Friday, October 24, 2008

SiteBuildIt! Review

The journey continues - excitedly!

I know that if I want to have a successful website, and a successful blog, I am going to have to write regularly. I love writing, but it seems like I never get around to writing in my blog. That's definitely going to change. From now on, it is two posts a week - minimum.

The problem with not writing regularly is that I'm not able to really share everything I have been doing. One of the reasons I started this blog is to share the journey and all that I learn along the way. The learning is happening ever so quickly now.

I mentioned previously that I had signed up for a web-hosting / online business package. I learned a lot during the trial period, but decided to go another route. The site concept I came up with wasn't really suited to the web building tools they have available. No MySQL database was available, and you have to sign up with another webhosting service to host the database, just to accommodate a forum. It was very disappointing, but I did enjoy everything else about their services. The business aspect is great, and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend signing up.

They offer a 30 day, no questions asked, money back guarantee, and they delivered on this. The refund reflected in my bank account within a week of the request for the refund. Considering that it was an international transfer as well, I thought that was pretty good service. Ken Evoy, the site owner, lives by his word to over deliver.

The drop in the Rand / Dollar exchange rate worked in my favour here, so I even made a few bucks. I was refunded more in Rands that what I paid! If I waited a little longer to request the refund, I could have scored even more! I'm not complaining though!

I would definitely recommend SiteBuildIt! knowing that the refund process worked well. 30 days is a lot of time to get to grips with the way things work, and understand the services they offer, and to make a decision as to whether their services meet your needs.

I've now signed up with a regular web hosting service, and will provde a review of their services too. So far, Hostgator has also delivered on their service.

So, I'll most probably sign up for both these affiliate programs soon.

As for life outside of the fast lane - It's great! I don't want to go back there at all. It makes me more determined to make my online journey work!

I feel really fortunate to even have this type of opportunity, and am going to make the best of it.

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