Media

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."

Penn State's Continuing Ed has partnered with SiteSell, Inc. to bring a suite of smart tools into the classroom that will allow participants to build a business on the web, without having any technical skills or programming experience whatsoever!

BuyCostumes.com awards Elad and Tamar Shippony with the company's annual $10,000 Grand Prize. This dynamic brother and sister duo are the masterminds of their content-based family of websites, Coolest-parties.com.

Larry Morton's complete reinvention of his career and ability to create a new income stream (www.4-the-love-of jeeps.com) is a perfect reflection of what the best Boomers Back in Business do - they leverage business savvy and wisdom from a previous endeavor and apply that to new opportunities for their "Golden" years.

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

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.

Helen Kaiao Chang of SDNN.com interviews San Diego Internet entrepreneurs who are choosing online businesses over brick-and-mortar jobs/companies during the economic downturn.

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.

It was wanderlust that prompted Peter van der Lans to free himself from the rat race, but it was his Internet endeavours that provided the means to make it a permanent reality.

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...

At a time of life when many people consider a spell in the rocking chair a sport, 78-year-old Anna Carling is busy running her new website. The doctor of Chinese acupuncture had officially retired, but she got very bored, very quickly.

"I am not very computer savvy," she says...

Tim Smight gets into the Halloween spirit by asking SBI! owner Don Sumner (www.best-horror-movies.com) to list his favorite scary film locations.

ABC News picks up the story, listing "10 great places to act out a scary movie scene," according to Sumner.

Schoop got the idea to start a quite informative Web site, 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 Web site 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).

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 Web site, 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.