If you already run a business, most likely your site will be about your business or some aspect of it. If that's the case, skip to Step II of the four steps to website success.

However, you already run a business but would like your new website to be about something other than your business, read on.

If you would like to have your own website, but do not know what to build a site about, here is a suggestion.

Download a free copy of Make Your Knowledge Sell.
 
Although this comprehensive e-book will probably tell you far more than you really need and want know, it will most certainly help you come up with a variety of website ideas.

And since it's free, why not tell others about this resource?

If you are thinking of building a website but don't know what your site should be about, you probably know other people in the same situation.

Do them a favor and share your research with them. It won't cost you anything.

You can use the social media links at the bottom of the page to tell others about this free resource as well as the four steps to website success.

But a word of caution about this e-book, whether you plan to use it yourself or recommend it others.

It...is... a very... big....book.... and it can be a very...tough...read.

The good news however, is that once you have worked your way through all or most of the book, you will probably have identified several viable site concepts.

And after only one of the four steps to website success, you will also be well on your way to building your own website...without spending any money.

You certainly can't beat that.

The second of four steps to website success focuses on the relative demand for the site that you are considering. 

Your proposed website will be selling something...if only your ideas about your chosen topic.

This means that in order for your site to succeed, there must be a reasonable number of people searching for information about your theme.

If your theme is too narrow there is not enough demand for you to attract visitors let alone make any money from your site.

To save you time, here is a link to the best tool for assessing site demand that I have ever seen.

Go to the SBI action guide, and choose Day 2 from either the video action guide (upper left) or the written action guide (upper right).  

Don't worry...it's free. 

Once you have worked through either the video or written version, you will have a good understanding not only of the relative demand for your site topic, but also a sense of how profitable it might be.

In some respects, this may be the most critical of your four steps to website success.

Even if you have identified a site topic that you you and in which you are an unquestioned expert, without a reasonable demand for your site concept, your site will not likely succeed over the long term.

When you have one or more potentially site concepts in mind, the next of you four steps to website success helps you identify the most appropriate system for building your website.

If you already have the knowledge and expertise to know what's involved with building a website, you will probably want to do your own research.

That's fine, you can skip the rest of this step as well as Step IV of the four steps to website success.
 

However, for the sake of more thorough research, you might use the material that follows as a checklist for evaluating the various systems that you review.

Researching website design systems can be like trying to navigate through a swamp...so every bit of useful information helps.

If however, you lack the technical expertise to do the research yourself ...or even if you simply do not want to be bothered doing the research, I'll be happy to share my findings.

Hopefully this will save you some time that can be better devoted to doing other things.

I discovered Site Sell and SBI while I was researching search engine optimization (SEO).

My plan was to learn enough about SEO and other Internet marketing concepts so that I could properly instruct my new web designer what I wanted my website to be.

The more I learned about the SBI system, the more I realized that it was exactly what I needed to prepare my website.
 

• Site Sell was a well established company with a solid record of satisfying users

• SBI was the only Web hosting system of tools with a proven track record of success

• the SBI system was so user-friendly that even non-technical people like me (and maybe you) could use it

• there were many support levels and options

• step-by-step video and print action guide
• online help features
• email help desk
• a huge range of active user forums, with comments by others who had already been where I was heading
• it was reassuring that I was not going to be pioneering in the process and doing it on my own

• the system came with a 30-day money back satisfaction guarantee

• this guarantee satisfied me that the system was as good as advertised...otherwise the guarantee would not likely to have been offered

So how did it work out for me?

All of my expectations were exceeded several times over.

It was much easier to design build and maintain a website than I could ever have imagined.

As a writer, I became more effective and productive.

Perhaps best of all, having built my own website...something that I never thought possible...my self-confidence and sense of empowerment both went through the roof.

Having experienced the joy of successfully achieving something I once considered impossible, I started to really understand the words motivational experts and gurus.

In fact, this new understanding of successful achievement in turn led to more than 60 new pages of content, something else I would never have anticipated.

In the words of one of my favorite songs...the best is yet to come.

It was clearly the right decision for me to buy an SBI website in May, 2008.

If after just three of the four steps to website success, you are at the point that you would like to learn more SBI...good for you.

Check out how you can use it to build your own website.

If you have any specific questions, this link allows you to ask them by email or toll-free phone.

Or maybe you believe that you really can build your own website...but just are not sure about whether SBI is the right system for you. That's fine.
 
Take a closer look at SBI.

Feel free to wander around site, click on whatever links appeal to you. And if you have any specific questions, you can contact the experts by email or toll-free phone.

Once you have completed your own first hand SBI research, you might also go back to Step III of the four steps to website success and check out other alternatives and see how they compare.

Perhaps you still don't think you can build your own website. That's OK too.

Take another look at the story of how it came to pass that I built my own website.

You might also check out what successful SBI owners have said about their individual experiences. 

I have tried to make this content, including four steps to website success, as comprehensive as possible.
 
It's possible...if not probable...that I have inadvertently omitted specific information that you need or want about building your own website.

That's fine...use the contact form after these four steps to website success to ask your questions.

I'll get back to you as soon as I can with the best information that I can come up with.

How else can I help you build your own great website?