One of the biggest detriments to online success I have seen over the years is an unwillingness to invest in your business.

This is especially true for newbie marketers, many of whom want to see if the whole “online business” thing is going to pan out for them before they put any of their money on the line.

I can tell you from experience that this simply does not work.

When I started out online in the late nineties, I knew absolutely nothing about the Internet, and even less about marketing, advertising, or any of the net-specific skills required for earning a living online. I figured I could sort of “learn as I earned.”

Not so.

Without any practical background in fields that have “carry over” to the ‘net (like the aforementioned advertising, marketing, or business), I simply floundered around for a couple of years, wasted hundreds of hours of my time, and never made a penny.

Until I got my hands on Ken Evoy’s “Make Your Site Sell” in ’98 or ’99 (the book hasn’t been updated since 2002, but it’s still a great resource and it’s available for free here!).

When I read it, lights went on, bells rang and sirens wailed!

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Yep, it’s that time of year again.

The time when SiteSell offers its buy-one, get one free door-crasher offer on SBI! (Site Build It!), the premier Internet business building solution on the ‘Net (heck, even respected universities and colleges like Penn State, The Citadel, and The University of Arizona are using SBI! to teach their students how to build a profitable e-business).

If you’ve been struggling to get your online business off the ground and generating income, here’s your opportunity to stop spinning your wheels and start making real progress.

Not familar with SBI!?

It’s a suite of online tools and applications that allow you to build a vibrant, profitable online business. I agree; there are plenty of services that claim the same thing (but none that offer near the amount of functionality and sheer number of top notch tools for such a ridiculously affordable price).

So what really makes SBI! stand apart from its competitors?

In three words?

The Action Guide.

The Action Guide takes you step by step through an A to Z business building process so you never have to guess at what it is you need to be doing next. The guide, in conjunction with the online suite of tools, makes building a successful online business as easy as following a series of steps. Sure, it’s hard work – just like building any business – but if you follow the Action Guide, you will succeed.

Who’s SBI! best suited for?

Anyone can use SBI!, no matter what their level of expertise (I login to my girlfriend’s site and use the Brainstormer (a keyword research application) and Monetize It! tools often), but it’s for those who are new to Internet Marketing that will benefit the most.

Incidentally, my girlfriend Marilyn’s Flowers-By-Marilyn web site is tracking about 300 unique vistors a day right now, and looks like it’s well on its way to covering her car payment this month! Excellent news!

Is 2012 the year you start making an income from the Internet?

It could be; use the 90-day risk free trial and see for yourself!

I’m a huge fan of SBI!. Always have been. Heck, I worked for the company for 6 years, and still do occasional beta-testing for them.

So I was thrilled to hear Ken Evoy and the good folks over at SiteSell were launching the “$50,000 Match It! Challenge.”

Here’s the challenge…

If you can find documented proof that another product, or collection of information and tools, delivers everything that SBI! does (or more), at the price of SBI! (or less) AND that product documents success to the depth that SBI! does, SiteSell will pay you $50,000.

Yes, you read that right; 50 grand if you can find a business building service that works AS well as Site Build It! (read the complete details on what you need to do here).

But if I were you, I wouldn’t waste my time.

Because there is no such service.

I know – I’ve looked at them all.

This is also the reason respected educational institutions like Penn state are using Site Build It! as the way to teach their students how to use the Web to build a successful online business.

There is no better tool.

If you’re tired of wasting your time online and just want to get started building a long term sustainable income on the Internet, check out Site Build It! today.

And just so you know; none of the links in this article are affiliate links; I receive no remuneration from a referred sale. I recommend the product because I believe in it. That’s it.

I’ve been watching several threads on SBI! for a while – including this one over at Lisa Irby’s 2CreateAWebSite.com. One thing I’ve noticed is that many of the questions folks have about SBI! are being asked over and over again.

And while the answers to these questions may seem obvious to seasoned net-marketers, they aren’t necessarily so to the people who have just recently considered turning to the Internet to supplement their incomes.

To that end, I’ve compiled a list of some of the most frequently asked questions about Site Build It! that I have encountered…

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It was with a great deal of annoyance that I read through Lis Sowerbutts’ “review” of the “SBI! (Site Build It!) scam.” For someone who maintains to be interested in presenting her visitors with balanced, fair and informative material, her argument is, in non-politically correct parlance, retarded.

Case in point; if you want to talk authoritatively about a product or system, it helps to have some first hand experience with it. If you do not – and to my knowledge Lis Sowerbutts is not, nor has even been a Site Build It! owner, it’s a bit difficult to allot a ton of credibility to anything the author says.

It’s also a little annoying for marketers like myself who go out of their way to be informed before opening a discussion with an audience about a certain product or service (I recently reviewed Adam Short’s Niche Profit Classroom; I paid the $67/month subscription fee, learned the system and wrote about its Pros and Cons. It took many hours of work to do so).

It’s too bad Lis couldn’t be bothered to conduct a real review of SBI!. She’d have a lot more credibility if she did. Because as things stand, she appears to be little more than an ill-informed, lazy, malicious twit with a “bone to pick.”

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I first got wind of Niche Profit Classroom from Allan Gardyne’s newsletter (Allan is the affiliate guru from AssociatePrograms.com). His is one of the few Internet Marketing newsletters I still read on a regular basis, so when he mentioned Niche Profit Classroom in a recent edition, I thought I’d have a closer look (what can I say, I’m a sucker for punishment!).

I plunked down my credit card, and signed up for the “basic” version of the program, which costs $67/month.

So what is Niche Profit Classroom, exactly?

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