Most of us don't know "real" web business owners. We see websites that look successful when we do a Google search, but we don't know "real" people who own those sites. They are just as remote as the big business owners in the real world. The CEO's and presidents of big companies and corporations.
We've been searching for a "real" web business for years, only we didn't know it. We have even had a web site that cost about $1,000 to start, plus the monthly web hosting cost. My husband and I sold gift items. For the entire year we had the site, we sold more items at the local flea market. In fact, we never sold a single item from our internet web site.
We tried a few marketing strategies, handing out business cards, flyers, and telling people we met about our web site.
But we never made a sale; we lost money. We finally gave up and canceled our site. Why did we fail? No one knew we were there. No traffic, no sale. We thought the company who sold us the web site was credible, of course, so we didn't really blame them. They told us to market, which we did to a limited degree as I said earlier. But obviously that was not enough.
We continued over the years to find something that would give us a viable business that we could do at home. We had limited success in everything we tried, but everything fell short of any real success. When my husband, who had MS, became too disable to work outside the home, a work at home business became more and more the best option for our family; especially since I was his caregiver and already a sahm.
Fast forward to now. A few weeks ago, I decided to look into an email ezine that I had been receiving for quite awhile about starting a cleaning business. We sometimes thought that this might be a good business to do. Everyone has dirt that needs to be cleaned up, right? Well, I read through the ezine and clicked on the link to go to their website. I was also thinking of starting a website for my small craft business that was doing ok on a site called Etsy. I had moved it from eBay because of the increasing high fees, but was developing a small following on Etsy. I wanted to develop my own site, so I had a habit of looking for web hosts on sites that I visited and liked in hopes of finding a good one.
I scrolled to the bottom and found a link to SBI or Site Build It! I searched the site for days, growing more and more excited that I had actually found something that could really work. I finally showed my husband, not knowing what he would think about another business idea. I didn't blame him, though; we had been burned so many times, that I hardly ever asked him what he thought anymore.
To my surprise, he was open to hearing more. I started researching the business and have yet to find anything negative about it. I found where people have bought the site and have not done anything with it, but for the most part there are actual real people who actually own Site Build It! sites.
They are work-at-home-moms or wahms, retirees, and students. Real people just like us. Finally a work at home business for the rest of us. Bookmark this blog to see featured sites of real people with real sites doing real business on the internet. Read their stories and find out how we can all be successful doing what we love while earning a living.
