Grizzly, the owner of my favorite blog called, Make MoneyOnline for Beginners, has issued a call to action to help a fellow blogger who reviewed a service called Site Build It (SBI) and exposed it as a scam.This fellow blogger, Lis, has received a backlash of comments on her blog post entitled Site Build It Scam Review. This blog post is a response to that call to action.
SBI was founded by Dr. Ken Evoy and was launched back in November of 1997.It is touted as “the only all-in-one site-building, site-hosting, and site-marketing product that makes it easy for you to build a professional, popular, and profitable business.”
When I first started out on this mission to earn an online income, I heard about the SBI program.I ventured over to their site and read tons and tons of rave reviews, and viewed many many sample sites.Many of which they advertised as being in the Top 2% of the web.It looked promising and being the newbie that I was, I decided to sign up.Big Mistake!
First of all, they charge a whopping $300 per year to use their services.What do you get for $300?In a nutshell, basically a platform to build and host your website.They also provide some other “extras” all of which you can get for free. I also learned that the reason there were so many rave reviews of SBI, is because of the commission paid to affiliates.Affiliates are paid $75 every time somebody signs up to become a member of SBI.
After forking over $300, I discovered that SBI was seriously overpriced.Building and hosting a website only costs a fraction of the cost that SBI charges.GoDaddy.com offers domain names for about $10 per year.NVU is an excellent free WYSIWYG Website Creator.Several web hosting companies offer webhosting plans that cost less than $5 per year.Plus many of the extra services they provide such as brainstorming, pinging, directory submissions and stats are all services you can obtain for free from places such as Google (i.e. Google Adwords keyword tool, Google analytics).
There are more economical ways to get your first site up and running and hope you don’t make the same mistake I did. A list of more reviews on SBI can be found at the end of the following review: Site Build It – Don’t Buy It
