Media

NBC's Dr. Nancy Snyderman interviewed Rev. Dale Susan Edmonds, founder of the caregiving website Talk Early Talk Often (talk-early-talk-often.com), about end-of-life conversations with elderly relatives. Rev. Edmonds also hosted an online chat about this topic for NBC Nightly News.

For Jose and Jill Ferrer, their part-time work is a website (your-rv-lifestyle.com, powered by SBI!) and blog. "We were seeking something we could do on the road to make some extra income. We created Your RV Lifestyle as a site where we could share tips, lessons learned and travel experiences."

Steve Kazella (cell-phone-towers.com) questions tenants' concerns about the weight of cellphone base stations on their building rooftop.

Matt Gross, the Frugal Traveler of the New York Times, interviews SBIers Randy Sturrock and Marianne Edwards (frugal-rv-travel.com) about their impromptu, affordable, RV traveling experiences.

After not quite three years in business, Maire and Greg Rippel have a thriving home-based publishing house that allows them to live in northern Wisconsin as they always dreamed. According to Marie, the do-it-yourself plan that she got from SiteSell "gave me an awesome start."

"Meet the Resellers" series features Daniel Kornitzer, CEO of SiteSell, a leading provider of software for building small business e-commerce websites.

Recession-crunched job market is turning people into online entrepreneurs. For example, after losing his job in the telecommunications industry three months ago, Eddie Tkalec is learning how to build an online business based on his interest for scuba diving.

Knit-a-square is a charity knitting organization based in Australia (www.knit-a-square.com). It is seeking knitted or crocheted squares for its project to provide handmade blankets to orphaned children, victims of AIDS, or left alone when parents died of AIDS in South Africa.

A recent episode of Oprah, called "Recession-Proof Your Life," focused on ways to weather the current financial storm. The best tip on the show came from Jill, who travels with her husband throughout USA in their RV, while earning income from Jill's website about RVing. It turns out that Jill built her own website, with no prior experience, using a fascinating online self-study course...

Schoop got the idea to start a quite informative website, www.discover-eleuthera-bahamas.com. He is not affiliated with Bahamian tourist authorities but merely one man who fell in love with an island halfway around the world from his home and is using Internet access to full advantage.

Putting the pieces in place for successful website building. mbot is a monthly business-to-business magazine designed to provide practical information on business news, solutions and trends, for businesses of all sizes and scopes.

Internet commerce is too saturated. Competition is too fierce. Only those who got in early can make money. Comments like that are rarely spoken by Web entrepreneurs whose sites consistently rank within the top 10 on search engines...

The first thing you need is solid content that your buyers are looking for," he said, adding there are four necessary components in successful e-commerce websites. Content, traffic, pre-selling and transacting business...

We see that for the average small business person, 61 per cent of our sites rank in the top three per cent. We randomly picked 200 of our sites and compared them to how they're doing vs. the general population and the difference is staggering...

Log cabin owners' plan of setting up a contest on their website and offering a cabin stay to the writer of an essay about a Wisconsin experience, pulls in entrants from as far away as California, Florida and Mississippi and pre-sells future renters.

Knowing the competitive landscape should be part of "doing business" for all owners of a small business on the Net, whether it's in the planning, emerging or mature stage of its existence. Reprinted with permission from March 2010 issue of Vue Magazine (printed by Marketing Research and Intelligence Association in Canada).

Toronto Sun shines the spotlight on SiteSell Education Instructor Anthony Dyson who teaches the 10-week "Building A Successful Business Using The Internet" course at Humber College (Toronto).

Anthony, the owner and operator of 3 online businesses built by himself, mentors new entrepreneurs on the Net and reduces their learning curve by guiding them through SBI!'s proven process.

CBC's award-winning Living Montreal interviews entrepreneur and ADHD Coach Linda Walker who shares practical tips about starting an online business from home, based on her own SBI! experience.

Paul O'Brien from Isometric-training.com has an alter ego. When he's not working on his SBI! business, he's being Batman at children's hospitals and charity functions. Dublin's Newsradio 106-108 FM, talks to Paul about the message of self-reliance he is sending to kids, how he became The Caped Crusader and how SBI! helped him achieve the lifestyle of Bruce Wayne.

Tens of thousands of listeners around the globe spent 90 minutes with Ken Evoy, founder of SiteSell.com and Peter Anthony Holder in a first-of-its-kind local radio interview that was streamed globally, right to each listener's computer.

With a website, the smallest of companies can compete on the same footing as the biggest. And yet, most small businesses fail online. The interview and phone-in calls examined why they fail... and what you can do about it.