemies, and that in the end we do what we truly desire and I really love hanging out not working, and this is work. A lot of work.

Not hard work, make no mistake, but work no matter how you slice it. So, I will renew my subscription and I will commit again to completing this site in a month or so. One trick is to actually set a schedule, or substitute SBI for time you would be watching TV or reading or whatever.

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Thursday, January 03, 2008

I suppose if you really want to get right down to it, the vast majority of us are worker ants, little people (not meaning that in a bad way of course, just normal) perfectly content to just work, live and go on that way.

Then the idea of more freedom, or more time, or more control starts to bore into the minds of some of us. This is the beginning of the entrepreneurial spirit that is typically not present in large numbers, depending on the culture of course, and dependent on capitalism or other exploitative systems, again, not meant in a bad way.

Site Build It! promises all of that.

The Site Build It! scam is simply this, a lot of work is required to build ANY business and Site Build It! is no different. That is of course not a scam, so there is no Site Build It! scam.

I have found so far, that the Site Build It! servers are slow, that the Site Build It! interface is somewhat gimmicky, and that Site Build It! overall delivers as promised, in terms of tools, giving you the tools to get there, to get to a nice niche web site with potential for traffic if you really work hard.

The question is this: Do you want to work for yourself? Can you make the time? Can you display the discipline?

So far I have been unable to extricate myself from the usual fallbacks for income although I am self-employed as of yet.

Saturday, December 08, 2007

I suppose that life can get in the way of business. This is why so many of us end up being what society demands we be, in a rut. A few of us excel beyond that and take our individual spirits beyond the norm, in a daily grind or not.

So I have a web business and a contractor business. Focused on web right now. Making a decent living, but not Off Every Day as I truly desire. And by Off Every Day, I don’t mean off as in turned off, or not working necessarily, but to say that I do not HAVE to work, a residual income flow continues with or without my presence. True Entrepreneurial living.

So what day am I really on? I would have to say Day 2 yet.

I have a biased toward doing the my preferred theme site, so despite lower keyword numbers I am tending toward doing this one. It’ll be fun, and profitable.

So to start I am doing the Vertical Brainstorm again, on both permutations of my preferred theme and gonna go from there……..again.

Brainstorm It! asked to upgrade to version 2.0, so of course I obliged.

Lest I forget, today, in 1980, John Lennon died. Very painful for me, and the world. Celebrate his life.

Since I hit 995 words, I dumped the other two themes to make room for, hopefully, more words for my preferred theme.

And now, for a rant on the outdated code Site Build It! Uses. I hope they are upgrading to a current codes compliant smoking engine, LAMP would do. This thing is a bit of a dog.

Back to Site Build It!

Left off back in September on honing the themes. I have latched onto Yosemite as the overall theme, and Yosemite National Park as the sub-theme so to speak. Brainstormed them separately in Brainstorm It!

Sunday, September 02, 2007

Clearly, I am not putting in the time I need to be putting into this thing. How will I ever know if it works, or trust that it can work for me, if I don’t even give it an effort? Lost $300 if I don’t since this is a subscription, though really the $300 bucks did motivate me to do this blog and I have made some progress.

I did spend some time reading some of the new results.sitesell.com sites.

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Thursday, July 05, 2007

I left off with the Site Build It! Brainstorm It! Tool at getting supply. Walked away cause it does take some time.

Still working through Chapter 2 of the Action Guide. Long journey this. So after getting the supply numbers I look at which site concept has more overall keywords and then how the supply or competition stacks up in terms of trying to compete in a glutted market.

Got to comparing the themes and noticed that the supply data for two of them had been dumped, or maybe never completed. I think it got dumped because the supply search is done alphabetically and many of the low letter words were without data.

Monday, July 02, 2007

Back to working on the Brainstorm It! Phase. Yosemite is looking like the demand numbers are in there. Really been another two weeks? Dang.

I am struck by how dang wordy all this Site Build It! stuff is. Especially when you come back to reread this stuff you realize just how long and wordy it is, how you really have to sit down and read every word. I feel some little frustration at how difficult it is to find the actual instructions. I feel no guilt however for not reading every word when one has already read the first five chapters of the Site Build It! Action Guide at least three times in a recliner in the living room kicking back.

Back to Chapter 2 then.

Did I mention how ridiculous all those resizing windows are? Quit it! And what about standards compliant pages? Opening in a new window is a wonderful old school “gee whiz, I won’t lose my other page” but really, the back button works just swell.

Actually, I sort of had to backtrack because I used such low demand original site concepts including longboard skateboard, new music artist and bass lake. Forget those for now, the really niche stuff maybe later. Using Google and Wordtracker.
http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

Overture, now Yahoo, is fast fading, supposedly, I guess. Always loved that tool because it had numbers, Wordtracker does too so, oh well.

So in narrowing my choices I checked out the list I made with all the areas of expertise I have (did I mention you should make this list?) and also added new themes as they came into my head, Yellowstone Park and Buffalo, both dear to my heart. Yellowstone made the list and so did Buffalo, bison, wild buffalo, bison meat, white buffalo.

So I am honing three themes, Yosemite, Yellowstone and Buffalo.

OK. Gotten the Site Build It! Action Guide Chapter 2 Master Keyword Lists for all three concepts. Now I do the supply gig. I am running into the bison buffalo issue, not really an issue, but the two words are obviously or probably going to be on one site but are analyzed as if two separate themes. Whoops did the demand for all keywords before I did the Supply using the Brainstorm It! Tool.

That’s it for today. Three concepts, the tools are pretty cool, narrowing down the site theme. I still really want to do Yosemite National Park because I can sell space to local advertisers as I live in North Fork California which is very close to Yosemite, but then again, you don’t have to live somewhere to sell them space. Duh.

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Looks like over three months have past since I made an entry here. And I haven’t been committed to doing much on the project as well. This is the quintessential failing of all endeavors, failing to perform.

I read the printed out Site Build It! Action Guide chapters 1 through 5 twice, the whole thing twice. The more you read, the more you become numb to the cutesy repetition and realize that underneath the smiles and warm fuzzies there is a solid potential for business.

Now to slay laziness. Top priority is discipline. Schedule the time and be there and do the tasks. So when? Tomorrow of course. Am I serious about this? I better get serious. See you tomorrow.

Sunday, March 04, 2007

I did print out the SBI Action Guide and the two help sections and have been reading. I don’t have any time today, or haven’t taken any, to sit at the computer and work some concepts. I intended to build a site on Yosemite, a place nearby we know and love, and the research is indicating good demand. We’ll see on the supply and profitability.

My impression so far is the process actually is solid, once I got over the shock and dismay of how juvenile the whole thing is. Resizing windows, cheesy graphics, overused exclamation points all are fine when the essence works.

Hanging in.