John Dilbeck Musings

Sitesell’s special Halloween promotion has been held over until November 11, 2007.

In early November, many cultures honor the deceased and celebrate the continuation of life.

And so it is with small business websites, most of which lie dead - unknown and unvisited.

It’s time to leave that fate of old-fashioned hosting and join the land of the living… the thriving.

The Days of the Dead special ends at the stroke of midnight, November 11, 2007.

Until then, you can either purchase a one-year subscription to Site Build It! for $299, or you can pay an extra hundred dollars and get two sites for $399.

You can keep and build both sites yourself. You can even hold the second subscription up to nine months before activating it so you can have more time to build one and then the other.

You can keep one site and give another to a friend, associate or relative. Site Build It! makes an excellent gift.

Do you know someone who has retired, or is about to retire.

Are you, or do you know, someone who is going to school to learn valuable skills for the 21st century? What better skills than to learn the art of online marketing and building a business in the process?

Or, you and a friend can go together and each can save $100. One of you purchases both sites, and then Sitesell support will work with you to transfer the second site to your friend.

Nowhere else can you get what Site Build It! offers.

I know, because I’ve built dozens of websites, forums, and blogs over the last few years and I haven’t found anything that even comes close to comparing to Site Build It!

If you are interested in building a successful website, here is your opportunity to save $200 and you and your friend can each build one. What better way of learning together?

Don’t think you have what it takes to build an online business? See what other ordinary people have done with Site Build It!

If you have any questions, you can talk to an experienced Site Build It! webmaster for no cost and with no obligation. Learn if Site Build It! is the best way for you to build your business.

Act on your dream!

JD

Yesterday, in the 5 Pillar #291 newsletter, Ken Evoy announced the introduction of Snippet Build It! This is a tool that can be used by 5 Pillar affiliates to build links to over 60 landing pages for promoting Site Build It!

Many years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and the rocks weren’t quite hardened, Sitesell was selling some of the best ebooks ever published. Make Your Site Sell! was the Bible of online marketing that helped me start building my marketing business. Now, it’s a free download and there is a lot of very valuable information in the 1,500 or so pages of this ebook. I still refer to it now and then.

In addition to outstanding ebooks, Ken wrote a number of courses that were delivered via email. I remember taking all of those courses as they were introduced and updated. I still have several of them in a 3-ring binder, and they are covered with notes and bright yellow highlights. Now, these courses are available as free downloadable PDF files. I still highly recommend my favorite, the Affiliate Masters Course, because it offers as much as some courses that cost around $100 and you can download it free. It was always free and still remains free.

Over time, to make it easier for Sitesell’s 5 Pillar Affiliates to market these products, Ken introduced Page Build It! - a tool for building customized gateway pages. Around the same time, give or take, the Build It! tool was introduced to make it easier for affiliates to build web pages (or just snippets of code) that combined text and graphics. This was a cutting-edge marketing tool when it was introduced.

Now, I hope you’ll excuse my memory, but a lot of water has gone under the bridge since these tools were first introduced, so I may not have all of this exactly right, but I believe the gist of it is accurate.

These tools for building pages and code snippets eventually lead to the first, less-than-impressive versions of Site Build It! But, Ken and the folks associated with Sitesell were not content with what SBI was and continued to improve it and add new features.

Now, several years later - a very long time in the online marketing world - Site Build It has become an incredibly effective tool for building online businesses. More tools are added all the time and older features are updated continually.

So, as I said, Ken announced yesterday that Snippet Build It! was available and I just now spent about a half-hour playing with it.

I am impressed!

What used to be the Build It! tool has been streamlined and greatly improved. Now, 5 Pillar affiliates can easily and quickly create links to over 60 different landing pages that tell the story of SBI and why it makes sense to use it rather than traditional webhosting.

It’s easy to go to the page, select either text or image, select the desired landing page, and build a link.

If you select text, and a landing page, you can type the text you want in the link and see the link created as you type. It makes it simple to try several phrases to see which one you like, and then simply copy and paste the HTML code to your websites, blogs, and other places on the web. The text links in this article were created using Snippet Build It! as a test of using the system and it is easier than hand coding the links as I normally do.

Not only is it easier, the landing pages are grouped by their order in the buying cycle, and this is explained in an excellent article that was also released yesterday.

Why is that important?

I’ve gotten into a rut of referring prospects to just a handful of the many pages that are available. Now, by using Snippet Build It!, it will be much easier to choose just the right page to link to, depending upon the point I want to make in an article or advertisement.

This combination of being easy to use and providing a full list of the available landing pages (and this number is growing all the time) helps me provide the information you may need in order to make your final decision to buy, or not to buy, a subscription to the Site Build It! system - or to become one of our affiliates and make money promoting the best way to build an online business.

In addition to text links, Snippet Build It! makes it easy to build graphics links using some new banners, buttons, and logos.

For example, the following is a link to the Site Build It! main page, and was created in less than five seconds:

The new graphics use less text and more people. They use more right-brained emotion and less left-brained logic.

Now, I’m a left-brained logic kind of guy. I rarely make my decisions based on emotion. I spend a long time learning about something before I buy.

Most people, perhaps you, make more decisions based on emotion and then later justify it with logic.

Site Build It! is great for right-brained people. It is an exciting system that has helped many of its subscribers build successful online businesses, and quite a few have left the corporate world and are now living their dreams and working from home. Of course, not everyone is this successful, but SBI offers the tools and training to make it much more likely to succeed.

Many people have said they were exposed to SBI and didn’t believe that it was as good as many of us believe it to be. So, they moved on and built websites using other services. After a year or two of butting their heads against the technical hurdles, they remembered Site Build It! With more experience, they were better able to judge the benefits SBI offered and some bought on the spur of the moment.

Rather than regretting the purchase, most of them regretted wasting a year or two trying to build their online businesses the hard way.

Yes, some people do not do well with SBI, and some people don’t like what they can’t do with SBI - so Sitesell offers a money-back guarantee. You can’t lose by trying it.

Oops, I’m getting off track. Back to Snippet Build It!

The new graphic images are more colorful and appeal more to right-brained people, in my opinion. I think they will be a welcome addition to the marketing tools offered to 5 Pillar affiliates.

But, nothing is perfect.

A few minutes ago, I offered my opinion about the new marketing tool on the members-only SBI forum.

I think it is a huge improvement over the older tools and I welcome the ease-of-use and organized listing of the more than 60 landing pages we can promote.

On the other hand, I believe we need a wider variety of graphics that are specifically targeted to each landing page.

But, you know what? I don’t doubt that Snippet Build It! will be improved over time and that we’ll see more and better-targeted graphics to go with all the other marketing tools that Sitesell provides its 5 Pillar affiliates.

It’s easy to recommend something when I know from first-hand experience how much it has helped me build my online marketing business. I’m working from home 100 miles from the nearest traffic jam and loving it.

I don’t believe I would be where I am today if it weren’t for what I’ve learned from Ken Evoy and all the many Site Build It! webmasters who help each other on the free, members-only SBI forums.

I’m a very satisfied SBI customer and have many plans for expanding my Act On Your Dream! website.

You know what?

At first I balked a bit at spending $300 a year to build a website, but after building dozens of sites and blogs over the last few years, and wasting more than what I would have spent to build several more SBI sites, the only one that has never given me any trouble at all is the one I am building using Site Build It! Over time, that becomes more and more important, because I’m getting tired of wasting my time and efforts on sites that don’t work or get destroyed by hackers.

I’m one of those hard-headed people that just has to do it my way and I don’t regret all the testing I’ve done. I’ve learned and I’ll be turning more to SBI in the future, except for some of my sites that require perl and php programming to make them work.

I just renewed my subscription to SBI for another year, and a long time before my subscription expires I will have earned back my $300 investment several times over. It’s not an expense, it’s an investment.

Just as Site Build It! is the best tool I know of for building a successful online business, the marketing tools that Sitesell offers its 5 Pillar affiliates continue to get better over time, too.

I am very happy that I found Ken Evoy and Sitesell those many years ago. I hope you’ll find it worth the investment of your time and money, too.

Act on your dream!

JD

Until midnight on Valentines Day, Ken Evoy is offering Site Build It for a special price. Buy one domain for $300 or two for $400.

Trick or Treat!

You never really know what you’re going to get when you sign up to build a new website at a hosting company you’ve never used.

Will it be a trick…or a treat?

I have never had a problem with my Site Build It! site. In fact, I just renewed my subscription a couple of weeks ago for another year of what I think is the best website brainstorm, research, design, hosting, and promoting system available - for only $300 per year!

I don’t expect you to take my word for it.

Why should you?

Here’s a chance to try it out for yourself, and for only $100 more to get a second site or a site you can give away to someone in your family, friends, or associates.

That’s right. Until midnight, October 31, 2006, you can buy one SBI site for only $300 per year, or get two for only $400.

(When it comes time for renewal next year, each will cost $300 to renew; the special offer does not extend to renewals.)

Get a friend and buy two sites. Give one to your friend and split the cost. Each of you will save $100 on your first year of Site Build It!

Buy a site for yourself and give one to a child who will benefit greatly from learning a skill set that is highly valuable.

Give a site to a retired parent who wants to pursue a passion for a hobby or any topic that really piques their interest.

If I didn’t already have my hands full right now, I’d take advantage of this offer to start two more SBI sites. Maybe I’ll be ready when the next special comes along.

Cobwebs are for Halloween decorations and abandoned homes, not for websites! Follow the Site Build It! process, find your niche, and put the power of SBI to work to help you build a site that will gather lots of new visitors, not cobwebs.

Tomorrow is Halloween. Don’t miss this special.

Do you have any questions about how SBI can work for you? Ask your questions - free and no obligation.

You may have seen lots of websites cropping up that have a .ws extension instead of the more common .com, .net, and .org extensions.

.ws actually is the top level domain for Western Samoa, but it is being marketed to mean .website.

Global Domains International is the company that manages the .ws domain registry for the Western Samoan government and it has developed a very interesting way to market these domains.

Instead of registering for a year, you pay $10 per month for the domain and simple website hosting.

For example, I host my domain UltimateDownlines.ws there. This is a simple, one-page marketing site that was mostly built using the free webpage generator at the Home Income Team.

If you are interested in an online marketing home business, the Home Income Team can help you in several ways, and it’s free to join and free to remain a member. There is an optional one time offer when you first sign up, but you are not obligated to purchase it, and there isn’t even a way to upgrade your free membership to a professional membership. It really is free.

One of the businesses the Home Income Team markets is Global Domains International (GDI), and that is why it is promoted on my UltimateDownlines.ws site.

If you are not interested in online marketing, you can use any tools you want to build your website and host it with GDI, or you can use the sitebuilder they provide for developing your website.

Perhaps you missed registering the .com version of your name or business name. I managed to register DilbeckMarketing.com, JohnDilbeck.com, DilbeckCommunications.com and several others. If you missed registering a domain you really wanted, it may still be available as a .ws domain.

Additionally, when you become a GDI customer you can also be an affiliate and earn commissions from any customers you recommend who purchase their own .ws domain.

Some people are earning very nice incomes as a GDI affiliate, but it would even be nice if you earned an extra $50 or $100 per month, wouldn’t it? Your domain would be free and you’d have some money for a dinner out, trip to the theater, or whatever you prefer. While we make no guarantees that you will earn anything as an affiliate, the opportunity is there if you want to pursue it.

GDI has spent nearly $1 million to create a movie that you can use for free, online, right now, to help you create a tremendous, ongoing monthly income for yourself.

If you haven’t seen it already, I invite you to view the movie, and see for yourself why many people, around the world, are promoting GDI.

Ken Evoy, President of Sitesell, has always promised that the 5 Pillar affiliate program will be a great way to build a business for anyone who was willing to do the work necessary to make sales.

After all, why join an affiliate program if you don’t want to earn commissions from making sales?

He’s also promised that, eventually, he’ll close the program to new affiliates so that the people who have worked to build the company can maintain good sales and lifetime commissions. While closing the 5 Pillar program to new affiliates isn’t imminent, it’s closer than it was.

If you are a person who has access to webmasters and people who want websites that work — and make sales — then you may want to look into the 5 Pillar affiliate program. Earn generous residual, lifetime commissions from selling webhosting and infoproducts.

Ken’s always invited people to join the program and see what it’s all about. He still extends that invitation, but, now, you’ll be expected to work the program and not just read the newsletters. Don’t miss the chance to learn from one of the best online marketers. Sitesell’s products are outstanding and so is the company.

It’s an easy company to represent, because the infoproducts are leaders in their field and they offer great content for very reasonable prices. And, Site Build It! is simply the best web design, web hosting, and web promotion system on the planet. I’ve looked for years for a better service and haven’t found one yet. Sitesell delivers on that promise — as long as you follow the guidelines that have been proven to work.

(More information: Site Build It!, Case Studies of SBI users, Sitesell.com, Make Your Site Sell!, Make Your Knowledge Sell!, Sitesell 5 Pillar Affiliate Program.)

Dilbeck Communications, in association with ShopforT1 and GeoQuote.net, is now offering business broadband nationwide in the United States.

Dilbeck Communications is a Proud member of the ShopFor Network: ShopforDSL, ShopforT1, ShopforDS1, ShopforDS3, ShopforT3, ShopforOC3,
ShopforPoint to Point, and ShopforFrame Relay.

We offer T1 service in the following states: Alabama T1, Arizona T1, Arkansas T1, California T1, Colorado T1, Connecticut T1, Delaware T1, Florida T1, Georgia T1, Hawaii T1, Idaho T1, Indiana T1, Illinois T1, Iowa T1, Kansas T1, Kentucky T1, Louisiana T1, Maine T1, Maryland T1, Massachusetts T1, Michigan T1, Mississippi T1, Missouri T1, Minnesota T1, Montana T1, Nebraska T1, New Hampshire T1, New Jersey T1, New Mexico T1, New York T1, Nevada T1, North Carolina T1, North Dakota T1, Ohio T1, Oklahoma T1, Oregon T1, Pennsylvania T1, Rhode Island T1, South Carolina T1, South Dakota T1, Tennessee T1, Texas T1, Utah T1, Vermont T1, Virginia T1, Washington T1, Washington DC T1, West Virginia T1, Wisconsin T1, Wyoming T1.

Additionally, we offer domain name registration and transfers, webhosting, and a full range of telecommunications services and products.

If you would prefer to speak to a live person about your high-speed Internet access needs, call us toll-free: 866-GEOQUOTE Ref#: 3088.

Dilbeck Communications, in association with ShopforDSL and GeoQuote.net, is now offering residential and business DSL nationwide in the United States.

Dilbeck Communications is a Proud member of the ShopFor Network: ShopforDSL, ShopforT1, ShopforDS1, ShopforDS3, ShopforT3, ShopforOC3,
ShopforPoint to Point, and ShopforFrame Relay.

We offer DSL service in the following states: Alabama DSL, Arizona DSL, Arkansas DSL, California DSL, Colorado DSL, Connecticut DSL, Delaware DSL, Florida DSL, Georgia DSL, Hawaii DSL, Idaho DSL, Indiana DSL, Illinois DSL, Iowa DSL, Kansas DSL, Kentucky DSL, Louisiana DSL, Maine DSL, Maryland DSL, Massachusetts DSL, Michigan DSL, Mississippi DSL, Missouri DSL, Minnesota DSL, Montana DSL, Nebraska DSL, New Hampshire DSL, New Jersey DSL, New Mexico DSL, New York DSL, Nevada DSL, North Carolina DSL, North Dakota DSL, Ohio DSL, Oklahoma DSL, Oregon DSL, Pennsylvania DSL, Rhode Island DSL, South Carolina DSL, South Dakota DSL, Tennessee DSL, Texas DSL, Utah DSL, Vermont DSL, Virginia DSL, Washington DSL, Washington DC DSL, West Virginia DSL, Wisconsin DSL, Wyoming DSL.

Additionally, we offer domain name registration and transfers, webhosting, and a full range of telecommunications services and products.

If you would prefer to speak to a live person about your high-speed Internet access needs, call us toll-free: 866-GEOQUOTE Ref#: 3088.

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.

Over the last few weeks, Cognigen has introduced four new services related to long distance phone calling, domain registration, webhosting, and wireless service.

PNG Power 3000 — Flat rate long distance service with 3000 anytime minutes for $29.95 per month. No need to switch long distance…

HostingWithUs Web Hosting Service — Quality web hosting from $5.95 per month! No setup fee nor a 3, 6, or 12 month prepay to get our low prices. Be sure to check out the features and low prices on bulk reseller hosting which is ideal for online marketers who have many websites. (I know I’ll be getting one of these accounts later this month.)

DomainsWithUs Domain Name Registration — A domain name of your choice, registered at $9.75 per year. Search all the extensions. All popular features are included.

FonCentral Specializing in T-Mobile — Great personal and family plans, get a free phone with up to a $100 cash back. Cellular portability available!

These are the four newest products available from Cognigen. You can see all our services at my Cognigen sales site.

In addition to the products listed above, we offer services from some of the best telecommunications businesses in the world. You can choose from long distance calling services, bundled local and long distance, 800 toll-free services, high-speed Internet access (including DSL, T1, T3 and higher), phone calling cards, dial-up Internet access, broadband phone (VoIP), dial-around long distance, conference calling, voice messaging, web services, wireless cell phones, satellite TV, computers and more. Many of these services are available to both residential and business customers — often at the same price!

All products are not available at all locations. The web page for each product will help you determine what is available at your home or office.

I appreciate your business!