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Build a website
Although computers and the Internet had been around for quite a while, building a website was not even on the radar of my mind. I started my career as a teacher and teacher educator in 1991. I was a teaching assistant for a while in the Department of Education, Mysore University. That was where I made my acquaintance with computers, with Wordstar. It seems so long ago, almost primitive huh? 'Build a website' I am excited about telling my story. The story continues below. When I moved to Delhi I worked as a lecturer (an Indian term for a University teacher) in the Bachelor of Elementary Education course. After a few months I moved to an organisation which trained school leaders in Leadership. I have been a faculty of the Education Leadership Programme of this organisation since 1999. I gained an enormous amount of experience in the area of training using experiential methods. I became good at thinking up games or stories for sessions, or designing sessions using games and other tools. I explored this concept with interest as I saw it helped me teach my children in a way that made learning fun. I also found out during my work that experience + practice was a sure fire combination that made learning like child's play. Practice could also be fun instead of a bore. Build a website- the beginning of my journey. My journey had started. I did not know about it though. Around this time I heard so much about e-commerce and Internet business that I decided to build a website. A colleague - Prashant Kumar Tyagi, taught me how to use Microsoft's 'Front Page Editor' and I used it to build www.ngosofindia.com. I spent $30 per year for its hosting and management. (Later I used 'Dreamweaver', because I found it easier.) 'Build a website' Find more details below of how difficult it was to build a business website on my own. Surfing the Internet I found 'google adsense' a simple and easy way to make money from my site. I did not make too much money on it. Not because google adsense was bad, but because I had no idea about concepts that needed to be incorporated into my website which would make google adsense work. These concepts were not 'techie' stuff. Rather, they were about knowing your visitor and what she wanted from a website. By this time I had become dissatisfied with a 9-5 job. My growing children needed me at home and I could not give up my job. I had also read 'Rich Dad, Poor Dad' by Robert Kiyosaki and realised that I could also 'start a business'. I had no idea that this business would turn out to be an Internet business. Build a website - the journey continues. After an exploration which lasted nearly for a year, I realised that the only affordable business that I could get into was the Internet. Since then I have tried quite a few things, some of them mere hypes and others like e-bay which seemed beyond me. During this search I came across (I cannot remember how) as well but $300 dollars seemed too big an amount to try my hand at something I was obviously a novice at. I almost gave up when I came across Alan Gardyne's Affiliate http://www.associateprograms.com. I read about his experience with SBI. The clinching moment was when I read about his assistant Rupert Farrow - a novice - who built a profitable site using SBI. Build a website - hiccups in my journey I still did not feel upto investing $300. So I bought and thought of improving my existing site 'www.ngosofindia.com'. As I read it I felt impatient at having to do my old site over again and wanted to make my next tryst with Internet business an exciting one. I did some more research on SBI. However I held back from buying the package. I decided to become an affiliate of SBI. Soon I realised I could not convince anybody without trying the SBI package myself. Build a website - the destination of my journey. By this time, I had decided to quit my day job, as I seriuously considered having a business as a trainer. I decided to use SBI to launch myself as an independent trainer in my own city as well as across the Internet. So, I finally bought SBI in December 2005. Since then it has been a journey of dicovering the business potential of all that I had learnt in my job. Sharing my knowledge and skills through my SBI website gave me credibility. Do you know something which you would like to share with the rest of the world? Do you know you can be paid for providing free, valuable and authentic content to your professional community. If so, check out and develop a business with what you know. has helped me write 35 pages about my passion - making learning fun and easy. It has helped me become an infopreneur through Google Asense (the primary way of making money from my website.) Build a website My SBI journey begins. SBI has enabled me to build this site and share the passion I had discovered in my life about learning effectively. It enables me to spread the good news as well as well as get paid for it. I am able to make an extra two to three thousand rupees every month from my site. It finances the extras that I get for either myself or my family. Build a website When I started my journey, I discovered their instructional manual made the whole exercise of site building 'child's play. I learnt how to find profitable keywords in my area of expertise. The SBI resources helped me to write with my own voice, spin my story to attract human visitors. (Check out their e-book and find your own spin for your knowledge.) Build a website the SBI experience. The manual taught me how to make my webpages search engine friendly, so that searches for my set of keywords would bring up my site among the first 20 results. Submitting to search engines was painless. (As I built my SBI site I realised why my old site was a failure.) The manual even taught me ways to link with good quality sites, so that my link popularity could increase, and the respect for my site among search engines would go up a few notches. Other than these assets, seeking support from Sitesell support was a customer delight experience. Every question was answered within 24 hours. Build a website - support from the SBIers forum. The forum of the SBIers is a place where I was welcomed with open arms, and my queries were responded to without fail. The community, shares the passion of the founder 'Ken Evoy' to help. I was pleasantly surprised when I could give back to the forums by helping other newbies with my experience. Build a website - SBI overdelivers all the way. SBI's passion to overdeliver in every quarter, took my breath away. So much so that a year later, I did not hesitate to renew my subscription.
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