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My Friends’ New Best Healthy Snacks Website

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I have been working with my dear friends Lynn & Lacey for several months – they are doing a great job learning how to build websites.  They definitely have the “BAM” (Brains and Motivation) to create a wonderful lifestyle for themselves building successful websites.  They are building two sites from scratch, but they recently purchased [...]

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My Success Story – What a Long, Strange Trip Its Been!!

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Recently someone posted on the SBI forums (which is a really great place to hang out!) that she was tired of being “broke and depressed” and asked for motivational stories to help uplift her.  I’m not sure why I was inspired to post “my story” – maybe because I have known the “broke and depressed” [...]

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12 Months = 6 Figure Income

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On October 31, 2009, I not only celebrated my 50th birthday (ouch), I also celebrated my one year anniversary of being self employed. I can tell you I was much more excited about the anniversary than the birthday! I am amazed at how fast the year passed and also by how much I have grown [...]

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An Exciting Change in Plans

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I have had a change in my plans over the past week or so – a very good change!  Last weekend I made the decision to go ahead and leave my job so that I can focus my full attention to building my online businesses.  My goal was to first completely replace my salary (and [...]

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It’s Never Too Late to Start Over

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I have spent the last month or so revamping two of my sites.  They are both sites that have been up over a year, but have never received a great deal of focus.  I knew I wanted to do them, so I went ahead and started them so they could begin "the aging process". After [...]

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The Way of the Tortoise

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I have been so focused lately on my goal of replacing my salary with income from my websites, I have set some very big to do lists for myself. Most days I do not come anywhere near completing the list and I have been feeling very "guilty" lately – like I’m not "doing enough" to [...]

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What is your Passion? – Part 2

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Yesterday I wrote about choosing a subject you have a passionate interest in as the topic for your website.  Today I wanted to mention the flip side of that – you may have a passionate interest in something and you have no idea how to "live your passion".  Often, a website is the only viable [...]

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What is your Passion?

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We are constantly told that in order to achieve true happiness in life we must "follow our passion".  The same is true when choosing a topic for your web site.  If you are going to be committed to developing a site that will possibly sustain you for the rest of your life, you definitely need [...]

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Going to the Next Level

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Today I have 5 established web sites, 1 stand alone established blog and I have recently started this site as well as 4 "micro-niche" sites that I am just getting started as an experiment.  Since this time last year, my income has doubled (a very good thing ) – but it has been flat for [...]

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Site Built It! News – Upgrades and Upcoming Special

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This week, SBIX News announces behind-the-curtains SBI! infrastructural upgrades and the "back-to-work" Hi-Ho $100 Special. Site Build It! Xpress ("SBIX") is for SBI! customers only . It boils down the near-infinite Net marketing and e-business noise into "only what you really need to know." Stay tuned for the Hi-Ho Special coming in the next day [...]

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