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January 18, 2013 By Francis Leave a Comment

The Value of SBI Lies in Its Simplicity

by Francis
(January 18, 2013)

It’s six in the morning and I could not sleep for two hours already. So I got up and got myself a good dose of the SBI forums.

It’s a great online place to hangout, kick back and refresh your mind some good positivity. I just read about an inspiring post of another successful SBIer.

Why Other Online Entrepreneurs Want To Make Things Difficult?

When I talk with my friends, who also experiments with online entrepreneurship, the things they talk about is incredibly complicated.

Stuff like managing servers, paying for hosting, setting up WordPress sites, plug-ins, codes and designs. Stuff like that is incredibly complicated to me. I had no experience with website building whatsoever. Just imagine how much time it would take to learn all these stuff.

Does it matter that you know how to code that stuff, set up that complicated online presence or understand another convoluted plug-in code?
Or does it matter that your site draws successfully traffic without you spending a dime?
Or do you have website businesses make real hard cash for you?

I’d go with the latter two.

The Huge Value of Simplification

When people start getting involved into website creation with SBI, they are often so much focused on their success and on their passion that they overlooked how beautifully simple the SBI process is. Actually, the exact steps of working the process are laid out.

In the background of your online business efforts, SBI handles a huge amount of work without you ever seeing it.

In addition to that, the people working behind SBI constantly screens the online world for new stuff and implement the most effective trends at quite the right time just to make it available for the SBI user without any additional cost.

The Hidden Costs of WordPress

No doubt you can set up a WordPress blog or a Blogger blog just fine. I do have a Blogger blog myself. It’s like a private diary and I write in it, perhaps, every three months.

But to be really successful with a WordPress blog, you need to set up a professional one and that alone for the reason that you cannot monetize the free version of WordPress easily.

Note: SBI has written an article about setting up your online business with a website versus a blog. Of course, I’ll understand if you think it is biased. But I still think it is a good read. Check it out here: WordPress against websites.

Stop Losing Time Reading Hundreds of Forums

My first site, I actually created part time at nights or on the weekends while I had my busiest times in college. It was just easy to write down my passion about the topic at that time in a fast, easy and authentic way.

I also didn’t have a virtual assistant at the start and still got myself up to 2,000 visitors a day after half a year. Sure, I think I got a little bit lucky with my specific niche and my keywords. But I know that this success is reproducible.

Now that I actually have a virtual assistant that takes much of the tedious work off my hands, I find myself procrastinating more and more with reading online tons of stuff.

Some of that stuff is damn smart believe me. But reading damn smart stuff doesn’t put a food in your mouth.

At least not if it is not followed by massive action.

Going Back to Sleep – My Team of VA’s will Take Care of the Rest

Whew! I got some important thoughts off my mind. Thanks for being patient and reading all this.

From the first word of this article to the place you are right now, exactly 13 minutes and 26 seconds have passed. The beauty of this blogging style is that I can literally speak my mind off my chest.

My transcriptionist will take care of transforming it into text. My virtual assistant will follow up with illustration and other online stuff. And faster than I will know it, it will simply be done. Nice!

Okay, time to tuck myself in again. See you in the comments.

January 18, 2013 By Francis Leave a Comment

Awesome Looking Automated Blog Pages with SBI

by Francis
(January 18, 2013)

I am extremely excited and thrilled about a new function that comes with the Blogit page from SBI!

If you want to start up a free blog using WordPress or Blogger, that’s no problem. I also have a free personal diary style blog on Blogger.

Since it’s personal, I won’t share the URL with you here. But what I have seen from my personal blog is that it doesn’t draw even a percent of traffic that I get with my SBI sites. And that’s because they are not blogs but sites.

Why is the Blogit page Important for SBI pages?

Each time I write a new article like this very post you are reading; I have the choice of distributing the page via RSS to everyone. It is also mentioned on my blog page and everyone who wants to see the newest content can see it there.

Up until recently, my blog page was extremely plain. It was just a blog of text after the other. Unless I manually wrote and illustrated a special blog insert.

(Actually, I asked my VA to illustrate my blog inserts for me. But you get what I mean.)

Now, SBI has brought out yet another new function and that’s thumbnail pictures from the pages that are distributed on my blog page as well as styling each individual blog entry.

It’s a difference like day and night. I think my blog page really looks much more nifty right now.

What do you think?

Even More and More Better Functions Just Keep Coming

For the last half a year, right after SiteSell finished bringing out the BlockBuilder 2 platform. Since then the team of SiteSell is bringing out new functions, goodies and additions to our sites at a crazy rate. I just love it.

I know that 2013 will be an even more productive year with more and more new stuff to play with. And the best part of all, the price of SBI never goes up. It hasn’t since the last 10 years. Crazy, isn’t it?

January 9, 2013 By Francis Leave a Comment

Clean Up Your Content 2.0 Submissions with the Help of A VA and Prevent Traffic Loss from Panda

by Francis
(January 09, 2013)

If your SBI website has been running for some time, chances are that you are at risk of getting hit by Panda or already were hit by Panda. As you know, SBI has special instructions to prevent Panda traffic loss or gain back the traffic you have lost.

How Cleaning Up Your Content 2.0 Submissions Will Help Your Traffic

In the past, Content 2.0 submissions can had the comments showing up on a separate comments page. It’s possible that these comments pages hurt your rankings. .

If you are a successful SBIer and have hundreds of Content 2.0 submissions then it makes sense to outsource the clean up to your virtual assistant.

Here Is How to Do It

SBI has recently introduced a new feature and with the help of this feature it is possible to show comments on the same page for all merged submission.

In past you had to browse to another page to see all submitted comments on merged pages.

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How to enable this function:

Go to Site-central>>Content 2.0 Library and select the merged post.

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Click edit
Select option “Yes” from ‘Display Comments from All Submissions on Merged Page?’

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Build merged Page

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Aug 13, 2014

Internet Literate Panda
by: John

By the sound of it, it’s like preparing for something big that will greatly cause trouble. But, literally, I have no idea how can a Panda create some serious trouble 🙂 enlighten me please..

Aug 14, 2014

Pandas are less cute in the IM world than in real life
by: Francis

In simple terms, Panda is the name of one Google algorithm that influenced the rankings of countless websites.For internet marketers relying on traffic from Google (and most website owners), this was quite a change in the landscape of internet search results.

If one is “victim” of the algorithm change – i.e. it changed the rankings so that you lose rankings – you can still try to work out all problems that cause Panda to trigger for your site.

That’s what my VA was helping me with and what I wanted to report in this post.

January 9, 2013 By Francis Leave a Comment

Final Results of the Job Search Project – 200 Chemistry Enterprises in the Area of Munich

by Francis
(January 09, 2013)

Outsourced Job Research Results

Here is what resulted from the research of job opportunities by Roman. After investing $40, he came up with a collection in excel sheet of over 200 companies in the area of Munich that are chemistry related.

Each search result has:

Name of the Company
Company Website
Career URL
Contact Email of the concerned HR employee
Telephone number
URL of the Contact us page (if necessary)

In other words, if you need a job related to Chemistry in the area of Munich like I did; you could simply use this excel sheet.

How It Would Come In Useful?

You could simply call up every enterprise in this excel sheet. Of course, it makes sense to read about the company first. That’s why there is the link to the company website right next to it. Inform yourself if this company needs anyone and, if the phone call works well, you can send in your CV.

Some of these companies are smaller and don’t advertise job vacancies on the big job search websites. In other words, having this information at your fingertips will give you an edge over your competition.

What If You Are Not In Munich?

I am aware that chances are very big that you are not a chemist, not living in Munich. If that’s the case, this case study can still be of interest to you.

You can simply copy my procedure and get job research done for whatever city you are living in and for whatever branch of work you are in. Just make sure that you get the same sort of information from your web researcher.

Was This A Good Investment Of Money?

Here is the deal.

This research cost me about $40. In the time I was looking for a job, I was also registered on different headhunting websites. Many of them offered premium packages so that your CV is sent around to different headhunters.

I invested once about 157 dollars in to a service that would send around my CV once. The results were zero. Here, I invested $40 and got the contact information of 200 companies.

If I were to call all of them up, I am a 100% sure that I would get more feedback than from hiring the same headhunting service again.

Side Note: I don’t want to share which headhunting service I was using because I was not successful with it. Just keep staying skeptic if someone wants your money for any headhunting service.

Here Is How You Can Get This Outsourced Research

I’m sharing my research with you. That is mainly because I don’t need it urgently anymore because I have already found a job.

By the way, if you want to know what advice I would have given myself at the start of my job search, be sure to check out my top tips about the job hunt.

You can download the excel sheet with the researched data below. All I would like you to do for that is to share the message about this outsourced job project via one of your favorite social networks. It will be done with a click of a button.

Please Leave a Comment If You Have a Question or You Learn Something

I don’t want you to only read about my outsourced job project. I want you to learn from it and implement it in your own lives.

Perhaps, you need something else researched. Many of the lessons from the whole hiring and managing process up to the results and the price range of a virtual assistant apply for many many other researched tasks as well.

So feel free to jump in to the discussion below and post us a question. Leave us a remark or if you have criticism feel free to share it too.

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Aug 12, 2014

Newbie’s dedication
by: Francis

I’ve been following Roman’s online adventure and I think even if he’s not really that skilled although given the case that he’s just a newbie—the least is that he tried to finish the job and that is useful to your research project as well. He defines dedication despite the obstacles and eager to learn 😀

January 8, 2013 By Francis Leave a Comment

Increasing Monetization with Adsense Ads with the Help of My Virtual Assistant

by Francis
(January 08, 2013)

Set Up Affiliate SBI! Banners

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or

Here is an interesting money earning opportunity that you can make use of without putting even more banner advertisements on your website.

On my second website, I have some solid traffic levels. Naturally I am interested in improving the bottom line of what the advertisements are earning me.

How to Increase Your Income without Increasing the Number of Ads

In Adsense, each advertisement has a certain chance to be filled with an actual working ad. The number that defines if your ad-block is filled with an actual advertisement is called ‘coverage’ and is expressed in percentage.

For one, one of my most important ads which has the size of 300×280 pixels, has a coverage of 75%. On the other hand, the 336×280 pixels ad-block represents 80% of all my ads earning. In other words, this ad alone brings me 80% of my income. But only in 3/4 cases.

If you are not aware of this, go check out your Adsense reports right now. You will find this when you go to…

Home>> Quick Reports >> Custom Channels

There, click the required time period, for example: ‘Custom Channels Today’, then choose the time frame with a significant enough range for you to make considerations.

If you already have solid traffic and your Adsense ads get a lot of clicks, then you must take care of this issue that is losing your potential income day by day.

How to Fill Adsense Ads When They Are Not Covered?

When your ads are not covered, you don’t make any money even though people click on the ad-space. You can manually backup each ad with a customized banner advertisement that you have set up yourself.

Ideally this fall-back banner advertisement should promote something else that makes you money. It can linked to a highly monetized page or to an affiliate program.

A Highly Profitable Banner Advertisement to an Effective Affiliate Product

Since I am using this program actively myself, I know I can trust in its outstanding results. That is why I don’t hesitate to promote SBI as an affiliate. Fortunately SBI’s affiliate program gives you a lot of good looking banner ads for all sort of different audiences.

No matter what your audience is and how old they are, you will most likely be able to find one banner ad that will profit that will look interesting to your audience.

Here are two example banner ads:

Example Banner Ads from SBI!

Those Banner Pages Became the Most Popular Links on My Site

According to the statistics, I clearly saw that the banner ads, distributed across all the guest submissions and tier pages together, make up a lot of additional page views. And a few visitors click through to the affiliate program which will then, for those who are interested, convert into real money.

In other words, an additional earning opportunity where before there was nothing.

How You Can Profit from our experience and make similar additional income

I asked my virtual assistant to put together a concise user manual that you can use yourself or simply forward to your virtual assistant.
Here is what your virtual assistant will need:

Access to your site central.
(Alternative: You provide him banner ads or another affiliate program banner)
Access to your Adsense account as an administrator.
(Alternative: You provide him with the codes where your Adsense ads are set up with a backup banner page)
Access to your site central to change your ads if necessary.

All of the exact How To steps are clearly described in the eBook my virtual assistant put together for you.

I don’t want to charge you for that. But in exchange for downloading it, I will ask you to spread the word about my site. You can do this by clicking to the paywithatweet button.

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Aug 12, 2014

curious newbie
by: Francis

I am curious about this subject—Adsense. I’ve tried getting an account, but they will not allow me to have one. I was just curious back then, since I know a friend who’s fond of uploading various videos online.

He told me, Google pays him just by uploading videos but first I have to create an account. I registered but I was denied.

By the way, I am from the Philippines. Does it have to do with the country I live in?

January 7, 2013 By Francis Leave a Comment

Another Advantage: You Always Have Someone to Talk to

by Francis
(Munich, Germany)

This might sound overly simple but with a virtual assistant you always have a listening ear. Often and especially when you have an online business, talking about it non stop will bore even your closest friends.

A virtual assistant is your employee. He is paid to help you out virtually, and that can mean giving helpful advice.

He could even research the net for a solution to your problem.

In fact, a good assistant will offer to do that without even being asked.

I find that the best way to know if you have an awesome, as opposed to a solid VA, is if he or she offers advice, input or other learning opportunities on their own.

Only then you can really say that you have doubled your own man power.

Aug 07, 2014

win-win situation
by: JomvieThe only person who will listen to your endless ideas is your virtual assistant and who will never get tired of it. And I think it’s not just because it’s just their job. I, for one, pretty like this job since it covers everything.If the employee does not know a single thing, the employer willingly trains and provide the necessary information. For me, it can broaden one person’s horizon while the employer can benefit for its business success—win-win situation in the end.

Feb 20, 2015

Your VA May Not Always Be 100% Straight and Honest With You
by: FrancisIt’s true that a virtual assistant will try his best to provide a valuable input if you ask him about your business and the projects you work with him. However, in the end, you want your online business to work for your customers and visitors. What may work for your virtual assistant, may not work for someone who has only seen your business for the first time.Also, a possible disadvantage or trap I can see is that a virtual assistant, if he’s hired by you, will be careful with what he tells you. Sometimes you need the truth straight and unfiltered. Sometimes you need uncomfortable answers. Your virtual assistant may not always have the guts to do that.So be sure to always get second opinion even if the opinion from your virtual assistant is already very useful to you.