How to Put Your Passion on the Net for Fun and Profit

Smoker barbeque cooking is a passion for me and for many others. After many years of learning the craft of smoked barbeque cooking I wondered if there was a way to monetize my hobby without becoming a caterer or opening a restaurant. I wanted to keep the scale at the hobby level because I wasn't interested in a major change in professions. Well, as it turns out there is a way and it happens to be fun at the same time.

A website as an outlet for your passion is the ideal solution. We had never considered a website because we were looking into the hobby food business.

We liked going to craft shows where many hobbyists sell their salsas, hot sauces, and barbeque sauces. While researching that avenue on the web I encountered an online ad for Site Build It.

After watching several videos about successful people using Site Build It as an outlet for their passions I decided to take a chance.

I took the chance because one of the themes that came through is you didn't have to know anything about building websites to use their software (I dreaded having to learn a new software program). Now I'm not going to say "it's so easy my dog could it" but it comes close.

The other theme that came through is that Site Build It (SBI) is a great income builder. As I get closer to retirement that issue is becoming more and more prominent on my mind.

I'm glad to report that income generation is well on its way and the software is set up specifically for the non-geek, non-webmaster types that are being initiated to site building for the first time.

SBI has an outstanding system for teaching you how to build a website for long term generation of income. The Action Guide is one of the best, most professional online teaching systems that I have ever encountered on the net (and I'm speaking from experience as a former high school teacher and college professor).

Their support for your questions and issues is also outstanding. Their user forum has an answer for any question you may have. They have comprehensive eBooks on just about every topic.

If there is a negative about SBI it is that they tend to be a little preachy (but not in an overbearing way).

The great thing is that they leave nothing to chance. They take you by the hand and lead you through each step before going on to the next.

This is how they do it:

The first thing they have you do is to research your niche to check demand and profitability. They do this by researching the best keywords for your site.

A keyword is a search term that someone would use when searching the Internet. The Action Guide will explain why keywords are important (they are very important). They use a tool called Brainstorm It. The keywords center on your passion and the subject of your site. Brainstorm It finds all the best keywords.

This tool tells you how popular the keywords are and also tells you the profitability of each keyword. The keywords are used in building pages for your website.

The software continues by telling you how to build your web pages and optimizing each page so that they can be found by Google, Yahoo, and MSN. If your pages are found by the Search Engines then they will eventually be found by people seeking information about your passion.

The traffic that the people bring builds income for you.

There are many great tools at SBI that make it very easy to build a website (way too many to list here). What is the key benefit to building a website? As your website builds traffic it also builds income.

You build one brick at a time providing value added content for your visitors and they reward you by visiting your site. You build your site at your own pace and the income is residual. Once built it will keep providing income to you for years to come.

Now that is a very simplified explanation of how SBI works but that's it in a nutshell. I know you have questions about this so I suggest that you go to the SBI page for more information.

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