Thursday, February 08, 2007
I recently got a letter in which the writer expressed frustration when she visited the site of my favorite Internet business tool, SiteBuildIt! The writer found my response helpful so I thought I'd republish it here in case any of you have similarly felt overwhelmed trying to find out what built in design/sitebuilding/marketing tools SiteBuildIt! includes. Here was my response:
I understand what you mean about being confused about SiteBuildIt! They
sometimes tend to be a little wordy. I looked around for a page that simply
listed all the tools that SBI includes. Surprisingly, I couldn’t find any one
page that lists everything.
I have a partial list of the built-in tools in my review of SiteBuildIt if you’d like to look at that:
http://www.onestopwebsupport.com/tl-sitebuildit.htm
Like I say, the list in my review is an incomplete list, but it gives you an idea.
One thing that’s not included is a shopping cart, although that’s available as
an add-on for an extra cost. But brainstorming tools, monetization tools,
autoresponders, search engine optimization tools, blogging tools, pay-per-click
submission tools are all part of the flat fee, along with a lot of other tools.
I never can keep up with everything that it offers.
And SiteBuildIt has a history of responding to changes in the Internet marketplace without any extra fee. For example, when Google came out with Google SiteMaps as a way to get Google spidering more of people’s sites, SiteBuildIt immediately built in a tool to take advantage of this development.
I’m not as familiar with the other hosting companies you mentioned. I’m a little familiar with GoDaddy from buying some of my domains through them. I’ve never bought hosting from them, but their website building tools seemed limited to something where you could pick a template and plug in your content, but where you’re left on your own to figure out how to build a business out of the site you’ve
built.
I’m going to give you some links to SiteBuildIt pages that might help you with your questions.But before I do, I want you to know something. I don’t recommend things I don’t personally believe in and I’ve bought SiteBuildIt sites for two of my kids who are either in college or preparing to start college. They’re building sites on special interests they have to help them pay for their college educations. So you can see what I think of SiteBuildIt.
OK, here are the links. The first one is to SiteBuildIt’s video tour. It’s about 30 minutes long, but it gives a pretty thorough look at how SiteBuildIt works and what’s included.
http://www.onestopwebsupport.com/sitesell-videotour
The second link takes you to a page where you can submit specific questions that
will be answered by a successful SBI owner.
http://www.onestopwebsupport.com/sitesell-question
Finally, this link will take you to a special tool that SiteSell created to help make
decisions of any kind where a comparison is involved. Ironically, the example
you can use to see how ChooseIt works deals specifically with hosting, but you
might want to bookmark it and use it in the future to help clarify any choices
you’re trying to make.It’s a pretty useful tool if you’re willing to put a little thought into what things are most important to you about whatever decision you’re making. (I notice that 1and1 is one of the hosting companies they use in their example. Go ahead and plug your own numbers into ChooseIt based on your opinion of what 1and1 has to offer.)
http://www.onestopwebsupport.com/sitesell-chooseitI hope this helps. Let me know if you have any other questions.
I hope this helps you, too.
JeffLabels: SiteBuildIt
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