How I Make Money
From My Website
(And what I learned with my SBI course)

How Do I Make Money From My Website?

I get asked this question a lot.  The simple answer is that I follow a simple principle which is bound to work.  Let me share with you what I have learned from SBI.  I need only to follow this simple concept and it just magically works!  The secret formula is (ssshhh ...): 

Let me explain.  The "course" I'm taking at SBI takes me by the hand, teaches me step-by-step how to do every little thing from scratch.  It is a thousand times better than all those "Idiot Guides", why?  Because SBI treats me like a real person (not as an idiot!) and believes that if I only follow this simple guide, my site will be a sure success.

When I signed up with SBI, I didn't have the slightest idea what my site was going to be about!!  Yes, I took that step of faith because SBI assured me that it was going to teach me how to look for a niche topic to write about.  If I still didn't have a clue, there were hundreds of other examples that would inspire me to come up with a bright idea!  Sounds good.

So, once I have that niche topic, SBI taught me how to choose a great domain name that is bound to attract traffic.  Then what?  What do I write about?  Again, I didn't have the slightest idea.  SBI was there to hold my hand.  I learned how to use a very powerful brainstorming tool that would help me search for hundreds of profitable keywords that I could use to write my pages.  Life just got easier!!  Once I have all these sorted out, I started writing ...

Note:  So that you understand the statistics I'm going to share with you here, my site is just about 37 months at the time of writing this page.  I spend very little time building my site because I hold a full-time job and have to care for two kids.

Step 1:  Content

In the internet world, CONTENT and constant updates are so important.  When somebody gets on the internet to surf, what are they looking for?  They search for information.  SBI teaches me how to write content that people are searching for, want to read, and may even pay to read.  No, I didn't have THAT kind of writing skill when I started. 

I learned how to do researches with SBI's powerful research tools, provided in the package.  I learned how to write with a voice that will draw people hungering for more.  I have to admit it wasn't easy in the beginning, but it gets easier with practice.  Now, I can easily write a page in a couple of hours.

The beautiful thing is that in this journey with SBI, I become an "authority" in my niche topic.  I certainly never planned for it that way, but this is how it will be when you follow SBI's Action Guide.  It doesn't fail.
 

Step 2:  Traffic

My job is simply just to continue writing pages after pages with the brainstorming tool.  SBI does most of the major search engine submissions for me.  Till today I don't really know how SBI does it, but my TRAFFIC continues to increase every month.  We really needn't have to worry about SEO (search engine optimization) at all.  What a relief!

SBI also teaches me some tricks so that my traffic will snowball and continue to multiply very quickly.  It's exciting to see so many unique visitors to my site.    A friend was shocked when he heard that I had 1,500 visitors to my site.  "A month?" he asked.  "That's awesome."  I said, "No!! 1,500 a day!"  I laughed when I saw his eyes grew big and his jaws dropped.
[Dec 2009 Update: Traffic is hovering at 5,000+ unique visitors a day.]

But really, that is nothing.  I know my traffic will continue to grow and grow whether I work on it or not.  That's the beauty of having a site with SBI.  Even when I go on vacations (which I'm doing rather often nowadays), my traffic continues to multiply.

SBI assured me when I signed up that if I just follow the guide, my site can be in the top 3% ranking in the internet world.  They are true to their word.  In fact, my site had done even better than 3%, it is in the top 0.5% ranking !!  How do we measure that?

There are about 56 million internet sites (the numbers keep increasing daily). To be in the top 3% means that my ranking has to be in the top 1,680,000.  But my ranking now is less than 280,000 (under 0.5%).  The smaller my ranking number, the better, like Yahoo's ranking is tops, number 1.

To check what I'm saying, see the real-time ranking of my site as follows on Alexa.com:

Step 3:  PRE-Sell

As I mentioned earlier, I don't like to sell.  But I'm comfortable enough to work behind a site, sharing with people all the knowledge I have about my niche topic.  If people are interested, they will email/call me.  If they are not interested, they just move on.  I don't feel "rejected", my biggest fear.

SBI teaches me to PRE-SELL.  That means I don't sell, I just freely share my knowledge.  Show my visitors that I'm the "expert" in my field, show my visitors that I can be their friend.  People like people who generously share and not pushy.  So when they DO decide to buy, they will come back to the one who is an expert and who over-delivers in sharing information.

You can learn this trick easily when you follow the Action Guide.  It somehow "moulds" you to be selfless, the way a good business person should be.  It's really wonderful because in SBI, there is a community of fellow SBIers who meet in a forum who are all really selfless and always very helpful and caring.  I'll show you later, how you can meet with them.
 

Step 4:  Monetize

Now, this is the fun part.  When I first signed up with SBI, I hadn't the slightest idea WHAT I was going to write about, let alone HOW I was going to make any money out of it.  I really needn't have to worry about it at all.  It would all come naturally once I have all the above three steps in order.

How do I MONETIZE?  There are several ways that I make money from my site.  All were not planned but ideas will just come naturally as I continue to build my content and follow the SBI's Action Guide. 

Here are some ways how I make multiple-income from my site (or rather from my business).  Other than for Google Adsense, I can't mention how much I make on the others as they are good some months, but not so on other months.  But it still all adds up rather nicely.
 

I have many more ideas to add on to the list, but due to lack of time, I have yet to implement them.  Among them is to write and sell my own ebook online, and ... to start another website!!

SBI is not only about building a website
It is about building a successful business

Although my income above may not sound like much, it has been giving me a comfortable side income when converted to my home currency.  I could put aside a chunk of money every month and still have some left over to invest, AND go for one or two nice vacations every year..  The best part is that I know the money is steadily growing with time. 

When I first signed up with SBI, I only intended to start a website.  Little had I known that it could blow up to this size and that I would be making all this money.  And because there are so many other ideas brewing in my head, I could really do all of these full-time ... it could be a full-blown business!  We are only limited by our own imagination.

The secret to my successful site - exposed.
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