John Dilbeck Musings
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John Dilbeck Musings


22
August

ShopforDSL — Comparison Shop for DSL, Cable and Satellite Internet Access

posted August 22nd, 2004 posted posted by John Dilbeck

New Service from Cognigen!

ShopforDSL — Comparison shop in real-time for residential and small business DSL, Cable, and Satellite Internet in your area!

Featuring SBC/Yahoo!, Earthlink, Verizon, Sprint, BellSouth, Comcast, Adelphia, Charter, DirectWave, RoadRunner, Qwest, and MediaCom!

See, also, all the other Phone, Internet, Satellite TV, Cellular and more services offered by Cognigen. Great products at great prices.

22
August

PowerConnect Stand-Alone High Speed Dial-up Internet Service

posted August 22nd, 2004 posted posted by John Dilbeck

PowerConnect Dial-Up High Speed Internet — PowerConnect High Speed is a premier service that provides unlimited monthly access to the Internet. With speeds up to 5 times faster than standard dial-up, you’ll get the most out of your Internet experience. Combine that with a pop-up blocker, 5 email addresses, and 10MB of webspace and you have the best dial-up value available.

Get the first month of service for only $1 and $12.95 thereafter. This offer ends on September 30th, 2004.

Note: The $12.95 price is a special price for existing PNG customers. See the bottom of their page for pricing for stand-alone service.

22
August

FonCentral Specializing in T-Mobile

posted August 22nd, 2004 posted posted by John Dilbeck

New Service from Cognigen: FonCentral — Great personal and family plans, get a free cell phone with up to a $100 cash back. Cellular portability available!

Check out cellular service deals at FonCentral, today!

22
August

Site Build It! Introduces Store Build It!

posted August 22nd, 2004 posted posted by John Dilbeck

It’s been a long wait, and a lot of work for everyone involved, but it’s done…

Store Build It! (StBI) is now available.

I’ve been telling you for years that Site Build It! is the ultimate web site design, hosting, and promotion system available on the entire planet, and it’s gotten even better this week.

Now, before I tell you about the new Store Build It!, let me say this: Not everyone needs an online store. Even if you do, there are other ways to build a store that are already well-known and widely-used by SBI owners. However, if the lack of a top-quality, best-of-breed store builder and manager has been holding you back from considering SBI, then your wait is over.

Store Build It! is a fully-integrated addition to Site Build It! It’s not a tacked-on addition. Months of effort have gone into making this addition work with all the other features you’ve come to expect from SBI. (More on that in a moment.)

Let’s stop for just a moment to remind you why Site Build It! is such a good deal and why it is doing so well for so many owners — even those with no previous technical knowledge or web building skills.

Over the last several years, it has become obvious that making money on the Internet is a four step process. It was not obvious, though, without lots of experience, analysis, and testing.

What is this four-step process?

C - T - P - M

Read the full description of C - T - P - M before continuing. I’ll wait for you. It’ll only take you a couple of minutes.

People aren’t searching for you.

Let me repeat that.

People ARE NOT searching for YOU.

They’re searching for a solution to a problem, for a particular product, for a particular service, or for more information.

By providing information (C = content), you’ll make it easy for the search engines to rank your site highly and send you visitors (T = traffic). You can build your credibility through your demonstrated knowledge and willingness to help solve their problem or provide what they want (P = Pre-sell). Once they’re comfortable with you and believe you are reliable and worth their business, they’ll buy from you (M = Monetize).

C - T - P - M

Over and over, on many, many sites hosted by Site Build It! this has proven to be true. The results speak for themselves.

Do you want a website that does NOT attract quality visitors who are willing to purchase from you?

Of course not!

Do you want your traffic to DRY UP the minute you stop advertising?

Of course not!

Do you want a site that attracts a constant stream of visitors looking for what you offer?

Do you want a site that establishes you as someone who knows what he is doing? (You don’t have to be the best in the world to be good at what you do.)

Do you want a site that helps your visitors feel good about you and want to get to know you better?

Do you want a site that can provide your visitor with your product or service — just when she’s ready to buy?

Of course you do! That’s the holy grail of online sites that sell and earn a profit. That’s what we all want.

What?

You don’t know how to build a web site or get good placements in the search engines or do all the technical stuff that looks so confusing?

That’s the beauty of Site Build It!

Ken Evoy, president of SiteSell, wrote the book on how to Make Your Site Sell! You can still buy this ebook for about $30 or so and download it immediately. This is still the best book I’ve ever read on how to make a site that people like, come back to, and purchase from. I refer to it over and over.

Site Build It! builds on what is covered in that ebook. Over the years, it has grown from a way to build a one-page sales letter to a full-featured, all-in-one system for designing, building, and promoting your website. With the addition of Store Build It!, you can now have a world-class store and sell hard goods direct from your SBI site.

But, Ken doesn’t want you to fail (or perhaps to fail again), so he won’t sell Store Build It! to just anyone — not at any price.

There are some conditions to getting permission to use Store Build It! with your SBI site.

First of all, you must build a site that has quality content and attracts visitors. You MUST have a minimum of 500 visitors to your site per month before you can add Store Build It — and he recommends that you have at least two to three times that amount, i.e., 1,000 to 1,500 visitors per month. Without that level of traffic (attracted by your quality content), you are in the same situation as if you were to build a store anywhere else using any other store system.

You must have traffic coming to your store before it will succeed reliably.

Once you reach this visitor threshold, then you will be able to add Store Build It! to your account, should you wish to do so. And, the best part is, now that you have a site with a steady stream of visitors, Ken will sell you the additional e-commerce tools at a price that is about half that of others who sell the same system — but those folks don’t have this version that has been developed so that it is seamlessly integrated with your whole site. Not only will Ken sell it to you at about half the suggested price, he’ll host it for you at an ANNUAL fee that compares very favorably with the others’ MONTHLY fee. How’s that for a good deal?

Plus, when you add Store Build It! to your Site Build It! website, you’ll be able to download a free ebook that explains how to build and manage your store, and another ebook that helps you deal with issues that may arise after you make a sale. How many other hosting companies offer that level of training?

On top of that, you’ll receive a free newsletter telling you about how others are successfully growing their sites and offering tips on how you can do more with your site.

I host many sites using several hosting companies. I’m very happy with the companies with which I do business, but that’s after years of hit-and-miss, trial-and-error attempts at building sites at many other places. I now only recommend four web hosting services, and Site Build It! is head and shoulders above the others. In fact, I use many of the tools that come with SBI to help me make my others sites perform better. If I faced a major decision tomorrow and I could only have a single web site, there would be no decision. I’d choose SBI in a heartbeat. Nobody else offers what I get with SBI. Nobody else offers the training and support that I get from SBI. Some come close, and I’m very happy being one of their customers, but Ken Evoy, SiteSell, and Site Build It! stand alone as the best of the best. That’s my personal recommendation to you.

Of course, if you have no need for an online store, you don’t have to add this feature to your SBI site. It’s purely optional for those who have wanted this.

Have you been waiting for a world-class store builder and manager before you considered SBI?

What are you waiting for, now?

Site Build It! — the ultimate web site design, hosting, and promotion system in the world.

I’ve been using Ken’s products and services for years and I highly recommend them to you. Not only that, Ken has demonstrated over and over that he will under-promise and over-deliver. Always.

Try it for yourself right now. Ken offers a 100% satisfaction guarantee.

But, if you want to achieve the success of other SBI owners, take the time to download and read the Getting Started Guide that will take you step-by-step on planning, building, and promoting your very best site. Follow the guide and you may surprise yourself on how well your new site performs.

Only Site Build It! offers all of this.

Don’t bet your business on the web hosting service that offers the lowest price. Failure often comes cheap.

15
August

New Website: AYearFromNow.com - Act on your dream

posted August 15th, 2004 posted posted by John Dilbeck

I’ve just opened a new website at AYearFromNow.com and I invite you to drop in and look around.

This website is devoted to identifying dreams, determining what they mean, planning on how to make them real, and then acting on your dream.

For years, I went through my daily routines with no real dreams. Just sleep, wake up, eat, work, sleep, and over and over and over.

Earlier this year, I decided this is no way to live. So, I spent some time identifying what my biggest dreams are and I’ve settled on one major dream and I’m working to set it into motion.

A year from now, I expect to have made substantial progress towards realizing that dream.

I invite you to join in the process. Working together we can all achieve our dreams. I believe that ordinary people who work to achieve a common dream can achieve extraordinary results.

Drop in and check it out. Let me know what you think.